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H T Brower

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PubMed1991

The alternatives to restraints.

Nurses frequently verbalize their ambivalence towards the use of restraints, but have lacked efforts to change or decrease the practice. The decision of whether to use restraints may be based on a perception of threat of safety to self or others, the staff's tolerance levels for behavior, a perception of short staffing, or a knowledge gap of alternative approaches. Ongoing assessment and monitoring changes in physical and cognitive functional abilities, with a carefully detailed plan of rehabilitative and restorative nursing, can deter staff's feelings of having to rely on restraint use for safety.

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PubMed1976

The Roy adaptation model. Using the adaptation model in a practitioner curriculum.

We believe that nurse practitioner role mastery should occur through supplementation of former roles, beginning early and continuing throughout the entire educational process, rather than through realignment to a new role. The educational process should therefore enable the student to identify with and build upon her role as a nurse, rather than abandoning it and adapting to a new quasi-role. If role mastery is to occur by gradual assimilation rather than by abrupt change, a nursing model is needed on which both preparation for and practice in the role can be based. The adaptation model provides the necessary framework to give direction to practitioner education; offers a relevant way of viewing the older adult in relation to his environment; and delineates guidelines for nurse practitioner action.

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A study of older adults attending a program on human sexuality: a pilot study.

This study attempted to ascertain if significant changes took place in older adults' knowledge and attitudes about human sexuality following a two-session course on the subject. Subjects were volunteers who attended a neighborhood center in Miami, Florida. Information was gathered immediately before the first session and after the second session by use of pencil-and-paper tests. Test items were adapted from the Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test and Attitude and Knowledge Assessment. At the first session, small-group discussions followed a large-group instruction period; the second session consisted of a 20-minute film on human sexuality, followed by group discussion. Of the 30 participants who took the pretest, only four completed the posttest, although most of the 30 attended the second session.

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