Creating and sustaining academic-practice partnerships: lessons learned.

This article outlines how one community's academic-practice partnership evolved over time as it sought to address the community's needs for a qualified competent nursing workforce. Both organization and system changes were essential in the establishment of formal structures to address nursing workforce shortage needs. Both practice and education leaders were actively engaged in setting the strategic priorities at multiple system levels in the creation of these formal structures.

Tobacco use and recovery of gait and balance function in older adults.

Objective: To examine the influence of tobacco use status on outcome after an exercise program designed to improve gait and balance.

Design: Review of clinical database.

Setting: Standardized assessment clinic in a tertiary care setting.

Social ties and cardiovascular function: an examination of relationship positivity and negativity during stress.

The quality and quantity of one's relationships have been reliably linked to morbidity and mortality. More recently, studies have focused on links between relationships and cardiovascular reactivity as a physiological mechanism via the stress-buffering hypothesis. However, not all social relationships are consistently positive which points to the importance of a more comprehensive examination of relationship that includes negative qualities.