The Roundabout Model for Adjunct Clinical Nurse Faculty Retention.

The Roundabout Model was created to address the need for developing and retaining adjunct clinical faculty. Three interrelated evidence-based practices form the Roundabout Model: education, mentoring, and ongoing evaluation. Implementation of the model at one private not-for-profit school of nursing in the Midwest resulted in improved adjunct clinical faculty retention, from 50 percent to 100 percent, as well as improved student and clinical agency satisfaction.

Need for informed consent for dentists who use mercury amalgam restorative material as well as technical considerations in removal of dental amalgam restorations.

Amalgam restorative material generally contains 50% mercury (Hg) in a complex mixture of copper, tin, silver, and zinc. It has been well documented that this mixture continually emits mercury vapor, which is dramatically increased by chewing, eating, brushing, and drinking hot liquids. Mercury has been demonstrated to have damaging effects on the kidney, central nervous system, and cardiovascular system, and has been implicated in gingival tattoos.