Successful clean intermittent catheterisation depends on the ability of the child, parents and carers to undertake the procedure and effectively integrate it into both home and school life. Paediatric continence nurses need to support this process by addressing the concerns and anxieties of school staff. Inconsistencies in practice and the absence of local policy can exacerbate concerns and anx...

[To the sick person and] to the family of the sick patient, the hospital is a battlefield between life and death, the focus of intensive anxieties and hopes. To the physician, the hospital is an institution for the practice of medicine and a central agency through which the study of disease is pursued, the boundaries of medical science widened, and medical skill increased. From the standpoint o...

However, the idea causes some real disquiet among practical businesspeople, information specialists and even many in knowledge management. The image of a group of businesspeople squatting around a campfire swapping stories is scary on a number of levels: Ripped and dirty suits and dresses, setting off fire alarms, poking people with sticks, and finally, huge amounts of wasted time as really bad...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate common psychogenic factors involved in undereating and undernutrition in the elderly. METHOD Two cases are described. RESULTS In the context of age-related physical and social factors, obsessional, phobic, and hypochondriacal anxieties can lead to significant food restrictions and undernutrition. DISCUSSION Psychogenic factors need to be considered in undernutritio...

It is well established that violence and oppression towards vulnerable marginalised communities are intensified compounded during times of social upheaval, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated disablist ableist against disabled people. During first year pandemic, we have been confronted with instances meted out to subjects. In this article, provide a theorisation such violence. Based on an ass...

This study uses a sample of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians (N = 240) who differ in skill, education, income to replicate extend past findings about socioeconomic disparities the perceptions automation. Specifically, this applies skills-biased technical change hypothesis, an economic theory that low-skill jobs are most likely be affected by increased automation (Acemoglu & Restrepo, 20...