Clinical nurse research consultant: a clinical and academic role to advance practice and the discipline of nursing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Internationally, nursing is facing a variety of challenges including changes in health systems, an ageing workforce and escalating shortages of Registered Nurses. New Zealand is no exception. Here as elsewhere these challenges are taking their toll on the resources and demands of hospital environments, on th...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Budge C,Carryer J,Wood S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Practice innovation is an inevitable feature of a health culture preoccupied with evidence-based practice. The cyclical process of defining best practice, implementing and evaluating change represents an unparalleled opportunity for nurse researchers to engage in, and develop, practice through 'realistic evaluation'. ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tolson D

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this research was to examine older adults' perceptions of physical fitness and exercise. This qualitative study was divided into four stages as described by Berg (1989): identification of the concept of the study; development of the interview guide; collection of data; and data analysis. Twenty-three ol...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Melillo KD,Futrell M,Williamson E,Chamberlain C,Bourque AM,MacDonnell M,Phaneuf JP

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caring as a central concept within nursing has led to the development of several caring theories, the most well known being Madeleine Leininger's Theory of Culture Care and Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring, both of which were formulated in the 1970s. This paper explores a total of four caring theories: the two est...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： McCance TV,McKenna HP,Boore JR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred female patients undergoing major reconstructive plastic or gynaecological surgery were randomized to either receive subcutaneous patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) (bolus dose 2.5 mg diamorphine in 1 ml with a 20-minute lockout) or intravenous PCA (bolus dose 0.5 mg diamorphine in 1 ml with a 5-minute lock...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Dawson L,Brockbank K,Carr EC,Barrett RF

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The literature on group coping skills training is reviewed and a model involving the use of a wide range of coping strategies with patients heterogeneous in terms of presenting problem is advocated. This study evaluates the effect of such an approach with a chronic inpatient and day-hospital patient population (n = 36...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Long CG,Bluteau P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Theories and models on the concept of nursing are reviewed briefly and their contribution then assessed in terms of their potential to advance the scientific basis of nursing practice. The constructs are acknowledged to have moved the focus of nursing from disease to patient need and provided different ways of looking...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Crow R

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Only a few studies are available of team supervision and its challenges to supervisors. A multiprofessional team supervision project was accomplished in 1995-1998 in one university hospital in Finland. Eighty-two practitioners from five wards participated in the project and 10 experienced supervisors impleme...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hyrkäs K,Appelqvist-Schmidlechner K,Paunonen-Ilmonen M

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The relationship between mental disturbances - anxiety and depression, somatization and alcohol abuse - on admission to internal medicine units and perceived complexity of care as indicated by the nurse at discharge was studied. The goal was to study the utility of short screeners for mental disturb...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jonge PD,Zomerdijk MM,Huyse FJ,Fink P,Herzog T,Lobo A,Slaets JP,Arolt V,Balogh N,Cardoso G,Rigatelli M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-nine family caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients in Hong Kong were asked about their perceived difficulty in managing caregiver tasks. Results showed that the level of difficulty in handling the three main aspects of tasks, that is the direct care, intrapersonal tasks, and interpersonal ties, were simil...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chan CW,Chang AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transplantation of organs has become the treatment of choice for many conditions, yet there remains a worldwide shortage of donor organs. This paper reviews the factors which influence organ procurement. It concentrates on the public's and the professional's attitudes and examines the potential role research could pla...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gibson V

更新日期：1996-02-01 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：:The purpose of this research was to qualitatively generate and psychometrically assess an instrument which assesses the self-perceived physical fitness and exercise activity levels of community-dwelling older adults and examines perceived factors which enhance or impede their exercise activity level. This research was...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Devereaux Melillo K,Williamson E,Futrell M,Chamberlain C

