How to use action learning sets to support nurses.

Action learning sets involve regular, action-focused peer-discussion groups that address workplace issues. From reviewing the literature and our own experience, we found that ALS builds trust, helps professional development and enables action on issues/problems. This approach represents a workable peer-group supervision format worth ctioconsidering in education and practice.

The development of service users in the provision of verbal feedback to student nurses in a clinical simulation environment.

The School of Nursing and Midwifery at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, has a sustained history of working in partnership with service users in their role as patient volunteers. The patient volunteers make a pivotal contribution towards the delivery of clinical skills as "real" patients. They work within a scenario context, overseen and facilitated by academic staff.

Spatiotemporal Regularity and Interevent Contingencies as Information for Infants' Visual Expectations.

This study examined infants' use of picture-location contingencies and spatiotemporal regularity in forming visual expectations. Ninety-six 3-month-olds watched an event sequence in which pictures appeared at 3 locations, either in regular left-center-right alternation or in a random center-side pattern. For half of the infants, the content of the central picture was predictive of the location of the upcoming peripheral event.

The development of infants' reaches for stationary and moving targets.

The organization of infants' reaching skill for stationary and moving targets was examined. While 58 term, healthy infants at 5.5, 8.