Academic-practice partnership: Exploring a model for collaborative nursing education in infection prevention and control.

The academic-practice partnership has become increasingly important in nursing education. An academic-practice partnership between a health systems infection prevention and control (IPC) department and its academic affiliate may provide an opportunity to help advance undergraduate nursing students' IPC knowledge and skills and provide IPC staff the opportunity to develop their clinical teaching skills as they teach and mentor students. We convened an exploratory workshop between our private university-based college of nursing and its affiliated health care system IPC department to brainstorm and identify areas for mutual collaboration and gauge interest in formalizing a partnership.

Analyzing the relationships between city opioid deaths and socioeconomic factors.

Background: The opioid crisis has been increasing in severity over the past several decades. Every year, thousands of people die due to opioid-related issues. The factors that play into the causes of this are complex.

Collaborating to offer HPV vaccinations in jails: results from a pre-implementation study in four states.

Background: Correctional facilities are an underutilized venue for reaching young adults who have not vaccinated for human papillomavirus (HPV). The objective of this study was to identify factors that are associated with jail and local health department (LHD) interest in partnering to offer HPV vaccinations to young adults in jail.

Methods: Consolidated framework for implementation research (CFIR)-guided surveys were conducted with jail administrators in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, September 2017-October 2018.

Sleep Management within Skilled Nursing Facilities: A Practice Survey.

A cross-sectional descriptive survey of 105 occupational therapy practitioners examined the practice patterns in sleep management within skilled nursing facilities. All participants viewed sleep as essential to address in their settings, since clients frequently reported inadequate sleep, daytime sleepiness, difficulty staying asleep, and situational interruption. Majority of the practitioners reported not screening, assessing, treating, or documenting sleep issues and lack the use of standardized assessments and evidence-based interventions for sleep.

Caught off guard by covid-19: Now what?

Human beings are social in nature and maintaining social interactions, relationships and intimacy are fundamental needs of older adults (OAs) living in assisted living (AL) communities. Yet, these very basic human needs have been impeded by quarantine mandates imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The socialization aspect offered in AL, allows for an integration of the whole person: body, mind, and spirit and is beneficial in mitigating the development of co-morbidities and negative patient outcomes.

Incidence and predictors of ophthalmic artery occlusion in intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma.

Background: Retinoblastoma is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in children.

Objective: To determine the incidence of ophthalmic artery (OA) occlusion in patients treated with selective ophthalmic artery catheterization (OAC) for chemotherapy infusion for retinoblastoma. Also, to evaluate technical, anatomical, tumorous, and patient-related factors that are predictors of OA occlusion.

Mental Disorders: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a lifetime incidence of approximately 6.1% in the US population. However, studies of patients receiving regular primary care have shown a higher point prevalence, ranging from 11.

Mental Disorders: Personality Disorders.

Personality disorders (PDs) have a prevalence of approximately 9% in the United States. Patients with these disorders frequently are encountered in the family medicine setting. It is thought that a combination of unknown genetic factors and life experiences, particularly adverse childhood experiences, contribute to PD development.

Transradial approach for acute stroke intervention: technical procedure and clinical outcomes.

Background And Purpose: Radial artery catheterisation is an alternate route of access that has recently started to gain more widespread use for neuroendovascular procedures, including acute stroke intervention. In this small case series, we present our institution's outcomes in patients undergoing acute stroke interventions via transradial access.

Materials And Methods: We present a retrospective study of 15 patients who underwent acute stroke intervention via radial artery access.

Acute ischaemic stroke interventions: large vessel occlusion and beyond.

Care for acute ischaemic stroke is one of the most rapidly evolving fields due to the robust outcomes achieved by mechanical thrombectomy. Large vessel occlusion (LVO) accounts for up to 38% of acute ischaemic stroke and comes with devastating outcomes for patients, families and society in the pre-intervention era. A paradigm shift and a breakthrough brought mechanical thrombectomy back into the spotlight for acute ischaemic stroke; this was because five randomised controlled trials from several countries concluded that mechanical thrombectomy for acute stroke offered overwhelming benefits.

Increased incidence of preeclampsia in mothers of advanced age conceiving by oocyte donation.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the risk of preeclampsia in women of advanced age who conceived through donated oocytes as compared with natural conceptions.

Methods: A historical prospective study of singleton live births of parturients ≥ 45 years of age at four university hospitals was conducted. For the purpose of the study, the population was divided by the mode of conception into two groups: oocyte donation and natural conception.

Racial disparities in survival and age-related outcome in postsurgery breast cancer patients in a new york city community hospital.

Breast cancer survival has significantly improved over the past two decades. However, the diagnosis of breast cancer is lower and the mortality rate remains higher, in African American women (AA) compared to Caucasian-American women. The purpose of this investigation is to analyze postoperative events that may affect breast cancer survival.

Aged garlic extract inhibits homocysteine-induced scavenger receptor CD36 expression and oxidized low-density lipoprotein cholesterol uptake in human macrophages in vitro.

Aim Of The Study: Expression of CD36 scavenger receptors on macrophages is involved in oxidized low-density lipoprotein (OxLDL) uptake and foam cell formation during atherosclerotic lesion development. It has been shown previously in vitro and in vivo that the atherosclerotic risk factor homocysteine (Hcy) stimulates macrophage CD36 expression and OxLDL uptake. We now examined the effects of aged garlic extract (AGE), a garlic preparation enriched in water-soluble organic sulfur-containing compounds, on Hcy-induced CD36 expression and foam cell formation in human monocytes/macrophages.