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Aim: To describe how registered nurse work motivation, attitudes, subjective norm and perceived behavioural control influence intention to promote physical activity in hospitalised adult liver transplant recipients. Design: Descriptive study of clinical registered nurses caring for recipients of liver transplant at a tertiary medical centre. Methods: Intent to Mobilise Liver Transplant Recipient Scale, Work Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation Scale, and demographics were used to explore registered nurses' work motivation, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control and intention to promote physical activity of hospitalised adult liver transplant recipients during the acute postoperative phase. Data analysis included demographics, comparison between scale items and analysis of factors predicting intent to mobilise. Results: Factors predictive of intention to promote physical activity after liver transplant included appropriate knowledge to mobilise patients (R2 = .40) and identification of physical activity as nursing staff priority (R2 = .15) and responsibility (R2 = .03). Discussion/Implications for Nursing Management: When implementing an early mobilisation protocol after the liver transplant, education on effects of physical activity in the immediate postoperative period are essential to promote implementation in practice. Nursing care environment and leadership must be supportive to ensure mobility is a registered nurse priority and responsibility. Nursing managers can leverage results to implement a mobility protocol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article describes ways to develop a Case Management System that includes the principles of care planning by using an interdisciplinary team across the continuum of health services. Copyright © 2002 by Aspen Publishers, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigates two new mixed-donor tridentate ligands and their nickel(II) complexes. Preparation and properties of Ni(II) complexes; Structures; Electron transfer behavior; Electron transfer scheme.

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The striosome and matrix compartments of the striatum are clearly identified by their neurochemical expression patterns and anatomical connections. To determine whether these compartments are distinguishable functionally, we used [14C]deoxyglucose metabolic mapping in the rat and tested whether neutral behavioral states (free movement, gentle restraint, and focal tactile stimulation under gentle restraint) were associated with regions of high metabolic activity in the matrix, in striosomes, or in both. We identified metabolic peaks in the striatum by means of image analysis, striosome-matrix boundaries by [3H]naloxone binding, and primary somatosensory corticostriatal input clusters by injections of anterograde tracer into electrophysiologically identified sites in SI. Peak metabolic activity was primarily confined to the matrix compartment under each behavioral condition. These findings show that during relatively neutral behavioral conditions the balance of activity between the two compartments favors the matrix and suggest that this balance is present in the striatum as part of normal behavior and processing of afferent activity.