The purpose of this research paper is to review the literature and suggest the relationships between organizational change through implementation of new health information technology (HIT) and/or reconfiguration of existing HIT, practitioner anxiety, and effective caring practitioner/patient and practitioner/practitioner relationships using a conceptual framework of Relationship Centered Care (...

During taxonomic investigations of nematodes that parasitize millipedes, we reviewed the literature on the nematode genus Robertia Travassos & Kloss, 1961. This literature search also revealed the existence of two other identical genusgroup names for taxa in Chordata and Arthropoda: Robertia Boonstra, 1948 (extinct Permian non-mammalian synapsid) and Robertia Saaristo, 2006 (theridiid spider fr...

Abstract Introduction Primary care nurse practitioners (NPs) receive little to no sleep education in graduate programs despite being first-line providers for patients presenting with sleep-related symptoms. Sleep curriculum has been consistently identified as a gap nursing and confirmed recent survey studies of nurses NPs. Methods Qualitative descriptive study explore NP students’ reactions an ...

Thomas David Barton provides an overview of practitioner ethnography, a research approach that provides practitioners with a way of exploring the culture of their workplace. He compares practitioner and traditional ethnography and looks at the pros and cons of the method.

41 P art of the art of medicine, like in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, is getting it " just right " when it comes to under-diagnosing or over-diagnosing condi-tions—providing false negatives or false positives—in day-today practice. This is especially important, but problematical, when a new diagnosis appears on the scene because , in my experience, such new conditions often either continue t...

American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines require that all psychologists be trained to integrate science and practice in their work. The majority of psychologists have been trained in a scientist-practitioner model to both utilize and produce scientific research. However, the day-to-day integration of research and clinical practice is rare for most psychologists. Changes in the health...

Studio as a model of education is distinct from many other professional disciplines and although it can be quite rewarding on many levels it may also be an extremely unconstructive endeavor.1 The amount of time spent in studio typically far outweighs that spent for other courses and often at the expense of such other courses. The dedication that students bring to the studio is remarkable, yet m...

Prepared by the members of the SNMTS Advanced Practice Task Force: Mary Anne (Mimi) Owen, MHE, RT(N)1, Martha W. Pickett, CNMT (chair)2, Paul E. Christian, CNMT, NCT3, Gary L. Dillehay, MD4, Lynnette A. Fulk, CNMT5, Leonie L. Gordon, MD6, Robert E. Henkin, MD4, Marcia Hess-Smith, CNMT7, William L. Hubble, MA, CNMT, RT(R)(N)(CT)8, Kathy Thompson Hunt, MS, CNMT9, Frances K. Keech, MBA, RT(N)10, C...

This paper develops principles for the ordering of the curriculum for tourism higher education. The framework proposed comprises four key domains of vocational action, vocational reflection, liberal reflection and liberal action. The framework enables the problems of curricula that are over-focused in one part of curriculum space to be surfaced. It also enables the case to be made, and the cont...