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M D Shannon

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Caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease. Recommendations for nursing education.

1. Most educational programs for healthcare professionals stress acute rather than chronic care and provide little education or training related to caregiving of persons with dementia. 2. Long-term care facilities employ a minimum of licensed staff with the bulk of direct caregiving done by nursing assistants. 3. Licensed nurses and nursing assistants who work with the cognitively impaired should have specialized training and education in caring for persons with AD or other dementias. 4. Annual ongoing training and education should be provided for all caregivers of persons with a dementing illness.

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ERIC: a resource for researchers in nursing education.

This chapter provides information on the ERIC system of bibliographic information covering the field of education. Information on topics related to nursing and specifically to research in nursing education is presented. The number of references in these areas and in the ERIC database and the content of these references is described.

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Periodontal wound healing responses to varying oxygen concentrations and atmospheric pressures.

Oxygen effects on healing gingival wedge excisions were tested using Sprague-Dawley rats. 40 operated controls were maintained at normal pressure in room air. 3 experimental groups of 40 rats each were exposed for 90 min daily to one of the following: (1) 20.8% oxygen at 2.4 atmospheres pressure, (2) 100% oxygen at 1 atmosphere, or (3) 100% oxygen at 2.4 atmospheres. 5 animals in each group were sacrificed at the following times: 30, 54, 78 h and weeks 1, 2, 3, 6 and 12. Histometric analysis was performed using light microscopy. The connective tissue healing above a reference notch on the maxillary first molar mesial root was assessed. The controls failed to show healing comparable to experimental animals until the end of 2 weeks. Enhanced connective tissue healing above the notch was most significant (p less than or equal to 0.05) in the 2.4 atmospheres pressure groups at 3 and 6 weeks when compared to controls. However, by 12 weeks, no significant differences could be detected. New cementum formation was rare and occasional root resorption was observed. Early connective tissue adaptation does not imply eventual attachment as epithelial downgrowth progressively displaced the connective tissue adjacent to the root in both experimental and control groups of this study.

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