Canadian Nurse

January 2015 Promising Practices Comments

Single session walk-in therapy

In many parts of Canada, timely access to mental health services continues to be a challenge. Single session walk-in (SSWI) therapy is a model of service delivery that improves access to care and ensures that people can obtain services when they need them most.

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January 2015 Ask the Expert Comments

Honouring sexual orientation and gender identity

When we create welcoming health-care environments, we are removing barriers and inviting clients to return for care.

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January 2015 Speak Up! Comments

How to overcome nurse-patient conflict with confidence

Nurses don’t intend to create conflict with their patients and clients, but sometimes it happens.

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January 2015 The Research File Comments

Terminology 101: Randomization in RCTs

To determine whether the intervention causes the outcome in a randomized controlled trial (RCT), researchers must ensure that the intervention and control groups are similar in all baseline characteristics (both known and unknown) that could influence the outcome.

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January 2015
Comments Perspectives

Protecting the heart from radiation exposure

Women undergoing radiation treatment for breast cancer should take a deep breath, according to a study of 81 patients at Thomas Jefferson University. An Active Breathing Coordinator device was used to prompt patients to take a deep breath and hold it while a pulse of radiation was administered to...

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January 2015
Comments Perspectives

Diet pill goes straight to the gut

Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an experimental diet pill they claim is safer and better than other diet pills. Fexaramine is not absorbed into the bloodstream but instead goes straight to the intestines, where it activates the farensoid X receptor. This...

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January 2015
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Her own SARS experience

I found the December issue engaging and informative, but I was livid when I read the comments from Mary Ferguson-Paré (“The SARS Experience”). She stated that nurses at the University Health Network volunteered to work on the SARS unit or with SARS patients and had...

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January 2015
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Caring that demands more from the heart

On New Year’s Day 2014, Brittany Maynard, a 29-year-old American, received the diagnosis of a brain tumour and was given less than a year to live. She became a vocal advocate of the death with dignity movement and moved to Oregon so she would have the right to decide when to end her life and...

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January 2015
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Single session walk-in therapy

Honouring sexual orientation and gender identity

How to overcome nurse-patient conflict with confidence

Terminology 101: Randomization in RCTs

Protecting the heart from radiation exposure

Diet pill goes straight to the gut

Her own SARS experience

Caring that demands more from the heart

A welcoming environment

Getting the message out

Bites to the hand require care