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P Kibbee

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PubMed1988

An emerging professional: the quality assurance nurse.

A new professional is emerging within nursing administration, the quality assurance nurse. While quality assurance may or may not be a true profession, these nurses share the common duties and needs of an emerging discipline. These needs include identifying their stage of career development and providing opportunities for skill-building, mentoring, and networking. The author discusses how nurse administrators can help develop the quality assurance practitioner.

Career Choice↗
PubMed1986

Can we predict the patient who leaves against medical advice: the search for a method.

Previous attempts to determine a profile of the typical patient who leaves against medical advice (AMA) have been largely unsuccessful. The premature separation from the hospital arouses unresolved feelings in everyone involved, including the patient, and is expensive as well. The theory that a patient left AMA as a result of a malfunction in the contracting process on admission was not replicable in our institution. We found that the largest group of patients leaving AMA was the young male substance abuser, who is usually the most unpopular type of patient. We believe that staff, actively or passively, encourage patients that they do not like to leave AMA. This interpersonal process may be the one which most needs addressing.

Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299↗
PubMed1985

Handedness and alcoholism.

One hundred thirty-six alcoholic men and 48 alcoholic women admitted consecutively to an adult alcohol and substance abuse unit were studied in an attempt to replicate previous reports of an association between alcoholism and handedness. Each individual received a structured admission interview, and handedness was determined by a modification of the Edinburgh Inventory. Left-handedness was more frequent in men with alcoholic fathers and in first-born men. These data are discussed in the context of a recent theory relating left-handedness, immune disease, developmental learning disorders, and fetal testosterone.

Adult↗