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B H Brubaker

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PubMed1996

Self-care in nursing home residents.

The investigator observed four residents to explore the nature of self-care in the nursing home. The three themes identified showed that residents performed self-care and acted assertively but not to their full potential. Timing of care events and whether nurse or resident performed them were unpredictable, and residents demonstrated lack of information about scheduling and other routines. Residents not only frequently waited for events to occur but (also) both nurses and residents provided clues that nurse permission was necessary before proceeding. Residents expressed frustration due to lack of control.

Activities of Daily Living↗
PubMed1990

A faculty learns how to make self-pacing work.

Today's nursing faculty employ self-pacing, independent study, formative evaluation, summative evaluation, competency-based learning, and flexible scheduling, to name but a few methods. But when is enough, enough? One faculty learned that each new method brings its own problems. Brubaker tells how this faculty reached those compromises that promised the best path through the maze of educational technology.

Competency-Based Education↗
PubMed1987

Adverse reactions to benzodiazepine hypnotics: spontaneous reporting system.

The rates of reported adverse drug reactions involving the central nervous system were compared among patients taking any of three benzodiazepine hypnotics: flurazepam, temazepam, and triazolam. These rates, based upon data collected through the spontaneous reporting system of the Food and Drug Administration, were controlled for the number and size of new prescriptions for each drug. In general, triazolam had much higher overall rates than did the other two drugs. Hyperexcitability and withdrawal effects were greatest for triazolam and least for flurazepam. Amnesia was reported almost exclusively with triazolam. Rates for other cognitive as well as affective and other behavioral effects were also much greater for triazolam and about equal for the other two drugs. Finally, daytime sedation was reported slightly more for flurazepam than triazolam and least for temazepam which was also reported most frequently as lacking hypnotic effect.

Adult↗
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An attributional analysis of weight outcomes.

Weiner's (1985b) attribution theory was tested by determining attributions for current weight and classification of attributions on the dimensions of locus, stability, controllability, intentionality, and universality. Relationships between these causal dimensions and expectancy for future success in weight control were tested using 260 faculty and staff in two collegiate settings. Subjects were placed in outcome (success or failure) groups, depending on whether they reported weighing what they desired (success) or more than they desired (failure). Personal habits related to food and activity were perceived as the major causes of weight outcomes, although success subjects frequently chose inherited or physiological factors. Weiner's stability-expectancy proposition was supported by increased expectancy after success when stability was rated higher, and after failure when stability was rated lower, R2 = .40.

Adult↗