Determining factors affecting job strain for nurse practitioners in acute care practice

Acute care practice settings are stressful. Nurse leaders face stressful demands of numerous competing priorities. Some nurse leaders experience unmanageable stress, but success requires self-care. This article presents a repeated measures intervention design study using mixed methods to investigate a self-care simple meditation practice for nurse leaders. Themes and subthemes emerged in association with the three data collection points: at baseline (pretest), after 6 weeks, and after 12 weeks (posttest) from introduction of the self-care simple meditation practice. An analysis of variance yielded a statistically significant drop in perceived stress at 6 weeks and again at 12 weeks. Conducting future research is merited.

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Detection of Missed Injuries in a Pediatric Trauma Center With the Addition of Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

Journal of Trauma Nursing ◽

10.1097/jtn.0000000000000093 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 21 (6) ◽

pp. 276-277

Author(s):

&NA;

Keyword(s):

Acute Care ◽

Nurse Practitioners ◽

Trauma Center ◽

Pediatric Trauma ◽

Pediatric Nurse ◽

Missed Injuries ◽

Pediatric Nurse Practitioners ◽

Pediatric Trauma Center

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Factors Contributing to Heat Resistance of Clostridium perfringens Endospores

Applied and Environmental Microbiology ◽

10.1128/aem.02629-07 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 74 (11) ◽

pp. 3328-3335 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Benjamin Orsburn ◽

Stephen B. Melville ◽

David L. Popham

Keyword(s):

Cell Wall ◽

Heat Resistance ◽

Clostridium Perfringens ◽

Food Poisoning ◽

High Heat ◽

Relative Importance ◽

High Heat Resistance ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Cooking Process ◽

Determining Factors

ABSTRACT The endospores formed by strains of type A Clostridium perfringens that produce the C. perfringens enterotoxin (CPE) are known to be more resistant to heat and cold than strains that do not produce this toxin. The high heat resistance of these spores allows them to survive the cooking process, leading to a large number of food-poisoning cases each year. The relative importance of factors contributing to the establishment of heat resistance in this species is currently unknown. The present study examines the spores formed by both CPE+ and CPE− strains for factors known to affect heat resistance in other species. We have found that the concentrations of DPA and metal ions, the size of the spore core, and the protoplast-to-sporoplast ratio are determining factors affecting heat resistance in these strains. While the overall thickness of the spore peptidoglycan was found to be consistent in all strains, the relative amounts of cortex and germ cell wall peptidoglycan also appear to play a role in the heat resistance of these strains.

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