Effects of Tissue Flossing on Athletic Performance Measures: A Systematic Review.

The primary aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of tissue flossing on athletic performance measures. A secondary aim was to explore the efficacy of tissue flossing when applied to a joint or soft tissue (i.e.

Patient-Centered Nursing for the Christ-Centered Nurse.

Patient-centered care (PCC), a term coined decades ago, is a key but challenging focus of nursing practice. The history, development, and current dialogue about PCC along with biblical perspectives on caregiving, wisdom, and discernment help nurses who follow Christ to offer compassionate PCC. Strategies are proposed for meaningfully engaging patients and families as active participants in healthcare.

Heart Preparation for Short-Term Missions.

Involvement in short-term missions experiences can be most beneficial when intentional personal and group preparation takes place. Learning about the people and history of the destination, identifying one's purpose in making the trip, asking God for direction and affirmation, meditation on Scripture, and prayer for oneself and for those who will be on the receiving end of care or ministry are wise. Willingness to take a servant's mindset and to give time and goods from a biblical perspective shows respect for those to be served.

Wild yeast isolation by middle school students reveals features of North American oak populations of and .

Features of the natural life cycle of the budding yeast were crucial to its domestication as a laboratory experimental model, especially the ability to maintain stable haploid clones and cross them at will to combine alleles via meiosis. Stable haploidy results from mutations in , which encodes an endonuclease required for haploid-specific mating-type switching. Previous studies found an unexpected diversity of alleles among natural isolates within a small geographic area.

Telemedicine for the Underserved Racial and Ethnic Minorities During COVID-19 and Beyond.

To demonstrate that a culturally and linguistically appropriate telehealth protocol can be implemented to improve the glycemic control of patients as an extension of regular clinical services and provide continuity of care. A telehealth platform was established during COVID-19 pandemic and from numerous telehealth encounters we sampled 498 patients who received telehealth intervention over a 12-month period for specific services: Rx refill, consultation for laboratory results, wellness evaluation and education, and acute or sick visits with appropriate referrals. This telehealth platform was integrated with a remote patient monitoring system utilizing a Bluetooth-enabled glucometer for patients with diabetes compared to their abnormal baseline hemoglobin A1C (HgA1C).

Mentoring New Graduate Nurses to Decrease Turnover: A Pilot Project.

Nurse turnover may negatively impact patient outcomes, the nurse shortage, and hospital finances. This evidence-based practice project examined the effect of a formal mentorship program on new graduate nurses' (NGNs) intent to leave a healthcare position. The outcomes suggest that the mentoring intervention used has the potential to impact new graduate nurse retention rate.

Delivering Rehabilitation Care Around the World: Voices From the Field.

Objectives: To identify the challenges and common issues that the rehabilitation health workforce experienced in delivering services in different practice settings across the world. These experiences could suggest approaches to improving rehabilitation care to people in need.

Design: A semi-structured interview protocol centering on 3 broad research questions was conducted to collect data.

Inside Looking Out: Updated Competency Model for Professional Rehabilitation Nursing Practice.

Background: The original Association of Rehabilitation Nurses (ARN) Competency Model for Professional Rehabilitation Nursing published in 2016, and updated in 2020, provides a framework for rehabilitation nursing practice.

Aim: This companion, but stand-alone, article to a 2022 publication further explicates and informs the updated Competency Model from inside looking out toward an increasing application for evidence-based practice (EBP).

Approach: An eight-member 2020 ARN Task Force used an iterative process to review the original four domains and related competencies and came to consensus for the updated model.

The effects of sleep disturbance and chronotype on baseline vestibular/ ocular motor screening in collegiate athletes.

Background: The vestibular/ocular motor screening (VOMS) is a clinically validated screening tool for concussion management. Multiple factors have been known to influence VOMS performance such as preexisting migraine and mood disorders. Poor sleep is an another important variable that warrants investigation as a modifier on the VOMS that may need to be considered during administration.

Examination of clinical sleep difficulties in college student-athletes.

Background: Due to the rising concern of inadequate sleep, critical analysis is needed for the presence of sleep problems in diverse populations. Research has shown that college athletes may be one such population at risk for sleep disturbances. Poor sleep may lead to physiological, psychological, and cognitive deficits that can impact college athletes academically and athletically.

Huawei, Cyber-Sovereignty and Liberal Norms: China's Challenge to the West/Democracies.

As China's global footprint expands and Sino-American competition intensifies, it is apparent that one of the most important arenas for competition between Western Liberal norms and Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) authoritarian norms is going to come in competing technologies (Western/Korean/Taiwanese 5G/chips vs Huawei 5G/chips) and competing cyber-norms (Western cyber-libertarianism vs Chinese cyber-sovereignty). Inside China, China's technologies and its cyber-sovereign norms converge.Outside of China, while China champions the norm of cyber-sovereignty, Huawei itself may pose the greatest challenge to sovereign states' cyber-sovereignty where Huawei controls or otherwise participates significantly as a provider for telecommunications networks, given its relationship to the Chinese state.

Beacons of Light: How Nurses Minister to Families.

A mother reflects on the course of illness and death of her young son, recognizing the significant care and ministry nurses provided to the family throughout the illness and the child's end of life.