Implementation of the AAP Recommendations to Reduce SIDS Risk in NICUs: A Collaborative Study of Nursing Knowledge and Practice

Purpose: To examine and describe NICU nurses’: Knowledge of SIDS risk reduction measures Modeling of safe infant sleep interventions prior to hospital discharge Inclusion of SIDS risk reduction in parent educatio

Permeation of a Metalworking Fluid Through a Latex Glove Under Field Use Conditions

Whole glove testing for a metalworking fluid (MWF) in the field was performed for the first time. Green latex gloves used in a machine shop were exposed for 20 min to MWF. The permeated amount (1.0 ± 0.5 μg/cm2) was higher than the threshold (0.25 μg/cm2) for the ASTM F739-99a closed-loop normalized breakthrough time

The H.E.R.E.© Curricular Model...Educating Nursing Students for 21st Century Health Care

Background: The focus on traditional acute, hospital-based health care is being replaced with a new paradigm aimed at providing primary care, care of populations, and care across transitions and providers. As changes unfold, nursing education is challenged to prepare graduates who can effectively function in new healthcare environments of the 21st century. In response, the Jefferson College of Nursing (JCN) embarked on the ambitious task of designing a new 21st century baccalaureate nursing curriculum over a 13-month period. Although a 13-month turnaround time for curriculum design is unprecedented, what is most unique about JCN’s initiative is that it began with a charge of developing an idealized curriculum from a blank slate. Advised by a curriculum consultant, a group of nine faculty and six key stakeholders (known as the Curriculum Navigators) created ‘The H.E.R.E© Curricular Model’ which provides a framework for a nursing curriculum that is forward thinking and contemporary. The four major themes of the H.E.R.E© model, Interprofessional Collaboration, Innovation, Population Health and Practice Excellence, are the foundation for the curriculum model as well as the curriculum’s organizing framework statement, Promoting Health and Quality of Life along the Care Continuum. A concept-based approach based on Giddens book (2013) organizes the curriculum concepts. Traditional clinical experiences were replaced with “Immersions” that encompass objectives from concurrent courses and connect didactic concepts to patient care experiences across the health care continuum and settings. Poster presented at: American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), 2016 Baccalaureate Education Conference: Innovating Nursing Education to Improve the Health of the Nation. Anaheim, California. November 17-November 19, 2016.https://jdc.jefferson.edu/nursingposters/1010/thumbnail.jp