Exploring Factors That Contribute to Nursing Students' Willingness to Report Peer Academic Integrity Violations.

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine and describe student perceptions of severity of violations, faculty support, and support for program improvement strategies related to willingness to report peer violations.

Background: Peer reporting is important when students witness dishonest behaviors. To foster academic integrity, exploration of the willingness to report is needed.

Advocacy, Collaboration, and Conflict Management: Teaching Core Skill Sets in Mental Health Nursing.

Caring for individuals with mental illness requires a core set of skills: knowledge of various disorders; therapeutic communication; collaboration with the multidisciplinary team; proficiency as an advocate whether for individuals, families, groups, or populations; and conflict management. In the current study, students completed toolkits with standardized patient experiences (SPEs) to practice core skill sets. Growth occurred in students' therapeutic communication and their ability to care for standardized or simulated patients with complex mental health issues.

Effects of ethanol on social approach and 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalization production in adolescent male Sprague-Dawley rats.

Low doses of ethanol have been shown to facilitate social behavior in adolescent rats. The present study sought to investigate whether this ethanol effect is associated with increases in the incentive salience of social stimuli when assessed via approach behavior toward a peer (separated from the experimental animal by a mesh barrier) and 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalization (USV) production in that context. A 0.

The effects of pre-test social deprivation on a natural reward incentive test and concomitant 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalization production in adolescent and adult male Sprague-Dawley rats.

In rats, ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are often used as a measure of affect, with 22 kHz USVs reflecting negative affect and 50 kHz USVs reflecting positive affect. This study used a modified reward approach task to assess behavioral approach and concomitant USV production toward either a food or social stimulus following varied amounts of pre-test social deprivation in both adolescent and adult rats. Adolescents spent significantly more time investigating the social stimulus than adults, although in the presence of the social stimulus isolate housed adults emitted more 50 kHz USVs than isolate housed adolescents.

Effects of acute ethanol administration and chronic stress exposure on social investigation and 50kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in adolescent and adult male Sprague-Dawley rats.

Adolescents drink largely in social situations, likely in an attempt to facilitate social interactions. This study sought to examine alterations in the incentive salience of a social stimulus following repeated stress exposure and acute ethanol administration in adolescent and adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. Subjects were either exposed to 5days of restraint stress, chronic variable stress (CVS), which consisted of a different stressor every day, or non-stressed.

Development of anticipatory 50 kHz USV production to a social stimuli in adolescent and adult male Sprague-Dawley rats.

This study examined ontogenetic differences in anticipatory 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalization (USV) production to social interactions in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Adults increased USVs across days when tested socially but not when left alone (Experiment 1), and displayed anticipatory USVs to return to the cage-mate (Experiment 2). Adolescents did not display evidence of anticipatory USVs.

Effects of ethanol administration on corticosterone levels in adolescent and adult rats.

Adolescent humans and rodents have been shown to consume more alcohol than their adult counterparts. Given that corticosterone (CORT) has been shown to be related to the intake of several drugs of abuse, this study assessed the ontogenetic effects of low-moderate doses of ethanol on CORT increases and recovery. Despite no significant differences in baseline (home cage) CORT levels, CORT responses to ethanol were greater in females than in males and in adult females than in adolescent females; males, however, showed less marked age differences in CORT levels after ethanol consumption.

Social interactions and 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations in adolescent and adult rats.

Human adolescents drink partly to facilitate their social interactions, a social facilitatory effect of ethanol also seen in adolescent rats tested under familiar test circumstances. To explore the role of hedonic affect in ethanol-induced social facilitation, this study assessed 50 kHz ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) in pair-housed adolescent (P29-37) and adult (P71-79) Sprague-Dawley male rats during social interactions. On each of eight test days, animals were socially isolated for 3 h and then injected intraperitoneally with 0 (saline), 0.

Adolescent exposure to nicotine impairs adult serial pattern learning in rats.

In the present study investigating the effects of adolescent nicotine exposure on adult serial pattern learning, adolescent rats received daily i.p. injections of either 1.