Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to E S Tompkins.
The shrinking number of nursing clinical sites and the backlog of nursing students in generic programs waiting for clinical placement present major problems in nursing education. Positioning the clinical practicum of generic nursing programs in the final year of the curriculum is suggested. Advantages and disadvantages are discussed.
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The format of the nursing assessment frequently tends to be unit specific and secondary to the goals of other disciplines. This defeats the purpose of the holistic assessment that nurses consider essential. The framework of the eleven functional health patterns proposed by Gordon provides a strong focus for assessment of functional ability as the purpose for collection of assessment data. Data collected systematically in this way in any setting provide a definitive position from which nursing can contribute well-focused and well-documented input for more effective participation in institutional decision making.
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Perceived duration has been found to decrease with decreased cadence and with increased muscular effort. In this study, 64 volunteer college-student subjects who walked a circular track at a preferred tempo produced temporal judgments significantly longer when either the right knee and ankle or the left knee and ankle were restricted, compared to their production estimates when they walked without restriction. No difference in production estimates was found when the effect of restriction of one leg was compared with that of the other. Decreased perceived duration, thought to result from a combination of decreased cadence and increased muscular effort necessitated by the restriction of mobility, may be a mechanism for preserving system integrity in those whose mobility is restricted.