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The Effect Of A Change In Patient Care Delivery On Nurse Satisfaction And Cost Of Care, Kathleen M. Allen

Masters Theses

This quasi-experimental study was designed to compare the satisfaction of nurses assigned to a medical-surgical unit on which care delivery was changed to a Dyad model (combining elements of team nursing and case management) to nurses on similar units utilizing total patient care delivery. A convenience sample o f nurses from the Dyad model unit was compared to a control group comprised of nurses from three similar medicalsurgical units. Nurse satisfaction was measured using an instrument developed by Wade and Degerhammar (1991). Cost per case and length of stay on selected diagnoses, and labor cost per patient were compared across …

Neel, James Lucellus, 1849-1922 (Mss 108), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 108. Account book of James Lucellus Neel, a physician at Madison Mills, Warren County, Kentucky, which contains accounts of patients, 1874-1878; money and equivalent received, 1884-1891; birth records, 1874-1892; and monthly records of his practice, 1874-1894. Also contains photos, n.d. (7), chiefly of male members of the Neel family.

Placebo Orthodoxy In Clinical Research I: Empirical And Methodological Myths, Benjamin Freedman, Charles Weijer, Kathleen Glass

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Empowerment Of Graduate Nursing Students: A Dialogue Toward Change, Genevieve Chandler, S. Roberts

Genevieve E. Chandler

This article represents the first phase in exploration of empowerment of graduate advanced practice nursing students. This phase includes a review of the relevant literature on empowerment and discusses the applicability of this literature to current educational practice. The authors suggest that creating an empowering environment for learning necessitates dramatic change in teaching methodology and in faculty-student perspective about their roles. An ongoing dialogue among faculty and between students and faculty is proposed to begin to conceptualize this change. This article also presents a synopsis of a dialogue between the two authors intended to stimulate further discussion.

Do The Right Thing, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

McGill ethicists help ensure that medical research conforms to the highest scientific and ethical standards.

Analysis Of The Origins Of Nurse Practitioner Regulations In Pennsylvania, 1970-1980, Pg, Investigator, $15,000, Pew Foundation (Linda Aiken, Ph.D., Rn, Faan, Principal Investigator), Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Frozen Festivals: Ceremony And The Carnaval In The Montreal Winter Carnivals 1883-1889, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

The Harmonic Scalpel, Christopher Michetti, D Alvear

Christopher P. Michetti, M.D., F.A.C.S.

No abstract provided.

Review Of Passion And Reason: Making Sense Of Our Emotions By Richard And Bernice Lazarus, Louis Charland

Louis C. Charland

No abstract provided.

Placebo Orthodoxy In Clinical Research Ii: Ethical, Legal, And Regulatory Myths, Benjamin Freedman, Kathleen Glass, Charles Weijer

Charles Weijer

No abstract provided.

Epilepsy, Michael Rogawski

Michael A. Rogawski

No abstract provided.

Oral History Of Nurse Educator Florence Downs, Ph.D., Rn, Faan, Pg, Principal Investigator, $900, Sigma Theta Tau, Xi Chapter (Margaret Mahon, Ph.D., Rn, Co-Principal Investigator), Julie Fairman

Julie A Fairman

No abstract provided.

Interviewing As A Teaching Strategy For Promoting Cultural Sensitivity, Ida Slusher, C. Newel-Withrow

Ida Slusher

Interviewing was found to be an excellent teaching strategy in the promotion of cultural sensitivity in the course described in this article. Students were active learners in the acquisition of knowledge and critical thinkers in the analysis of the knowledge. Leininger (1991) emphasized the need for cultural sensitivity and cultural specific care in assisting supporting, facilitating, and/or enabling "individuals or groups to maintain or regain their well being (or health) in culturally meaningful and beneficial ways, or to help people face handicaps or death" (p.47). The need for further research on teaching strategies for promoting cultural sensitivity and on interviewing …

Gastroschisis: Delayed Vs. Primary Closure, Christopher Michetti, D Alvear

Christopher P. Michetti, M.D., F.A.C.S.

