An ethnography: four public health nurses' perspectives of nursing.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical thinking is frequently cited as a desirable professional attribute and a highly valued educational outcome. Despite the abundance of literature on the subject, validation of the critical thinking construct in different cultural populations is under-researched. AIM:The purpose of this study was to c...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tiwari A,Avery A,Lai P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to identify the extent of postgraduate nursing students' information literacy skills in relation to electronic media and health information and barriers to accessing this information. BACKGROUND:The Internet is a key source of information for a significant group of patients. Howev...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gilmour JA,Scott SD,Huntington N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous studies have documented the high prevalence of psychological and emotional disorders in patients seen in general medical settings. However, despite the emphasis placed on holistic approaches to nursing care in all professional models of nursing practice, much of this distress is still missed by nursing staff....

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Shiell J,Shiell A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every effort is made to provide children affected by cancer-related illness with advanced medical care. This theory-developing, hypotheses-generating study focused on the child's view of the service provided in an oncology clinic. The methodology included interviews, observations of medical consultations and children'...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Inman CE

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:First to give a brief introduction to some dimensions of phenomenology as philosophy, and then to discuss some problems related to empirical research. The objectives of the discussion are: (1) to show what is involved in investigating changes in the life-world caused by illness and (2) to show what must be taken in...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Kvigne K,Gjengedal E,Kirkevold M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there is increasing interest in women's health, there remains little empirical evidence concerning concepts related to health and women's life trajectory. Our purpose in conducting this research was to examine women's developmental stressors and coping during young adulthood. Lazarus and Folkman's coping mode...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Gramling LF,Lambert VA,Pursley-Crotteau S

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

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：AIM:The aim of this study was to test psychometrically the Italian and French versions of the Care Dependency Scale. BACKGROUND:The Care Dependency Scale assesses changes in patients' level of care dependency including important functional and mental dimensions. Evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Italian...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Zürcher SJ,Vangelooven C,Borter N,Schnyder D,Hahn S

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-attendance at out-patient clinics is a persistent, worldwide problem. In contrast with previous research, a qualitative approach was used in this study to examine reasons for non-attendance at out-patient clinics in one Belfast hospital, by exploring perspectives of general practitioners (GPs), hospital staff and ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mason C

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：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：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：BACKGROUND:Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) play a major role in the delivery of specialist palliative care services to patients with advanced cancer, in hospital, hospice and community settings across the United Kingdom. A major component of their work focuses on the delivery of emotional care and support to patients ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Skilbeck J,Payne S

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine female youth's intentions for safe sex with the relationship partners based on the extended theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model and explore the direct and indirect impact of parent-child communication about sex, peer interaction related to sexual issues, and exposure to sexually explicit materials on...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tseng YH,Cheng CP,Kuo SH,Hou WL,Chan TF,Chou FH

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a systematic review and meta-analysis of strategies, other than antimicrobial coated catheters, hypothesized to reduce risk of catheter-related bloodstream infections and catheter colonization in the intensive care unit setting. BACKGROUND:Catheter-related bloodstream infections occur at ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Ramritu P,Halton K,Cook D,Whitby M,Graves N

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to determine: (a) Spanish nurses' level of knowledge of existing guidelines for pressure ulcer prevention and treatment, (b) the level of implementation of this knowledge in clinical practice and (c) the professional and educational factors that influence knowledge and practice. B...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Pancorbo-Hidalgo PL,García-Fernández FP,López-Medina IM,López-Ortega J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study of the views of prisoners about health services provided in prisons. BACKGROUND:Prison provides an opportunity for a 'hard to reach' group to access health services, primarily those provided by nurses. Prisoners typically have high health and social needs, but the views and experi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Condon L,Hek G,Harris F,Powell J,Kemple T,Price S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This descriptive study was undertaken to investigate patients' perceptions of the seven content areas commonly included in cardiac teaching in terms of how important and how realistic they were for being learned following the experience of an acute myocardial infarction (MI). Lazarus's stress-coping theory was used as...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chan V

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to explore nursing students' understanding and enactment of resilience. BACKGROUND:Stress is considered to be a major factor affecting the health, well-being and academic performance of nursing students. Resilience has been extensively researched as a process that allows individuals to su...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Reyes AT,Andrusyszyn MA,Iwasiw C,Forchuk C,Babenko-Mould Y

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the ability of instruments to produce information about the presence and intensity of fear before, during and after coronary arteriography. Information about patient fear was measured from cognitive, physiological and behavioural dimensions. The sample of the study...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Heikkilä J,Paunonen M,Virtanen V,Laippala P

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growing prevalence of chronic illness is due, in large part, to the control and/or eradication of infectious diseases as well as, in North America, the increasingly aged population and overall lengthening life span. Although the trajectory of chronic illness is in a generally downward direction, the rate of progre...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Craig HM,Edwards JE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aimed to explore the role and impact of advanced practice nurses (APNs) in care of patients following fragility hip fracture by systematically reviewing the available evidence. REVIEW DESIGN:Systematic review. DATA SOURCES:A search of the databases Ovid Medline, CINAHL, Embase, Emcare, Cochrane Library...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Allsop S,Morphet J,Lee S,Cook O

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A major problem of diabetes mellitus lies in its complications. Fourteen Type 1 diabetic patients with severe long-term complications were interviewed on two occasions with the aim of gaining a deeper understanding of their coping strategies. The study has a qualitative design and a grounded theory approach was used. ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Nyhlin KT

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This article is a report of a protocol for studying the development and evaluation of an online parent information and support package for home-based care of children with chronic kidney disease stages 3-5. The study is funded by a National Institute of Health Research, Research for Patient Benefit Grant awarded (D...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Swallow V,Knafl K,Sanatacroce S,Hall A,Smith T,Campbell M,Webb NJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 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 article outlines a model for the nursing role in the chronic health care context of renal replacement therapy. METHODS:Materials from several streams of literature are used to conceptualize the potential for nursing work in the renal setting as negotiated care. In order to present the role of the renal nurse ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Polaschek N

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents an overview of research methods utilized in nursing to date and traces the origins of the schism in nursing research which has led to the development of the quantitative-qualitative research-methods dichotomy. The philosophical and technical characteristics which distinguish these apparently opposi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Corner J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aims of this study of people with oral cavity cancer were to compare the social support, depression, nicotine dependence, physical function and social-emotional function of those who continued smoking with those who quit smoking, by matching age and survival time and to identify the predictors of continued smo...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chang SL,Lo CH,Peng HL,Chen CR,Wu SC,Chen SC

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper argues that nursing is an elemental activity, the first concern of which is a person's experience of illness, not the causes of that experience. Any model of nursing should begin with an account of that experience and deduce from that what it is that nurses ought to do in order to explain what it is that th...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Holdsworth N

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a discussion of the use of a systematic approach to explore researcher subjectivity and how this enhanced the rigour of a qualitative study. BACKGROUND:The need for rigour in qualitative research is widely documented; the means by which it is enhanced are varied and numerous. Although most qualitativ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bradbury-Jones C

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00