This paper explores how the process of learning to harness one's creativity in analytic listening can be analogous do so painting. It draws on clinical work with one client divided into two vignettes. The first describes author's attempts listen analytically by paying attention form and content; narrative structure use language; transference countertransference communications. second vignette w...

BACKGROUND This study explored the use of virtual patient generated data by investigating the association between students' unprofessional patient summary statements, which they entered during an on-line virtual patient case, and detection of their future unprofessional behavior. METHOD At the USUHS, students complete a number of virtual patient encounters, including a patient summary, to mee...

BACKGROUND The Worthing physiological scoring system (PSS) was first validated in 2005 as a tool to predict hospital mortality on admission and was subsequently introduced into clinical practice at Worthing Hospital, UK. Five years on, this study was conducted to determine the effects on mortality and length of stay (LOS) after the introduction of electronic alerting software using the PSS. In ...

BACKGROUND This study tested the homeostatic model of subjective quality of life in a group of 47 short stay patients as they progressed through the stages of hospitalization for surgery. METHOD Participants completed a questionnaire measuring subjective quality of life, positive and negative affect, self-esteem, optimism and cognitive flexibility, the day prior to admission (T1), two days po...

As of 2013, US persons spend an average of 37 h per month using smartphone applications, another 27 h using the internet on personal computers, and 133 h watching live television (Nielsen, 2014). Coupled with the estimated 64% of US persons that own a smartphone (Pew, 2015), people are spending a large sum of their waking lives plugged into virtualized, but very real, software-mediated environm...

BACKGROUND Length of stay is the main determinant of the cost of hospitalization, which is why strategies must be implemented to reduce conventional hospital stays while maintaining quality levels. Short Stay Units (SSU) were created with the aim of reducing hospital stays in a certain group of patients and pathologies. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the literature on the evidence of decr...