No abstract provided.

Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer Of The Tumor Suppressor, P53, Induces Apoptosis In Postmitotic Neurons, R. Slack, Daniel Belliveau, M. Rosenberg, J. Atwal, H. Lochmuller, R. Aloyz, A. Haghighi, B. Lach, P. Seth, E. Cooper, F. Miller

Daniel J. Belliveau

Programmed cell death is an ongoing process in both the developing and the mature nervous system. The tumor suppressor gene, p53, can induce apoptosis in a number of different cell types. Recently, the enhanced expression of p53 has been observed during acute neurological disease. To determine whether p53 overexpression could influence neuronal survival, we used a recombinant adenovirus vector carrying wild type p53 to transduce postmitotic neurons. A control consisting of the same adenovirus vector background but carrying the lacZ reporter expression cassette was used to establish working parameters for the effective genetic manipulation of sympathetic neurons. We have found …

An Improved Diagnostic Test For Rod Cone Dysplasia 1 (Rcdl) Using Allele-Specific Polymerase Chain Reaction, Kunal Ray, Maria Lara Tejero, Victoria Baldwin, Gustavo Aguirre

Gustavo D. Aguirre, VMD, PhD

With Craft And Guile: Canada's Jimmy Mclarnin And The Business Of Welterweight Boxing During The Great Depression, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Cardiac Rehabilitation Patient Characteristics And Temporal Trends Over The Past Decade- Richardson 2000.Pdf, Laura Richardson

Dr. Laura Richardson, RCEP

No abstract provided.

Informed Consent And Patients' Rights In Japan, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

This article analyzes the development of the concept of informed consent in the context of the culture and economics of Japanese medicine, and locates that development within the framework of the nation's civil law system. Part II sketches the cultural foundations of medical paternalism in Japan; explores the economic incentives (many of them administratively directed) that have sustained physicians' traditional dominant roles; and describes the judiciary's hesitancy to challenge physicians' professional discretion. Part III delineates the forces testing the paternalist model: the undermining of the physicians' personal knowledge of their patients that accompanies the shift from neighborhood clinic to high-tech …

The Ball Mill As A Means Of Investigating The Mechanical Failure Of Dental Materials, Noor Hayaty Abu Kasim Abu Kasim N.H.

Noor Hayaty Abu Kasim Abu Kasim N.H.

Objective: The main purpose of this paper is to present a new method of predicting clinical performance using mechanical loading in a ball mill. Methods: A series of four experiments (two involving a hybrid composite and one each on orthodontic brackets and bands) is described in which the ball mill was used to subject specimens to mechanical fatigue. Results: A reproducibility study using composite beam specimens showed no significant difference between the Mean Survival Time (MST) in all the three experimental runs (P = 0.42). When subjected to thermal cycling, the MST of the cycled group was 155.0 min compared …

Medical Investigation Of Suspects By The Police, Jack Tsen-Ta Lee

Jack Tsen-Ta LEE

Suffering, Ethics, And The Body Of Christ: Anointing As A Strategic Alternative Practice, M. Therese Lysaught

M. Therese Lysaught

No abstract provided.

Why I Am A Psychiatric Scientist, Kevin J. Black

Kevin J. Black, MD

No abstract provided.

Characteristics Of The Effective Therapist: Further Analyses Of The Nimh Tdcrp, Sidney J. Blatt, Charles A. Sanislow, David C. Zuroff, Paul A. Pilkonis

Charles A. Sanislow, Ph.D.

Analyses of the data of the National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program have primarily examined the effects of types of treatment and patient characteristics on outcome, but scant attention has been directed toward evaluating the contributions of the therapist. With an aggregate of residualized therapeutic change scores of the 5 primary outcome measures for each patient at termination as an overall measure of improvement, an average therapeutic effectiveness measure was derived for each of the 28 therapists based on the outcome of the patients they saw in active treatment. The distribution of the therapists was …