Stress Management: Ways to Cope

Nursing schools to teach new ways to cope with death.

Schools of Nursing will test new ways to include more palliative care training in undergraduate nursing programs, after a survey of 91 nursing schools revealed many inadequately prepare graduates to deal with death and dying. Funded by Health Canada, the twoyear project will pilot models for integrating a spate of new palliative care competencies into existing curriculum and accreditation stand...

Though challenged by shortage, OR leaders find ways to cope.

Medical schools seeking new ways to cope with funding cutbacks.

Cuts in government funding mean that Canada's medical schools have to seek new ways to raise funds. Susan Thorne examines some of the ways faculties of medicine are coping with change. In the brave new world of medical education, schools are combining classes for medical students and other health professionals, seeking business alliances, encouraging attendance by full-tuition students from oth...

The ways parents cope with stress in difficult parenting situations: the structural equation modeling approach

The purpose of this study was to verify a theoretical model of parents' responses to difficulties they experienced with their child. The model presents relationships between seven variables: (a) discrepancy between parental goal and the child's current level of development, (b) parental experience of a difficulty, (c) representation of the child in the parent's mind, (d) parent's withdrawal fro...

Giving voice to food insecurity in a remote indigenous community in subarctic Ontario, Canada: traditional ways, ways to cope, ways forward

BACKGROUND Food insecurity is a serious public health issue for Aboriginal people (First Nations [FN], Métis, and Inuit) living in Canada. Food security challenges faced by FN people are unique, especially for those living in remote and isolated communities. Conceptualizations of food insecurity by FN people are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of food...