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B J Simons

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PubMed1989

Interinstitutional collaboration for nursing excellence: Part 1, Creating the partnership.

A partnership between two unrelated public institutions was formed to enhance the quality of clinical learning for students and staff, promote exemplary care to patients, and foster expansion of nursing research. The critical nucleus of the partnership is the unit-based clinical nurse specialist who performs the multiple functions of professional nursing: practice, education, and research. This two-part series describes the collaboration effort. Part 1 focuses on the organizational structure created for the partnership, and part 2 reports the findings of a 15-week pilot study conducted to test the model.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed1989

Interinstitutional collaboration for nursing excellence: Part 2. Testing the model.

Two unrelated public institutions formed a partnership to foster excellence in professional nursing. The organizational structure was described in Part 1 (February 1989). This second article reports a 15-week pilot study conducted on seven hospital units to determine the degree to which the clinical nurse specialist can merge the multiple functions of professional nursing: practice, education, and research.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed1969

The effect on drinking in the rat of intravenous infusion of angiotensin, given alone or in combination with other stimuli of thirst.

1. Intravenous infusion of angiotensin causes rats which are in water balance to drink water.2. The mean amount of angiotensin needed to initiate drinking was 29.1 +/- 4.6 mug/kg (S.E. of mean) in twenty normal rats, and 15.7 +/- 2.1 mug/kg in thirty-four nephrectomized rats.3. The nephrectomized rat is therefore more sensitive to this action of angiotensin than the rat with intact kidneys.4. The rates of infusion (0.05-3.0 mug/kg(-1) min(-1)) which cause drinking are comparable to those used to produce other effects in rats.5. Angiotensin restores the drinking response of the nephrectomized rat subjected to caval ligation to a value similar to that obtained in the uninfused normal rat subjected to caval ligation.6. The effects of angiotensin and hypertonic saline on drinking are additive when both substances are administered to nephrectomized rats.7. These experiments provide further support for the view that the renin-angiotensin system is concerned in extracellular thirst.

Angiotensin II↗
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Shared governance and the nursing practice environment.

An evaluation of the impact of shared governance on staff nurse perceptions of management style, group cohesion, job stress, job satisfaction, and anticipated turnover provides support for claims that shared governance improves the nursing practice environment.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