Developing a teaching portfolio in nursing education: a reflection.

Presenting teaching accomplishments through a portfolio promotes self-reflection and provides direction for improvement and advancement decisions. The authors examine experiences, insights, and reflections about their participation in a pilot project introducing teaching portfolios. Themes of taking stock, documenting practice, and reflecting emerge.

Fast-tracking in baccalaureate nursing education: one Canadian response to students with advanced standing.

Accelerated nursing programmes for non-nursing college graduates were developed primarily to address a shortage of nurses in the USA. This article describes a unique Canadian programme which has evolved in response to demand from an increasingly older and well-qualified applicant pool for recognition of their relevant previous educational experience. In an 8-week period in the summer of 1993, 18 students completed the requirements for Year I of the 4-year baccalaureate nursing programme.

Absorption and elimination of a branched-chain alkylpolyethoxylate surfactant in rats.

Oral doses (100 mg/kg/day) of a 14C-labelled branched-chain alkylpolyethoxylate [( C5H11]2CH14CH2O[CH2CH2O]6H; abbreviated [14C]A12E6) were extensively absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract of rats. During a multiple dosing regime, a proportion of 14C equivalent to one daily dose was excreted each day. This 14C was excreted in urine and faeces in equal proportions; less than 1% of the dose was expired as 14CO2.

The effect of intravenously administered phosphocreatine on ATP and phosphocreatine concentrations in the cardiac muscle of the rat.

Following intravenous administration of 32P-phosphocreatine (50 mg/kg) or an equimolar mixture of creatine + 32P-phosphate (equivalent to 50 mg/kg phosphocreatine) to rats, and examination of an extract of cardiac muscle by HPLC, the proportion of radiolabelled adenosine triphosphate (ATP; up to 3%) was similar in each treatment group at 120 min after dosing. Mean concentrations of ATP in the cardiac muscle were increased significantly during this time (to 3.1 mumol/g) after intravenous administration of 32P-phosphocreatine compared with those in control rats (2.