Patient Safety Education in Undergraduate Nursing Training and Curriculum

What is it about?

A solid proposal, with practical steps on how to integrate , I’m a structured manner, patient safety education in undergraduate nursing curriculum and teaching, and how to make this topic a top priority for nursing educators and students alike.

Why is it important?

Patient Safety awareness has now become an integral part of building the next generation nursing workforce. This paper suggests a blueprint for educating undergraduate nursing students with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes that are compatible with patient safety science.

Perspectives

Mansour Mansour (Author)

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

 

This paper comes in a time when there is a lively debate on the position of patient safety among other more competing and contemporary topics in nursing education.

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Press Release: “Analyzing effects of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) & polyethylene glycol (PEG)”

This research article by Dr. Koorosh Tookalloo et al is published in The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal , Volume 11, 2018

Nowadays, the maintenance of wellbore stability is a very important activity in the drilling industry. Wellbore stability can be improved by designing proper drilling fluid. Due to the characteristics of shale formations in relation to their ionic composition, clay content and very low Nano-Darcy permeability with very small nanometer-sized pore throats that are not effectively sealed by the solids in conventional drilling fluids, water invasion to these types of formations results in many problems. Choosing appropriate nanomaterials with suitable particle size and concentrations for plugging the nano-sized pores in the shale formations is key in preventing water flow into the shale region. Water base mud performance and rheological properties improve due to the importance and unique properties of MWCNT, such as thermal stability (at temperatures higher than 600 °C), high chemical stability, a significantly large surface area, a high aspect ratio, light weight, larger flexibility, high mechanical strength and superior electrical properties.

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Reference: Tookalloo K et al, (2018). Analyzing Effects of Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNT) & Polyethylene Glycol (PEG) on Performance of Water Base Mud (WBM) in Shale Formation, The Open Petroleum Engineering Journal. DOI: 10.2174/1874834101811010029

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Press Release: “Generic direct acting antivirals in treatment of chronic hepatitis C patients”

This article by Dr. Ieva Tolmane et al. is published in The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, Volume 10, 2018

There has been published results of the study “ORIGINAL VERSUS GENERIC DIRECT ACTING ANTIVIRALS IN TREATMENT OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C PATIENTS: REAL LIFE DATA FROM LATVIA” authored by Tolmane I, Rozentale B, Arutjunana S et al., recently.

There are many new highly effective direct acting antiviral medicines for hepatitis C treatment registered worldwide during recent years. Despite effective treatment available from 2016 in Latvia, there are restrictions – only patients with fibrosis (F, Metavir) stages 3 to 4 have access to reimbursed medicines. Some patients obtain generic drugs from India. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of original and generic direct acting antiviral medications in Latvian hepatitis C patients. This was a retrospective study of 179 chronic viral hepatitis C patients. Patients were divided into two groups – those who received original direct acting antivirals ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir, dasabuvir + ribavirin (n=144) and those who received generic medicines from India (n=35) sofosbuvir, ledipasvir or sofosbuvir, daclatasvir + ribavirin. Undetectable viral load 12 weeks after cessation of therapy (sustained virologic response 12) was measured in all patients. Therapy course completed 142 patients (2 patients discontinued treatment) from original medicines group and all patients from generics group. In the original medicines group – sustained viral response was achieved in all 142 patients who completed treatment course (100%), while in generic medicines group in 32 patients (91.4%).

Study results showed high efficacy of both regimens using original and generic medicines – sustained virologic response was achieved in more than 90% of patients, with slight superiority in original medicines group. This study shows patient’s interest and eligibility to seek for alternative treatment possibilities, when original drugs are not available through reimbursement system, and they are too expensive to buy out of pocket. This study also shows high efficacy of generic drugs obtained from India.

Reference: Tolmane L et al, (2018). Original Versus Generic Direct Acting Antivirals in Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Patients: Real Life Data From Latvia. The Open Infectious Diseases Journal, Volume 10, 2018. DOI: 10.2174/1874279301810010063

Press Release: “Memorization test & resting state EEG components in mild & subjective cognitive impairment”

This article by Dr. Giulia Mazzon et al. is published in Current Alzheimer Research, Volume 15, Issue 9, 2018

Researchers at the University of Trieste have found that using a nonlinear approach in EEG analysis in combination with a cognitive task during EEG recordings could make the difference in highlighting EEG alterations at very early stages of cognitive impairment. This EEG protocol may therefore be a practical and non-invasive tool in the clinical context to identify subjects for second level diagnostic examinations for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

Mild (MCI) and Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) are conditions at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Differential between normal aging at early stages can be really challenging; available biomarkers need to be combined and can be quite invasive and expensive.

The researchers recruited 11 MCI, 8 SCI and 7 healthy subjects as controls (CS), all matched for age and education; they performed neuropsychological assessment and EEG recording, at resting state and during a mental memory task, and they used both classical spectral measures and nonlinear parameters to characterize EEGs.

During cognitive tasks, α-band power reduction was found predominantly in frontal regions in SCI and CS, diffused to all regions in MCI; moreover, decreased EEG complexity was found in SCI compared to controls. The α-band power attenuation restricted to frontal regions in SCI during a free recall task (involving frontal areas), suggests that MCI patients compensate for encoding deficit by activating different brain networks to perform the same task. Furthermore, EEG complexity reduction – that has been found already in SCI – could be a possible early hallmark of AD. The researchers suggest that this analysis may be applied in clinical routine as a diagnostic and prognostic tool in subjects with complaining of initial cognitive impairment.

The study, ‘Memorization test and resting state EEG components in mild and subjective cognitive impairment’, co-authored by Giulia Mazzon and his collaborators, all of the University Trieste, was published recently in Current Alzheimer Research.

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http://www.eurekaselect.com/161637

Reference: Mazzon G et al, (2018). Memorization Test and Resting State EEG Components in Mild and Subjective Cognitive Impairment. Current Alzheimer Research, Vol 15, Issue 9. DOI: 10.2174/1567205015666180427114520

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Patient Safety Education in Undergraduate Nursing Training and Curriculum

What is it about?

A solid proposal, with practical steps on how to integrate , I’m a structured manner, patient safety education in undergraduate nursing curriculum and teaching, and how to make this topic a top priority for nursing educators and students alike.

Why is it important?

Patient Safety awareness has now become an integral part of bulding the next generation nursing workforce. This paper suggests a blueprint for educating undergraduate nursing students with the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes that are compatible with patient safety science.

Perspectives

Mansour Mansour (Author)

Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

This paper comes in a time when there is a lively debate on the position of patient safety among other more competing and contemporary topics in nursing education.