Quantification of organic contaminants in urban stormwater by isotope dilution and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Pollutants transported in urban stormwater runoff induce pervasive water quality degradation in receiving waters. To accurately characterize stormwater quality and treatment system performance across the range of possible contaminant characteristics, comprehensive multi-residue analytical methods are necessary. Here, we developed a solid-phase extraction (SPE) and high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS/MS) method to quantify representative stormwater-derived organic contaminants across multiple chemical classes, including vehicle-related chemicals, corrosion inhibitors, industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, and antioxidants.

Identifying community priorities for neighborhood livability: Engaging neighborhood residents to facilitate community assessment.

Identifying community-driven priorities to improve health outcomes is crucial toward achieving health equity. Seldom are communities experiencing health disparities included in community health assessment (CHA) and health improvement planning efforts (Pennel, McLeroy, Burdine, Matarrita-Cascante, & Wang, 2017). The purpose of this project was to conduct a CHA using a socio-ecological framework and community engagement (CE) process.

Flying by the seat of their pants: A grounded theory of school nurse case management.

Aims: To develop a theory describing the processes and actions involved with school nurse case management for school-aged children with chronic conditions in the K12 system.

Design: Case management is an essential practice for the school nurse. Little is known about actual case management practice in real-world settings.

Three Years' Experience.

Since its publication in 2016, the third edition of Nursing Professional Development: Scope and Standards of Practice has generated excitement for the specialty. The scope and standards has promoted uniformity of title, stimulated changes in position descriptions, fostered adherence to scope of practice, and served as a unifying framework for system-wide nursing professional development departments. However, continued action is required in the areas of advocacy, research, and engagement with the specialty organization.

Meritorious Academic Partnership Designation: Recognizing Nursing Professional Development in Graduate Curricula.

Graduate nursing education programs' focus on preparation for academia results in many graduate nurses being unprepared to function as nursing professional development (NPD) practitioners in the practice environment. This article describes the development of an innovative collaborative partnership designation program and how a specialty organization, health system, and academia partnered to create an educational program to prepare NPD practitioners. The designation program provides a practical tool for use by NPD departments to advocate for the NPD specialty.

Mobile Health Technology Knowledge and Practices Among Patients of Safety-Net Health Systems in Washington State and Washington, DC.

Purpose: Mobile health technology (mHealth) can reduce health disparities, but research on the health behaviors of low-income patients is needed. This study evaluates mHealth knowledge and practices of low-resource safety-net patients.

Methods: We administered a 47-item questionnaire to 164 low-income patients accessing services at community health centers in the state of Washington and Washington, DC.

Induction of Microbial Oxidative Stress as a New Strategy to Enhance the Enzymatic Degradation of Organic Micropollutants in Synthetic Wastewater.

Organic micropollutants (OMPs) are pervasive anthropogenic contaminants of receiving waters where they can induce various adverse effects to aquatic life. Their ubiquitous environmental occurrence is primarily attributed to discharge from wastewater treatment plants due to incomplete removal by common biological wastewater treatment processes. Here, we assess a new strategy for promoting the degradation of six representative OMPs (i.

Hospital detention of mothers and their infants at a large provincial hospital: a mixed-methods descriptive case study, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Background: The practice of detaining people who are unable to pay for health care services they have received is widespread in many parts of the world. We aimed to determine the proportion of women and their infants detained for inability to pay for services received at a provincial hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during a 6-week period in 2016. A secondary objective was to determine clinical and administrative staff attitudes and practices about payment for services and detention.

Incidence of catastrophic expenditures linked to obstetric and neonatal care at 92 facilities in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2015.

Background: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), more than 93% of users must pay out of pocket for care. Despite the risk of catastrophic expenditures (CE), 94% of births in Lubumbashi are attended by skilled personnel. We aimed to identify risk factors for CE associated with obstetric and neonatal care in this setting, to document coping mechanisms employed by households to pay the price of care, and to identify consequences of CE on households.

Specific Micropollutant Biotransformation Pattern by the Comammox Bacterium .

The recently discovered complete ammonia-oxidizing (comammox) bacteria occur in various environments, including wastewater treatment plants. To better understand their role in micropollutant biotransformation in comparison with ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), we investigated the biotransformation capability of (the only comammox isolate) for 17 micropollutants. Asulam, fenhexamid, mianserin, and ranitidine were biotransformed by , (AOA), and Nm90 (AOB).

Factors Related to Intention to Leave and Job Satisfaction among Registered Nurses at a Large Psychiatric Hospital.

Current shortages of registered nurses working in psychiatric hospitals in the United States are exacerbated by turnover. This research describes factors that are associated with intent to leave among nurses working in a large inpatient psychiatric hospital. This was a descriptive, correlational study.

Detection and quantification of metastable photoproducts of trenbolone and altrenogest using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

Here, we developed a novel and sensitive method for the detection and quantification of metastable trenbolone and altrenogest photoproducts in agricultural receiving waters based on solid phase extraction (SPE) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Primary method analytes were seven cycloaddition or photohydration transformation products of 17α-trenbolone (17α-TBOH), 17β-trenbolone (17β-TBOH), trendione (TBO), and altrenogest (ALT), which are key contributors to the fate and environmental risks of these steroidal pharmaceuticals. Because commercial analytical standards are not available, reference standards for photoproducts were generated from trenbolone or ALT with a solar simulator (˜6 h, >10 half-lives).

