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D Webster

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Placement stability for children in out-of-home care: a longitudinal analysis.

This study examines the number of placement moves experienced over an eight-year period by 5,557 children in one state who first entered out-of-home care between birth and age six. This group comprised 28% of all young children who entered care during this period. Nearly 30% of children in kinship care and 52% of children in nonrelative care experienced placement instability (defined as three or more moves after the first year in care). Children in kinship care, regardless of age, had fewer placement moves than those in nonkinship care. A multivariate analysis found that children who had more than one placement move during their first year of care were more likely to experience placement instability in long-term out-of-home care than if they did not move or were moved only once during their first year in care.

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Medical students' views of the role of the nurse.

Problems of interprofessional relationships in the health care field were examined by asking medical students what experiences were important to the development of their views of nurses and nursing. First, field observations were made in nine hospitals affiliated with a large medical school. They were followed by individual tape-recorded, semi-structured interviews with 60 medical students randomly selected and stratified on the basis of year in the program and sex of the student. Ten males and five females from each of the 4 years comprised the sample. Analytic induction was used for data analysis and incorporated cross-classification within topical categories to quantitatively determine trends. Findings revealed that while students' views of the health care team tended to be general and broadly inclusive among first- and second-year students, fourth-year students more often described specific personnel who could contribute directly to a particular patients' treatment as defined by the patient's medical diagnosis. Over the 4 years of medical school, students' perception of the physician's role vis-à-vis the patient and the health care team became more specific, while their perception of the nurse's role became more vague and diffuse. Factors contributing to confusion between the roles of the medical student and the nurse are identified and discussed.

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