Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a delayed and/or protracted response to exceptionally threatening or catastrophic events. The event is persistently remembered or relived with concomitant distress sometimes even leading to harmful life-long psychological sequelae. We present a 6-year old boy who developed the classical syndrome following corporal punishment at school when his class teac...

While motivation is of great interest to computing educators, relatively little work has been done on understanding faculty attitudes toward student motivation. Two previous qualitative studies of instructor attitudes found results identical to those from other disciplines, but neither study considered whether instructors perceive student motivation to be more important in certain computing cla...

Medical education in North America changed dramatically during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although American medical schools had begun to establish ties with major universities in the 870s,1 few physicians in this country had any meaningful exposure to high quality basic science. According to William G. Rothstein,2 there were 65 medical schools in 860, 75 in 870, 00 i...

I n this issue of the CJHP, pharmacist Marie Craig shares her experience in educating and supporting patients at the Arthritis Clinic in Newmarket, Ontario. 1 This important role for pharmacists is well recognized by our Canadian professional and academic associations, as it is globally. In 1997, the World Health Organization (WHO) introduced the role of teacher as 1 of the 7 key responsibiliti...

One of the key responsibilities of the nurse educator is to develop student nurses' abilities regarding self-directed study. Self-directed study requires inter alia, the ability to find information, synthesis and consequent application and integration of the information in practice. The development of the abovementioned skills does not only imply a multidimensional approach to the student in to...

BACKGROUND Insulin initiation and titration in primary care is necessary to respond to the growing epidemic of type 2 diabetes (T2D). The INITIATION study aims to evaluate the impact of implementing a new model of care with Primary Care Physician and Practice Nurse (PN) teams supported by a Credentialed Diabetes Educator-Registered Nurse (CDE-RN) and endocrinologist in initiating and titrating ...

The public health nurse has become an essential link in bringing the science of public health to the community. The significance of the development of this branch of the nursing profession is emphasized by a broadened objective, from the care of the sick poor in their homes to the present concept of community nursing, embracing those services which prevent and relieve sickness, prolong life, an...

www.aana.com/aanajournalonline Upcoming Book: Ira P. Gunn To the editor: At the upcoming Annual Congress in Salt Lake City the AANA will release the newly published book Ira P. Gunn, Nurse Anesthetist. For my co-editors and me, work on the book was a true labor of love and an exploration of the genius Ira was. We each knew Ira in different ways and at somewhat different times, but we each learn...

OBJECTIVE We evaluated automated telephone disease management (ATDM) with telephone nurse follow-up as a strategy for improving diabetes treatment processes and outcomes in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) clinics. We also compared the results with those of a prior ATDM trial conducted in a county health care system. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 272 VA patients with diabetes usin...

Providing appropriate education for nurses working in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) to develop and update the skill sets and knowledge required to care for infants and children with congenital heart disease (CHD) is a challenge. We provide care to children with a variety of congenital heart defects that require medical care and surgical corrections. In the extreme circumstance, we pr...