Journal ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental hygiene · June 2025
Antineoplastic drug (AD) exposure can cause adverse health effects for healthcare workers. AD contamination on surfaces persists despite interventions to reduce it. The United States Pharmacopeial Convention recommends surface sampling as a measure of expo ...
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Journal ArticleClinical journal of oncology nursing · May 2025
Toilet plume aerosols are a source of hazardous drug (HD) contamination in patient bathrooms; however, using plastic-backed pads to reduce contamination has not been tested within the clinical setting. This study tested wheth. ...
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Journal ArticleClinical journal of oncology nursing · March 2025
BackgroundAntineoplastic drug (AD) exposure presents severe risks to healthcare workers. Previous studies have demonstrated that patient bathrooms are highly contaminated and have led to concern for excreta as a source of environmental contaminati ...
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Journal ArticleAntimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · January 2024
Inaccurate penicillin allergy labeling may deter healthcare providers from initiating appropriate therapy and contribute to antibiotic resistance. In a rural urgent care setting, the current practice of penicillin allergy labeling was evaluated using the P ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2022
Acute upper respiratory infections account for most urgent care visits, and most do not require antibiotics. A quality improvement project was conducted at an urgent care clinic in Texas over a 1-month period with the intent of improving antibiotic prescri ...
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Journal ArticleCurrents in pharmacy teaching & learning · September 2021
IntroductionFaculty everywhere are struggling to transition their on-campus courses to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We transitioned our graduate pathophysiology and clinical pharmacology courses for advanced practice providers fr ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB J · September 2021
A layer of glycocalyx covers the vascular endothelium serving important protective and homeostatic functions. The objective of this study was to determine if breakdown of the endothelial glycocalyx (eGC) occurs during malaria infection in children. Measure ...
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Journal ArticleFront Cell Dev Biol · 2021
Malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum results in over 400,000 deaths annually, predominantly affecting African children. In addition, non-falciparum species including vivax and knowlesi cause significant morbidity and mortality. Vascular dysfunction is a ...
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Journal ArticlePlastic surgical nursing : official journal of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Nurses · October 2020
Medication shortage is a problem that affects patients, providers, and institutions of all sizes and scope across the United States. The objective of this quality improvement project was to promote the appropriate use of multi-dose vials (MDVs) by anesthes ...
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Journal ArticleOncol Nurs Forum · May 1, 2020
OBJECTIVES: To measure surface contamination with antineoplastic drugs on inpatient oncology units and to characterize nursing staff personal protective equipment (PPE) use and factors that predict this use. SAMPLE & SETTING: A descriptive pilot study ...
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Journal ArticleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2020
Treatment of cancer has shifted dramatically over the past 2 decades. Targeted agents are used to block pathways known to drive tumor growth. Immunotherapy agents work by reversing cancer's ability to evade immune checkpoints, resulting in effective immune ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB J · December 2019
Cerebral malaria (CM) from Plasmodium falciparum infection is associated with endothelial dysfunction and parasite sequestration. The glycocalyx (GCX), a carbohydrate-rich layer lining the endothelium, is crucial in vascular homeostasis. To evaluate the ro ...
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Journal ArticleClin Infect Dis · October 30, 2019
BACKGROUND: Interactions between the endothelium and infected erythrocytes play a major role in the pathogenesis of falciparum malaria, with microvascular dysfunction and parasite sequestration associated with worsening outcomes. The glycocalyx is a carboh ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of nursing care quality · October 2019
BackgroundThe commonly employed medication reconciliation process leaves room for mismanagement of medications in the complex end-stage renal disease patient population.PurposeThe purpose of this quality improvement project was to impleme ...
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Journal ArticleTeaching and Learning in Nursing · April 1, 2018
Student evaluations of teaching (SET) provide feedback to nursing faculty for improving courses and teaching and to administrators for making personnel decisions affecting faculty. We surveyed the literature to better understand the content of and types of ...
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Journal ArticleNurs Forum · January 18, 2018
Student evaluations of teaching (SET) provide a structured way of collecting feedback from students about the course and teacher's effectiveness. We reviewed literature describing use of SET across a broad range of disciplines in undergraduate and graduate ...
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Journal ArticleSci Rep · July 7, 2016
We earlier established that nitric oxide (NO) is protective against severe malaria and that arginine and NO levels are reduced in malaria patients. We now show that an M2-like blood monocyte phenotype is significantly associated with hypoargininemia, NO in ...
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Journal ArticleNurse educator · July 2015
Safety education in nursing has traditionally focused at the level of individual nurse-patient interactions. Students and novice clinicians lack clinical experience to create context and understand the complexity of the health care system and safety scienc ...
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Journal ArticleCirculation · January 1, 1993
The objective of this study was to compare the effects of nonadrenergic-noncholinergic (NANC) stimulation and nitric oxide (NO) on isolated strips of corpus cavernosum from human and rabbit penis. Authentic NO and electrical field stimulation (EFS) caused ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications · July 1992
The objective of this study was to determine whether a constitutive isoform of nitric oxide (NO) synthase is present in rabbit corpus cavernosum that could account for the involvement of the L-arginine-NO pathway in neurogenically-elicited relaxation of th ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications · June 1992
This study examined whether constitutive nitric oxide (NO) synthase from rat cerebellum catalyzes the formation of equimolar amounts of NO plus citrulline from L-arginine under various conditions. Citrulline was determined by monitoring the formation of 3H ...
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Journal ArticleThe Journal of urology · June 1992
Nitric oxide (NO) caused a potent, marked, and transient relaxation of precontracted strips of corpus cavernosum isolated from humans and rabbits. The relaxation response elicited by NO was very similar to the relaxation evoked by electrical field stimulat ...
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Journal ArticleThe New England journal of medicine · January 1992
BACKGROUND: Nitric oxide has been identified as an endothelium-derived relaxing factor in blood vessels. We tried to determine whether it is involved in the relaxation of the corpus cavernosum that allows penile erection. The relaxation of this smooth musc ...
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Journal ArticleNature · September 1990
BACKGROUND: Nitric oxide has been identified as an endothelium-derived relaxing factor in blood vessels. We tried to determine whether it is involved in the relaxation of the corpus cavernosum that allows penile erection. The relaxation of this smooth musc ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications · July 1990
In the presence of functional adrenergic and cholinergic blockade, electrical field stimulation relaxes corpus cavernosum smooth muscle by unknown mechanisms. We report here that electrical field stimulation of isolated strips of rabbit corpus cavernosum p ...
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Journal ArticleBiochemical and biophysical research communications · October 1989
This study examined the influence of lowered arterial levels of L-arginine on endothelium-dependent relaxation of isolated rings of bovine pulmonary artery. Incubation of arterial rings under tension for 24 hr in oxygenated Krebs bicarbonate solution at 37 ...
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