To Lecture or Not Lecture: A Correlational Nursing Education Research Study.

Lecturing has been a primary method for delivering knowledge and information to nursing students from the early days of nursing education. Recent literature on the effectiveness of lecturing is based on literature published more than 10 years ago; current data on the influence of lecturing on learning outcomes are sparse. Our graduate nursing faculty program conducted a retrospective correlational study to evaluate if the addition of lectures influenced graduate students' learning outcomes.

Self-Regulation and Shame as Mediators Between Childhood Experiences and Young Adult Health.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether self-regulation and shame mediated the relationship between adverse and positive childhood experiences (ACEs and PCEs) and young adult health. Data came from the Flourishing Families Project (FFP), a 10-year longitudinal study. Adolescent participants ( = 489; 51% female) completed an annual survey.

Concurrent Childhood Experiences Impact Underage Substance Use.

Adverse and advantageous childhood experiences (ACEs and counter-ACEs) during adolescence are understudied. This study examined how childhood experiences affect youth tobacco/alcohol use. Participants included 489 U.

Evaluating whether changes in utilization of hospital outpatient services contributed to lower Medicare readmission rate.

Objective: Descriptive analysis comparing changes in hospital inpatient readmissions to emergency department visits and observation stays that occurred within 30 days of an inpatient stay.

Population: Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) beneficiaries that had at least one acute hospital inpatient stay.

Data Source: Using 100 percent of claims in the Chronic Condition Data Warehouse, we compare growth in annual readmission stays to post-hospitalization emergency department visits and observation stays that were not accompanied by an inpatient stay.