Competence versus performance: which is more important?

abstract：AIM:This study examined the relationship between sex-role stereotypes, self-concept and the requisite personality characteristics of an ideal nurse in a cohort of Hong Kong nursing students. METHODS:To rate these concepts a measure of eight comprehensive dimensions of personality perception was administered to 177 nur...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Holroyd EA,Bond MH,Chan HY

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study conducted to elucidate experiences and perceptions of self-management of diabetes as narrated by older people diagnosed with insulin-dependent diabetes living in a rural area. BACKGROUND:Older people worldwide are disproportionately affected by diabetes and are more likely to have...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： George SR,Thomas SP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of their work British health visitors encounter many individuals and families with problems. Support is usually offered, but if that support is for psychological health needs, it is less likely to be accepted as legitimate health visiting practice. Where a referral is either not accepted, or placed on a ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Cody A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the significance of social determinants of health has been revealed and the socio-environmental perspective of health promotion has become prominent, family nurses have attempted to move away from disease-treatment models of practice towards emancipatory, health promoting practice. This paper describes a multidisci...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hartrick G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To report findings of a national survey of care closer to home services for children and young people and a typology based on these findings. BACKGROUND:Providing care closer to home for children is a policy and practice aspiration internationally. While the main model of such services is children's community nur...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Parker G,Spiers G,Cusworth L,Birks Y,Gridley K,Mukherjee S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This preliminary study is part of an ongoing action research project. Elderly patients (n = 45) and their informal caregivers (n = 147) completed a questionnaire. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of care from both the patients' and their informal caregivers' points of view and to compare differenc...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Laitinen P

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research in nurses' communications has concentrated on nurse to patient interactions. Those few studies which focus on nurse to nurse communications seem to be generated by a pragmatic and normative concern with effective information sharing. In this paper, which describes one aspect of a larger case study of a hospit...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Chapman GE

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a literature review identifying and categorizing client system stressors in Neuman systems model-based studies. BACKGROUND:To date, literature reviews related to the Neuman systems model have focused broadly on all concepts of the model. The concept of stressors has been selected by the Neuman S...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Skalski CA,DiGerolamo L,Gigliotti E

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a review conducted to identify (a) best practice in information transfer from the emergency department for multi-trauma patients; (b) conduits and barriers to information transfer in trauma care and related settings; and (c) interventions that have an impact on information communication at...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Calleja P,Aitken LM,Cooke ML

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To assess the impact of adding nursing support workers to ward staffing. BACKGROUND:Nurses' capacity to provide safe care is compromised by increased workloads and nursing shortages. Use of unregulated workers is an alternative to increasing the number of regulated nurses. The impact of adding nursing support work...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Duffield C,Roche M,Twigg D,Williams A,Clarke S

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper presents a discussion of the learning history research method, including a description of how to conduct a learning history. Suggested applications of the method in research and clinical practice are also provided. BACKGROUND:Organizational learning has been linked to improved clinical performance and ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Lyman B,Moore C

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estimation is the most commonly used method to determine blood loss. According to the literature, estimating blood loss is not exact; there are wide margins of error and blood loss tends to be underestimated. Forty-two registered nurses were asked to estimate varied amounts of blood on 20 peripads. Both over- and unde...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Higgins PG

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to investigate the relative importance of key factors affecting the likelihood of hospital acquired pressure ulcers, thus offering the groundwork for the development of an empirically-based risk assessment scale. It also evaluated the predictive performance of the underlying empirical mode...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Papanikolaou P,Lyne PA,Lycett EJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study to explore nurses' perceptions of health promotion and health education practice in a Chinese provincial hospital. BACKGROUND:Health promotion and health education practices are based on universal constructs. Therefore, such practices should share common principles. To date, most ...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Whitehead D,Wang Y,Wang J,Zhang J,Sun Z,Xie C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this longitudinal study was to test a model of the relationships among social economic status, gender, severity of impairment, stress emotions, coping strategies and psychological well-being. A sample of 78 elderly women and men, 60 years old or over, and diagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis since m...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Downe-Wamboldt BL,Melanson PM

