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At The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH), the patient safety committee created a safety program that focused on encouraging staff in selected units to identify and eliminate potential errors in the patient care environment. As part of this program, senior hospital executives each adopted an intensive care unit and worked with the unit staff to identify issues and to empower staff to address safety issues. JHH PATIENT SAFETY PROGRAM: The program consisted of eight steps, which together require six months for implementation: (1) conduct a culture survey; (2) educate staff on the science of safety; (3) identify staff safety concerns through a staff safety survey; (4) implement the senior executive adopt-a-work unit program; (5) implement improvements; (6-7) document results, share stories, and disseminate results; and (8) resurvey staff. The senior executive adopt-a-work unit program was successful in identifying and eliminating hazards to patient safety and in creating a culture of safety....

Le cinéma de John Waters est imprévisible. Là où une certaine cinéphilie devrait l’inciter à investir le champ de la culture highbrow, il n’a de cesse de réinventer le lowbrow, là où son goût de la contre-culture devrait l’inciter à rejoindre New York, le cinéaste s’installe dans les salons pour dames de Baltimore, lieu essentiel de son inspiration. Ce décentrement artistique et géographique repose sur un élément paradoxal : l’amour sincère que le cinéaste porte au kitsch, c’est-à-dire à une version supposée « dégénérée » de l’art. Après une définition du concept de kitsch et de sa plus ou moins grande parenté avec la notion de camp, cet article analysera dans un premier temps les multiples objets et stratégies qui donnent forme à cette notion complexe dans le cinéma de John Waters, puis, dans un second temps, il décryptera l’univers familier du cinéaste/auteur/artiste visuel en analysant cet espace intime comme le lieu ultime du kitsch, pour tenter de répondre à la question suivante : John Waters a-t-il fait de sa demeure l’intériorisation de ses films, ou bien a-t-il fait de ses films l’extériorisation de son espace intérieur ?

Effective patient-centred communication requires physicians to respond 'in the moment' to comments and questions. It is a valuable skill to be able to react to unexpected patient utterances with empathy and support, and these surprises may be most common in general practice where patients are encouraged to speak to their doctor about anything. We developed an elective for medical students to learn and practise improvisational skills that would optimise their communications with patients during medical encounters. Nineteen second-year medical students during two consecutive years (n =38) participated in a four-session elective that introduced and allowed them to practise the principles and skills of improvisation, and reflect on the role of those skills in their communication with patients. Specific skills that were practised and emphasised included listening, affirmation, vocal tone modulation, nonverbal communication, agreement, collaboration, acceptance and validation. In ...

"The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America" is Lawrence Brown's first book. In this work, he demonstrates that America cannot make Black Lives Matter until the nation makes Black neighborhoods matter.

You can purchase this book in a variety of places, but here are links to independent bookstores where you can order the book.  Please support them if you can!

Baltimore Bookstores

1. Urban Reads Bookstore https://www.oururbanreads.com/product-page/the-black-butterfly-the-harmful-politics-of-race-and-space-in-america

2. Red Emma's https://redemmas.org/titles/34742-the-black-butterfly--the-harmful-politics-of-race-and-space-in-america…

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5. Charm City Books https://charmcitybooks.com/r/tu/bzm

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Independent Bookstores Around the Nation

1. Turning Page Bookshop (Goose Creek, SC) https://turningpagebookshop.com/shop/ols/products/the-black-butterfly-the-harmful-politics-of-race-and-space-in-america-lawrence-t-brown…

2. The Seminar Co-op Bookstores (Hyde Park, Chicago) https://www.semcoop.com/black-butterfly-harmful-politics-race-and-space-america

3. The Book Stall (North Shore, Chicago) https://www.thebookstall.com/book/9781421439877

4. Trident Books (Boston, MA) https://www.tridentbookscafe.com/book/9781421439877

5. Tattered Cover (Denver, CO) https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9781421439877

6. Park Roads Books (Charlotte, NC) https://www.parkroadbooks.com/book/9781421439877

7. Pyramid Books (Boynton Beach, FL) https://pyramidbooks.indielite.org/book/9781421439877

This pilot study assessed the treatment outcome of mental health services for high school students enrolled in a school-based health clinic in Baltimore. Compared to students receiving no mental health treatment (n = 34), treated students (n = 39) showed improvements in self-concept and decreased depression scores following the receipt of individual therapy services (augmented for some students with group therapy). While depression scores decreased for the treatment group, they actuallyincreased for students in the comparison group. Students in the treatment group also showed nonsignificant decreases in anger and anxiety. Implications for the future development of school-based mental health services are discussed.

In Brown in Baltimore; School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism, Howell S. Baum argues that the failures of desegregation can be traced to liberal principles that protect individual freedom while ignoring race. In this extensively researched book, Baum recounts how local officials and residents attempted to desegregate Baltimore schools in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown.

