Formal Managerial Meetings: Are they effective or not?

Family meetings in palliative care: are they effective?

Despite the promotion of family meetings as an essential tool for information sharing and planning in palliative care, minimal evidence exists to show their effectiveness. We sought to rectify this gap in evidence-based practice by evaluating recently developed clinical guidelines for facilitating family meetings. Palliative care nurses were trained to conduct family meetings using the guidelin...

Toxic Christmas and New Year Holiday Plants...or Are They?

Background: Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), holly (Ilex opaca) and mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens) adorn homes during the Christmas and New Year holiday season and create the potential for curious children to sample their colorful leaves and enticing berries. This study was aimed to review the American Association of Poison Control Centers National Poison Data System (AAPCC NPDS) to des...

Recursive Assertions are not enough - or are they?

Call a set of assertions sd complete (with respect to a class of programs .9') if for any p, a e sof and S e ,g', whenever 1/21.5{q} holds, then all intermediate assertions can be chosen from st This paper is devoted to the study of the problem which sets of assertions are complete in the above sense. We prove that any set of recursive assertions containing true and false is not complete. We pr...

Are They Feeling Satisfied or Not? Young Clinical Psychologists Professional Quality of Life, Empathy, and Coping Strategies

Empathy, coping styles, and professional quality of life play a significant role in an individual’s professional life. Numerous types of research indicate that experiencing the unfavorable consequences of compassion and empathy frequently leads to compassion fatigue as well as burnout. The present research is designed to study the correlation among empathy, coping strategies, professional quali...

Are antidepressants as effective as claimed? No, they are not effective at all.