The growth of biomedical, pharmacological, & technological knowledge & options during recent decades has led to impressive innovations in patient care. Even sophisticated, technically intensive ...nursing care services can now be transferred from the inpatient to the outpatient sector. In this way, most chronically & severely ill patients have the choice to stay at home. Internationally, high-tech home care has asserted itself as the first option for these patients. In Germany, however, the implementation of high-tech home care services has proved to be a complicated process, hindered by many obstacles, including challenging legal questions. Since 1998, a research project on home infusion therapy (HIT) has been in progress at the Instit of Nursing Science. Based on partial results of this project, the relevant obstacles & the need for legal regulation are demonstrated. It is shown not only that adequate prerequisites have to be created, but also that legal challenges need to be resolved. 1 Table, 40 References. Adapted from the source document.
Two experiments investigated recall following two study conditions, (1) repeated test: a study trial followed by multiple recall trials, and (2) repeated study: multiple study trials with no tests. ...At a retention interval of 5 minutes, repeated study produced a higher level of recall than repeated test. When the retention interval was extended, forgetting was much more rapid in the study condition, with the repeated test manipulation leading to higher recall at an interval of 7 days. We conclude that study and test trials have different effects upon memory, with study trials promoting memory acquisition, and test trials enhancing the retrieval process itself, which protects against subsequent forgetting.
