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.

Tools to optimize the functionality of a leukemia clinical trial team.

A multidisciplinary approach offers efficiency and quality care by delegating tasks according to individuals' expertise. However, increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, albeit essential for successful conduct of clinical trials, have magnified the workload of research teams. We describe tools that have efficiently addressed regulatory requirements and facilitated the conduct of clinical trials.