The purpose of this study was to identify program characteristics that influence decision-making in the selection of continuing education (CE) offerings by registered nurses licensed in a state with mandatory CE. A sample of 238 nurses were asked to identify the level of importance for 35 CE program characteristics on a Likert-like scale. The data indicated that all characteristics were of some importance to participants, with high levels of importance given to items demonstrating professional values. The findings suggest that even though CE may be mandatory, nurses still select educational offerings on the basis of quality and contribution to their professional practice.

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The sky's the limit.

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Report of the mental health team 1991 Alaska/Magadan medical expedition and exchange.

This report provides a brief overview of the July, 1991 mental health team visit to the Magadan and Chukotka regions. A previous trip to the region was made by a mental health team in the summer of 1990. The sites covered were Anadyr, Magadan, Yagodnoye and Sinegorye. There are several follow-up activities and projects currently underway, such as a Fetal Alcohol Syndrome project, alcohol treatment comparisons, and Native Elder exchanges. The Soviet economy has had a marked effect in the type of treatments available in hospitals and clinics for all the types of physical and mental health problems. Because of the openness and cooperation of the Soviet medical personnel, much data and information has been gathered and will be used to determine the areas to be addressed for joint study and application.

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The team of experts.

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Alaska/Russian Far East behavioral health projects: a progress report on recent activities.

A number of "behavioral health" exchange activities between Alaska and the Russian Far East took place during 1992-93. These included visits by a psychiatrist running one of the first "private polyclinics" in Magadan and by a narcologist to discuss the latest developments in alcohol services; a Behavioral Health Conference where Native health workers from Russia and Alaska shared experiences; beginning a multi-year epidemiology project; and a project to assess needs for a fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) prevention program in Magadan.

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Substance abuse problems in the Magadan Region of the Russian Far East.

People in the Magadan Region are hopeful that citizens of Alaska will make contact with Native peoples, especially in the Magadan region. Right now, rates of alcohol-related problems are high and economic difficulties are leading to cutbacks in existing programs (see Chart 2). Alaskans have much good experience and information to share, and there is a lot that can be accomplished, as illustrated by the story of the recovering woman, and her influence upon people by example. Dynamics of the morbidity of alcoholism and alcoholic psychosis in regions of Siberia and the Far East. Chart 3 shows dramatic rises in alcoholism/alcoholic psychosis rates between 1965 and 1985. On the scale used, rates were about 20 per 10,000 in 1965, and in 1985 were about 250 per 10,000. Rates appear to be higher in the Far East, to be second highest in Western Siberia, and to be slightly lower in Eastern Siberia. Rates for Russia as a whole seem to have followed the same general trend towards rising, but are somewhat lower than the rates given for Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Two questions arise out of this data: 1. Why the increase since 1965? 2. Why worse in the Far East?

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