Partnering With Clinicians Supporting Nursing Students' Clinical Placement at a Regional Hospital.

Background: Innovative models are required to maximize nursing student placements in environments of shrinking budgets, increasing hospital demands, and casualization and aging of the workforce. This article reports the success of a service-academic partnership in a dedicated education unit.

Method: This cross-sectional observational study in a regional hospital analyzed survey data using validated tools completed by buddy nurses ( = 80) and postplacement evaluation completed by students ( = 102) and the nurse leadership team ( = 17).

Lesions of ventrolateral prefrontal or anterior orbitofrontal cortex in primates heighten negative emotion.

Background: Heightened fear and anxiety are core symptoms of a variety of neuropsychiatric disorders. They are associated with structural and activity changes throughout neural circuitry that includes the ventral and medial prefrontal cortices (PFC), the amygdala, and hippocampus. Although the contributions of the medial PFC, amygdala, and hippocampus to fear and anxiety have been studied extensively with animal models, the selective roles of the ventral PFC-including the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) and orbitofrontal cortex-are poorly understood.