Background Workplace violence (WPV) against healthcare workers (HCWs) employed in psychiatric inpatient wards is a serious occupational issue that involves both staff and patients; the consequences of WPV may include increased service costs and lower standards of care. The purpose of this review was to evaluate which topics have been focused on in the literature and which are new in approaching...

The article analyzes the individual personality as determinant of entrepreneurial action and foresight. They have been reviewed: psychologic-biological processes, cognitive procedures, creating a person – also entrepreneur. On behalf these not only recognition perception-object starts, but at same time its evaluation rating.

Myasthenia gravis (Paralysis Suna non Habitualis) is a neuromuscular disease, characterized by fluctuating weakness of skeletal muscles, which is increased by use, at least partially relieved by rest and improves specifically by anticholinesterases. Myasthenic crisis is a life threatening condition in which there is sudden failure in respiratory function due to muscle weakness. It starts with o...

The author reviews anesthetic considerations for the pediatric patient requiring foot and lower leg surgery. He initially describes the physiologic and psychologic differences from adults. Preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative factors are then evaluated.

OBJECTIVE Previous research demonstrates increased resiliency to psychopathology after disasters among older adults. However, little is known about differences in age-based risk and protective factors for postdisaster mental illness. METHOD The authors used random-digit dialing methodology to survey 1,130 older adults (60+ years) and 413 younger adults residing in Florida counties directly af...

Disputed child custody is a significant life stressor for both adults and children. Recent efforts have been made to develop a model for family mediation and subsequent clinical strategies that can attempt to address the stressors involved in divorce and perhaps resolve, through mediation, the posttrauma stress experienced by both spouses and children. Reviewed is the literature on the impact o...

BACKGROUND Evidence-based guidelines exist to reduce health care-associated infections (HAIs). Leadership rounds are one tool leaders can use to ensure compliance with guidelines, but have not been studied specifically for the reduction of HAIs. This study examines HAI leadership rounds at one facility. METHODS We explored unit-based HAI leadership rounds led by 2 hospital leaders at a large ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is a common and often severe problem in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The authors postulated that physical activity training can reduce the intensity of fatigue in this group of patients. METHODS A group of cancer patients receiving high dose chemotherapy followed by autologous peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (training group; n = 27) followed an exerci...