Death and dying in Australia: perceptions of a Sudanese community.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many patients with heart failure have generalized wasting, referred to as cardiac cachexia. This leads to skeletal muscle wasting, impaired mobility, reduced functional capacity and poor prognosis. Patients with heart failure have symptoms that can affect their food intake, for example breathing difficulties...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jacobsson A,Pihl E,Mårtensson J,Fridlund B

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The meaning of the problem for incontinence suffers is known to be a very significant influence on coping. The present study was based on in-depth qualitative interviews with 28 young or middle-aged women who suffered urinary incontinence. Analysis, aimed at discovering the meaning of their condition for the sufferers...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Ashworth PD,Hagan MT

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the poor performance of the general economy, the health care industry in Australia has experienced constant growth for several decades. Overall, Australia's expenditure on health is relatively high and, with an increasingly aged population, this expenditure is not likely to decrease. With the current concerns ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hendricks J,Baume P

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes a Q methodological study of accounts of nurses' industrial relations expressed by a sample of nurses (n = 60) drawn from the geographical area of Merseyside, United Kingdom (UK). The participants completed a 65-item Q sort made up of statements which could be ranked in terms of their relevance to ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： McKeown M,Stowell-Smith M,Foley B

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report an analysis of the concept of perinatal bereavement. BACKGROUND:The concept of perinatal bereavement emerged in the scientific literature during the 1970s. Perinatal bereavement is a practice-based concept, although it is not well-defined in the scientific literature and is often intermingled with the co...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Fenstermacher K,Hupcey JE

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization of the way in which hospitals and hospital staff provide a service to patients is obviously of critical importance to their effectiveness, yet it is clear that rigidities and inappropriate and ineffective procedures frequently intrude. It is commonly held that changing hospitals as organizations is di...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cope D,Cox S

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of an examination of the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile. BACKGROUND:The Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile, a well-known instrument measuring health promotion lifestyle behaviours and developed by Walker in 1987 and later refined, ha...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Teng HL,Yen M,Fetzer S

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An unanticipated finding of a small exploratory study of the health of never-married women in old age is discussed. Focused conversational interviews yielded evidence of the potent effect the mother-daughter relationship had in a group of women who had lived for all their adult lives in the parental home. Usually moth...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Webb C

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report the development and psychometric testing of the Supportive Needs of Adolescents Breastfeeding Scale. BACKGROUND:Nurses worldwide can influence adolescent mothers' decisions to initiate and continue breastfeeding through understanding their social support needs in the early postpartum. Review of the liter...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Grassley JS,Spencer BS,Bryson D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a concept analysis of medication communication with a particular focus on how it applies to nursing. BACKGROUND:Medication communication is a vital component of patient safety, quality of care, and patient and family engagement. Nevertheless, this concept has been consistently taken-for-g...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Manias E

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to assess the effect of an adapted arthritis self-management programme with an added focus on exercise practice among osteoarthritic knee sufferers. BACKGROUND:Osteoarthritis of the knee is a major source of loss of function in older people. Previous studies have found self-manage...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Yip YB,Sit JW,Fung KK,Wong DY,Chong SY,Chung LH,Ng TP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the effectiveness of a tailored blood glucose control protocol for postoperative cardiac surgery patients treated in intensive care. DESIGN:Retrospective study. METHODS:Data for the control group (non-tailored protocol) were collected from medical records at a tertiary hospital in Seoul, Korea betwee...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Yoo HJ,Suh EE,Shim J

更新日期：2020-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper considers the difficulties and dangers inherent in attempts to assess attitude as an aspect of learning. It considers the definition of the concept, some implications for educational programmes, and the means and validity, in this context, of different assessment techniques. Finally, a form of learner profi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Dawson KP

