Purpose: Nursing in a rural emergency department is a physically and emotionally demanding job. The challenges of working under these conditions can be very stressful for nurses. Work place stress can result in nurses developing mental health issues with subsequent physical consequences.These mental health issues, when experienced by nurses, can compromise patient care and safety.The consequences of work related mental health challenges are not isolated to the workplace but also have the potential to disrupt and destroy nurses' careers and family life. This article addresses the following research question: What are the experiences of rural emergency nurses that can contribute to, or leave rural emergency nurses vulnerable to, the development of work related mental health issues? Sample: Participants were emergency department registered nursing staff from one hospital located in a rural community north of Toronto.

Sexual rehabilitation for men after spinal cord injury (SCI) has focused on physical challenges and has neglected psychosocial factors. Utilizing a descriptive phenomenological approach, the lived psychological experience of sexuality was described for six men (age 24-49) with complete or incomplete SCI (C4-T12; <1 year to 29 years post-injury) who participated in one in-depth, standardized, open-ended interview (68-101 minutes). Participants described the emergence of a new perspective of sexuality placing less emphasis on any one physical act and more importance on emotional factors. Understanding the evolving meaning of sexuality for men after SCI is imperative for delivering effective sexual health information.

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