Assessment of PCB contamination, the potential for in situ microbial dechlorination and natural attenuation in an urban watershed at the East Coast of the United States.

Sediment contamination is a major environmental issue in many urban watersheds and coastal areas due to the potential toxic effects of contaminants on biota and human health. Characterizing and delineating areas of sediment contamination and toxicity are important goals of coastal resource management in terms of ecological and economical perspectives. Core and surficial sediment samples were collected from an industrialized urban watershed at the East Coast of the United Stated and analyzed to evaluate the PCB contamination profile and toxicity resulting from dioxin-like PCBs as well as reductive dechlorination potential of indigenous PCB halorespiring bacteria through dechlorination activity assays.

Collectives in organizations appear less morally motivated than individuals.

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported online in on Oct 24 2019 (see record 2019-63657-001). In the article "Collectives in Organizations Appear Less Morally Motivated Than Individuals" by Arthur S. Jago, Tamar A.

Incivility and Clinical Performance, Teamwork, and Emotions: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Incivility has been identified as a common occurrence in health care settings. While anecdotal evidence exists that these behaviors negatively impact patient care, more robust evidence is lacking.

Purpose: This randomized controlled trial investigated the effects of exposure to incivility on clinical performance, teamwork, and emotions.

Technology's role in promoting physical activity and healthy eating in working rural women: A cross-sectional quantitative analysis.

Aims: This exploratory study evaluated sociodemographic predictors of healthy eating and physical activity (PA) in a sample of working rural women and their access to and interest in using technology for health promotion.

Settings And Design: This study is a cross-sectional quantitative analysis.

Materials And Methods: A 32-item questionnaire was administered to a convenience sample of = 60 women, working at a regional healthcare facility in the Pacific Northwest.

Evaluating visual analytics for health informatics applications: a systematic review from the American Medical Informatics Association Visual Analytics Working Group Task Force on Evaluation.

Objective: This article reports results from a systematic literature review related to the evaluation of data visualizations and visual analytics technologies within the health informatics domain. The review aims to (1) characterize the variety of evaluation methods used within the health informatics community and (2) identify best practices.

Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted following PRISMA guidelines.

Ninety Years and Counting: The Past, Present, and Future of the Nursing Professional Development Specialty.

This article describes the long history of the specialty of nursing professional development (NPD), the founding of NPD's specialty organization, National Nursing Staff Development Organization, and the organization's transformation and growth to meet the ever-changing needs of NPD practitioners. Finally, the future of the NPD specialty is envisioned. This article provides the NPD practitioner with critical information to advocate for the specialty.

What and how are EM residents being taught to respond to the next disaster?

Objective: Disasters, both natural and man-made, have become commonplace and emergency physicians serve on the front line. Residency may be the only time that emergency physicians are exposed to a disaster, through training, until one happens in their department; therefore, it is critical to provide residents with appropriate and timely disaster education. The goal of this study was to assess the current status of disaster education in emergency medicine (EM) residencies in the United States.

Parental habituation to human disturbance over time reduces fear of humans in coyote offspring.

A fundamental tenet of maternal effects assumes that maternal variance over time should have discordant consequences for offspring traits across litters. Yet, seldom are parents observed across multiple reproductive bouts, with few studies considering anthropogenic disturbances as an ecological driver of maternal effects. We observed captive coyote () pairs over two successive litters to determine whether among-litter differences in behavior (i.

Workplace bullying, biased behaviours and performance review in the nursing profession: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To explore staff nurses' discourses of workplace bullying, to critically examine how these discourses affect their responses to bullying.

Background: Workplace bullying has been identified as a pervasive problem within the nursing profession. Efforts to eradicate workplace bullying need to involve staff-targets as well as bystanders.

Evaluating emerging organic contaminant removal in an engineered hyporheic zone using high resolution mass spectrometry.

The hyporheic zone (HZ), located at the interface of surface and groundwater, is a natural bioreactor for attenuation of chemical contaminants. Engineered HZs can be incorporated into stream restoration projects to enhance hyporheic exchange, with flowpaths optimized to promote biological habitat, water quantity, and water quality improvements. Designing HZs for in-stream treatment of stormwater, a significant source of flow and contaminant loads to urban creeks, requires assessment of both the hydrology and biogeochemical capacity for water quality improvement.

Impact of a nature-based intervention on incarcerated women.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the impact of a short-term nature-based intervention on the social-emotional well-being of women incarcerated on a mental health unit in a state prison.

Design/methodology/approach: This research used a mixed method approach with individual interviews, a focus group and a visual analog scale (VAS).

Findings: Qualitative results found that women appreciated the planting party and the way the plants improved the physical environment.

Nursing Professional Development's Spirit of Inquiry Focus Areas.

An Association for Nursing Professional Development (ANPD) task force was charged with redesigning the association's small research grant process. One step in this process included identifying focus areas for the specialty's spirit of inquiry. Using input from a round table discussion with ANPD annual convention attendees, the Journal for Nurses in Professional Development Editorial Board, and the convention evaluation query, 10 spirit of inquiry focus areas were identified that align with the Nursing Professional Development Practice Model.