Access to and utilization of oral health care by homeless children/families.

The Surgeon General called dental caries the silent epidemic, suffered disproportionately by the poor. Homeless mothers/children are especially vulnerable as they lack access to dental care. This prospective study elucidated predictors of access, oral health, and the effectiveness of shelter-based care.

Perspectives Regarding Adherence to Prescribed Treatment in Highly Adherent HIV-Infected Gay Men.

Focus group methodology was used to describe the medication adherence experience of 24 HIV-infected gay men who reported being adherent to their medication regimens. A conceptualization of medication adherence as an evolving process consisted of challenges to adherence (learning the diagnosis, starting the medications, struggling with the medications, dealing with side effects, coping with stigma) as well as those factors supportive of adherence (believing in medications, finding motivating factors, using reminders, depending on others, owning the disease). Themes associated with challenges to adherence focused on diagnosis and the physical and emotional adjustments individuals made to incorporate antiretroviral medications into their daily lives and move toward medication adherence.

Partners in Practice: a win-win model for clinical education.

A program of cognitive apprenticeship focusing on problem solving skills through reflection, discussion, and actions shared between novice and experienced students was developed and piloted in a large baccalaureate nursing program in the midwestern United States. The program paired senior students in a leadership course with instructor-led groups of first-year students in the clinical and laboratory setting. Senior students developed leadership skills associated with best practices including preparation, planning, clear communication, feedback, and change, while gaining a better appreciation of individual learning needs.

Children's experiences of being without a place to call home: what the research tells us.

The article provides a critique of qualitative nursing research regarding children's experiences of being without a place to call home. The phenomena under study were the lived experience of being without a home, feeling uncomfortable, hope, and what was special in the children's lives. Parse's criteria for the critique of qualitative research were used.