Family care-giving for people with dementia: some implications for policy and professional practice.

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper is to report a pilot study of influencing factors in disadvantaged urban pregnant adolescents' decision-making about infant-feeding choices. BACKGROUND:Research related to decision-making among adolescents indicates that attitudinal, social, perceived control, and commitment factors are influ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wambach KA,Koehn M

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify the theories used to explain learning in simulation and to examine how these theories guided the assessment of learning outcomes related to core competencies in undergraduate nursing students. BACKGROUND:Nurse educators face the challenge of making explicit the outcomes of competency-based education, e...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lavoie P,Michaud C,Bélisle M,Boyer L,Gosselin É,Grondin M,Larue C,Lavoie S,Pepin J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To synthesize studies that explored simulation as preparation of nursing students for recognition and response to the deteriorating patient. BACKGROUND:New graduate nurses are expected to have the skills to recognize and respond to rapidly deteriorating patient conditions. To this end, education programmes have t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Fisher D,King L

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of nursing theories and models for the growth and development of the profession of nursing is widely acknowledged. The variety of nursing phenomena and situations demands some flexibility in the choice of specific conceptualizations to be used. This paper demonstrates the goodness of fit of the Betty Ne...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Knight JB

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite a plethora of information on the prevention of pressure sores, they remain a significant problem in both hospital and community settings. The need to reduce the incidence of pressure sores has been well documented; unfortunately there is little evidence to suggest improvement. The reasons for this la...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Panagiotopoulou K,Kerr SM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged waiting for major elective surgery has been a problem in several Western countries for many years. In Iceland coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery was installed in 1986 and this descriptive study was conducted to describe systematically the experience of Icelandic people waiting for CABG surgery with ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jónsdóttir H,Baldursdóttir L

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:District nurses are frequently involved in the care of patients immediately prior to death and could therefore provide support to bereaved relatives. However, little is known about nurses' views on bereavement support or their actual involvement. AIMS OF THE STUDY:To survey a representative sample of distri...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Birtwistle J,Payne S,Smith P,Kendrick T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of music therapy for reducing the anxiety and pain of patients who underwent a biopsy. BACKGROUND:Music can affect human anxiety and pain by triggering a neuroendocrine effect. Clinical study results indicated that music can influence the anxiety and pain caused by invasiv...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Song M,Li N,Zhang X,Shang Y,Yan L,Chu J,Sun R,Xu Y

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Annual increases in indices which reflect the extent of alcohol and drug abuse in society result in a considerable cost to industry. Nurses as a professional group have not generally been identified as having a significantly high incidence of staff with problems of alcohol or drug abuse, although there is some evidenc...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Booth PG

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This article reports a study of self-care agency and perceived health in a group of people using advanced medical technology at home. BACKGROUND:An increasing number of people are using medical technology for self-care. Few studies describe daily life in this context at an overriding level, irrespective of the spe...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Fex A,Flensner G,Ek AC,Söderhamn O

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues that although there has been an increasing use of the term 'empowerment' in the nursing literature, the word is sometimes employed uncritically and in inappropriate contexts. The origins of the expression in community development work are noted, in an effort to set the activity of empowerment in its ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Skelton R

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In nursing, a commitment to continuing education appears to be a relatively new concept. There have always been nurses who are continuing learners throughout their professional lives. Too often, this is incidental, rather than planned. There appears to be a need to re-examine current approach in continuing nursing edu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Yuen F

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The later work of Wittgenstein (1953) takes language and meaning as arising in use. A local 'grammar' is created. Ethical/research awarding committees have developed, and clashing, meanings about what constitutes 'good' research. The fixed rule language game of the committee is implicitly powerful because it is part o...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Stevenson C,Beech I

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:District nursing, like many other professionalizing occupations, has stipulated that possession of five ordinary level GCE passes might constitute one criterion of entry. This paper reports a longitudinal study over four intakes of district nurse students in one teaching centre and examines the relationship between se...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jarvis P,Gibson SJ

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forecasting the demand for nurses is a complex and difficult problem. However, in a climate of economic cutbacks and disadvantageous demographic trends, it is essential that adequate methods are developed to predict both the supply and demand for nurse manpower. To this end a number of methods have been constructed, p...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Devine C,McClean S,Reid N

