Low-Income Older Adults' Vulnerability to Anticholinergic Medication-Associated Frailty.

Background: A growing body of research supports the negative impact of anticholinergic drug burden on physical frailty. However, prior research has been limited to homogeneous white European populations, and few studies have evaluated how anticholinergic burden tools compare in their measurement function and reliability with minority community-dwelling adult populations. This study investigated the association between anticholinergic drug exposure and frailty by conducting a sensitivity analysis using multiple anticholinergic burden tools in a diverse cohort.

The Role of Personal Experience and Prior Beliefs in Shaping Climate Change Perceptions: A Narrative Review.

Global climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, droughts, and flooding. This is the primary way many individuals experience climate change, which has led researchers to investigate the influence of personal experience on climate change concern and action. However, existing evidence is still limited and in some cases contradictory.

Employee green behaviour: How organizations can help the environment.

Organizations are intrinsically involved in climate change - both in its causes and its solutions - and there has been a growing interest in the microfactors and macrofactors that affect employee green behaviour. On an employee level, the literature stresses the importance of values and self-concordance. On an organizational level, in contrast, recent developments emphasize environmental dynamic capabilities, leadership and human resource management practices such as training.

The Translational Approaches to Personalized Health Collaborative: Pharmacogenomics for African American Older Adults.

Older adults (i.e., 60 years and older), are the leading consumers of medications, and consequently are suffering the most from medication-related adverse events.

Is Dealing with Climate Change a Corporation's Responsibility? A Social Contract Perspective.

In this paper, we argue that individuals - as members of society - play an important role in the expectations of whether or not companies are responsible for addressing environmental issues, and whether or not governments should regulate them. From this perspective of corporate social responsibility as a social contract we report the results of a survey of 1066 individuals. The aim of the survey was to assess participants' belief in anthropogenic climate change, free-market ideology, and beliefs around who is responsible for dealing with climate change.

Turn It Off: An Action Research Study of Top Management Influence on Energy Conservation in the Workplace.

This paper reports the results of an intervention study that aimed to encourage workplace energy conservation behavior by office-based employees. Taking a co-production approach we worked with the participating organization to design and implement an intervention that used the influence of top management commitment and prompts to encourage workplace energy reduction. Whilst past research has shown top management is related to workplace pro-environmental behavior, this study extends this work by examining a field-based intervention over a longitudinal period.

Educational Planning for Establishing a Health-Promoting Workplace (HPW).

The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses (AMSN) has had an ongoing series of articles related to Healthy Practice Environments. The AMSN website (www.amsn.

Testicular cancer: overview and implications for health care providers.

Testicular cancer is the most common cancer in young men 15 to 35 years of age. This diagnosis, while devastating to the young man has, with aggressive treatment, the potential of a cure. This article will focus on the symptoms, the diagnosis, and the treatment of testicular cancer.

Veterans' stories: what they may have to tell us--a personal reflection.

It has been said that we learn much from war. Not only how to conduct it and to be successful, but we learn how the body works and how to assist in regaining function. Without our veterans, much of today's medical knowledge would not be nearly as complete.

An experimental test of voluntary strategies to promote urban water demand management.

In light of the current and future threats to global water security the current research focuses on trialing interventions to promote urban water conservation. We report an experimental study designed to test the long-term impact of three different interventions on household water consumption in South East Queensland. Participants from 221 households were recruited and completed an initial survey, and their houses were fitted with smart water meters which measured total water usage at 5 s intervals.

Alvimopan for acceleration of GI recovery after bowel resection.

Nurses play a critical role in the management of postoperative ileus during the perioperative phase of recovery. Alvimopan is an oral, peripherally acting, mu-opioid receptor antagonist that accelerates time to gastrointestinal recovery (resolution of postoperative ileus), representing a potential advance in management of these patients.

Responding to threats to the kidney.

Here's what you need to know about polycystic kidney disease and renal artery stenosis.

Mothers' views of the health visiting service in the UK: a web-based survey.

User and client views are an important source of information for providers and commissioners of public services. This paper reports on a user-led UK wide survey of mothers' views about sources of support and experiences accessing the health visiting service. Netmums, a family of websites run by local mothers, undertook the survey following concerns that the health visiting service was proving increasingly difficult to access.

An overview of adult-learning processes.

Part of being an effective instructor involves understanding how adults learn best. Theories of adult education are based on valuing the prior learning and experience of adults. Adult learners have different learning styles which must be assessed prior to initiating any educational session.

The fundamental psychometric status of neuropsychological batteries.

A fundamental requirement for neuropsychological assessment is dependability. Neuropsychological knowledge is dependable only if it has been validated using psychometric methods. Since batteries are used for interpretations, the psychometric validation methods that are acceptable for individual tests must be applied to batteries to produce dependable information.

Evaluation of a new method to verify CE completion.

Methods of verifying completion of continuing education activities have changed recently as a result of adjustments in the criteria established by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation. Evaluation of the new method of verifying completion of CE articles in Urologic Nursing in 2003 yielded findings that demonstrated that individuals who sent CE answer/evaluation forms for CE articles were thoughtful and insightful in their responses. The responders reported that they learned new information and planned to apply the new knowledge to their practice.