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1995, a 10-university consortium approach to deliver a post-baccalaureate primary care nurse practitioner programme funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health was launched throughout Ontario, Canada. A combination of traditional and distance teaching methods, in English and French, were used. A 5-year research projec...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： van Soeren MH,Andrusyszyn MA,Laschinger HK,Goldenberg D,DiCenso A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This small-scale study carried out in a Melbourne metropolitan hospital explored patients' and their carers' perceptions of information, adequacy of information, and their utilization of information concerning post-discharge care received from health professionals during their stay in hospital. The research design con...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Driscoll A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes a 12-month evaluation of an emergency assessment and community care psychiatric nursing service to demonstrate the possibility and desirability of health service providers evaluating their own service provision. The radical question central to such an assessment is: 'What would have been the case...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Holdsworth N,Guy W

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This protocol describes a systematic review that evaluates the effects of physician substitution by mid-level providers (nurse practitioners, physician assistants or nurses) in primary healthcare for older people and long-term care facilities. The secondary aim is to describe facilitators and barriers to the implem...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lovink MH,Persoon A,van Vught AJ,Koopmans RT,Schoonhoven L,Laurant MG

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study to test the hypothesis that day surgery patients who listen to music during their preoperative wait will have statistically significantly lower levels of anxiety than patients who receive routine care. BACKGROUND:Although previous day surgery research suggests that music effectively redu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cooke M,Chaboyer W,Schluter P,Hiratos M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The author considers that whilst nurse tutors teach theory, nurse practitioners go on nursing in the same way that they always have done. There appears to be a chasm dividing theory and practice. This paper describes an attempt to leap that chasm. The paper identifies the problem, inherent in the nursing process that ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lewis T

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes videotaped recording as a data collection method when conducting participant observation in a psychiatric nursing study. The videotaped episodes were part of the daily life of psychiatric nursing in a hospital environment. The advantages and limitations of using videotaped recording in nursing res...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Latvala E,Vuokila-Oikkonen P,Janhonen S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study of the views of health visitors in relation to their role in supporting parents of children referred for genetic investigations. BACKGROUND:An increasing number of children are likely to be referred for genetic investigations as our understanding of genetic inheritance develops and a wid...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Barr OG,McConkey R

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper demonstrates, through a specific case study, the relationship of nursing practice and research. The author discusses how a clinical problem stimulated research and how the research findings, then, were utilized in practice. Client attrition in an obesity programme for high-risk clients was defined as the cl...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： White JH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine nurse-perceived quality of care, controlling for overall job satisfaction among critical care nurses and to explore associations with work environment characteristics. BACKGROUND:Nurse-perceived quality of care and job satisfaction have been positively linked to quality outcomes for nurses and patients...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Stalpers D,Van Der Linden D,Kaljouw MJ,Schuurmans MJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To explore the impact of bracing on the perceptions of body image, happiness and satisfaction of adolescents with scoliosis. DESIGN:The study was designed as compare of 134 girls and 16 boys who wore a Boston type brace for scoliosis treatment and a control group of 99 healthy girls and 51 healthy boys. All them ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Sapountzi-Krepia DS,Valavanis J,Panteleakis GP,Zangana DT,Vlachojiannis PC,Sapkas GS

更新日期：2001-09-01 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：:This paper presents a hypothetical model of the compliance with self-care of young diabetics, its features, its meaning to them and the preconditions for compliance with self-care. The aim of this research was to develop a model to clarify and expand existing knowledge concerning compliance with self-care among young ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kyngäs H,Hentinen M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to examine the psychosocial adjustment trajectory, focusing on psychological distress, sexual relationships and healthcare information, and factors which have an impact on adjustment on receiving a positive diagnosis of human papillomavirus infection. BACKGROUND:Human papillomavirus is a ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hsu YY,Wang WM,Fetzer SJ,Cheng YM,Hsu KF

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore critical care nurses' decisions to seek help from doctors. BACKGROUND:Despite their well-documented role in improving critically ill patients' outcomes, research indicates that nurses rarely take decisions about patients' treatment modalities on their own and constantly need to seek advice or authorizat...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Trapani J,Scholes J,Cassar M

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine the effect of a self-help psychoeducation program for people with coronary heart disease in Singapore. BACKGROUND:Cardiac rehabilitation has shown benefits for mitigating many cardiac risk factors and can lead to improvement in health-related quality of life and psychological well-being in people with h...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wang W,Lim JY,Lopez V,Wu VX,Lee CH,He HG,Jiang Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00