Many of the collections that form the core of the museums in the United States were assembled by women. While much literature looks at female collectors’ individual lives in-depth, few compare collectors through a steady narrative. To do so would enhance the historical understanding of women who built collections during the turn of the twentieth century, as their bonds with one another were vital to their collecting practices. In my paper, I explore women collector’s friendships during this period through two case studies: the relationship between Etta Cone and Gertrude Stein, and the friendship between Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and gallerist Edith Gregor Halpert. It is my aim to give a fuller and more accurate picture of the lives of these women, as well as the social forces that influenced them and the collections they left behind.
I base my studies on a close reading of letters and artwork exchanged between these four women. I compare these with the work of contemporary scholars in analyzing women art collectors, as well as changes in the social roles that women occupied in early 1900s America. These collectors can be looked at as byproducts of the society they lived in and the people they interacted with. Friendship is so integral to these women’s collecting practices that they cannot be thought of as individuals independently shaping American culture, but rather, as a network of women whose friendship and communication created a formidable force in the artistic holdings of the United States.

To compare how the use of different "doses" of simulation in undergraduate clinical teaching affect faculty capacity. Since 2008, the NYU College of Nursing has used a "high dose" of simulation to substitute for 50 percent of the clinical hours in core medical-surgical courses to address a shortage of faculty and clinical sites. Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing has used limited, "low-dose" simulation hours to supplement clinical hours. The evaluation included program data and surveys and qualitative interviews with faculty and students in each program. Implementing "high-dose" clinical simulation resulted in a nearly 50 percent increase in faculty capacity at NYU, expanding undergraduate enrollment from 613 students in 2007 to 900 in 2012, with no negative impacts on faculty work life or student outcomes. Substituting simulation for traditional clinical hours can be a sustainable and educationally sound option to increase faculty cap...

In the United States, nearly 1.7 million youth under the age of 18 run away from home and often end up homeless each year. Reports estimate that between 20% and 40% of the runaway and homeless youth population identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) (Durso & Gates, 2012; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). This suggests that as many as 80,000 LGBT youth are homeless for over a week each year (National Alliance to End Homelessness,
2012). In addition, LGBT youth are more likely to suffer from poverty, substance abuse, violence, mental illness, and attempted suicide as a result of harassment and discrimination (Cray, Miller, & Durso, 2013; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014; Swan, 2014). Grounded in social equity theory (Frederickson, 2010) and intersectionality (Crenshaw, 1991), this article argues that additional legal protections are necessary in order to ensure the constitutional rights of LGBT youth. A case study of the Youth Empowered Society (YES) in Baltimore City is provided as an example
of a service-delivery model for this vulnerable population. Best practices are identified and anti-discrimination policies are recommended.

Federally funded 'urban rehabilitation' began with the Housing Act of 1954 in the United States. Baltimore’s Harlem Park was selected to pilot this experimental programme; a logical choice seeing how the pilot largely built on a programme dating from the prehistory oegislated urban rehabilitation that originated in Baltimore. This article lays bare the history of this programme, known as the ‘Baltimore Plan’, which oered empirical evidence that substantiated the potential of participatory urban planning. Beyond transferring upon minority communities a level of control over housing that black communities had seldom possessed before, the Baltimore Plan also constituted in an alternative to public housing.

How did Baltimore become so segregated? In Not in My Neighborhood, Antero Pietila argues that a history of discriminatory real estate practices is to blame. Pietila, a longtime journalist for the Baltimore Sun, traces both individual and government actions that institutionalized residential segregation in Baltimore from the early 1900s to the present. Based on archival research and interviews with real estate agents, developers, and residents, the author provides a detailed account of redlining, restrictive covenants, and related tools used to exclude African Americans from white neighborhoods.

Background A review of Dr. Harvey Cushing’s surgical cases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital provided insight into his early work on trigeminal neuralgia (TN). There was perhaps no other affliction that captured his attention in the way that TN did, and he built a remarkable legacy of successful treatment. At the time, surgical interventions carried an operative mortality of 20%. Methods The Johns Hopkins Hospital surgical records from 1896–1912 were reviewed to contribute new cases to the 20 reports provided by Dr. Cushing in his early publications in 1900 and 1905. This review uncovered 123 TN cases, representing 168 interventions. Results At the start of his career, Cushing treated TN mainly through Gasserion ganglion extirpations and peripheral neurectomies; however, he nearly abandoned these methods in favor of sensory root avulsion after 1906 and did not perform alcohol injections until his later years at Hopkins. Overall, Cushing had a 0.6% mortality rate; additionally, 91% of patients were improved at the time of discharge. However, 26% of patients had a recurrence requiring further intervention by Cushing. Conclusion Modern day interventions of TN are reflective of the legacy left to us by Harvey Cushing, a pioneering forefather in neurosurgery. He pioneered the infra-arterial approach to excision of the Gasserion ganglion in face of problematic bleeding and later the use of sensory root avulsion to spare motor function. Through the evolution of his legacy and the refinement of original approaches, the quest to advance the treatment of TN took him along the trigeminal nerve from the periphery into the brain.

As an outreach tool, The Boys of Baraka can spark discussions about the role of private educational foundations and educational reform. It can also help people confront the reality of American children who are lost to their families and communities because their childhood is erased by poverty, drugs, crime, absent parents, unstable homes, or violence. Finally, the film can inspire. Through their courage to change, the boys and their families provide hope for a better future.

FILM SYNOPSIS: The Boys of Baraka follows four boys from Baltimore to rural Kenya, where a teacher-student ratio of one to five, a strict disciplinary program and a comprehensive curriculum form the core of an extraordinary journey in their transformation to men.

*Served as one of the guide producers.