Faculty and nursing staff experiences and perceptions of nursing students' clinical placements in residential aged care facilities: a qualitative systematic review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this review is to synthesize evidence on the experiences and perceptions of faculty and staff nurses toward nursing students' clinical placements in residential aged care facilities.

Introduction: Nursing education plays an important role in preparing students to provide quality care to older adults. Recent reports suggest that nursing programs across the globe are championing the integration of content on the care of older adults into their curricula as well as recognizing the value of clinical placements that focus exclusively on care for older adults, such as in residential aged care facilities.

Teaching strategies and activities to enhance students' clinical placement in residential aged care facilities: a scoping review.

Objective: The purpose of this scoping review was to examine teaching strategies and activities used in nursing students' clinical placement in residential aged care facilities.

Introduction: Population aging necessitates that nursing curricula ensure student interest and commitment to working with older adults. While searching for suitable clinical placements that provide students with opportunities to care for older adults, nursing programs have turned to residential aged care facilities.

Nurses' provisions for self-determination when caring for clients with cognitive impairment who live in a residential aged care facility: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map knowledge of nursing provisions for self-determination while providing care to clients with cognitive impairment in residential aged care facilities.

Introduction: Maintaining the ability to have choices and to make decisions about daily activities is important for older adults. In residential aged care facilities, nurses' can be challenged to preserve clients' self-determination in favor of ritualistic care routines and a perceived duty to care.

Teaching strategies and activities used for students' clinical placement in residential aged care facilities: a scoping review protocol.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to examine and map current knowledge of teaching strategies and activities used with nursing students during clinical placements in residential aged care facilities.

Introduction: Residential aged care facilities provide opportunities for nursing students to develop skills and interest in caring for older adults. Studies that address students' clinical placements in these settings highlight the benefits of and concerns with their experiences.

Nursing students' experiences with clinical placement in residential aged care facilities: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.

Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize the best available evidence on nursing students' experiences with clinical placement in residential aged care facilities.

Introduction: Nursing education programs play a key role in preparing future nurses to care for the growing number of older adults who will require health care. A key component of this preparation involves ensuring that curricula optimize student learning through carefully designed clinical learning practice experiences.

Evaluating the Sensitivity of PM2.5-Mortality Associations to the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Exposure Assessment.

Background: The temporal and spatial scales of exposure assessment may influence observed associations between fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) and mortality, but few studies have systematically examined this question.

Methods: We followed 2.

Approaches for defining and assessing nursing informatics competencies: a scoping review protocol.

How are nursing informatics competencies defined or assessed in the literature?

The impact of patient navigation: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this review is to synthesize the evidence on the impact of patient navigation for all populations across all settings. The question of this review is: What is the existing evidence on the impact of patient navigation?

Patient, family and nurse experiences with patient presence during handovers in acute care hospital settings: a systematic review of qualitative evidence.

Objective: The objective of this systematic review was to synthesize the best available evidence on patients', family members' and nurses' experiences with bedside handovers in acute care settings.

Introduction: The transfer of patient information between nurses represents a critical component of safety within health care. Conducting handover at the bedside allows patients and families to participate in information exchanges.

Frameworks for evaluation of community health centers' services and outcomes: a scoping review protocol.

The objective of this scoping review is to identify and map the frameworks used to evaluate services and outcomes of community health centers within the broader context of primary health care.The primary question for this scoping review is: what are the frameworks used to evaluate services and outcomes of community health centers?Secondary questions for this review are.

Quality of Best Possible Medication History upon Admission to Hospital: Comparison of Nurses and Pharmacy Students and Consideration of National Quality Indicators.

Background: Medication reconciliation at transitions of care increases patient safety. Collection of an accurate best possible medication history (BPMH) on admission is a key step. National quality indicators are used as surrogate markers for BPMH quality, but no literature on their accuracy exists.

Privacy-preserving techniques of genomic data-a survey.

Genomic data hold salient information about the characteristics of a living organism. Throughout the past decade, pinnacle developments have given us more accurate and inexpensive methods to retrieve genome sequences of humans. However, with the advancement of genomic research, there is a growing privacy concern regarding the collection, storage and analysis of such sensitive human data.

Screening tools to assess risk of opioid abuse in the Canadian primary healthcare setting.

Opioid therapy for patients with chronic pain is increasing in frequency along with rates of opioid abuse. Many screening tools are available to assess for the risk of opioid abuse. NPs should use screening tools that are cross-validated for use in chronic pain patients in the Canadian primary healthcare setting.

Factors influencing new graduate nurse burnout development, job satisfaction and patient care quality: a time-lagged study.

Aim: To test a hypothesized model linking new graduate nurses' perceptions of their manager's authentic leadership behaviours to structural empowerment, short-staffing and work-life interference and subsequent burnout, job satisfaction and patient care quality.

Background: Authentic leadership and structural empowerment have been shown to reduce early career burnout among nurses. Short-staffing and work-life interference are also linked to burnout and may help explain the impact of positive, empowering leadership on burnout, which in turn influences job satisfaction and patient care quality.

