Development of a bilingual interdisciplinary scale assessing self-efficacy for participating in Medical Assistance in Dying.

Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is a complex process involving the person seeking care and their relatives. MAiD involves physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs, and consequently the involvement of an interdisciplinary team is beneficial. Therefore, updating the knowledge and skills of healthcare and social services professionals is critical.

Registered nurses' perceptions of their roles in medical-surgical units: A qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain insight into the perception of nurses about their roles in medical-surgical units.

Background: As a result of ever-changing work environments, medical-surgical nurses find it difficult to know and practice according to the full scope of their roles.

Design: A qualitative descriptive study.

Accommodating and supporting students with disability in the context of nursing clinical placements: A collaborative action research.

Aim/objective: To examine issues and challenges encountered by university and clinical milieus in addressing the needs of students with disability during their clinical placements; and to identify existing or potential accommodation and support measures to address the challenges encountered.

Background: The influx of students with learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder [with or without hyperactivity], mental health disorders or on the autism spectrum has caused an increase in the number of students with disabilities of more than 900% in universities in the past decade. This increase is causing added pressures to both the academic services providing student assistance and the personnel responsible for these students' clinical placements.

Correlates of career satisfaction in internationally educated nurses: A cross-sectional survey-based study.

Background: More and more high-income countries hire internationally educated nurses as part of their workforce. While the factors that push and pull internationally educated nurses to migrate and influence their workforce integration have been widely reported in the literature, little is known about internationally educated nurses' career development and whether they are satisfied with their nursing career in Canada.

Objective: This study aims to identify the main correlates of internationally educated nurses' career satisfaction.

Management of Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma Using Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy With Osmotic Blood-Brain Barrier Disruption: Retrospective Analysis of the Sherbrooke Cohort.

Background: Primary central nervous system lymphomas (PCNSL) are rare and aggressive CNS tumors. Current management involves high-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) typically administered intravenously (IV), despite the existence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which significantly decreases its bioavailability. Cerebral intra-arterial chemotherapy (CIAC) coupled with osmotic BBB disruption (OBBBD) can theoretically circumvent this issue.

Uncaring Nurses: Mobilizing Power, Knowledge, Difference, and Resistance to Explain Workplace Violence in Academia.

Background And Purpose: Violence among nurses and in nursing academia is a significant issue, with attention increasingly focused on damage resulting from psychological violence, such as bullying, harassment, aggression, and incivility. Each workplace's interpretation of violence will impact individual behavior within the organization. Organizational and environmental factors can contribute to violent behaviors becoming normalized in the workplace.

Internationally educated nurses in Canada: perceived benefits of bridging programme participation.

Aim: To examine internationally educated nurses' perceptions of the extent to which participating in bridging programmes is beneficial for preparing to practise nursing in Canada.

Background: Internationally educated nurses continue to migrate from low-income to high-income countries. Many experience challenges when attempting to practise their profession in the destination country.

Internationally educated nurses in Canada: predictors of workforce integration.

Background: Global trends in migration accompanied with recent changes to the immigrant selection process may have influenced the demographic and human capital characteristics of internationally educated nurses (IENs) in Canada and in turn the assistance required to facilitate their workforce integration. This study aimed to describe the demographic and human capital profile of IENs in Canada, to explore recent changes to the profile, and to identify predictors of IENs' workforce integration.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive, correlational survey design was used.

How nursing managers respond to intraprofessional aggression: novel strategies to an ongoing challenge.

Nursing managers are identified as playing a central role in workplace aggression management. In effect, employees' decisions to report unacceptable behavior is said to be directly influenced by how a manager will respond to their claims. Using principles from critical nursing ethnography, data were collected from interviews, organizational documents, and observation of physical environment.

Altered placental glutathione peroxidase mRNA expression in preeclampsia according to the presence or absence of labor.

Increased placental oxidative stress in preeclampsia (PE) has been associated in part to a decrease in glutathione peroxidase (GPX) antioxidant activity. However, it is not clear if GPX mRNA expression is affected in PE, and how the presence of labor may impair this expression. In this study, we characterized by quantitative PCR, in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry, the expression of four GPX (GPX1 to 4) in the placenta of normotensive (NP; n = 23) and PE pregnancies (n = 25) according to mode of delivery: vaginal delivery (with labor) or cesarean (without labor); the tissue layer: amnion-chorion (AC) and villi; and the sampling site: peri-insertion or peripheral.

Mimetic desire and professional closure: toward a theory of intra/ inter-professional aggression.

The purpose of this article is to present a renewed way to theorize intra/inter-professional aggression in nursing. To this end, René Girard's mimetic mechanism and Max Weber's conception of professional closure will be explored. More specifically mimetic mechanism, summarized as a sequence of four distinct but interdependent phases including mimetic desire, mimetic rivalry, mimetic (sacrificial) crisis, and scapegoat, will serve to broaden the understanding ofintra-professional aggression.

The relationship between organizational justice and workplace aggression.

Aim: This paper is a discussion of the links between organizational justice and workplace aggression.

Background: Managers have been identified as key players in implementing and maintaining an organizational culture of trust and justice. Employees who perceive themselves to be victims of injustice may rebel, using various means to 'punish' the source of the injustice.

Effects of labor on placental expression of superoxide dismutases in preeclampsia.

A decreased antioxidant activity for superoxide dismutases (SODs) in the placenta was reported in preeclampsia (PE). However, it is unclear if this reduced enzymatic activity can be attributed to a specific SOD isoform. Moreover, the specific spatial SOD expression in the placenta and the impact of the mode of delivery on the latter are still lacking.

Managing nurses through disciplinary power: a Foucauldian analysis of workplace violence.

Aims: This paper describes discipline as a specific technique of power which constitutes, in our view, a form of institutional violence.

Background: The need to create and maintain safe and healthy work environments for healthcare professionals is well documented.

Evaluation: Foucault's concept of disciplinary power was used to explore institutional violence from a critical perspective.

Policies and procedures: a tool to support the implementation of clinical guidelines?

Objectives: To explore the use of policies and procedures as a tool to support the implementation of clinical guidelines and to determine the relationship between organizational support and stability with nurses' perception of policy change.

Design: Secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected in the post-intervention phase of the study entitled Evaluation of the Dissemination and Utilization of Best Practice Guidelines by Registered Nurses in Ontario.

Setting: Eleven agencies across Ontario, Canada.

Hormonal and spatial regulation of nitric oxide synthases (NOS) (neuronal NOS, inducible NOS, and endothelial NOS) in the oviducts.

Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical produced by the action of NO synthases (NOS) and is known to be involved in the regulation of many reproductive events that occur in the oviducts. The oviducts are highly specialized organs that play crucial roles in reproduction by providing an optimal environment for the final maturation of gametes, fertilization, and early embryo development. In this study, we analyzed the expression, hormonal regulation, and cellular distribution of neuronal, inducible, and endothelial NOS in different bovine oviduct segments to better understand the roles played by these enzymes in oviductal functions in vivo.