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Vaccinations - Parents’ Vaccine Views and Child’s Type of School

SchoolNurse.com:Vaccinations - Parents’ Vaccine Views and Child’s Type of School Parents’ Vaccine Views and Child’s Type of School Data from the 2003 HealthStyles mailed national household survey was used to determine differences in parental beliefs about vaccinations and the type of school their youngest school-age child attended. The study categorized school t..
  
- Teachers’ Powerful Words
In primary grades, the teacher-child relationship exerts a major influence on children’s social, behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment. When college students are asked to recall the 2 most negative experiences in their lives, incidences of verbal abuse by a teacher (e.g., public humiliation in front of the class) were mentioned more often than any other type of negative experience. But the truth is, very little is known about the potential effect of verbal abuse by teachers and the potential effect on child development. Verbal abuse includes: public ridicule, teasing, name calling, yelling, and even acts of neglect (e.g., ignoring).
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- OTCs -What’s in a Name?
Confusion over the similarity of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) drug names has accounted for as many as 25% of all reports to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) Medication Errors Reporting Program. Many of these reports involve the use of OTC brand names by a manufacturer for multiple products with different active ingredients. Manufacturers like to give new products names that are similar to their previously well-established products in order to take advantage of name recognition among consumers and health care professionals. But as USP reports show, this has led to confusion and medication errors. Here are some examples worth noting:
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- Allergies - Developing School Guidelines for Life-Threatening Allergies
Massachusetts developed guidelines for managing severe food allergies in schools. In response to parent concerns, the state department of education engaged organizations in a collaboration to create guidance for safe school environments and to help schools use a team approach. .
- Gaining and Keeping Adolescent Trust
In primary care settings, a patient’s trust is more strongly associated with improved health than other characteristics of the patient-provider relationship. Trust affects patient satisfaction with health care services, willingness to disclose sensitive information, adherence to treatment, and continuity with that health care provider. Trust among adolescent patients is formed for different characteristics than adults. Among adults, trust is based on perceived caring, competence, and communication skills of the professional treating them. Distrust that confidentiality will be broken is a barrier to health care use and compliance among adolescents. .
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