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Practising Nursing Therapeutically Through Acting As A Skilled Companion On The Illness Journey, Alan Pearson, Sally Borbasi, Ken Walsh
Practising Nursing Therapeutically Through Acting As A Skilled Companion On The Illness Journey, Alan Pearson, Sally Borbasi, Ken Walsh
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This article explores nursing's heritage as a healing, therapeutic activity. It examines the central characteristics of nursing as skilled companionship and links them with the foundational core of nursing-a therapeutic relationship based on an understanding of the illness experience. In addition, it discusses the role of literature and performance in developing knowledge to advance nursing as a therapeutic activity.
Should Methionine Be Added To Every Paracetamol Tablet?, Alison L. Jones, P C. Hayes, A T. Proudfoot, J A. Vale, L F. Prescott
Should Methionine Be Added To Every Paracetamol Tablet?, Alison L. Jones, P C. Hayes, A T. Proudfoot, J A. Vale, L F. Prescott
Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive)
Paracetamol is commonly used for self poisoning, and the costs of treating the resulting liver failure in the few who develop it are high. The morbidity could be avoided by adding methionine to paracetamol tablets, but this would mean that the millions of people who take paracetamol responsibly would have to take methionine unnecessarily. Alison Jones and colleagues and Edward Krenzelok debate the issue.
Skeletal Muscle Triglyceride Levels Are Inversely Related To Insulin Action, D A. Pan, S Lillioja, A D. Kriketos, M R. Milner, L A. Baur, C Bogardus, A B. Jenkins, L H. Storlien
Skeletal Muscle Triglyceride Levels Are Inversely Related To Insulin Action, D A. Pan, S Lillioja, A D. Kriketos, M R. Milner, L A. Baur, C Bogardus, A B. Jenkins, L H. Storlien
Graduate School of Medicine - Papers (Archive)
In animal studies, increased amounts of triglyceride associated with skeletal muscle (mTG) correlate with reduced skeletal muscle and whole body insulin action. The aim of this study was to test this relationship in humans. Subjects were 38 nondiabetic male Pima Indians (mean age 28 ± 1 years). Insulin sensitivity at physiological (M) and supraphysiological (MZ) insulin levels was assessed by the euglycemic clamp. Lipid and carbohydrate oxidation were determined by indirect calorimetry before and during insulin administration. mTG was determined in vastus lateralis muscles obtained by percutaneous biopsy. Percentage of body fat (mean 29 ± 1%, …
Graptolite Zonation In The Late Wenlock (Early Silurian), With A New Graptolite-Brachiopod Fauna From New South Wales, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright
Graptolite Zonation In The Late Wenlock (Early Silurian), With A New Graptolite-Brachiopod Fauna From New South Wales, R B. Rickards, Anthony J. Wright
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
The Panuara Formation at Cobblers Creek near Orange, New South Wales, Australia has yielded a graptolite-brachiopod fauna assigned to the sherrardae sub-Biozone (late Wenlock: Early Silurian). The sherrardae sub-Biozone as defined here is equivalent to the praedeubeli subBiozone, and is the lowest part of the ludensis Biozone. The ludensis Biozone is reappraised following restudy of the type specimens of Monograptus ludensis, which are shown to exhibit growth stages from the deubeli to the gerhardi condition. The graptolite fauna consists of Gothograptus chainos Lenz, G. marsupium Lenz, Pristiograptus jaegeri Holland, Rickards & Warren, Pristiograptus dubius (Suess), Monograptus ludensis (Murchison), Monograptus moorsi …
Physical Activity, Change In Blood Pressure And Predictors Of Mortality In Older South Africans - A 2-Year Follow-Up Study, Karen E. Charlton, Estelle V. Lambert, Judith Kreft
Physical Activity, Change In Blood Pressure And Predictors Of Mortality In Older South Africans - A 2-Year Follow-Up Study, Karen E. Charlton, Estelle V. Lambert, Judith Kreft
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objective. A 2-year follow-up study of a cohort of 200 historically disadvantaged older South Africans was conducted to: (i) characterise current levels of habitual physical activity; (ii) relate physical activity to current risk factors for chronic disease; and (iii) identify risk factors associated with 2-year mortaJity. The baseline sample, drawn in 1993, was found to have a high prevalence of hypertension (71.7%). Research design. Retrospective cohort study. Methods. A baseline sample of 200 persons aged ;:;.. 65 years, resident in the Cape Peninsula, was randomly drawn by means of a two-stage cluster design. Baseline measurements included: anthropometry, waist/hip ratio, systolic …
The Prevalence Of Diabetes Mellitus And Associated Risk Factors In Elderly Coloured South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Naomi S. Levitt, Carl J. Lombard
The Prevalence Of Diabetes Mellitus And Associated Risk Factors In Elderly Coloured South Africans, Karen E. Charlton, Naomi S. Levitt, Carl J. Lombard
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: part A
Objective. To determine the prevalence of diabetes and its associated risk factors in elderly coloured South Africans. Research design. Cross-sectional analytical study. Methods. A random sample of 200 non-institutionalised coloured (mixed ancestry) subjects aged 65 years of age, resident in urban Cape Town, was drawn by means of a two-stage cluster design. The survey procedure included an oral glucose tolerance test, anthropometric measurements, and physical activity and alcohol intake assessments. Results. The prevalence of diabetes was 28.7% (95% Cl 21.7 - 35.7%), 25.7% in men and 30.3% in women. The prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance was 15% (95% Cl 9.2 …
Heterogeneity Of Nicotinic Receptor Class And Subunit Mrna Expression Among Individual Parasympathetic Neurons From Rat Intracardiac Ganglia, Kevin Poth, Thomas J. Nutter, Javier Cuevas, Michael J. Parker, David J. Adams, Charles W. Luetje
Heterogeneity Of Nicotinic Receptor Class And Subunit Mrna Expression Among Individual Parasympathetic Neurons From Rat Intracardiac Ganglia, Kevin Poth, Thomas J. Nutter, Javier Cuevas, Michael J. Parker, David J. Adams, Charles W. Luetje
Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute
Neurons have the potential to form thousands of distinct neuronal nicotinic receptors from the eight α and three β subunits that currently are known. In an effort to determine how much of this potential complexity is realized among individual neurons, we examined the nicotinic pharmacological and biophysical properties and receptor subunit mRNA expression patterns in individual neurons cultured from rat epicardial ganglia. Analysis of the whole-cell pharmacology of these neurons showed a diversity of responses to the agonists acetylcholine, nicotine, cytisine, and 1,1-dimethyl-4- phenylpiperazinium, suggesting that a heterogeneous population of nicotinic receptor classes, or subtypes, is expressed by individual neurons. …