•Ongoing nursing program evaluation efforts assess quality and graduate preparation•This article offers a roadmap for faculty as they improve nursing program outcomes•Systematic, yet purposeful ...quality improvement efforts enhance nursing education
Evaluating various nursing program outcomes helps faculty assess program quality. Evaluation efforts may reveal programs are not meeting their established benchmarks. Nurse educators, along with internal and external stakeholders, should engage in systematic, yet purposeful quality improvement efforts to boost program outcomes that display declines in performance. Faculty may struggle to determine needed changes and how to successfully implement and evaluate modifications that can lead to enhanced performance. This article presents a roadmap for improving program outcomes. Systematic, purposeful, and ongoing quality improvement efforts help prepare caring, safe, and competent nurses that positively impact healthcare.
Nursing programs must demonstrate compliance with nursing accreditation standards when implementing teaching and learning experiences including those involving clinical preceptorships. This article ...provides suggestions for the preparation, implementation, and evaluation of these preceptor experiences to facilitate appropriate documentation to meet accreditation standards.
•Accelerated online nursing programs are gaining popularity but are not well-studied•This article offers strategies to support the accelerated online nursing learner•Continuous quality improvement ...efforts enhance accelerated online nursing education
Accelerated nursing programs are gaining popularity as students can accomplish program objectives in a short time. Fully online accelerated nursing learners have unique needs and educators may be unprepared to utilize specific strategies to support this population. To strengthen accelerated online nursing programs, educators should orient the learner, maximize flexibility, and design courses and programs with intention. Such efforts help students achieve program outcomes and prepare nurses who positively impact healthcare.
Abstract The involvement of academic research in drug discovery is consistently growing. However, academic projects seldom advance to clinical trials. Here, we assess the landscape of drug discovery ...within the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) TransCure launched by the Swiss National Science Foundation to foster basic research and early‐stage drug discovery on membrane transporters. This included transporters in central nervous system (CNS) disorders, which represent a huge unmet medical need. While idea championship, sustainable funding, collaborations between disciplines at the interface of academia and industry are important for translational research, Popperian falsifiability, strong intellectual property and a motivated startup team are key elements for innovation. This is exemplified by the NCCR TransCure spin‐off company Synendos Therapeutics, a clinical stage biotech company developing the first selective endocannabinoid reuptake inhibitors (SERIs) as novel treatment for neuropsychiatric disorders. We provide a perspective on the challenges related to entering an uncharted druggable space and bridging the often mentioned “valley of death”. The high attrition rate of drug discovery projects in the CNS field within academia is often due to the lack of meaningful animal models that can provide pharmacological proof‐of‐concept for potentially disruptive technologies at the earliest stages, and the absence of solid intellectual property.
Nursing program evaluation site visits are a critical part of the accreditation journey helping peer evaluators gain a comprehensive picture of a program and determine the program's adherence to ...accreditation standards. Although a variety of activities are completed as part of site visits, resources provided on site can offer further program information. However, nursing programs may need some help deciding how to appropriately plan site visit resources. Thus, this article provides suggestions for planning and organizing resources, identifying appropriate resources, and offering additional guidance for resource preparation.
Nursing programs may note changes in program outcome achievement such as declines in licensure pass rates. As part of the continuous quality improvement process, programs will want to take ...appropriate actions to intervene and address these performance issues. This article discusses the development and use of targeted action plans that can guide nursing programs and effectively address program outcome concerns.
Many pathologies can occur in the periportal space and manifest as fluid accumulation, visible in Computed tomography (CT) images as a circumferential region of low attenuation around the ...intrahepatic portal vessels, called periportal halo (PPH). This finding is associated with different types of hepatic and extra-hepatic disease in humans and remains a non-specific sign of unknown significance in veterinary literature. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of PPH in a population of patients undergoing CT examination and to assess the presence of lesions related to hepatic and extra-hepatic disease in presence of PPH. CT studies including the cranial abdomen of dogs and cats performed over a 5-year period were retrospectively reviewed. The prevalence of PPH was 15% in dogs and 1% in cats. 143 animals were included and the halo was classified as mild, moderate and severe, respectively in 51%, 34% and 15% of animals. The halo distribution was generalized in 79 cases, localized along the second generation of portal branches in 63, and along the first generation only in one. Hepatic disease was present in 58/143 and extra-hepatic disease in 110/143 of the cases. Main cause of hepatic (36%) and extra-hepatic disease (68%) was neoplasia. Associations between halo grades and neoplasia revealed to be not statistically significant (p = 0.057). In 7% of animals the CT examination was otherwise unremarkable. PPH is a non-specific finding, occurring in presence of a variety of diseases in the examined patient population.
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DOBA, IZUM, KILJ, NUK, PILJ, PNG, SAZU, SIK, UILJ, UKNU, UL, UM, UPUK
Neuron is the basic computing unit in brain-inspired neural networks. Although a multitude of excellent artificial neurons realized with conventional transistors have been proposed, they might not be ...energy and area efficient in large-scale networks. The recent discovery of ferroelectricity in hafnium oxide (HfO2) and the related switching phenomena at the nanoscale might provide a solution. This study employs the newly reported accumulative polarization reversal in nanoscale HfO2-based ferroelectric field-effect transistors (FeFETs) to implement two key neuronal dynamics: the integration of action potentials and the subsequent firing according to the biologically plausible all-or-nothing law. We show that by carefully shaping electrical excitations based on the particular nucleation-limited switching kinetics of the ferroelectric layer further neuronal behaviors can be emulated, such as firing activity tuning, arbitrary refractory period and the leaky effect. Finally, we discuss the advantages of an FeFET-based neuron, highlighting its transferability to advanced scaling technologies and the beneficial impact it may have in reducing the complexity of neuromorphic circuits.
Preceptorships, or use of experienced staff nurses (preceptors) to provide individualized guidance for nursing student learning in clinical settings, offer an alternative to the traditional clinical ...education approach where faculty work with groups of students. As faculty roles in implementing preceptorships are not well understood, a descriptive qualitative design was used to determine how faculty view their role. Themes and subthemes emerging from nine semistructured interviews revealed that faculty have various roles in preparing, maintaining, and evaluating preceptorships. Faculty also verbalized that they facilitate the transition from student to professional nurse during preceptorships.
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