[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Clinical reasoning (CR) is a critical skill that nursing students must acquire in order to provide safe, effective patient care and to function optimally in their future role...

Asthma ECHO influence primary care provider self-efficacy? How does engagement in the learning activities of Impact Asthma ECHO promote clinical guideline adherence? Participants included 19 Primary Care providers participating in Impact Asthma ECHO via...

) the teachers viewed science as a tool to motivate students and used an inquiry based approach to teach science; 2) they described inquiry as a process of thinking organized around questions, and shifted their instruction between guided and open inquiry...

This comparative case study explored how the interplay among leadership, communication, and teamwork differed between the highest and lowest performing nursing homes (NH) from a previous AHRQ intervention study to explore ...

Inquiry-based Instruction is a format of instruction that is reported to provide students opportunities to develop their higher-order thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) as well as experience and training in problem solving...

abnormal clinical events. Surprisingly, the medication influencing the motion and sleep pattern did not alter the PP prediction but the predicted PP trend was able to capture the influence of hyper- and hypotension medication, such as Lopressor and Lasix....

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study investigated relationships between reported academic stress, caffeine consumption, and illicit prescription stimulant use, as a means of ...

This qualitative study explored the lived experience of 13 nurse mentors in various practice settings, specialties, and roles. Additional findings included understanding facilitative practices, obstacles, and benefits of ...

toward school (Overstreet, Dvine, Bevans, & Efreom, 2005). Attracting parents to schools has always been a challenge, especially in urban schools. Now, as schools face this charge of involving parents in their children's academic life through the No Child...

prior to medical school that influenced the desire to practice and live in a rural area. Rural clinical medical school and residency experiences, the culture of the medical school, and preceptor relationships were experiences during medical school...

, but not limited to, differences in alcohol expectancies, association with heavier drinking peers, and differences in motivations for drinking. A recent line of inquiry drawing on the Incentive Sensitization Theory of Addiction has emerged as another potential...

and 2006. A quantitative content analysis of 456 stories, a qualitative framing analysis on a subset of that coverage, and interviews with a science or medical reporter at each newspaper provided converging lines of inquiry. This study finds that one...

Several models exist that explain how counselors can more effectively work with racial/ethnic minority populations and how counselor characteristics (like racial identity) can impact the way counselors practice. Helms ...

An aging population, the prediction that approximately 40% of elderly Americans will die in a nursing home by the year 2020, and a paucity of nursing homes designed to meet the needs of dying residents is creating the ...

To investigate novice career education teacher retention as it relates to participation in Missouri's Career Education Mentoring Program, a multiple methods approach (quantitative and qualitative) to research was applied ...

semi-structured interviews was conducted with a sample size of 15 primary care physicians from the University Missouri health clinics in Columbia, MO. Participants were instructed to think aloud while identifying by highlighting with markers the key...

This dissertation explores communication and collaboration of two hospice teams regarding pain management with a framework of The Model of Interdisciplinary Collaboration (Bronstein, 2003). Professionals (n=15) doctors, ...

The purpose of this study was to explore how and in what context osteopathic medical students learn about interprofessional practice. A mixed method design was used to gather data on attitudes of first- and second-year ...

Within the next twenty years, there is a large increase anticipated in the segment of the population ages sixty five and older and a subsequent increase in demand on residential care facilities. With this expectation, ...

The purpose of this experimental study was to describe the reflective thinking level of students both overall and by characteristics as well as to compare the effect of reflective feedback conference on students' reflective ...