Decision making in gerontology: nursing home selection.
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Teresa Shellenbarger
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Overview and helpful hints for caring for the ED patient with Asperger's syndrome.
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When dementia complicates care.
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Family caregiving at home.
PPS has demanded that we teach caregivers to assist while receiving home care and upon discharge. This article focuses on what home care nurses need to know to adequately prepare families for the caregiving experience. Specific strategies for efficiently facilitating caregiver support including assessment, specific problems, and resource and referral suggestions are addressed.
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Professional presentations made simple.
One way clinical nurse specialists (CNS) influence nursing practice and share professional expertise is by making presentations. This article presents strategies that clinical nurse specialists can use to enhance the effectiveness of oral presentations. Included are tips for analyzing the audience, developing content and materials, selecting presentation methods, and delivering an effective presentation.
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Successful enculturation: strategies for retaining newly hired nursing faculty.
Although the nursing faculty shortage negatively impacts student enrollment figures, it also facilitates career mobility of nursing faculty. To retain qualified faculty, nursing programs need to implement supportive programs that facilitate successful enculturation of the newly hired faculty member. The authors propose a series of supportive activities aimed at enculturation and subsequent retention of newly hired nursing faculty.
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The curriculum vitae sending the right message.
When reviewing curriculum vitae (CV), it becomes clear that some CV information provides a better reflection of work completed than others do. The authors provide a description of common CV errors, propose strategies to avoid such problems, and suggest methods for developing an accurate and clear CV that highlights accomplishments and clearly represents the work. Tips for updating CV and suggestions for electronic formats are also provided.
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