The quality of leadership preferred by the nine-year old

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Stories Give Form to a Complex Reality: A Narrative Inquiry of DNP Prepared APRNs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Virtual Presentation Background: The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of healthcare, yet there is a gap in the literature concerning Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Objective: To gather an authentic understanding of DNP prepared APRN experiences (stories) caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This was a qualitative narrative inquiry study. A purposive sample of DNP prepared APRNs (N=8) were recruited to participate. All interviews were audio recorded, recordings were transcribed, and then the authors crafted each participant’s narrative story. Results: Four overarching themes were identified: Do the Right Thing, Stepping Up, From Here to Reality, and Complex COVID Coping. Twelve subthemes were also identified. Participant stories were profound and indicated that their DNP education prepared them well for the healthcare crisis, but that the emotional toll was difficult. Conclusions/Implications for Practice: This research provides insight into the experiences of DNPs working during the height of the pandemic and elucidates the duty of nursing leaders and educators to appropriately plan, safeguard, and guide DNPs, students, and nurses at all levels. Preparation in epidemiology, public health, disaster planning, tele practice, and wellness is paramount

Stories Give Form to a Complex Reality: A Narrative Inquiry of DNP Prepared APRNs during the COVID-19 Crisis. Educational Implications

Virtual presentation. Background: The COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of healthcare and nursing education as we know it. Faculty in the DNP program at Molloy College were concerned regarding the newest DNP graduates who were thrust into both a new role and a pandemic, and little information was published in the literature concerning this group of professionals. Objective: To gather an authentic understanding of DNP prepared APRN experiences (stories) caring for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This was a qualitative narrative inquiry study. A purposive sample of DNP prepared APRNs (N=8) were recruited to participate. All interviews were audio recorded, recordings were transcribed, and then the authors crafted each participant’s narrative story. Results: Four overarching themes were identified: Do the Right Thing, Stepping Up, From Here to Reality, and Complex COVID Coping. Twelve subthemes were also identified. Participant stories were profound and indicated that their DNP education prepared them well for the healthcare crisis, but that the emotional toll was difficult. Conclusions/Implications for Practice and Education: This research provides insight into the experiences of DNPs working during the height of the pandemic and elucidates the duty of nursing leaders and educators to appropriately plan, safeguard, and guide DNPs, students, and nurses at all levels. Preparation in epidemiology, public health, disaster planning, tele practice, and wellness is paramount

Pre-service School Professionals\u27 Knowledge of Speech-Language Pathologists\u27 Literacy Practices

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine school-based pre-service professionals’ knowledge of speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) literacy assessment and intervention practices in K-12 students before and following participation in an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop. Methods: A pre-/post-workshop survey of school-based SLP’s literacy practices will be distributed to the attendees of the IPE workshop. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. Descriptive statistics will be analyzed and reported. Originality: A growing body of literature suggests that collaborative interprofessional practice (IPP) is more likely to be successfully conducted when professionals have participated in IPE experiences when they were enrolled in their pre-service professional training programs. In particular, knowledge of the roles, responsibilities, and scope of practice of the other professionals with whom they will interact has been identified as a significant predictor of successful IPP. Significance: Results of this study will provide preliminary data of the effectiveness of an interprofessional education (IPE) workshop with respect to informing school-based pre-service professionals on the scope of the school-based SLP’s practice in literacy assessment and intervention. This is significant in that while there are numerous studies of IPE practices in medical-based fields, such as nursing and pharmacy, few such studies exist that examine the IPE experiences of school-based pre-service professionals

Expression of GABAergic Receptors in Mouse Taste Receptor Cells

) while it is terminated by the re-uptake of GABA through transporters (GATs).- immunoreactivity were detected in the peripheral taste receptor cells. We also used transgenic mice that express green fluorescent protein (GFP) in either the Type II taste cells, which can respond to bitter, sweet or umami taste stimuli, or in the Type III GAD67 expressing taste cells. Thus, we were able to identify that GABAergic receptors are expressed in some Type II and Type III taste cells. Mouse GAT4 labeling was concentrated in the cells surrounding the taste buds with a few positively labeled TRCs at the margins of the taste buds.The presence of GABAergic receptors localized on Type II and Type III taste cells suggests that GABA is likely modulating evoked taste responses in the mouse taste bud

Relaxed sugar donor selectivity of a Sinorhizobium meliloti ortholog of the Rhizobium leguminosarum mannosyl transferase LpcC: Role of the lipopolysaccharide core in symbiosis of Rhizobiaceae with plants

The lpcC gene of Rhizobium leguminosarum and the lpsB gene of Sinorhizobium meliloti encode protein orthologs that are 58% identical over their entire lengths of about 350 amino acid residues. LpcC and LpsB are required for symbiosis with pea and Medicago plants, respectively. S. meliloti lpsB complements a mutant of R. leguminosarum defective in IpcC, but the converse does not occur. LpcC encodes a highly selective mannosyl transferase that utilizes GDP-mannose to glycosylate the inner 3-deoxy-D-manno-octulosonic acid (Kdo) residue of the lipopolysaccharide precursor Kdo2-lipid IVA. We now demonstrate that LpsB can also efficiently mannosylate the same acceptor substrate as does LpcC. Unexpectedly, however, the sugar nucleotide selectivity of LpsB is greatly relaxed compared with that of LpcC. Membranes of the wild-type S. meliloti strain 2011 catalyze the glycosylation of Kdo2-[4′-32P]lipid IVA at comparable rates using a diverse set of sugar nucleotides, including GDP-mannose, ADP-mannose, UDP-glucose, and ADP-glucose. This complex pattern of glycosylation is due entirely to LpsB, since membranes of the S. meliloti lpsB mutant 6963 do not glycosylate Kdo2-[4′-32P]lipid IVA in the presence of any of these sugar nucleotides. Expression of lpsB in E. coli using a T7lac promoter-driven construct results in the appearance of similar multiple glycosyl transferase activities seen in S. meliloti 2011 membranes. Constructs expressing lpcC display only mannosyl transferase activity. We conclude that LpsB, despite its high degree of similarity to LpcC is a much more versatile glycosyltransferase, probably accounting for the inability of lpcC to complement S. meliloti lpsB mutants. Our findings have important implications for the regulation of core glycosylation in S. meliloti and other bacteria containing LpcC orthologs.Facultad de Ciencias Exacta