An Appreciative Inquiry Into Nurse Educators' Exam Practices.

Multiple-choice examinations (MCEs) are commonly used to evaluate nursing students. Nurse educators require support to develop questions and engage in postexam analysis to ensure reliable assessment of student learning. We surveyed nurse educators and conducted focus groups to investigate current writing practices associated with MCEs.

Our Ultimate Fellow Travelers: A Pilot Exploration of Sibling Support for Adults With Developmental Disabilities.

People with developmental disabilities often experience needs for support that extend beyond the caregiving capacity of their aging parents and their siblings tend to be looked to as next-generation support providers. Yet, sibling support relationships are distinct for their simultaneously obligatory and voluntary nature. This pilot exploration, using in-depth focus group data from five siblings of people with developmental disabilities, is aimed at enriching understandings of the nature of, and expectations surrounding, sibling support for brothers and sisters with developmental disabilities.

Conflict between Family Caregivers and Staff in Nursing Homes: Feasibility of the Daily Diary Method.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the daily diary method (DDM) for assessing family-staff conflicts in nursing homes, to provide descriptive information on conflict, and to examine the relationship between conflict and mood among family caregivers.

Methods: Participants were nine caregivers that experienced conflict with staff on an ongoing basis. They were contacted daily by telephone for 14 days and were asked (1) whether a conflict had occurred, (2) to describe the severity and type of conflict, and (3) to rate their positive and negative affect.

Cognitive Hypnotherapy as a Transdiagnostic Protocol for Emotional Disorders.

This article describes cognitive hypnotherapy (CH), an integrative treatment that provides an evidence-based framework for synthesizing clinical practice and research. CH combines hypnotherapy with cognitive-behavior therapy in the management of emotional disorders. This blended version of clinical practice meets criteria for an assimilative model of integrative psychotherapy, which incorporates both theory and empirical findings.

Clinical teaching as part of continuing professional development: Does teaching enhance clinical performance?

Introduction: Physicians identify teaching as a factor that enhances performance, although existing data to support this relationship is limited.

Purpose: To determine whether there were differences in clinical performance scores as assessed through multisource feedback (MSF) data based on clinical teaching.

Methods: MSF data for 1831 family physicians, 1510 medical specialists, and 542 surgeons were collected from physicians' medical colleagues, co-workers (e.

The effects of dysphoria and personality on negative self-referent attitudes and perceptions of the attitudes of others.

The cognitive model of depression posits that depressed individuals harbor more dysfunctional self-referent attitudes, but little is known about how depressed individuals perceive the attitudes and perceptions of others in their social arena. This study examined whether dysphoric individuals perceive others to hold equally negative attitudes about themselves, and whether such perceptions depend on sociotropic (i.e.

Specialty resident perceptions of the impact of a distributed education model on practice location intentions.

Objectives: There is an increased focus internationally on the social mandate of postgraduate training programs. This study explores specialty residents' perceptions of the impact of the University of Calgary's (UC) distributed education rotations on their self-perceived likelihood of practice location, and if this effect is influenced by resident specialty or stage of program.

Methods: Residents participating in the UC Distributed Royal College Initiative (DistRCI) between July 2010 and June 2013 completed an online survey following their rotation.

Some assembly required: SOCE and Orai1 channels couple to NFAT transcriptional activity via calmodulin and calcineurin.

Advances in our ability to monitor the temporal and spatial dynamics of intracellular second messengers such as Ca(2+) and cyclic nucleotides at millisecond and sub-micron levels of resolution have greatly increased our understanding of cellular signal transduction mechanisms. Thus, it is now well appreciated that second messengers can rise and fall within discrete regions of the intracellular compartment, as opposed to global changes, and on a time scale determined by the local collection of signaling molecules responsible for the synthesis and degradation/re-uptake of the second messenger. Efforts to identify the components of such macromolecular signaling domains have revealed the presence of hormone receptors, modifying enzymes and scaffolding proteins that tend to assemble and organize these complexes.

A transnational perspective on psychosurgery: beyond Portugal and the United States.

The history of psychosurgery is most often recounted as a narrative wherein Portuguese and American physicians play the leading role. It is a traditional narrative in which the United States and, at times, Portugal are central in the development and spread of psychosurgery. Here we largely abandon the archetypal narrative and provide one of the first transnational accounts of psychosurgery to demonstrate the existence of a global psychosurgical community in which more than 40 countries participated, bolstered, critiqued, modified and heralded the treatment.

Relations among children's coping strategies and anxiety: the mediating role of coping efficacy.

The current study tests a model that depicts the relationships among coping strategies (active, distraction, avoidance, and support seeking) and anxiety symptoms. SEM is used to test if the relationship between these variables is mediated by coping efficacy. A large sample of Canadian children (N = 506) aged 8 to 11 years (boys = 249, girls = 245, unknown gender = 12) participated in the study.

Listen to the children: kids' impressions of Who Do You Tell ™.

School-based programs have been the central strategy to educate children about the serious nature of child sexual abuse in the hope of prevention or early intervention. Virtually all evaluations have been quantitative, seldom allowing children to directly comment on their experiences. This article presents the results of qualitative research with 116 students (51 boys and 65 girls) ranging from age 6 to 12 who had participated in the Who Do You Tell child sexual abuse education program.

The cold pressor pain paradigm in children: feasibility of an intervention model (Part II).

The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of testing a psychological approach (hypnosis) to pain reduction in children using the cold pressor paradigm. Children's pain ratings at 10 sec intervals and duration of arm immersion (40 sec maximum) in 15 degrees C (n = 37) and 12 degrees C water (n = 29) were assessed in 6-12-year-old children during 2 baseline trials (alternating arms), followed by 2 more trials after randomization to a control or hypnosis treatment condition. Hypnosis was found to reduce pain significantly more than the control condition in both 15 degrees C and 12 degrees C water.