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Richard Ricciardi

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PubMed2003

Designing a Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course for advanced practice nurses in the uniformed services.

The U.S. uniformed services frequently respond to natural and man-made disasters worldwide. Disaster management and humanitarian assistance has been a major focus of military medicine for well over a decade. Training for these missions is a priority for the U.S. military, specifically as a result of the Gulf War. The Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course for advanced practice nurses is a course available to train advanced practice nurses in disaster management and humanitarian assistance. This article will describe the evolution, design, format, and implementation of the Medical Humanitarian Assistance Course.

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PubMed2002

Clinical evaluation in advanced practice nursing education: using standardized patients in Health Assessment.

Clinical education is critically important because competency in practice ultimately will determine the future of advanced practice nursing. Skills taught in Health Assessment, the first in a series of clinical courses, exposed students to tools that form the basis on which other competencies are built. The availability of standardized patients, people who participate in enacting a simulated but seemingly "real life" clinical encounter in a realistic clinical setting for the benefit of student learning and/or evaluation, made this instructional development project possible. The underlying assumption of this project was that clinical advanced practice nursing student education is enhanced by using an authentic clinical environment, known as a simulation center, with standardized patients and by using one or more evaluation techniques with multiple evaluators (i.e., peer, self, faculty, standardized patient). The student clinical experience was expected to improve and overall learning to increase by this method. This improvement was reflected at the end-of-course evaluations and in the quality of the final videotaped physical examination, which was superior to previous years. Student and faculty satisfaction with this teaching-learning process exceeded all expectations.

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Sedentarism: a concept analysis.

TOPIC: Concept analysis of sedentarism. PURPOSE: To analyze the concept of sedentarism and provide a definition and model of sedentarism to guide practice and research. SOURCES: Published literature. CONCLUSIONS: Prevention and treatment of sedentarism is a priority for healthcare providers serving all developmental groups. Research is urgently needed to describe the prevalence, risk factors, and consequences of sedentarism, and to identify the most effective intervention strategies and public policy changes to promote a physically active lifestyle.

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