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OBJECTIVE: Numerous disasters confirm the need for critical event training in healthcare professions. However, no single discipline works in isolation and interprofessional learning is recognized as a necessary component. An interprofessional faculty group designed a learning curriculum crossing professional schools. DESIGN: Faculty members from four healthcare schools within the university (nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and medicine) developed an interdisciplinary course merging both published cross-cutting competencies for critical event response and interprofessional education competencies. SETTING: Students completed a discipline-specific online didactic course. Interdisciplinary groups then participated in a 4-hour synchronous experience. This live course featured high-fidelity medical simulations focused on resuscitation, as well as hands-on modules on decontamination and a mass casualty triage incorporating moulaged standardized patients in an active shooter scenario. PARTICIPANTS: Participants were senior students from allied health, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Precourse and postcourse assessments were conducted online to assess course impact on learning performance, leadership and team development, and course satisfaction. RESULTS: Students participated were 402. Precourse and postcourse evaluations showed improvement in team participation values, critical event knowledge, and 94 percent of participants reported learning useful skills. Qualitative responses evidenced positive response; most frequent recurring comments concerned value of interprofessional experiences in team communication and desire to incorporate this kind of education earlier in their curriculum. Students demonstrated improvement in both knowledge and attitudes in a critical event response course that includes interprofessional instruction and collaboration. Further study is required to demonstrate sustained improvement as well as benefit to clinical outcomes.

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Many nursing students today want to be involved in mission projects to serve others, study abroad, and/or develop cultural competence. This article describes the service-learning model applied to a study-abroad clinical experience with a mission focus that follows best-practice guidelines for healthcare missions.

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Not only is globalization expanding areas of human activity, it is also influencing the variety of educational offerings in universities. Therefore, globalization must be considered by nurse educators as they reevaluate ways of preparing nursing students to meet the health care needs of populations they currently serve and will care for in the future. Study abroad programs have been encouraged to be part of the college experience in the United States for more than 30 years; however, these programs have been relatively lacking in nursing education. Most of the study abroad programs described in the nursing literature are research-based or first-person accounts of an experience and provide little information about planning a study abroad program. This article describes a study abroad learning experience for senior nursing students and discusses the issues such as student selection, student safety, and available clinical experiences that need to be considered before undertaking such an endeavor.

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Nurses and other healthcare providers (HCPs) have a long history of providing care during extreme emergencies, disasters, or mass casualty incidents (MCIs). Surveys have been conducted in U.S. metropolitan areas to determine the ability and willingness of HCP to respond to an MCIs. Various barriers were identified in those studies. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of HCPs in other countries and cultures to barriers they may have in their ability or willingness to respond during an MCI. The study participants were 42 nurses completing their master's degree, representing 26 different countries and territories, and they were assigned to one of eight focus groups based on the location of their country of origin. The findings revealed several themes, the first being that in some countries there were no perceived barriers to either ability or willingness to respond to an MCI. In other countries, the perceived barriers to ability were lack of transportation, staff shortages, equipment shortages, personal illness, and lack of infant care, whereas the perceived barriers to willingness were dimensions of fear and employment status. Cultural differences played a significant role in the ability and willingness of the HCPs to respond to an MCI.

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Presentamos el caso de una paciente de 34 años de edad, quien consultó por una dermatosis de reciente aparición, con lesiones papulosas de color pardovioláceo y superficie queratósica localizadas en flanco izquierdo. Al realizar el estudio histopatológico se comprueba la sospecha clínica de enfermedad de Darier. Debido a la distribución circunscripta de las lesiones, se la ha denominado enfermedad de Darier segmentaria o localizada. Desde sus primeras descripcines, diferentes autores plantearon una gran dificultad diagnóstica con esta enfermedad, pues no difiere clínica e histopatologicamente den nevo epidérmico disqueratósico acantolítico. La presencia de signos típicos de enfermedad de Darier en pacientes con lesiones localizadas, sumada a descubrimientos recientes en el campo de la genética, donde se revela la presencia de una mutación en el gen ATP2A2 en la piel comprometida por enfermedad de Darier clásica, y no en los pacientes con nevo epidérmico disqueratósico acantolítico, sustentarían el diagnóstico de enfermedad de Darier localizada.

