The Progression of Inclusive Language that Enhances Belonging.

Inclusive language has become a theoretical approach in attempts to ensure that language is not only clear but void of cultural nuances. Depending on the source or the discipline, the definition may vary, but the essence is similar. Inclusive language demonstrates a sense of respect and value for all people while simultaneously acknowledging the diverse culture in which we abide.

Improvement in student-led debriefing analysis after simulation-based team training using a revised teamwork assessment tool.

Background: Team debriefing is an important teamwork development intervention for improving team outputs in healthcare. Debriefing is a key component of experiential team training teamwork development interventions such as simulation-based training. Improving the quality of debriefing of healthcare teams, therefore, has multiple benefits.

Qualitative Analysis of Effective Teamwork in the Operating Room (OR).

Objective: To conduct focus group interviews with operating room (OR) personnel to determine components of effective teamwork to inform a revision of a teamwork assessment instrument.

Design: Qualitative research study targeting OR personnel using semi-structured focus group interviews of interprofessional OR personnel. Responses were digitally recorded and transcribed.

PANDAS: What nurses need to know.

Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS) describes a disorder that develops in children who abruptly develop neurologic abnormalities following a streptococcal infection. The authors discuss what is known about this poorly understood disorder and how nurses can educate and support patients and their families.

Using Deliberate Practice and Simulation for Psychomotor Skill Competency Acquisition and Retention: A Mixed-Methods Study.

Background: Quality, safe patient care is dependent on graduates who are proficient in the psychomotor skills of nursing. Competent skill acquisition and retention are key to reducing skill-based errors and reducing the risk of adverse patient events.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of deliberate practice combined with skill practice during high-fidelity simulation (HFS) scenarios on urinary catheter insertion skill competency and retention in prelicensure nursing students.

Nurse Practitioners Improving Emergency Department Quality and Patient Outcomes.

Emergency departments across the United States struggle to balance the overutilization of emergency services. Nurse practitioners (NPs) practicing in emergency departments improve quality indicators leading to the increased efficiency, timeliness, and effectiveness of care. NPs providing emergency services improve multiple national metrics, such as door-to-provider time, patient satisfaction, diagnostic test ordering, and left without being seen rates.

Moving Along: Team Training for Emergency Room Trauma Transfers (TERT).

Objectives: To determine whether high fidelity simulation-based training (SBT) of interprofessional teams involving trauma transfers has an immediate impact on participants' team-based attitudes and behaviors.

Design: A quasi-experimental, pre-/postintervention comparison design examined high fidelity SBT of inter-professional teams using a 2 scenario format with immediate after action structured debriefing. Pre-/postsession Readiness for Inter-Professional Learning Scale (RIPLS, 19 items, Likert-type) surveys as well as Interprofessional Teamwork (IPT, 15 items, Likert-type) questionnaires, and postscenario participant- and observer-rated Teamwork Assessment Scales (TAS, 3 subscales, 11 items, Likert-type) were completed during each training session.

Quality with quantity? Evaluating interprofessional faculty prebriefs and debriefs for simulation training using video.

Background: High-fidelity simulation-based training is used increasingly for prelicensure student teams. Such sessions rely on faculty who are able to provide quality prebriefing and debriefing to foster learning among participants. We investigated how well faculty conducted prebriefing and debriefing as part of high-fidelity simulation-based training for interprofessional education.

Acute and Chronic Hypertension: What Clinicians Need to Know for Diagnosis and Management.

Hypertension is the most common primary diagnosis in the United States. Multiple sequelae of disease states are attributable to hypertension. Minimal to modest improvements in blood pressure can result in improved cardiovascular-related health outcomes.

Nursing Management for Patients Postoperative Cardiac Implantable Electronic Device Placement.

As cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) continue to evolve and patients continue to live longer, the use of these devices increases. CIEDs include permanent pacemakers, implanted cardioverter-defibrillators, and cardiac resynchronization therapy devices. Over the last 2 decades, the functionality of these devices has increased and can be complex.

eAssessment: development of an electronic version of the Objective Structured Assessment of Debriefing tool to streamline evaluation of video recorded debriefings.

Objective: The Objective Structured Assessment of Debriefing (OSAD) is an evidence-based, 8-item tool that uses a behaviorally anchored rating scale in paper-based form to evaluate the quality of debriefing in medical education. The objective of this project was twofold: 1) to create an easy-to-use electronic format of the OSAD (eOSAD) in order to streamline data entry; and 2) to pilot its use on videoed debriefings.

Materials And Methods: The eOSAD was developed in collaboration with the LSU Health New Orleans Epidemiology Data Center using SurveyGizmo (Widgix Software, LLC, Boulder, CO, USA) software.

Sepsis in the Obstetric Client.

Maternal sepsis is the third most common direct cause of maternal mortality following maternal hemorrhage and maternal hypertension. Undetected and poorly managed maternal infections can lead to sepsis, death, or disability for the mother and an increased likelihood of early neonatal infection and other adverse outcomes. When caring for obstetric patients, it is important to identify the stages of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum care.

Cardiogenic Shock in the Septic Patient: Early Identification and Evidence-Based Management.

Sepsis-induced cardiogenic shock is a lethal condition and the management of it is challenging. Cardiogenic shock in the septic patient involves myocardial systolic and diastolic dysfunction. The limited ability of the ventricles to contract effectively results in a decrease in oxygen delivery to the organs and tissues.

Team Training of Inter-Professional Students (TTIPS) for improving teamwork.

Objective: In surgery, dysfunctional teamwork is perpetuated by a 'silo' mentality modelled by students. Interprofessional education using high-fidelity simulation-based training (SBT) may counteract such modelling. We sought to determine whether SBT of interprofessional student teams (1) changes long-term teamwork attitudes and (2) is an effective form of team training.

Using Simulation in Interprofessional Education.

Simulation-based training (SBT) is a powerful educational tool permitting the acquisition of surgical knowledge, skills, and attitudes at both the individual- and team-based level in a safe, nonthreatening learning environment at no risk to a patient. Interprofessional education (IPE), in which participants from 2 or more health or social care professions learn interactively, can help improve patient care through the promotion of efficient coordination, dissemination of advances in care across specialties and professions, and optimization of individual- and team-based function. Nonetheless, conducting SBT IPE sessions poses several tactical and strategic challenges that must be effectively overcome to reap IPE's benefits.

Impact of the environment on asthma control.

Asthma is a complex condition that requires individualized interventions. The purpose of this article is to describe the relationship between the physical and social environments with asthma symptoms, present evidence that supports environmental interventions in asthma control and the implications for asthma management. There is evidence that indoor and outdoor allergens relate to asthma morbidity.