Well-being and self-efficacy in a sample of undergraduate nurse students: A small survey study.

This paper reports findings from a survey which aimed to explore well-being and self-efficacy and test measures of those constructs with a sample of nurse students in a University setting in the United Kingdom. Evidence indicates that undergraduate nurse programmes combine academic work and clinical placement experience in a mix that can potentially lead to stress and impact on health and well-being. Self-efficacy is known to be a resource that contributes to well-being, resilience and academic achievement and therefore relevant for investigation.

Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality.

Arising from M. A. Nowak, C.

Nursing students as research participants: a framework for ethical practice.

Aim: The aim is to discuss a new framework that can aid ethical decision making in educational nursing research.

Background: Nurse researchers have a significant amount of guidance to inform their ethical decision making in relation to research. However, research governance and professional guidance only go so far in promoting ethical research practice.

The impact on parents of a child's admission to intensive care: integration of qualitative findings from a cross-sectional study.

Objectives: In this study, parents were asked which aspects of their experience of having a child in intensive care had caused them the most distress and how they continued to be affected by these experiences.

Research Methodology: Semi-structured interviews held with 32 mothers and 18 fathers of children admitted to a paediatric intensive care unit 8 months earlier, were audiotaped, transcribed and subjected to a thematic analysis.

Setting: The setting was an eight-bed paediatric intensive care unit in an inner city teaching hospital.

Computer-assisted software transcription of qualitative interviews.

John Alcock and Ron Iphofen examine a method to assist with interview transcription using free, open source computer software and digital recordings, and consider some underlying practical, ethical and philosophical issues.

Planning for pandemic influenza.

This article summarises current knowledge about avian (H5N1) and pandemic influenza and highlights recommendations for healthcare workers caring for infected patients.

Genetic breeding system and investment patterns within nests of Dawson's burrowing bee (Amegilla dawsoni) (Hymenoptera: Anthophorini).

Dawson's burrowing bee is a large solitary ground-nesting bee endemic to the arid zone of Western Australia. In this study, we use microsatellite markers to analyse the genotypes of offspring from individual nests to determine the number of effective mates for each female. From these data we have determined that females almost certainly mate only once which is consistent with male reproductive tactics that include protandry and intense male-male competition for access to virgin females.

Development of a wilderness and travel medicine rotation in an academic setting.

Wilderness medicine courses tend to teach similar topics, but they can differ with respect to philosophy, teaching methods, and financing. Our not-for-profit course is academically based and is similar to other programs with regard to presentations of didactic material and outdoor training, but there are also important differences in teaching methodology that are not used by other programs to date. Innovative methods, such as problem-based learning and use of the human patient simulator, which are unique to our program, have been successful in our courses and may be of use to wilderness medical education.

Lifetime resource utilization, flight physiology, and the evolution of contest competition in territorial insects.

Adaptationist analyses of animal contests have contributed much to our understanding of behavioral evolution. One class of contest, however, the war of attrition, has proven difficult to interpret. In wars of attrition involving aerial displays, there is evidence that asymmetries in performance parameters such as flight energetics may be important determinants of contest resolution.