Developing the Health Care Workforce of the Future for North Carolina.

Health outcomes in North Carolina are less than optimal. To drive improvement, we must prepare a health care workforce adequate in number, optimally distributed geographically, skilled with forward-looking expertise, and empowered to practice in interprofessional teams at the highest extent of their license. This issue of the outlines how North Carolina's health profession education institutions are working to open new programs and innovate curricula to produce the workforce that our state needs.

Differential effect of mild and severe pulmonary embolism on the rat lung transcriptome.

Background: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a common diagnosis and a leading cause of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. A growing literature has associated PE with systemic inflammation, and global hyper-coagulability, which contribute to lung remodeling and clot recurrence. The source and mechanism of inflammation remains unstudied.

Client perceptions of cultural competence of community-based nurses.

Cultural competence is best understood by assessing provider and client perspectives. In this descriptive quantitative study, clients assessed dimensions of nurses' cultural competence including communication, decision-making, and interpersonal style. Nurses in 7 county health departments in North Carolina assessed their own cultural competence.

Self-reported cultural competence of public health nurses in a Southeastern U.S. Public health department.

Objective: Delivery of culturally competent public health nursing that can address health disparities is dependent on competent practice by nurses. Examining public health nurses' (PHNs') cultural competence provides a basis for planning and developing interventions to ensure competent care. Examine the cultural competence of PHNs.

Authenticity: a concept analysis.

Purpose: This paper aims to analyze the concept of authenticity and propose a definition of authenticity that can be used to enhance the nurse-client relationship.

Sources: Published research.

Conclusions: Authenticity is a life-long process of self-discovery that includes realizing personal potential and acting on that potential.

Palp-splaying behavior and a specific mouthpart site associated with active water vapor uptake in Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae).

Ticks actively absorb water vapor from unsaturated air via their mouthparts. A wax technique was used to cover select areas of the mouthparts of the lone star tick, Amblyomma americanum (L.), to examine whether a specific site is involved in uptake.