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Defining lines. Service-line management helps community hospitals draw up a plan for a healthy database.

Before you fully implement a service line model, review these key ...
Thomas R Clancy (Nurs Manage, 200204)
defining-lines-service-line-management-helps-community-hospitals-draw.asp

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Motives to study and socialization tactics among university students.

The authors focused on the period following students admission to university and examined the effects of students motives to study and socialization tactics on their academic achievement and academic satisfaction. The authors hypothesized that ...
Ronit Bogler, Anit Somech (J Soc Psychol, 200204)
motives-study-socialization-tactics-university-students.asp

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Life-management strategies of selection, optimization, and compensation: measurement by self-report and construct validity.

The authors examined the usefulness of a self-report measure for elective selection, loss-based selection. optimization, and compensation (SOC) as strategies of life management. The expected 4-factor solution was obtained in 2 independent samples (N = ...
Alexandra M Freund, Paul B Baltes (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200204)
life-management-strategies-selection-optimization-compensation.asp

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Auld lang syne: success predictors, change processes, and self-reported outcomes of New Years resolvers and nonresolvers.

New Years resolvers (n = 159) and comparable nonresolvers interested in changing a problem later (n = 123) were followed for six months via telephone interviews to determine their self-reported outcomes, predictors of success, and change processes. The ...
John C Norcross, Marci S Mrykalo, Matthew D Blagys (J Clin Psychol, 200204)
auld-lang-syne-success-predictors-change-processes-self-reported.asp

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Goal-setting protocol in adherence to exercise by Italian adults.

A goal-setting protocol, based on research in goal setting and performance and personal construct theory, was tested for its effect on adherence to a new exercise program. The Goal-setting group (n = 50) had significantly less dropout (30%) than the ...
James J Annesi (Percept Mot Skills, 200204)
goal-setting-protocol-adherence-exercise-italian-adults.asp

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Reawakening your passion for work.

All of us struggle from time to time with the question of personal meaning: "Am I living the way I want to live?" For millions of people, the attacks of September 11 put the issue front and center, but most of us periodically take stock of our lives ...
Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee, Daniel Goleman (Harv Bus Rev, 200204)
reawakening-your-passion-work.asp

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The demonstration group: a tool for observing group process and leadership style.

Demonstration groups, a major modality for observing group process, have not been addressed in the group psychotherapy literature. This article defines the demonstration group and describes and discusses its various components: the volunteers (group ...
Jerome S Gans, J Scott Rutan, Emily Lape (Int J Group Psychother, 200204)
demonstration-group-tool-observing-group-process-leadership-style.asp

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Parenting and psychosocial development of IVF children: a follow-up study.

BACKGROUND: This report details a follow-up study of the parent-child relationship and the childs psychosocial development after IVF. The pilot study compared 31 IVF families and 31 families with a naturally conceived child when the children were aged 2 ...
H Colpin, S Soenen (Hum Reprod, 200204)
parenting-psychosocial-development-ivf-children-follow-up-study.asp

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Using a model to evaluate nursing education and professional practise.

The concept of evaluation is becoming increasingly ambiguous and a lot of processes may be called evaluation without any clear definitions. A theoretical frame of reference may function as a compass in an evaluation context when collecting, analysing and ...
Inez Kapborg, Siv Fischbein (Nurs Health Sci, 200203-06)
model-evaluate-nursing-education-professional-practise.asp

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Overcoming hopelessness and social isolation: the ENGAGE model for working with neglecting families toward permanence.

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA) mandates policies designed to increase the frequency and speed with which permanency is achieved for children in the child welfare system. ASFAs focus is on child safety, permanency, and well-being. The ...
Donna D Petras, Carol Rippey Massat, Elizabeth Lehr Essex (Child Welfare, 200203-04)
overcoming-hopelessness-social-isolation-engage-model-working.asp