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To critically review and synthesize the findings of studies that evaluated the effectiveness of nursing interventions for improving breathlessness in adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BACKGROUND:Systematic reviews of nursing interventions for breathlessness in people with chronic obstructive pulmo...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Steindal SA,Torheim H,Oksholm T,Christensen VL,Lee K,Lerdal A,Markussen HØ,Gran G,Leine M,Borge CR

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses will often be at the forefront in a health care team which decides that it is ethically acceptable to allow a particular patient to die but the possibility of actually killing another patient who requests his own death is met with heartfelt resistance. This paper explores the distinction between killing and let...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Dines A

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe the characteristics of medication administration (MA) incidents reported to have occurred in patients' own homes (reporters' profession, incident types, contributing factors, patient consequence, and most common medications involved) and to identify the connection terms related to the most common contr...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Härkänen M,Franklin BD,Murrells T,Rafferty AM,Vehviläinen-Julkunen K

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Management of acute pain offers many techniques--peripherally, to reduce the sensory input from the nociceptors and ascending fibres, and centrally by altering cognition, evaluation and emotional arousal to the sensory input. Scientifically-based nursing intervention is imperative. Therefore, nurses needed a better un...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wells N

更新日期：1984-01-01 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：:Parental participation now has become an accepted feature of the care of children in hospital. However, the costs to parents of their involvement in the care of their hospitalized children have received little attention. In this paper the financial, social and personal costs to a group of parents of children admitted ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Callery P

更新日期：1997-04-01 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：:This study details a programme which emphasized nursing interventions for women at high risk for preterm birth. Preterm birth continues to be a major health problem, with ongoing research being conducted both in the United States and internationally in an effort to find causative factors. Programmes designed to preven...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Freda MC,Andersen HF,Damus K,Poust D,Brustman L,Merkatz IR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study of the experiences of older people living with a long-term urinary catheter and the development of a substantive theory grounded in their realities. BACKGROUND:Understanding the user perspective is a prerequisite for involving older people in a collaborative relationship with heal...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Godfrey H

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been extensive speculation about the lack of research utilization in nursing but little attempt to quantify this phenomenon outside of North America. The current demands for evidence-based practice necessitate research utilization as one element of the process. As part of a larger project, this study aimed t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rodgers SE

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The objective of this review was to investigate physical restraint minimization in acute and residential care settings. The first aim was to determine the effectiveness of attempts to minimize the use of physical restraint, and the second was to generate a description of the characteristics of restraint mini...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Evans D,Wood J,Lambert L

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To synthesize research findings about Indigenous perspectives on cognitive impairment and dementia. DESIGN:Whittemore and Knafl's updated approach to integrative review and PRISMA guidelines for narrative analysis was followed. DATA SOURCES:A systematic search of the published literature from 2010-June 2020 was ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Racine L,Johnson L,Fowler-Kerry S

更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify evidence related to association between the nurse work environment and severe maternal morbidity in high-income countries. DESIGN:Quantitative Systematic review. DATA SOURCES:Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, PubMed/Medline, and Scopus w...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Brown KK,Smith JG,Jeffers RL,Jean Pierre C

更新日期：2020-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper summarizes a research study inquiring into the attitudes of qualified nursing staff and nursing auxiliaries towards stroke patients in general medical wards. The survey was undertaken on eight mixed-sex general medical wards in a large general hospital. All wards are used for clinical nursing experience for...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gibbon B

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to explore the experience of loneliness among frail older people living at home. BACKGROUND:Loneliness is a threat to the physical and psychological well-being with serious consequences if left unattended. There are associations between frailty and poor psychological well-being, implying ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Taube E,Jakobsson U,Midlöv P,Kristensson J

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To conduct an integrative review to examine evidence of pain and associated symptoms in adult (≥21 years of age), postcraniotomy, brain tumour patients hospitalized on intensive care units. BACKGROUND:Healthcare providers believe craniotomies are less painful than other surgical procedures. Understanding how postc...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Guilkey RE,Von Ah D,Carpenter JS,Stone C,Draucker CB

更新日期：2016-06-01 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