From Chaos to Competency: Implementing a New Competency Model in a Multihospital System.

The demonstration of nurses' competency has been a challenge for nurse educators for a multitude of reasons. Standardizing competencies across a health care system is especially challenging. One multihospital health care system embarked on a journey to standardize and implement competencies across the system.

Using hazard maps to identify and eliminate workplace hazards: a union-led health and safety training program.

The Institute for Sustainable Work and Environment and the Utility Workers Union of America worked with a professional evaluator to design, implement, and evaluate the results of a union-led system of safety-based hazard identification program that trained workers to use hazard maps to identify workplace hazards and target them for elimination. The evaluation documented program implementation and impact using data collected from both qualitative interviews and an on-line survey from worker trainers, plant managers, and health and safety staff. Managers and workers reported that not only were many dangerous hazards eliminated as a result of hazard mapping, some of which were long-standing, difficult-to-resolve issues, but the evaluation also documented improved communication between union members and management that both workers and managers agreed resulted in better, more sustainable hazard elimination.

Low body temperature, time dilation, and long-trace conditioned flavor aversion in rats.

Conditioned flavor aversion was examined in Wistar-derived albino rats that were immersed in cold water for 0, 2.5, 5, or 10 min immediately following 10-min exposure to a.1% saccharin solution and given an intraperitoneal (i.

Aging facilitates long-trace taste-aversion conditioning in rats.

In order to examine age-related changes in long-trace conditioning, five age groups (0.25, 1, 1.5, 2, and 2.