Today’s nurse managers (NMs) are challenged to be visionary and innovative leaders who embrace change, manage diverse groups of employees, and address the complex demands of patients and families. Nurse managers need to be educated and knowledgeable on health care reform including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, oversee multimillion dollar budgets, leverage technology, and champ...

Background: Enucleation is a topic discussed in psychiatry which is a self-injury matter. Enucleation is observed as psychotic disorder due to substance abuse. In people with mental disorders who also have substance use leading to hallucinations and delusions, unusual eye evacuation were reported. In most cases, enucleation was done using sharp tools. Case Report: This report describes a man su...

The authors of this paper have found that some of the data they reported was incorrect and wish to withdraw the paper from publication. There was a mistake in the clinical information transmitted about the case. The paper was originally published online in NDTPlus Advance Access on 01 06 2011. The authors hereby retract this paper and discourage citations.

Xenotransplantation pits clinical research ethics against public health needs because recipients must undergo long-term, perhaps life-long, surveillance for infectious diseases. This surveillance requirement is effectively an abrogation of the right to withdraw from a clinical trial. Ulysses contracts, which are advance directives for future care, may be an ethical mechanism by which to balance...

The majority of ICU deaths are preceded by a decision to limit treatment in some way. Decisions to withhold or withdraw treatment vary considerably depending on many factors including local practice, cultural and religious background, family and peer pressure. Here we will discuss the current situation across Europe, based on the findings from three large international studies.

We use experimental methods to investigate what factors contribute to breakdowns in coordination among a bank’s depositors. Subjects in our experiment decide whether to leave their money deposited in a bank or withdraw it early; a bank run occurs when there are too many early withdrawals. We explore the effects of adding uncertainty about fundamental withdrawal demand and of changing the number...

To the Editor: We are writing to express our concerns with the current residency matching process regarding an apparent loophole that treats sponsored US graduates differently than independent applicants from international medical schools. Allowing international graduates to enter the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) and then withdraw if offered a pre-Match position, is unfair to US gr...