Key to the poison cabinet

The family medicine cabinet.

Medicine selection and storage was examined in 130 families. Over 50 per cent were found to be less than adequate. Health education advice helped half the inadequate group to change to adequate. Age and social class were not related to hoarding of prescribed drugs, to initial standards of storage or selection, nor to the likelihood of a response to advice. Those who hoarded medicines but stored...

Effective Training: The Key to Nurses' Empowerment

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Poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Poison Parasite Running head: THE POISON PARASITE DEFENSE The Poison Parasite Defense: Instilling Persistent Resistance to Persuasion

Relatively little work has examined procedures that produce resistance to the persuasive appeals of one’s opponents. We sought to redress this imbalance by investigating the Poison Parasite Defense (PPD)—a technique that consists of two elements, one poisonous (strong counter information) and one parasitic (associative links between one’s counter claims and the rival position). In three experim...

Stocking oncology's medicine cabinet.