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C Pearce

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RN to BS in nursing: historical review leads to articulation agreement.

Historically, registered nurses who have graduated from associate degree or diploma programs and who wish to obtain a baccalaureate degree in nursing have been required to pass challenge examinations to obtain credit for their previous nursing knowledge. A review of this university's policy regarding challenge examinations convinced faculty to establish a transition course and to actively pursue articulation agreements with local community colleges. Through these agreements, RN students would be granted 29 credits and bypass the junior year. This article is written to encourage others to review their policies to facilitate educational mobility for the RN/BS student.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗

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Formal measurement of pain by nurses.

How often have we heard nurses complain because doctors have not prescribed adequate pain relief for patients? Nurses, however, are just as guilty as doctors of not managing patients with acute and chronic pain adequately. Concern that nurses in her district were not using, or were using inappropriately, pain assessment tools prompted the author to undertake a small survey of current practice. The results confirmed her suspicions, but subsequent continuing education programmes on pain management seem to be helping to raise nurses' awareness of their responsibilities in this crucial area of care.

Clinical Nursing Research↗

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Pregnant women's perceptions of abuse.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether pregnant women's perceptions of abuse severity and danger, and their ability to control the abuse, are significantly correlated with the acts of abuse they experience, and to find out whether relationships exist among women's appraisals of abuse severity, danger, and their perceived ability to stop the abuse. DESIGN: A correlational design was used to compare the abusive acts experienced by the women and their perceptions of that abuse. SETTING: Nine prenatal clinics in urban areas of the northeastern United States. PARTICIPANTS: Sixty-one ethnically diverse, pregnant abused women were interviewed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Pearson's product-moment correlations were used to examine relationships between abusive experiences and women's perceptions of abuse. RESULTS: Women's perceptions of abuse severity were modestly correlated with threatened (r = .25) and actual violence (r = .36). Perceptions of abuse severity and danger were correlated (r = .41). CONCLUSIONS: Women's beliefs about abuse severity, danger, and their ability to control abuse cannot be fully comprehended by exploring the discrete acts they experience. Further research is needed to identify additional factors that influence those beliefs.

Adolescent↗

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Australian doctors and their postgraduate qualifications.

BACKGROUND: A key activity for doctors is lifelong learning. This may be as part of professional development, vocational registration, formal postgraduate study, e.g. university diplomas and degrees, or vocational training which leads to fellowship of a professional college. However, there are significant barriers of time and cost that prevent many doctors from participating in lifelong learning. METHOD: We examined the range of basic and postgraduate qualifications held by a representative sample of 1198 doctors provided by the HIC of Australian doctors. DISCUSSION: Significant numbers of general practitioners practise without a formal postgraduate qualification in general practice, unlike our specialist colleagues. However, postgraduate studies are undertaken in a variety of other formats and qualifications.

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