John F. Evans

BACKGROUND: The critical nursing shortage is particularly apparent in specialty areas such as intensive care units (ICUs). Some nurses develop resilient coping strategies and adapt to stressful work experiences, mitigating the development of common maladaptive psychological symptoms. OBJECTIVES: To determine if a multimodal resilience training program for ICU nurses was feasible to perform and acceptable to the study participants. METHODS: In a randomized and controlled 12-week intervention study, treatment and control groups completed demographic questions and measures of resilience, anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and burnout syndrome before and after the intervention. The intervention included a 2-day educational workshop, written exposure sessions, event-triggered counseling sessions, mindfulness-based stress reduction exercises, and a protocolized aerobic exercise regimen. Nurses in the intervention arm also completed satisfaction surveys for each component of the intervention. RESULTS: This mulitmodal resilience training program was feasible to conduct and acceptable to ICU nurses. Both nurses randomized to the treatment group and nurses randomized to the control group showed a significant decrease in PTSD symptom score after the intervention. CONCLUSIONS: A multifaceted resilience training program for ICU nurses was both feasible and acceptable. A sufficiently powered, randomized clinical trial is needed to assess the effect of the intervention on improving individuals' level of resilience and improving psychological outcomes such as symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout syndrome, and PTSD.

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTIntroduction of functional groups onto carbon electrodes via treatment with radio-frequency plasmasJohn F. Evans and Theodore. KuwanaCite this: Anal. Chem. 1979, 51, 3, 358–365Publication Date (Print):March 1, 1979Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 March 1979https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac50039a010https://doi.org/10.1021/ac50039a010research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views735Altmetric-Citations131LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTRadiofrequency oxygen plasma treatment of pyrolytic graphite electrode surfacesJohn F. Evans and Theodore. KuwanaCite this: Anal. Chem. 1977, 49, 11, 1632–1635Publication Date (Print):September 1, 1977Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 September 1977https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac50019a042https://doi.org/10.1021/ac50019a042research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views739Altmetric-Citations126LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts

In a two-chamber ultrahigh vacuum system, epitaxial TiO2 thin films have been deposited by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition on single crystal oxide substrates over a temperature range of 250–800 °C, using titanium (IV) isopropoxide as the precursor. During the initial stage of epitaxial film deposition, the growing surface quickly planarized and the film’s orientations was determined by the substrate structure. This substrate influence is manifested in the growth of anatase (the low temperature phase of TiO2) on (001) SrTiO3, at high deposition temperatures (800 °C), whereas on either (0001) or (11̄02) Al2O3 sapphire, epitaxial rutile (the high temperature phase) is formed. In situ Auger electron spectroscopy analyses, before and after growth, revealed a film composition identical to that of a bulk TiO2 standard. No carbon contamination was detected in films grown throughout the deposition temperature range. The decomposition mechanism of this precursor that leads to the absence of incorporated carbon in the deposited film is discussed. X-ray diffraction confirmed the film crystallinity and the structural orientation between the film and substrate. Cross-section transmission electron microscopy showed an abrupt interface between the film and substrate. High tilt angle scanning electron microscopy revealed that the surface of the films became increasingly smooth with increasing growth temperatures. Conditioning the substrate surface at high temperatures in an O2 environment improved the structural quality and surface smoothness of the subsequently deposited films.