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Preparing nursing students to work with older adults: A stocktake of nursing curricula in the polytechnic sector
Prospectively, people will live longer with chronic illnesses and disabilities, increasing pressure on health services. [...]promoting healthy ageing and improving access to health services for older adults will increase in importance (New Zealand Government, 2019). The Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ, 2002) requires polytechnics to provide curriculum content which addresses nursing care across the lifespan. Since polytechnics operated individual curricula when this research was conducted, there was no common understanding of how undergraduate programmes prepared students to care for older adults, apart from the confidential curriculum reviews by the Nursing Council. Procedures for data collection Shared characteristics between the Australian and New Zealand nursing education systems, such as degree programme length, comprehensive qualification and clinical practice hours, indicated the suitability of the Australian survey for the New Zealand stocktake (NCNZ, 2021; ANMAC, 2019).
Journal Article
Research brief: Preparing nursing students to work with older adults: a stocktake of nursing curricula in the polytechnic sector
Aotearoa New Zealand's population is ageing rapidly. Between 2021 and 2031, the number of people over 65 will increase by 36 per cent (Stats NZ, 2020). Increasing age is highly correlated with disease, but life expectancy has continued to increase with good health-care standards and improvements in medical technologies. Prospectively, people will live longer with chronic illnesses and disabilities, increasing pressure on health services. Consequently, promoting healthy ageing and improving access to health services for older adults will increase in importance (New Zealand Government, 2019).
Journal Article
Loss of PAX6 alters the excitatory/inhibitory neuronal ratio in human cerebral organoids
The transcription factor PAX6 is a crucial regulator of multiple aspects of embryonic forebrain development. It has well-established roles in the regulation of excitatory and inhibitory neuron development in the embryonic cortex in mice but PAX6’s roles during human forebrain development are less well understood. Using human cerebral organoids, we investigated PAX6’s roles in human neurodevelopment. Homozygous PAX6 mutant (PAX6-/-) organoids were larger than controls and contained increased inhibitory cell types. Excitatory neurons were still generated in PAX6-/- organoids but they were less mature, and a subset showed dysregulated expression of inhibitory identity genes compared to PAX6+/+ controls. The inhibitory cells found in PAX6-/- organoids physically segregated from excitatory neurons and presented a distinct transcriptomic profile when compared to in vivo cortical inhibitory neurons. PAX6-/- organoids showed a dysregulated cellular response to PTN-PTPRZ1 signalling, which contributed to the observed increase in inhibitory neurons and the consequent altered excitatory to inhibitory neuronal ratio.
Human cerebral organoids lacking PAX6 expression show an altered excitatory to inhibitory neuronal ratio, concomitant with altered responses to intercellular PTN-PTPRZ1 signalling.
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Take Control of Your Day with a Meaningful \To-Do\ List
It helps to be crystal clear about what you want to accom- plish each day. Writing down your main goal and a \"to-do\" list for the day will also help to clear your mind so you can focus fully on what you're doing. Whether you use Outlook \"Tasks,\" a different software program, sticky notes on your monitor or scraps of paper stuffed in your pocket, you'll be far more productive when you have a plan. Wearing the many 'hats' of a business owner, it's all too easy to become reactive, and live at the mercy of circumstances and the demands of others. A rele- vant, motivating goal for the day and a carefully thought-through daily \"to-do\" list will keep you in the driver's seat, make you more productive and enable you to run your business instead of allowing it to run your life.WI
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Images of crime and criminals: How media creations drive public opinion and policy
Media representations of crime and criminals dehumanize and marginalize criminals and create an atmosphere that allows or even fosters the criminal justice system to treat convicted criminals with extreme measures. This is particularly true for members of minority groups historically based on race and/or ethnicity. Public opinion on crime is formed from a variety of sources besides personal experience; fear of crime is driven by media treatments of crime rather than by statistics. Newspapers, magazines, television, the true crime press and political rhetoric all contribute to the discourse on crime. This study of the treatment of actual (not fictional) crime in these sources reveals common elements in the presentation of crime that include a focus on random, violent crime; the importance of victim and offender attributes (race, gender, other physical characteristics) in determining criminality; use of metaphoric language equating criminality with non-human status; an overwhelming reliance on the police as a source of information and perspective; and a simplistic view of causes based solely on individual traits rather than structural elements. The range of potential solutions to the problem of crime in America depends upon these dominant images of crime and criminal created for the public. These solutions are contained within a narrow realm of possibilities by the limitations placed upon the creation of the criminal Other by dominant American texts. The polticization of crime has narrowed how crime is defined, our ideas on the causes of crime, and the arena of acceptable solutions. Current solutions to the problem of street crime are limited primarily to building more prisons, increasing sentence lengths and the use of capital punishment. Black American men are disproportionately imprisoned, and the greatest increase has been due to drug offenses rather than violent crime. The results of this study demonstrate the power of the media and politicians in actively creating a crime reality and point to the need for a more responsible discussion on the problem of crime in order to give the American public a more realistic view of the actual harms that exist and a better understanding of the elements involved in this discourse.
Dissertation
Roots Of The Poison Tree
In the letter of Mr. Cruikshank, published July 19 in your paper, he spends an undue amount of voltage, it would appear, over the fact that The Post stated a year ago when it came out for Eisenhower that: \"It is this newspaper's hope and belief that McCarthyism would disappear overnight if Eisenhower were elected.\"
Newspaper Article
Mrs. Feddup's Scream
Your Malvina Lindsay is different and refreshing. Indeed, she rivals Dickens himself in thinking up funny surnames and matching dialogue.
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Intervention In Egypt
Now it appears that the next step for Uncle Sam is to back up the British lion at her old game: keeping down her dependents and restoring her oppressed subjects. We read that hostility is rife among the British people because we did not, forsooth, step into the Iranian dispute \"in time,\" meaning with \"gunboats.\"
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