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Describimos al cuadro clínico de una paciente que presenta lesiones circunscriptas con aspecto de piel envejecida, localizadas en tronco. El estudio histopatológico muestra ausencia de fibras elásticas en una banda que compromete la dermis reticular alta. El término elastolisis se utiliza para definir la disminución o ausencia de las fibras elásticas. Las enfermedades elastolíticas pueden ser localizadas o generalizadas, congénitas o adquiridas, con o sin manifestaciones sistémicas. La elastolisis de la dermis media es una afección rara, adquirida, idiopática y sin compromiso extracutáneo. Los hallazgos histológicos son patognomónicos, observándose ausencia de tejido elástico en una banda que compromete la porción media de la dermis.

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Writing is an essential skill for professional nurses. During their education, nursing students are required to produce a variety of written assignments, but most of these are regimented, such as care plans and term papers. There is little opportunity for students to express their creative side. Because all writing experiences are useful for student growth, this project in writing poetry was developed to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their clinical experience in home health nursing and to document the contribution of clinical experience to their affective domain.

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Presentamos el caso de un paciente con amiloidosis sistémica primaria que presentaba las manifestaciones cutáneas características. El paciente tenía lesiones purpúricas en región periorbitaria y tronco. En este caso se asoció a una paraproteinemia no mieloma. Destacamos la importancia de las lesiones cutáneas en el diagnóstico de la amiloidosis sistémica primaria dado que son fáciles de reconocer. Además, su presencia permite sospechar la amiloidosis sistémica, la cual se puede confirmar mediante la biopsia cutánea de dichas lesiones

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Presentamos el caso de un paciente con amiloidosis sistémica primaria que presentaba las manifestaciones cutáneas características. El paciente tenía lesiones purpúricas en región periorbitaria y tronco. En este caso se asoció a una paraproteinemia no mieloma. Destacamos la importancia de las lesiones cutáneas en el diagnóstico de la amiloidosis sistémica primaria dado que son fáciles de reconocer. Además, su presencia permite sospechar la amiloidosis sistémica, la cual se puede confirmar mediante la biopsia cutánea de dichas lesiones (AU)

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True histiocytic malignancies (THM) are controversial disorders that are being re-evaluated with modern cellular and molecular biology techniques. True histiocytic lymphoma (THL) is a low-incidence, poor-prognosis THM. It mainly affects the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and bone tissues. Occasionally, skin lesions are the presenting clinical features. A patient with initially cutaneous THL is described. This and other reported cases confirm that THM are a nosologic entity by themselves.

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Recognition that the environment is a determinant of health is deeply rooted in the heritage of nursing. Environmental hazards and their effects on health rarely have simple solutions that can be managed by one discipline alone. Environmental health issues are complex in nature and the science is developing rapidly. Primary prevention strategies often involve the participation of professionals from fields other than nursing, and interdisciplinary, collaborative efforts are usually required. This article describes learning experiences about local environmental health issues, several of which were designed to initiate and foster collaboration between baccalaureate nursing students and graduate students in public health.

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La nocardiosis es una infección localizada o sistémica de infrecuente observación. En piel puede desarrollar un síndrome linfocutáneo simil esporotricosis. Presentamos un paciente de 61 años que desarrolló nocardiosis linfocutánea por Nocardia asteroides tras un traumatismo menor en cuero cabelludo. En el presente artículo se discuten las formas clínicas de nocardiosis cutáneas. Se realiza una revisión de los casos publicados en nuestro país de nocardiosis linfocutánea, todos provocados por Nocardia brasiliensis y localizados en extremidades. Por lo tanto, comunicamos el primer caso de nocardiosis linfocutánea por Nocardia asteroides en la Argentina

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La nocardiosis es una infección localizada o sistémica de infrecuente observación. En piel puede desarrollar un síndrome linfocutáneo simil esporotricosis. Presentamos un paciente de 61 años que desarrolló nocardiosis linfocutánea por Nocardia asteroides tras un traumatismo menor en cuero cabelludo. En el presente artículo se discuten las formas clínicas de nocardiosis cutáneas. Se realiza una revisión de los casos publicados en nuestro país de nocardiosis linfocutánea, todos provocados por Nocardia brasiliensis y localizados en extremidades. Por lo tanto, comunicamos el primer caso de nocardiosis linfocutánea por Nocardia asteroides en la Argentina (AU)

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