Learning for holistic care: addressing practical wisdom (phronesis) and the spiritual sphere.

abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper is to show how a framework of relational ethics may be used in establishing trusting relationships with at-risk families. BACKGROUND:Public health nurses have historically carried out assessment and monitoring of parenting within the family home, particularly with at-risk families. In this ro...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Marcellus L

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adolescent pregnancy has become a main issue in the health care system for aborigines in eastern Taiwan. Using aboriginal nurses to provide information on sexual behaviour may have potential as a means of promoting healthy sexual practices among aborigines. Aim. To explore aboriginal nurses' perspectives on ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tsai YF,Wong TK

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study reported in this paper was to identify stress factors in the early stage of acute traumatic hand injury. Stress factors were defined as circumstances which the hand-injured patients experienced as problems in the actual situation. A total of 20 patients, treated as inpatients at the Department of ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gustafsson M,Persson LO,Amilon A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses have known about unpopular patients for over two decades. Influential studies such as Stockwell's in the UK have had considerable impact upon students of nursing. Stockwell's book, The Unpopular Patient, is widely cited and was reprinted in 1984. Further, a critical review of the wider literature by Kelly & May...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Johnson M,Webb C

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:German nursing students' knowledge of and attitudes to HIV and AIDS: two decades after the first AIDS case This study describes German nursing students' (n=180) knowledge and attitudes relating to HIV/AIDS, their homophobia level, willingness to care for people with AIDS, and their approach to possible sexual risk beh...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lohrmann C,Välimäki M,Suominen T,Muinonen U,Dassen T,Peate I

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention as intervention is identified as a middle-range theory consistent with the Neuman systems model. Through an examination of anxiety research using Neuman's theory, prevention as intervention is examined for clarity, simplicity, generality, accessibility and importance. Conceptual clarity is in need of improv...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： August-Brady M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study evaluating baseline competence levels among Emergency Nurse Practitioners using an Objective Structured Clinical Examination. The study also aimed to document change in competence over time and following an educational intervention. BACKGROUND:Emergency Nurse Practitioners form an increa...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mason S,Fletcher A,McCormick S,Perrin J,Rigby A

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study to interpret and understand bulimia nervosa as women experience it. BACKGROUND:Research into bulimia nervosa has focused on prevalence rates, health complications, comorbidity, neurochemical dysregulation, and cultural influences. Despite a multitude of investigations, little published r...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Broussard BB

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the setting up of an interdisciplinary tool to assess readiness for discharge of patients from hospital. The rationale behind the tool is discussed and the literature is reviewed for current perspectives of measurement in rehabilitation, the desirability of planning discharges of referrals and the...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Fenwick AM

更新日期：1979-01-01 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：AIMS:To identify service models that provided care co-ordination for people with long-term neurological conditions in the U.K. BACKGROUND:The successful management of long-term neurological conditions needs sophisticated management across several health, social care and other service boundaries, as well as involvement...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Aspinal F,Gridley K,Bernard S,Parker G

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a concept analysis to identify a meaning of care dependency that can be shared by both care givers and care recipients. BACKGROUND:Care dependency can be perceived from the care recipient's and the care giver's perspective. To allow for comparisons, both sides should share the same unders...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Boggatz T,Dijkstra A,Lohrmann C,Dassen T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study conducted to determine if satisfaction with irregular working hours that are a form of shiftwork operates as a mediator between work and home characteristics and health problems. BACKGROUND:Shiftwork contributes to health problems, decreased well-being and poorer health habits. It...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Peters VP,de Rijk AE,Boumans NP

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe the proposed Culturally Competent Community Care (CCCC) model, and the process of development and testing of the model. BACKGROUND:Community health nurses are challenged to provide culturally competent care in all types of communities. However, existing models have not provided community nurses with sp...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kim-Godwin YS,Clarke PN,Barton L

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive study examined the differences in beliefs and social influences between patients who decided to quit or to continue smoking following diagnosis of chronic peripheral vascular disease. A consecutive quota sample of 20 patients who had quit smoking (quitters) and 22 who had continued smoking (continuers...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Ronayne R,O'Connor A,Scobie TK

