Effectiveness of the 'sleep enhancement' nursing intervention in hospitalized mental health patients.

abstract：:This study, conducted in acute care hospitals, supports and expands previous findings that delegation of responsibility and authority in the nursing service hierarchy is related to known factors affecting quality of patient care. Quality health care is improved if staff nurses are given autonomy and are expected to fu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Simpson K,Sears R

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intuition has been described as an important type of nursing knowledge and has gained acceptance as a valid way of knowing in clinical nursing. Use of intuition has become one way of explaining professional expertise. Measures of the use of intuition have been developed primarily for experienced nurses, but ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Smith AJ,Thurkettle MA,dela Cruz FA

更新日期：2004-09-01 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 paper reports a study investigating changes in the self-reported values of nursing students over the period 1983-2005 in the light of changes in student demography. BACKGROUND:Nurses' values have been studied by both qualitative and survey methods over half a century. Generally idealism and altruism are said ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Johnson M,Haigh C,Yates-Bolton N

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study conducted to determine the perceptions and experiences of coitus interruptus as a contraceptive method used by married women in Turkey. BACKGROUND:Various factors affect women's choice of contraceptive methods. One of these factors is socioeconomic status, which may have an effect...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Ciftçioğlu S,Erci B

更新日期：2009-08-01 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：:Comparatively little is known about how patients with advanced cancer cope with palliative chemotherapy. This study uses grounded theory to analyse the coping responses of 24 women with advanced breast or ovarian cancer. Half the sample received chemotherapy at home, and the remainder were treated in hospital. The res...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Payne SA

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a review of literature on the psychological and social implications of genetic testing for cancer predisposition and how recent developments in knowledge about genetics may affect clinical practice. BACKGROUND:Knowledge about the genetics of disease has grown since the completion of the H...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bancroft EK

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study examined the relationships among participation in outpatient rehabilitation, health locus of control, and mastery of stress with coronary artery disease completed the Master of Stress Instrument (MSI) and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale. One fourth of the sample had participated in the hos...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Younger J,Marsh KJ,Grap MJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper reports a study undertaken to broaden nurse clinicians', policy-makers', and researchers' understandings of what it means to elders to receive family care. BACKGROUND:The number of older people receiving assistance at home will increase tremendously in coming decades in proportion to the rapidly increa...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Crist JD

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore the experiences, concerns and priorities of patients newly diagnosed with advanced malignant spinal cord compression and had significant problems with mobility at presentation. BACKGROUND:The consequences of malignant spinal cord compression can be devastating. Patients and their families are under pres...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Warnock C,Tod A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study to explore how cancer survivors talk about, experience and manage time in everyday life. BACKGROUND:There is an increasing interest in specific physical and psychosocial aspects of life after cancer diagnosis and treatment, but hardly any research follows cancer survivors over time to ex...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rasmussen DM,Elverdam B

更新日期：2007-03-01 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

abstract：:Since behavioural objectives are rooted in behaviouristic psychology there is a brief discussion of some notable behaviourists. This is followed by reference to some key characters in the behavioural objectives movement. The strengths and weaknesses of behavioural objectives are discussed with reference to the relevan...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Martin H,Sheehan J

更新日期：1985-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Critical realism is a relatively new philosophical perspective that combines a realist ontology with a relativist epistemology in subscribing to a form of "robust" relativism. The potential benefits of adopting a critical realist approach are considered in two areas of evaluation research: theory-driven prog...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： McEvoy P,Richards D

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Effective communication with patients is critical to effective nursing practice. Surprisingly, there is little information on nurses' experiences in caring for patients who are unable to speak. PURPOSE AND METHOD:This study provides descriptive information from interviews with 20 nurses who cared for patien...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hemsley B,Sigafoos J,Balandin S,Forbes R,Taylor C,Green VA,Parmenter T

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caring has been cited by many authors as the core value of nurse educator-student relationships. Others have discussed the need for caring to be translated and transmitted in the practices of nursing education. However, a clear conceptualization of what caring in nursing education is and how it is transmitted to stude...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Paterson B,Crawford M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to examine the decision-making of nursing students during team based simulations on patient deterioration to determine the sources of information, the types of decisions made and the influences underpinning their decisions. BACKGROUND:Missed, misinterpreted or mismanaged physiological sig...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bucknall TK,Forbes H,Phillips NM,Hewitt NA,Cooper S,Bogossian F,FIRST2ACT Investigators.

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study provides a descriptive analysis of administrative, faculty and student perspectives on use of and satisfaction with Orem's Self-Care Deficit Nursing Theory (SCDNT) in one baccalaureate nursing programme's curriculum elements of (a) goals and objectives, (b) materials, (c) content, (d) nursing foci, and...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Berbiglia VA

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Musculoskeletal pain is a problem with which many seniors must contend, many on a daily basis. Little is known, however, of the self-care decisions that seniors make regarding the management and control of this pain. These decisions can influence in a significant manner the delivery of health care to seniors...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Ross MM,Carswell A,Hing M,Hollingworth G,Dalziel WB

更新日期：2001-08-01 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：AIMS:  To compare physical activity levels, body mass index, habitual diet, tobacco use and prevalence of non-communicable disease between the two ethnic groups and to identify predictors for differences between groups. BACKGROUND:  Tobacco use, poor diet and physical inactivity are major lifestyle risk factors for ch...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Anthony D,Baggott R,Tanner J,Jones K,Evans H,Perkins G,Palmer H,Community Interventions for Health (CIH) collaboration.

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A process may be seen as that which has purpose, organization and structure, facilitating an act of moving forward. Thus, a process reflects Bruner's view of education as facilitating cognitive growth and as a way in which individuals explore and gain mastery over a complex world. A process approach is not without its...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Sutcliffe L

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models of care from the general field of nursing applied in special hospitals appears to be unworkable in this type of environment in terms of their inability to affect patient care. It is argued that these external models, adopted due to a crisis of confidence in special hospitals, fail because their fundamental cons...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mason T,Chandley M

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study was conducted to determine whether the ventrogluteal site could be used for intramuscular injections in children under the age of 3 and to compare the subcutaneous and muscle layer thickness at the anterolateral, deltoid and ventrogluteal site in the different age groups and in both sexes. BACKGROUND:Al...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Yapucu Güneş Ü,Ceylan B,Bayındır P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To explore carers' experience of caring during a mental health crisis. BACKGROUND:Community mental health care including crisis care relies increasingly on carers. The relationship between carers and professionals is at times fraught due to issues of what constitutes a crisis, confidentiality and a perception of l...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Albert R,Simpson A

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a dearth of studies on the job satisfaction of community nurses, especially those working with people with a mental handicap, in the United Kingdom. This paper reports on some of the data gathered as part of a survey of community nurses (mental handicap) (CNMH) in Northern Ireland in 1992. A 25-item questionn...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Parahoo K,Barr O

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To provide a comprehensive collection of evidence on the effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent falls and support clinical decision-making. DESIGN:A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trails were performed by combining trials from published systematic reviews and m...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Schoberer D,Breimaier HE

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a 7-day Retrospective Diary to assess peri-conceptual and mid-pregnancy alcohol consumption. BACKGROUND:Alcohol consumption among women has increased significantly and is of international concern. Heavy episodic ('binge') drinking is commonplace and is associated w...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Symon A,Rankin J,Sinclair H,Butcher G,Barclay K,Gordon R,MacDonald M,Smith L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00