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..In combination, these findings illustrate the usefulness of systematic mental training in the study of the human mind by revealing the neural mechanisms that enable the brain to successfully represent target information...

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..The present study indicated the importance of social contexts in affecting FSWs' safer sex negotiation and condom-use self-efficacy. Implications on preventive programs for FSWs, managers, and clients were discussed...

..He described negotiating his own and his friend's focused interests...

..caregivers functioned within and resisted current home-care arrangements, they engaged in an ongoing process of negotiating cultural assumptions about "private" and "public" caregiving...

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..The parents of these children are involved in providing care of a highly technical and intensive nature that in the past would have been the domain of professionals (particularly nurses)...

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..We simulate the effect of hypothetical hospital mergers on bargaining power and find that some hospital mergers, even in urban areas with many nearby hospitals, can lead to significant price increases...

..Women's descriptions of their sexual needs and desires led to the discovery of the core category, negotiating sexual agency, which refers to women's ability to act on behalf of their sexual needs, desires, and wishes...

..We argue for greater examination of the social dynamics of PE processes to identify additional ways of fostering participation in ergonomic project implementation...

..The study contains important implications for managing HIT implementation...

..Parents displayed a high degree of thoughtful planning in utilizing their preferred disclosure strategy in order to optimize safety, particularly for their children...

..This paper describes the impact of negotiation sessions, an intervention to improve the quality of PPs' case management of childhood diarrhoea, acute respiratory infection and malaria in a rural district in Uganda...

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..informed-consent process presented included identification of gatekeepers, seeking permission from officials, negotiating with these officials and Institutional Review Board (IRB) committees in regard to the type of data to be ..

..A wide array of flexible, evolving strategies was required to achieve an acceptable quality of life with MS...

..The study was part of a larger randomized clinical trial on an intervention to improve sleep and well-being among new mothers...

..Creative approaches to achieving a true partnership between providers and patients are needed if clinical outcomes are to improve...

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..The paper demonstrates the value of conducting locally based qualitative research into breastfeeding experiences, and of using theoretical perspectives from post-medical geography to interpret women's experiences...

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..This article focuses on definitions of, benefits of, and barriers to interdisciplinary collaboration and provides practical solutions for implementation...

..The aim of this study was to explore nurse practitioner (NP) client encounters from the nurse's perspective using a resource exchange paradigm...

..Organizational supports for implementing clear advanced roles are suggested, adding to the knowledge upon which nursing administrators can base their strategic human resources decisions...

..competitive, collaborative, and "carative"--each reflecting the roles of nurse and family, negotiating strategies, and consequences...

..The article is offered as a contribution to an emerging body of scholarship that is directed at promoting a more rigorous and theoretically informed understanding of the conduct and reportage of ethnographic fieldwork...

..Little is known about faculty experience with negotiation or its potential benefits for academe. Barriers to negotiation and how they can be addressed, especially for faculty without perceived skill in negotiation, are unknown...

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..Respect for the patient and ability to focus on the issue at hand emerged in the highest reported strategies...

..In the end, it is helpful to remember Thomas Fuller, a 17th century clergyman and historian, who is attributed with the saying: 'Life does not consist of holding good cards but of playing a poor hand well'...

..We suggest that by using the method of experiences combined with casuistry in a more systematic way, nurses can develop acceptable solutions for difficult care situations in nursing homes...

..We argue that a poststructuralist understanding of the language of experience in research opens up additional ways to analyze the relationship between the conduct of nursing research and cultural/political commitments...

b>Negotiating is the core variable or central concern of families who have a close relative in a state of post-comatose unawareness or minimal responsiveness following a severe traumatic brain injury...

..However, the relationship of nursing to public participation in health service planning and development has been under examined...

..This paper is intended to put knowledge in conflict management into practice through reflecting on a nursing case study...

..Person-centred care developed in response to the need for a more patient-sensitive healthcare service and is based on a rich understanding of the patient, his or her circumstances and needs...

..To investigate the lived experience of the 'support' relationship between students and their personal tutors...

..This study highlights the need to gain insight into parents' experiences, in order that nurses can provide care in a way negotiated to suit the individual family. Suggestions for further research in this area are offered...

..Social exchange theory is potentially useful for understanding client-nurse interaction in the context of maternal-child home visits...

..Dominant patterns of interaction were concerned with: negotiating appropriate forms of stoicism; negotiating ways to express, understand and measure pain and suffering; and ..

..Through this model the educational expertise of the ALP and the clinical expertise of the practitioner is brought together for the benefit of the nursing student...

..This article will provide an overview of conflict, conflict management, and conflict resolution...

..The findings suggest that preferred conflict resolution styles may vary more as a function of the role of each communicator than the context of the care setting...

..e. pre- and post-test counseling, we revealed a third form of communication during the testing procedure. The content of this intermediate communication was explored...

..To some extent, this functioned well, but this research has identified areas where this care can be improved...

..The findings highlight the importance of considering personal coping abilities to foster positive staff-resident interactions and to increase nurses' morale and job satisfaction...

..The process of justifying coercion allows a nurse to engage in behavior generally disapproved of while retaining a self-image of a 'good' nurse...

..Recommendations emerging from this analysis are related to the university and provides some evidence for others teaching in nursing programs to reconsider their practices...

..A greater carer involvement in and understanding of the ill family member's illness will facilitate better treatment outcomes in the community for the ill family member...