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nursing education courses often require students to write about their learning experiences in a journal or a log book. Students write the journal/log and submit it to the instructor. The instructor reads, comments, and may or may not grade it. This paper is a reflection on the use and misuse of journals in nursing edu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cameron BL,Mitchell AM

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of an evaluation of the effectiveness of a communication skills training programme for oncology nurses. BACKGROUND:Clinical care for patients with cancer is increasingly being divided between nurses and physicians, with nurses being responsible for the continuity of patient care, and oncolog...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Langewitz W,Heydrich L,Nübling M,Szirt L,Weber H,Grossman P

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the family system has, in recent years, been de-emphasized in the planning and delivery of mental health services. A sample of the psychiatric nursing literature over the last 4 decades is reviewed to reveal that this is not a new phenomenon with regard to psychiatric nursing practice. The shortcomin...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tennant D

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers some of the general principles that are common to much of quantitative research in nursing. In particular, the role of hypothesis testing is considered, and the use of estimation is emphasized. Confidence intervals are advocated as a means of assessing both statistical and clinical significance. T...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Abrams KR,Scragg AM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports the findings of a study exploring the relationships among patients' sense of coherence, coping ability and health-related quality of life following a critical illness. BACKGROUND:Sense of coherence is a strong determinant of positive health outcomes and successful coping. Promoting sense of cohe...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Fok SK,Chair SY,Lopez V

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This article reports on the quantitative findings from a large mixed method study that determined the extent to which the provision of alternatives to an Emergency Department and Index of Relative Social Disadvantage score influenced non-urgent paediatric Emergency Department use. BACKGROUND:In Australia, there i...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Parry YK,Ullah S,Raftos J,Willis E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to assess: (1) the relations between nursing organization models in hospital wards and nurses' perception of the quality of patient care and dimensions of the practice environment, and (2) if these relations were modified by variations in local conditions at the ward level. BACKGR...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Sjetne IS,Veenstra M,Ellefsen B,Stavem K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study examines the factors that mediate and moderate the relationships of perceived organizational support with work engagement and organization citizenship behaviour. Specifically, affective commitment is posited to mediate and psychological contract breach to moderate the above relationships. BACKGROUND:Nur...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gupta V,Agarwal UA,Khatri N

更新日期：2016-11-01 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 the study was to evaluate the changes in symptoms and quality of life in people with puborectalis dyssynergia after biofeedback by using Short Form-36 and Patient Assessment of Constipation Quality of Life Questionnaire. BACKGROUND:Biofeedback is an effective treatment in clinical symptoms for puborecta...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Zhu FF,Lin Z,Lin L,Wang MF

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to explore breast cancer patients' experiences during survivorship. Particular attention is given to the role of specialist breast care nurses in supporting women throughout this phase. BACKGROUND:There is a relative lack of research involving long-term breast cancer survivors. Yet, many...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Matthews H,Semper H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC), second edition, consists of 260 patient outcomes with definitions. This has been translated into five languages, but has not been clinically validated outside the United States of America (USA). AIM:The aim of this paper is to describe the translation of the labels...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gudmundsdottir E,Delaney C,Thoroddsen A,Karlsson T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 90% of women are affected by one or more of the signs and symptoms of perimenstrual syndrome (PMS), which causes disruptions at work and in family relations and can be economically costly. Self-care measures relating to lifestyle modifications, most particularly nutrition and exercise, can be helpful in prev...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kirkpatrick MK,Brewer JA,Stocks B

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to examine the relationships among preceptors' perceptions of benefits, rewards, supports and commitment to the preceptor role. A convenience sample of 59 nurse preceptors in a 400-bed urban teaching hospital participated by completing a four-part questionnaire: ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Dibert C,Goldenberg D

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper discusses the Verbal Protocol technique as presently used in the fields of psychology and computer sciences. It proposes that the technique is an appropriate design tool for studying clinical reasoning in many nursing contexts. An example is given, taken from a pilot study of a larger research project, of t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jones JA

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00