Assessing the Efficacy of a Group Mediated Nutritional Knowledge Intervention for Individuals with Obesity.

Purpose: This study reports on the effect of a group-based nutrition and physical activity intervention program on nutrition knowledge and eating habits in a cohort of people with obesity.

Methods: A quasi-experimental design with pre- and post-test measures. The intervention consisted of physical activity led by certified exercise physiologists and a nutritional education component led by registered dietitians over a 6-month period followed by 6 months of self-management.

Aging and orthopedics: how a lifespan development model can inform practice and research.

Orthopedic surgical care, like all health care today, is in flux owing to an aging population and to chronic medical conditions leading to an increased number of people with illnesses that need to be managed over the lifespan. The result is an ongoing shift from curing acute illnesses to the management and care of chronic illness and conditions. Theoretical models that provide a useful and feasible vision for the future of health care and health care research are needed.

Utility of the Psychoeducational Profile-3 for assessing cognitive and language skills of children with autism spectrum disorders.

The Psychoeducational Profile-3's (PEP-3) ability to estimate cognitive and language skills of 136 children (20-75 months) with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) across a range of functioning, and the association between the PEP-3 and ASD symptomatology was examined using retrospective data. PEP-3 cognitive and language measures were positively correlated with similar measures on the Child Development Inventory, the Merrill-Palmer Revised, and the Vineland Adaptive Behaviour Scale-2. The PEP-3 sometimes provided higher or lower estimates than other measures.

Improving myoelectric pattern recognition positional robustness using advanced training protocols.

The control of powered upper limb prostheses using the surface electromyogram (EMG) is an important clinical option for amputees. There have been considerable recent improvements in prosthetic hands, but these currently lack a control scheme that can decode movement intent from the EMG to exploit their mechanical dexterity. Pattern recognition based control has the potential to decode many classes of movement intent, but is confounded when using the prosthesis in varying positions during activities of daily living.

Transmission of a Gammabaculovirus within Cohorts of Balsam Fir Sawfly (Neodiprion abietis) Larvae.

Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPV: Gammabaculovirus: Baculoviridae) of diprionid sawflies (Diprionidae: Hymenoptera) are highly host specific and only infect the midgut epithelium. While still alive, infected sawfly larvae excrete NPV-laden diarrhea that contaminates food sources. The diarrhea can then be consumed by conspecific larvae, resulting in rapid horizontal transmission of the virus.

Spread of a Gammabaculovirus within Larval Populations of Its Natural Balsam Fir Sawfly (Neodiprion abietis) Host Following Its Aerial Application.

Field trials and assessments of the balsam fir sawfly (Neodiprion abietis) nucleopolyhedrovirus (NeabNPV: Baculoviridae, Gammabaculovirus) against its natural host were conducted in July and August 2002 near Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in naturally regenerated, precommercially thinned stands dominated by balsam fir (Abies balsamea). Two experimental blocks, each with its own untreated control, were established. The purpose of the Island Pond block was to examine the spread of NeabNPV from a 313-ha aerial treatment block out into adjacent populations of balsam fir sawflies.

Examining the adverse effects of limb position on pattern recognition based myoelectric control.

Pattern recognition of myoelectric signals for the control of prosthetic devices has been widely reported and debated. A large portion of the literature focuses on offline classification accuracy of pre-recorded signals. Historically, however, there has been a semantic gap between research findings and a clinically viable implementation.

The biochemistry of Rubisco in Flaveria.

C(4) plants have been reported to have Rubiscos with higher maximum carboxylation rates (kcat(CO(2))) and Michaelis-Menten constants (K(m)) for CO(2) (K(c)) than the enzyme from C(3) species, but variation in other kinetic parameters between the two photosynthetic pathways has not been extensively examined. The CO(2)/O(2) specificity (S(C/O)), kcat(CO(2)), K(c), and the K(m) for O(2) (K(o)) and RuBP (K(m-RuBP)), were measured at 25 degrees C, in Rubisco purified from 16 species of Flaveria (Asteraceae). Our analysis included two C(3) species of Flaveria, four C(4) species, and ten C(3)-C(4) or C(4)-like species, in addition to other C(4) (Zea mays and Amaranthus edulis) and C(3) (Spinacea oleracea and Chenopodium album) plants.

Alcohol and the family in Canada.

In the context of the family in Western society, alcohol often has been viewed as a problem. This article traces how the use of beverage alcohol in Canada related to the family in the transition from the preindustrial to late-twentieth-century era. Powerful temperance movements in the nineteenth century, and divisive prohibition policies in the early twentieth, attempted to protect the material and moral health of the family.

The relationship between maximal jump-squat power and sprint acceleration in athletes.

This study investigated the relationship between sprint start performance (5-m time) and strength and power variables. Thirty male athletes [height: 183.8 (6.

Self-optimizing MPC of melt temperature in injection moulding.

The parameters in plastic injection moulding are highly nonlinear and interacting. Good control of plastic melt temperature for injection moulding is very important in reducing operator setup time, assuring consistent product quality, and preventing thermal degradation of the melt. Step response testing was performed on the barrel heating zones on an industrial injection moulding machine (IMM).