Challenges to recovery following early psychosis: Nursing implications of recovery rate and timing.

Early intervention in first episode psychosis is based on an indicated prevention approach that has early illness identification and timely recovery as primary goals. Nurses are instrumental in helping individuals and families achieve both aims. To better understand recovery following a first episode, a prospective cohort of 260 individuals participating in a three-year early intervention program was monitored for achievement of recovery outcomes.

Conversations with Holocaust survivor residents.

Traumatic events in one's younger years can have an impact on how an individual copes with later life. One traumatic experience for Jewish individuals was the Holocaust. Some of these people are moving into long-term care facilities.

Rehabilitation outcome evaluation after very severe brain injury.

Few centres provide long-term therapy for survivors of very severe brain injury who continue in a minimally responsive state. We report on two outcome evaluation projects in association with one such centre in western Canada. In one project a functional scale to detect subtle changes after long-term therapy with the most severely compromised clients (Rancho levels II and III) is being tested.

Antipsychotic drug use in Canadian long-term care facilities: prevalence, and patterns following resident relocation.

Background And Aims: Data on antipsychotic use were collected in two Canadian long-term care (LTC) facilities. During the one-year study, residents in one facility were relocated to a new facility, allowing examination of the changes in antipsychotic use associated with relocation.

Method: A comparative descriptive design was used.

An introduction to music and sound approaches for health professionals: overview of an undergraduate web-based nursing course.

Nursing educators have been constantly striving to develop a curriculum which enhances holistic patient care. In this article, a descriptive overview is given of a senior level, 3 credit, nursing course designed to provide nurses and other health professionals with a background in the uses of music and the importance of auditory environments for patient care and well-being. This course, which was developed by LeNavenec and Epstein, has been available via the internet since Spring 2003.