..They address common issues, challenges, and opportunities that face academic executive teams, such as negotiating an executive contract, obtaining faculty lines, building effective work teams, managing difficult employees, ..

..The nature of the relationship is often simple, yet it coexists with complexity...

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..Analytical challenges in the exploration of "third variables" are described, and the authors recommend that salient methodological issues should be addressed when conducting these types of investigations...

..The study objectives are patients' and nurses' expectations, goals and approaches to assisted personal body care...

..This descriptive research aimed to identify and compare the conflict resolution skills of nursing students enrolled in a problem based learning (PBL) or conventional curriculum...

..They address common issues, challenges, and opportunities that face academic executive teams, such as negotiating an executive contract, obtaining faculty lines, building effective work teams, managing difficult employees, ..

..The study also reinforced our impression that medical representatives are the least powerful of the four groups...

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..They address common issues, challenges, and opportunities that face academic executive teams, such as negotiating an executive contract, obtaining faculty lines, building effective work teams, managing difficult employees, ..

..Future researchers should address personnel, organizational, and structural factors that facilitate collaborative relationships between SANE and victim advocacy organizations...

..The case also reviews the changed circumstances and factors that later facilitated partnering attempts...

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..To describe and explore the experiences that contribute to the construction of professional identity in hospital nurses 1 to 3 years postgraduation from nursing school...

..This paper examines how time is controlled and governed in operating rooms through interpersonal communication between nurses and doctors...

..This article offers a case study skill analysis of conflict management as it applies to the care of older people and assists the reader to conduct a similar review of their own...

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..Only 9.8% of the participants chose collaboration at that level. Implications for nurse educators, researchers, and administrators are discussed...

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..To describe the health beliefs and practice in a rural Iraqi community...

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..Ethical challenges that arose are discussed. The brokerage role of nurse educators and leaders in contextualizing western bioethics is emphasized...

..This paper explores the ways family members reconstruct meaning through seizing possibilities for positive caregiving in nursing homes...

..It also deepens understanding of a published model of consolation. These understandings may help to guide nurses who are struggling with suicidal patients...

..Since the EC50-values for both carbachol-induced effects were different (phasic0.232 +/- 0.02 1AM; tonic 2.75 +/- 0.1 1AM) the phasic type of response appears to involve a large receptor reserve...

..Decisions on early feeding are often guided by grandmothers and influenced by beliefs that infants need complementary food to counteract signals of hunger, reduce crying, and sleep through the night...

..The present results might provide an experimental basis for clinical investigations of the effects of icatibant in infectious diseases where the release of collagenases from bacteria causes rapid spreading of inflammation...

..of ketamine, proved to be useful tools for elucidation of the involvement of EAA receptors in various processes in vivo Keywords: Glutamate receptors; AMPA; kainate; NMDA; NBQX; GYKI 52466; CPP; MK-801; spinal reflex; spinal cord..

..The increase in [Ca2+], mediated by bradykinin B2 receptors inhibited forskolin- and isoprenaline-activated adenylyl cyclase differently, most likely by interfering with different components of the adenylyl cyclase signalling pathway...

..The results suggest the involvement of CaMKII in the sst5 receptor-mediated activation of NMDA receptors in presence of Mg2+ and of the PLC/PKC/Src pathway in the up-regulation of the ongoing NMDA receptor activity...

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..7. We conclude that 8-OH-DPAT produces an antidepressant-like effect in the Porsolt test which is mediated via postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors...

Managed care organizations can increase the value of drug therapy by negotiating discounts on drug acquisition costs with pharmaceutical manufacturers and promoting use of preferred drugs, including the conversion of patients to ..

..It has made a major impact on our ability to get reports to physicians in a timely manner so they can make treatment decisions...

..In this study, we examined when and where youths have sex and whether there is a relationship between unsupervised time and sex, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and substance use...

..Rates of rapid second births among low-income black adolescent mothers range from 20% to 50%. Most efforts to prevent rapid second births have been unsuccessful...

..This will become even more pertinent when Fe isotopic studies are expanded to the interplanetary realm...

..Centrally active beta-1 and beta-2 adrenergic agonists produce antidepressant-like effects in several behavioral tests, suggesting that these receptors may be involved in the mediation of the effects of antidepressant drugs...

..These data show that both NMDA and AMPA/kainate receptors are involved in the mediation of SI high-threshold responses. This same combination of glutamate receptors also mediates low-threshold synaptic responses...

..The aim was to characterise the process and the mechanisms of sensitisation of the atrial myocyte to adenosine receptor agonist...

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..If successful, the results of this research will be video game technology that can improve individual and public health and decrease HIV transmission. ..

..If successful, the results of this research will be video game technology that can improve individual and public health and decrease HIV transmission. ..

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..A better understanding of those issues may provide valuable information needed for designing more effective agents for prevention and therapy of the inflammation-associated lung cancers. ..

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..A molecular understanding of the EGFR-activation mechanism will provide new opportunities for the early cancer diagnostics and for the improvement of current therapeutic anti-cancer strategies. ..

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..Finally, we will map the extent of the surrounding non-CRF by masking parts of the visual contextual display while measuring the responses to different sized stimuli presented within the CRF. ..

..These experiments will define monocyte alterations leading to the combined immunosuppressive effects of in vivo ethanol uptake and trauma. ..

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..Furthermore, it is hoped that this technology will provide an optimal system for the application of transfected genetically modified ECs for purposes of gene product delivery. ..

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