Suicide is the second leading cause of death for 18-24 years (Curtin & Heron, 2018). 4th among college student athletes (Rao et al., 2015). While not all will be seen by mental health professionals, interact with their campus athletic staff: trainers, coaches, etc. This paper provides an overview risk factors and warning signs suicidal may exhibit offers resources best practices staff to in...

Healthcare profession students participate in a range of clinical placements within multidisciplinary health care settings. Often these placements offer students opportunities to participate in activities with staff and/or students from other healthcare disciplines. Although health service staff generally recognise the importance of clinical placements for student learning, they sometimes feel ...

The present study investigated smoking prevalence and attitudes toward smoking in student and staff nurses, and activities to promote tobacco intervention by staff nurses. A total of 743 student nurses in 2 colleges and one university and 490 staff nurses in the university hospital in Niigata, Japan participated in the study and filled in self-administered anonymous questionnaires focused on sm...

Julie Mitchell is Managing Librarian for the Chapman Learning Commons in the Irving K Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia, e-mail: [email protected]; Nathalie Soini is Learning Commons Coordinator at Queen’s University, e-mail: [email protected]. © 2014 Julie Mitchell and Nathalie Soini, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC B...

A key issue to address in the design and implementation of any assessment system is ensuring its reliability and validity. University assessment policies often require staff to prepare parallel examinations for students who are unable to sit the initial examination. There is little published literature to give confidence to staff or students that these examinations are indeed reliable or equiva...

Peer review is an efficient tool for staff educators to use in promoting professional staff and student development. The information gathered from peer review can be used by staff educators to develop individualized performance improvement plans to support staff development and increase student learning. Peer review provides a form of feedback that can be used to identify staff clinical learnin...