Evaluation of Education and Patient Screening for Delirium Among Patients With Stroke: Knowledge, Confidence, and Patient Outcomes.

Background: Clinical staff showed a knowledge deficit with identifying and managing delirium. The effect of a validated assessment tool and delirium education on staff knowledge and confidence and patient outcomes was analyzed.

Method: A descriptive qualitative and quantitative pre- and postintervention study analyzed the demographics of patients with stroke and clinical outcomes pre- and postimplementation of an assessment tool and delirium staff education.

Investigation of multiple whole smoke dosimetry techniques using a VITROCELL®VC10® smoke exposure system.

The Vitrocell® VC10® smoke exposure system offers multiple platforms for air liquid interface (ALI) and air agar interface (AAI) exposure that mimic conditions for assessing toxicological impact of whole smoke using assays. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare multiple dosimetry techniques that may be employed during combustible cigarette whole smoke exposure using the Vitrocell® VC10® smoking robot. The following techniques were assessed: (1) quartz crystal microbalances (QCMs), (2) aerosol photometers (using area under curve, AUC), and (3) fluorescence of anhydrous dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO)-captured smoke constituents.

Mechanisms of whole smoke conditioned media induced cytotoxicity to human aortic endothelial cells.

Chronic exposure to cigarette smoke can lead to endothelial dysfunction and potentially endothelial cell death. Here, we exposed Human Aortic Endothelial Cells (HAECs) to whole smoke conditioned media (WSCM) over a range of nicotine equivalence (n.e.

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the healthy heart tracker on heart failure self-care.

Objective: We evaluated the effectiveness of a newly designed patient education booklet, the Health Heart Tracker (HHT), in promoting Heart Failure Self-Care (HFSC) behaviors compared to usual patient discharge handouts.

Methods: We conducted a quasi-experimental, comparative two-group study using patients admitted for HF to four intermediate care units. The HHT was instituted on two units; patients on the other units served as control.

Delayed Newborn First Bath and Exclusive Breastfeeding Rates.

Objective: To develop an evidence-based practice project to evaluate the effect of delaying a newborn's first bath on exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge.

Design: A pre- and post-implementation evaluation of the effect of delaying the first bath on exclusive breastfeeding rates at discharge.

Setting: A postpartum unit in a southern California community hospital.