Generalist Clinical Review: Approved Educators Workshop (P15)

Characteristics of Efficient Clinical Teachers: Nursing Educators’ and Students’ Perspectives

Introduction: The importance of clinical education in personal and professional development of nursing students and their clinical skills is undeniable, so any weakness in clinical education can decrease the efficacy of nursing graduates. One of the most important factors affecting clinical education is clinical teachers and their quality of teaching. The purpose of this study was to determine ...

W2: Clinical Training Workshop: Transdiagnostic Group CBT for Anxiety Disorders

This workshop is an evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) training for mental health professionals and counselling graduate students in group therapy for anxiety disorders. The “transdiagnostic” approach is gaining widespread acceptance because it enables therapists to treat a variety of anxiety disorders using a common group protocol. Training will focus specifically on delivering ...

2015 Review of Newly Approved Oncologic Therapies

The Effect of Clinical Education Workshop on Nursing and Midwifery Instructors’ Effective Behaviors in Clinical Education

Introduction: The instructors’ clinical teaching behaviors need to be monitored and improved during educational process. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a three day educational workshop about clinical teaching and evaluation on effective clinical teaching behaviors of clinical instruc-tors at faculty of Nursing and Midwifery in Shiraz. Methods: All clinical nursing ins...

Review for the generalist: evaluation of pediatric hip pain

Hip pathology may cause groin pain, referred thigh or knee pain, refusal to bear weight or altered gait in the absence of pain. A young child with an irritable hip poses a diagnostic challenge. Transient synovitis, one of the most common causes of hip pain in children, must be differentiated from septic arthritis. Hip pain may be caused by conditions unique to the growing pediatric skeleton inc...