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The article focuses on the Dementia Training Australia (DTA) Fellowship program that focuses on training and mentoring of staff in an organization. INSET: Building leadership capacity.

The article informs about the initiative driven by IRT Group's Journey of Care model which personalizes the care experience for every resident through dedicated care neighborhoods and specialist programs. It mentions that the Journey of Care program has since rolled out across all Intensive Residential Treatment (IRT) aged care centers a desire has grown to extend templates to also include photos and images chosen by the residents and for these to be trialed in non-dementia secure unit areas.

Background: Rural communities throughout the United States are eager to recruit and retain family physicians. This study examined factors that may contribute to a medical student's decision to consider rural family medicine practice using the Community Apgar Questionnaire (CAQ).Methods: Third- and fourth-year medical students from 10 medical schools responded to a survey of 62 identified factors deemed to be present when assessing the strengths and challenges of recruiting family physicians to rural communities. Participants could also respond to six demographic questions. Factors were ranked based on importance to respondents and were compared using demographic information.Results: A total of 282 MS-3 and MS-4 students interested in family medicine from 10 US medical schools completed the survey (response rate 19.5%). Forty percent of participants anticipate practicing in a rural setting, followed by 31% for suburban and 29% for urban. The top three factors participants considered when anticipating a rural practice setting were spousal satisfaction, call frequency, and competition/collegiality. Additional differences were found across CAQ factors by future practice setting, gender, and location where the student was raised.Conclusions: Medical schools, rural preceptors, and rural communities may wish to consider highly rated factors found in the CAQ in the effort to increase the recruitment of family physicians interested in rural practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses legal issues regarding the decision taken by the U.S. Supreme Court in the court case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. on June 30, 2014. It mentions that the court opined that for-profit corporations are capable of exercising religion within the meaning of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 and therefore be granted exemptions from generally applicable laws if compliance with those laws would substantially burden the corporations' religious freedom.

The article focuses on the U.S. Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) and mentions the need of executive order for legislation to protect LGBT persons against employment discrimination. Topics discussed include opposition of ENDA by legislators, U.S. President Barack Obama may extend explicit status-based protections to a significant number of LGBT workers and LGBT-related employment discrimination is also actionable as sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

This article provides the first comprehensive analysis of ENDA's shortcomings vis- ` a-vis Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Whereas federal courts are increasingly likely to perceive LGBT-related employment discrimination as actionable sex discrimination under Title VII, the inclusion of gender identity protections in recent versions of ENDA has significantly diminished the bill's prospects for passage. This article contends that advocates should abandon their efforts to enact ENDA in favor of allowing Title VII's "sex" provision to continue on its LGBT-inclusive evolution. Title VII stands to provide LGBT persons with three distinct advantages relative to ENDA. First, Title VII allows plaintiffs to contest discrimination on either a disparate treatment or disparate impact theory. ENDA, in contrast, would permit only disparate treatment claims such that facially neutral employment practices having a disproportionately adverse effect on LGBT persons would not be actionable. Second, Title VII permits voluntary affirmative action plans whereas ENDA would prohibit preferential treatment on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity even if LGBT persons were significantly underrepresented in a given workforce. Third, Title VII allows religious organizations to discriminate on the basis of religion but not race, color, ethnicity, or sex. ENDA, conversely, would allow religious organizations to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity without having to justify the discrimination on religious precepts. This article examines the feasibility of applying Title VII's protections to LGBT persons and concludes that, notwithstanding certain logistical difficulties in the short-run, LGBT individuals would benefit from the availability of disparate impact claims, voluntary affirmative action plans, and limited exemptions for religious organizations so that ENDA should be abandoned in favor of Title VII. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For more than sixty years, the Internal Revenue Service has employed a methodology test in determining whether a nonprofit organization's advocacy of a particular viewpoint is sufficiently educational to warrant its designation as a public charity. The test's focus is not upon the viewpoint advocated, but upon the method used by the organization to communicate its viewpoint to others. Consistent with this purpose, the Service has identified four factors that are indicative of a noneducational methodology. The Service's application of the test, however, suggests the existence of an additional, previously undisclosed factor. This factor regards a refusal to present opposing viewpoints as indicative of a noneducational methodology. This article concludes that the methodology test is unconstitutional for three reasons. First, the test is void for vagueness because it does not disclose one of the factors considered by the Service in evaluating whether an advocacy organization may be said to employ an educational methodology. Second, the test violates the compelled speech doctrine by requiring advocacy organizations to accommodate the very speech they are organized to oppose. Third, the test imposes an unconstitutional condition by conditioning advocacy organizations' eligibility to receive tax-deductible contributions on the absolute forfeiture of their First Amendment rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article the reason behind controversial removal of Lisa Howe from Belmont University. However, had joined the university in 2004 and took the university's team to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s football competition. However, in 2009 she confessed to being a lesbian. The Nashville Metropolitan Council legalized Homophobia to prevent any such issues. The article discusses these laws in terms of the historic Romer v. Evans Supreme Court Case on similar lines.

The article offers the author's insights on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the foreign-squared (f-squared) securities fraud case Morrison versus National Australia Bank Ltd. The author says that the court uses the transactional test, where Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 applies to securities trading on U.S. stock exchanges and domestic transactions. He argues that the basis of the test is simple and direct means for disposing such claims.

Examines the work of R.D. Scott regarding crisis intervention in psychiatry in London, England. Career background of Scott; Issues increasing public anxiety about mental illness; Relevance of research of Scott to mental health nurses and psychiatric professionals.

An introduction to the journal focusing on international research studies of undergraduate is presented.

No. Exercise doesn't decrease the frequency or severity of vasomotor menopausal symptoms in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women (strength of recommendation: A, systematic review of randomized controlled trials [RCTs] and consistent RCT). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An answer to a question on the effectiveness of exercise in decreasing the frequency or severity of vasomotor menopausal symptoms in women is presented.

A recent study evaluated the effectiveness of 3 direct oral anticoagulants and warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation. So which agents came out on top?