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J Driver

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An evaluation of the impact of lecturer practitioners on learning.

The aim of this study was to determine if nursing diploma students recognized a difference in the nature of classroom teaching between lecturer practitioners and university-based senior lecturers in nursing. The study generated both qualitative and quantitative data from a sample of 117 student nurses completing an elderly care module. Analysis of the data suggested that the students associate lecturer practitioners with a realistic, evidence-based presentation of contemporary nursing practice, which they found both academically liberating, and efficacious to their practical training. Such associations were less apparent when analysing student responses to senior lecturer teaching. The study underlines the potential of lecturer practitioners to make a positive and far-reaching contribution to the future of nurse education.

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Patient comfort and staff facilitation.

What can be done to help staff work with patients in such a way that patients' psychological functioning can be maintained at a high level? What suggestions can be given to help staff members support the patient's self-esteem and thus enhance the self-image? Those who work directly with patients in a nursing home have chosen this work because they care about persons and about their comfort. These motivations plus continued awareness of the patient's perceptions, feelings, and attitudes will enable more patients to be psychologically supported while they live in a health care facility. It is hoped that as we go about seeking to facilitate the patient's return to health, we might also be aware of the needs of the staff, for only as they have their own needs fulfilled can they serve another.

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In vitro percutaneous absorption of [14C] ethylene glycol.

The objective of this study was to determine the percutaneous absorption of ethylene glycol through human skin in vitro. The in vitro diffusion cells were of the flow-through design with 1 cm2 surface area. Three separate donor skin samples, taken from the thighs of white males, 16, 37, and 57 years old, were used and three replicates were performed for each experiment. Phosphate buffered saline, at a flow rate of three ml per hour, served as the receptor fluid. The human cadaver skin samples were dermatomed to 500 microns. [14C]-labeled ethylene glycol was applied to the skin surface in acetone vehicle at a dose of 8 micrograms/cm2. After 24-hr dermal exposure, 18.28 +/- 11.66% of the applied dose was recovered in the receptor fluid, 8.29 +/- 5.02% in the skin and 12.53 +/- 6.77% in the skin surface wash (total accountability was 39.11 +/- 7.23%). Individual difference existed (P < 0.05) for the three human skin sources. The combined skin and receptor fluid partitioning resulted in a potential absorbed dose of 26.57% relative to the 8 micrograms/cm2 applied dose for a 24-hr exposure duration. This represents a flux of approximately 2 micrograms/cm2/24 hr or 0.09 micrograms/cm2/hr for ethylene glycol. The maximum flux observed was 2.82%/hr/cm2 or 0.25 micrograms/cm2/hr.

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