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Pass/Fail and Discretionary Grading: A Snapshot of Their Influences on Learning
(2017-02-16)This article provides a snapshot of pass/fail and discretionary grading approaches, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each. Normreferenced and criterion-referenced grading practices and their associations with ... -
Paternal postpartum depression: How can nurses help?
(Contemporary Nurse, 2010)Men’s emotional health can be overlooked during their partner’s pregnancy and throughout the fi rst postpartum year. Postpartum depression, once expected only in new mothers, is now estimated to occur in 4–25% of new ... -
Pedometer ownership, motivation, and walking: Do people walk the talk?
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Peer E-Mentoring Podcasts in a Self-Paced Course
(Academic Exchange Quarterly, 2011)This article describes how podcasts from senior students were used as brief peer mentoring tools in an asynchronous, self-paced, text-based, introductory online nursing course. An increasing number of distance educators ... -
Perfectionism and Depression: Vulnerabilities Nurses Need to Understand
(2011)Striving for excellence is an admirable goal. Adaptive or healthy perfectionism can drive ambition and lead to extraordinary accomplishments. High-achieving people often show signs of perfectionism. However, maladaptive, ... -
Persistent Depressive Disorder or Dysthymia: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Approaches
(Open Journal of Depression, 2017-01-23)Persistent depressive disorder or dysthymia is a recurrent depressive disorder with no clearly demarcated episodes. Onset is insidious and can occur in adolescence or adulthood. Dysthymia frequently remains unrecognized ... -
Practical approaches in treating depression: Alleviating the debilitating symptoms of depression in LTC
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Practical Teaching Strategies for Diabetes Educators
(Diabetic Quarterly, 2005) -
Professional Development Needs of Non-Radiology Nurses: An Exploration of Nurses’ Experiences Caring for Interventional Radiology Patients
(Journal of Radiology Nursing, 2021)Nursing in interventional radiology is diverse and multifaceted. This area of specialty nursing has not yet been acknowledged as such or embraced in Canada. Professional development for interventional radiology nurses is ... -
Recognizing and Responding to Depression in Dementia
(SM Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2017)One-third of people living with dementia also experience depression. Treating symptoms of depression may be a protective factor and reduce cognitive decline in dementia. People suffering from depression experience sad ... -
Reducing relocation stress syndrome in long term care facilities
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Relating nursing theory to students’ life experiences
(Nurse Education Today, 1988)Nursing is a dynamic field involving an interaction between scientific research and human need. Theoretical discussions often involve a complex of issues which are difficult to explore adequately in a typical lecture. ... -
The relationship between commitment and exercise behavior
(Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2004)Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between commitment and exercise behavior using the Sport Commitment Model (SCM; J Sport & Exercise Psychology, 15, 1) as a guiding conceptual ... -
The relationship between exercise motives and physical self-esteem in female exercise participants: An application of Self-Determination Theory
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Relationships between exercise regulations and motivational consequences in university students
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Relocation stress in long term care: How staff can help
(Canadian Nursing Home, 2013)Relocating can be stressful and even traumatic for older adults, particularly when the relocation is involuntary. Reports that relocating older people is detrimental to their wellbeing, health and survival are well ... -
Replicating the Use of a Cognitive Presence Measurement Tool
(Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2009)This paper is a report of the replication of a seminal study on cognitive presence in computer mediated conferencing (CMC) by Garrison, Anderson, and Archer (2001). A comparison of cognitive presence coding by three different ... -
Research Ethics Review Processes: Potential Teaching Tools for Health Professions Students
(Scientific Open Access Journals, 2017-10)This article highlights how research ethics review processes have the potential to be used as teaching tools. Health professions students at the graduate level often conduct research involving human participants as part ... -
Resisting, Reaching Out and Re-imagining to Independence: LPN’s Transitioning towards BNs and Beyond
(International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, 2013-06)Little is known about the process of how nurses transition between vocational training and institutions of higher education. Understanding this process provides educators with the knowledge to support new groups of university ...