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to explicate the processes by which a patient's choice to undergo bariatric surgery is made to feel like a medical necessity, to explore the ways widespread societal stigmatization of weight and bariatric surgery shapes patient and provider discourse about surgery and to discuss patient r...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Trainer S,Benjamin T

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The notion of intersubjectivity raises fundamental epistemological and ontological questions concerning how individuals come to know one another and how that knowing affects action. Within the sphere of professional nursing, relationship, as an intersubjective process between individuals, constitutes an integral eleme...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Pierson W

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation is a 30-item scale designed in 1965 for behavioural and observational rating of psychiatric inpatients. AIM:This paper reports a re-evaluation of the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation carried out to confirm that it remains reliable in a...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lyall D,Hawley C,Scott K

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study comparing the content of talk about treatments by nurse practitioners and general practitioners in order to understand how this might be related to satisfaction. BACKGROUND:Studies show that satisfaction with nurse practitioner care is high when compared with that given by general practi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Seale C,Anderson E,Kinnersley P

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to evaluate the 24-month outcomes of a nurse-led continence care service for Chinese primary care patients with lower urinary tract symptoms. BACKGROUND:Most studies evaluating the outcomes of continence care services have had short follow-up durations with limited knowledge on whether be...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chin WY,Choi EP,Wan EY,Chan AK,Chan KH,Lam CL

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study describing the components of nurse caring in the Chinese cultural context. BACKGROUND:The expressions, dimensions and patterns of caring vary in different cultures. Caring is deeply embedded in the Chinese culture and nurses are told to care for patients as if they were related by...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Meng M,Zhang X,Jiang A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in the prenatal diagnosis of birth defects including amniocentesis, ultrasound and fetoscopy are discussed. Indications, technical considerations and limitations are presented. Parental reactions to the stresses encountered during the process of prenatal diagnosis are related. Implications are identifi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Davies BL,Boniface WJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of an evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Health Beliefs Related to Cardiovascular Disease Scale designed to measure beliefs related to cardiovascular disease risk and diet and exercise in adults with diabetes. BACKGROUND:Heart attack and stroke are 2-4 times more common among a...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tovar EG,Rayens MK,Clark M,Nguyen H

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the role of clinical supervision in relation to the work of palliative care nurses. Through a single 'paradigm' case study illustration the author explores a phenomenologically guided palliative method of supervision. It is suggested that such means of supervised clinical practice forge a bond betw...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jones A

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature suggests that stress is a major factor for nurses personally 'disengaging' from patients who are critically ill. This research aimed to investigate if nurses in a general intensive therapy unit (ITU) disengage from their patients by using touches that are mainly task orientated, rather than caring/socia...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Adomat R,Killingworth A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is based on the authors' experience of teaching and supervising the first intake of the management unit of the diploma for charge nurses offered by the Department of Professional Development and Training, Glasgow College of Nursing and Midwifery, Glasgow, Scotland. The students on this course undertake a pr...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Allan D,Cornes D

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a brief critique of the concept of hardiness. While the concept is appealing in its potential to elucidate the relationships between stress, health and illness, I argue that there are problems with how the concept is defined, measured and applied. In particular, the usefulness of the concept is diminishe...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Low J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to examine how patient safety indicators and processes and structures of nursing care have changed since the 2012 introduction of Swiss Diagnosis-Related Groups. BACKGROUND:Diagnosis-Related Groups have been implemented worldwide; yet, research findings regarding their impact on efficienc...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bachnick S,Ausserhofer D,Januel JM,Schubert M,Schwendimann R,De Geest S,Simon M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines one study of nursing practice that utilized ethnography as a research approach. The general overview of the ethnographic method and the symbolic interaction framework used are described. An overview of the specific approach is included. The findings of the study are presented. The strengths and pro...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Field PA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper is to report a study exploring the discursive construction of contraceptive use within nurse consultations with women in family planning clinics. BACKGROUND:This paper takes as its starting point the lack of a contraceptive 'strand' to the literature on the discursive construction of the fema...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hayter M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00