Development of a Unique Student Pharmacist Internship in a Primary Care Provider System

Purpose: To describe a unique pharmacy intern program in a group of federally qualified health center (FQHC) outpatient primary care provider clinics. Summary: A pharmacy intern program was created at the North Central Nursing Clinics in Indiana, a group of four FQHC outpatient primary care provider facilities. Intern-performed tasks included: Prior authorization (PA) requests, medication assistance program (MAP) applications, sample procurement and inventory, and contraceptive devices for implantation inventory management. Interns interacted with clinic administration, nurse practitioners, and medical staff to complete their assigned responsibilities. Over a one-year period, the interns completed documentation on more than 2000 charts during a combined 12 h a week. Interns identified the interprofessional interactions as the most beneficial experience, while providers acknowledged no difference in the processing of paperwork during the transition of duties from pharmacy fellow to intern. Conclusion: This unique pharmacy intern program was successfully created and implemented in a primary care provider office, resulting in learning opportunities for pharmacy interns, as well as operational efficiencies to fellows, providers, and the organization

Family business succession in different national contexts: a fuzzy-set QCA approach

Family business succession is a key topic that has attracted considerable attention from researchers, especially in the last decade. Most research, however, is based on case studies with limited applicability and fails to present comparisons across international contexts that highlight di erences in succession processes. We apply expectation states theory to analyze a sample of 128 observations in two Southern European countries, Portugal and Greece. We study configurations of successors’ characteristics, family business characteristics, the existence (or absence) of a succession plan, and successors’ motivation to succeed. Our aim is to reveal how these issues a ect successors’ perceptions of preparation for succession using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Family businesses are a dominant organizational form all over the world, and succession issues are critical for the sustainability of family businesses. Our findings suggest that di erent configurations of conditions influence successors’ perceptions of preparation for family business succession. Moreover, we verify the influence of cultural di erences on these processes. This research helps fill a gap in the literature, showing the role of a set of characteristics in successors’ perceptions of preparation for family business succession. Our conclusions provide insight into the types of policies that can promote successful family business succession.The data for this study were collected as part of FABUSS (www.fabuss-project.eu), an ERASMUS+ project (2016-3-EL02-KA205-002673) aimed at evaluating the conditions for successful succession in European family businesses.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Mood and Memory

We will use questionnaires and cognitive tasks to understand the relationships between different moods and memory and how those relationships are moderated by sleep. We are primarily interested in whether college students exhibit a similar relationship between mood and memory as is found in the elderly population

Is it worth it? The costs and benefits of bringing a laptop to a university class.

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Sleep and eyewitness memory: Fewer false identifications after sleep when the target is absent from the lineup.

Inaccurate eyewitness identifications are the leading cause of known false convictions in the United States. Moreover, improving eyewitness memory is difficult and often unsuccessful. Sleep consistently strengthens and protects memory from interference, particularly when a recall test is used. However, the effect of sleep on recognition memory is more equivocal. Eyewitness identification tests are often recognition based, thus leaving open the question of how sleep affects recognition performance in an eyewitness context. In the current study, we investigated the effect of sleep on eyewitness memory. Participants watched a video of a mock-crime and attempted to identify the perpetrator from a simultaneous lineup after a 12-hour retention interval that either spanned a waking day or night of sleep. In Experiment 1, we used a target-present lineup and, in Experiment 2, we used a target-absent lineup in order to investigate correct and false identifications, respectively. Sleep reduced false identifications in the target-absent lineup (Experiment 2) but had no effect on correct identifications in the target-present lineup (Experiment 1). These results are discussed with respect to memory strength and decision making strategies

The Role of Verbal and Visuospatial Working Memory in Supporting Mathematics Learning With and Without Hand Gesture

Gesture during math instruction supports learning in children and adults. The mechanism by which gesture enhances learning across development is not known. One possibility is that instruction with gesture engages different cognitive abilities during learning than instruction without gesture. Our previous work showed a positive relationship between visuospatial working memory capacity and learning only when gesture was present, and a positive relationship between verbal working memory capacity and learning only when gesture was absent, suggesting that gesture may be processed using visuospatial working memory. The aim of the current experiment was to replicate and extend these prior findings with new instruction, random assignment to instructional condition, and improved measures of both learning and cognitive abilities. Participants observed video instruction in a novel mathematical system that either included speech and gesture or only speech. After instruction, participants completed a posttest to assess learning. Finally, participants completed tasks to assess verbal and visuospatial working memory capacity as well as fluid and crystallized intelligence. We found that gesture benefitted learning in adults. Contrary to previous findings, both learning with gesture and learning without gesture were supported by visuospatial working memory. These findings suggest that changing characteristics of instruction does not necessarily change the cognitive resources supporting learning in a novel math task