Managing at risk nursing students: The clinical instructor experience.

Background: Clinical nursing instructors are responsible for providing optimal learning experiences and evaluating student performance, while maintaining patient safety in acute care settings. Our undergraduate Bachelor of Science in nursing program in Canada recently experienced an unusually high number of students who failed a compulsory medical surgical clinical course. Due to these high numbers, additional dedicated clinical groups were arranged for those students who were repeating.

Clarifying the information and support needs of family caregivers of nursing home residents with advancing dementia.

Background: Research has identified inadequacies in the quality and quantity of dementia-related information, particularly end-of-life information provided to those living with dementia and their family caregivers. The purpose of this study was to identify what types of information family caregivers of persons living with dementia in nursing homes would deem useful in preparing them for their relative's end-of-life and assist them to make decisions about care along the dementia trajectory.

Methods: The qualitative methodology of interpretive description was used to guide the study in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with nursing home staff in clinical roles (e.

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis following pulmonary embolism.

Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) is predominantly found alongside cavitating or bullous lung diseases. Although pulmonary embolism may cause cavitation, an association with CPA has not been well described. We describe a case of CPA in a 79-year-old female following bilateral pulmonary emboli.