Sense of community belonging among immigrants: perspective of immigrant service providers.

Objectives: This study examined the barriers and facilitators to community belonging for immigrants in Alberta, Canada.

Study Design: The study used a qualitative descriptive research design.

Methods: A total of 53 immigrant service providers in the province of Alberta participated in interviews and focus groups.

Student-faculty relationships and its impact on academic outcomes.

Objective: The aim of this review of the literature is to synthesis the knowledge attained about determinants of student-faculty relationships and its impact on student outcomes. While adding to the body knowledge, the researchers discuss the importance, barriers, and facilitators to student-faculty academic relationships in nursing education.

Design: We conducted a narrative literature review using a modified version of the framework of the Population, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome method to develop the research question for this review.

Donation after cardiocirculatory death: a call for a moratorium pending full public disclosure and fully informed consent.

Many believe that the ethical problems of donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) have been "worked out" and that it is unclear why DCD should be resisted. In this paper we will argue that DCD donors may not yet be dead, and therefore that organ donation during DCD may violate the dead donor rule. We first present a description of the process of DCD and the standard ethical rationale for the practice.