Believing Jeny About Her Pain

Pain resource nurses: believing the patients, and believing in themselves.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experience of being a pain resource nurse (PRN), discuss the influence of the PRN's role on colleagues and patient care, and explore barriers to the PRN role. DESIGN Qualitative, exploratory. SETTING A Veterans Administration hospital in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 12 nurses who received advanced training in pain assessment and management atte...

WORKING PAPERS Believing when Credible: Talking about Future Plans

We explore in an equilibrium framework whether games with multiple Nash equilibria are easier to play when players can communicate. We consider two variants, modelling talk about future plans and talk about past actions. The language from which messages are chosen is endogenous, messages are allowed to be vague. We focus on equilibria where messages are believed whenever possible, thereby devel...

Approaching an employee about her weight.

www.aafp.org/afp Volume 82, Number 5 ◆ September 1, 2010 Case Scenario I work in a busy office where our relationships are cordial. Recently, a member of our office staff has been putting on quite a bit of weight. Already heavy, she has gained what I estimate to be 50 lb (22.7 kg). She has been having some personal problems at home, but in the office she is efficient, competent, and reliable. M...

Believing when Credible: Talking about Future Plans and Past Actions∗

We explore in an equilibrium framework whether games with multiple Nash equilibria are easier to play when players can communicate. We consider two variants, modelling talk about future plans and talk about past actions. The language from which messages are chosen is endogenous, messages are allowed to be vague. We focus on equilibria where messages are believed whenever possible, thereby devel...

A child playing hide-and-seek runs to the corner of the room and covers her eyes with a pillow while her father counts to ten, believing that if she cannot see her father, then her father cannot see her