Knowledge and level of consciousness: application to nursing practice.

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：BACKGROUND:The Internet provides the opportunity for international comparative study and collaboration when learning about ethics in clinical nursing practice. AIM:This paper aims to discuss Internet links developed between US and UK postregistration nursing students who were reflecting on clinical practice in order t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Leppa CJ,Terry LM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe an analysis of the concept of abductive reasoning. BACKGROUND:In the discipline of nursing, abductive reasoning has received only philosophical attention and remains a vague concept. In addition to deductive and inductive reasoning, abductive reasoning is not recognized even in prominent nursing knowle...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mirza NA,Akhtar-Danesh N,Noesgaard C,Martin L,Staples E

更新日期：2014-09-01 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：:The contexts of adherence for African Americans with high blood pressure African American men between the ages of 18 and 49 years have the lowest rates of awareness, treatment and control of high blood pressure (HBP) of all age/race/gender groups in the United States. A qualitative study was done to gain an understand...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Rose LE,Kim MT,Dennison CR,Hill MN

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the emerging focus on home-based care, there is an increasing demand on spouses to look after their chronically ill partners at home. The theoretical aspects of caring have been much discussed in the literature, but the pragmatic aspects have received less attention. Carer stress has been explored, but ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cheung J,Hocking P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study exploring the clinical experiences of student nurses with dyslexia and its potential influence on their practice. BACKGROUND:Widened access to university education has meant an increase in the number of students with dyslexia. A limited number of studies have explored the academic experi...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Morris D,Turnbull P

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：AIM:This paper reports a study to measure quality of life, before and after revascularization, in patients with intermittent claudication and critical limb ischaemia from a long-term perspective. BACKGROUND:Patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease have a number of problems which affect their quality of life...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wann-Hansson C,Hallberg IR,Risberg B,Lundell A,Klevsgard R

更新日期：2005-08-01 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：:The purpose of this paper is to increase the awareness of gerontological nurse researchers about methodological, theoretical and ethical issues that are unique and critical to the study of frail elderly people. Discussion focuses on: (a) sampling, recruitment, informed consent and retention of subjects; (b) selection ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bowsher J,Bramlett M,Burnside IM,Gueldner SH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is based on a critique of studies exploring the experiences and needs of parents whose children are admitted to paediatric intensive care units (PICU). The majority of studies have been conducted in North America and attempt to quantify parental feelings and experiences. Few qualitative studies have been pu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Noyes J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted in many areas of research, including nursing research, that decisions about research methods should be informed by the nature of the research question; that the research question will indicate what approach and methods should be used. However, it is arguable that this over-simplifies the proce...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Simmons S

更新日期：1995-05-01 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：:This paper describes the planning, implementation and evaluation of a series of workshops for practising health visitors, as one aspect of continuing professional education. The history demonstrates response to stated need. Planning was intensive and extensive, resulting in one broad educational objective and a flexib...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Strehlow MS

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study compared the work-related experiences and personal health status of double-duty caregivers with those of caregivers who do not provide informal care to a family member or close friend in need. BACKGROUND:The interest in providing informal care alongside employment is growing. However, little attention ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Boumans NP,Dorant E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the social networking site Twitter™ as a vehicle for recruitment in online health research and to examine how the Twitter community would share information: the focus of our study was the antenatal experience of mothers of advanced maternal age. BACKGROUND:One result of growth in worldwide Internet and...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： O'Connor A,Jackson L,Goldsmith L,Skirton H

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper examines the phenomenon of trust in health care relationships from a new perspective, that of the recipients of care for chronic illness. The authors argue that reciprocal trust is a necessary component of satisfying, effective health care relationships when the illness is of an ongoing nature. From the pat...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Thorne SE,Robinson CA

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An intrasystem-intersystem model developed by Alfred Kuhn has been integrated into the nursing process model to serve as a model for patient-nurse interaction. In this conceptual model the patient and the nurse represent intrasystems with three components, the detector, selector and effector, which act to supply infor...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Artinian BM

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To explore key factors related to nursing unit instability, complexity and patient and system outcomes. BACKGROUND:The relationship between nurse staffing and quality of patient outcomes is well known. The nursing unit is an important but different aspect that links to complexity and to system and patient outcome...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Duffield CM,Roche MA,Dimitrelis S,Homer C,Buchan J

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To report a concept analysis of futility in health care. BACKGROUND:Each member of the healthcare team: the physician, the nurse, the patient, the family and all others involved perceive futility differently. The current evidence and knowledge in regard to futility in health care manifest a plethora of definitions...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Morata L

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine nurse employees' and employers' views about responsibilities for managing nurses' careers. BACKGROUND:Career management policies are associated with cost savings, in terms of workforce recruitment and retention and an increase in job and career satisfaction. In nursing, responsibility for career managem...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Philippou J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe and compare demographical, sociomedical and physical characteristics between protein-energy malnourished and non-malnourished geriatric patients on admission. According to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, 104 malnourished patients were age-, gender- an...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Unosson M,Ek AC,Bjurulf P,Larsson J

更新日期：1991-12-01 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

abstract：AIMS:To report a secondary analysis of data collected from the case study phase of a national study of advanced practitioners and to develop leadership outcome-indicators appropriate for advanced practitioners. BACKGROUND:In many countries, advanced practitioners in nursing and midwifery have responsibility as leaders...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Elliott N,Begley C,Kleinpell R,Higgins A

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses are the major caregivers for the aged with brain failure. The patients' needs and resources must be continually reassessed and care adjusted to the changing situation whether the patient is at home, attending a community ambulatory clinic, or in a hospital or a long-term institution. The nursing role includes h...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Bergman R

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:User participation has been a widely researched and debated phenomenon in the formulation and implementation of health and social care policy and indeed wider public sector policy in the United Kingdom (UK), yet there remains a vast array of definitions of the term and great variety in the findings o...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Roberts K

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical model is described whose particular emphasis is directed towards operationalizing the statements: 'effective teaching bridges the gap between information and practice or 'teaching is more than telling'. It concentrates on nurse behaviours (facilitation) designed to actively engage the patient in learning...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Jenny J

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between the number and quality of nursing diagnoses generated by public health nurses (PHNs), and the use of different assessment databases (nursing or medical). In addition, the effect of experience with theory-based nursing practice on the number and quality...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Mackenzie SJ,Spence Loschinger HK

更新日期：1995-04-01 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