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a principle-based concept analysis of recognition in the context of nurse-patient interactions. BACKGROUND:Recognition is a concept employed in practice and research. Since nursing is patient-centred and care is problem-driven, the specificity and accuracy of recognition may have an impac...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Steis MR,Penrod J,Adkins CS,Hupcey JE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study examining glass particle contamination in two ampoule sizes under three different experimental conditions (n = 18 in each group). BACKGROUND:While existing literature is clear that glass contamination occurs on opening single-dose glass ampoules, the clinical significance of intramuscula...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Preston ST,Hegadoren K

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:A discussion of issues associated with Values Based Recruitment (VBR) for nurse education programmes. BACKGROUND:Values Based Recruitment is a mandatory element in selection processes of students for Higher Education healthcare courses in England, including all programmes across nursing. Students are selected on t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Groothuizen JE,Callwood A,Gallagher A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This paper is a report of a study of association between workplace injuries experienced by nursing assistants in nursing homes in the United States and four factors that may affect injury rates: initial nursing assistant training, training at the current facility, lifting devices, and time to execute daily duties....

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： D'Arcy LP,Sasai Y,Stearns SC

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study conducted to explore how nurses working at advanced practice level in chronic and acute care outpatient contexts responded to decision-making concerns in clinical practice. BACKGROUND:Current theoretical explanations of clinical judgement offer insight into how healthcare professionals p...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Elliott N

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports on the outcome of nursing intervention consisting of information-giving to patients about to undergo a threatening medical event (intravenous pyelography). Thirty patients in an intervention group were given structured information on all aspects of the examination (sensory, procedural and temporal c...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hjelm-Karlsson K

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper is a report of a study identifying and describing the essences of patients' experience during the period leading up to the diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. BACKGROUND:Patient and doctor delays occur during diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and families can affect patients' help-seeking behaviours. Cu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Wall C,Glenn S,Poole H

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：AIMS:To understand how women with Parkinson's disease (PD) experience and cope with menstruation and associated gynaecological problems, and adjustments to womanhood. This paper focuses on menstruation. RATIONALE:Unique hormonal fluctuations are known to affect women with idiopathic PD, however, our understanding of t...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Tolson D,Fleming V,Schartau E

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) assessing the effectiveness of a non-pharmacological intervention on the management of pain was conducted. Forty-nine relevant primary studies were identified and retrieved. Individual mean pain scores from these studies were converted to standardized effect sizes...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Sindhu F

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To understand the individualization process of the standardized care plan (SCP) that nurses design for hospitalized patients. BACKGROUND:To apply the nursing process, it is advisable to use SCP to standardize the diagnosis, planning and evaluation stages. However, the fundamental element of this methodology is the...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Castellà-Creus M,Delgado-Hito P,Andrés-Martínez I,Juvé-Udina ME

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality assurance in British National Health Service provision stresses the importance of taking account of the consumer's viewpoint. Elderly patients with dementia are not always able to contribute usefully to satisfaction surveys. Therefore, their careers' views were sought in order to assess the quality of services...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Simpson RG,Scothern G,Vincent M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe and synthesize diverse empirical evidence regarding physical activity (PA) in the context of advanced breast cancer (ABC). DESIGN:Integrative review guided by the work of Whittemore and Knafl (2005). DATA SOURCES:Six electronic databases were systematically searched to identify relevant literature pu...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Geng Z,Wang J,Zhang Y,Wu F,Yuan C

更新日期：2020-12-14 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:AIM.: This study focuses on the experience of healthcare staff with regard to patient and visitor violence in a general hospital. The occurrence of patient and visitor violence, staffs' interventions and the consequences of violence for different professions are investigated. BACKGROUND:There is a lack of s...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： Hahn S,Hantikainen V,Needham I,Kok G,Dassen T,Halfens RJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This paper reports a study exploring issues arising from the introduction of innovative nursing and midwifery roles from the perspective of healthcare managers. BACKGROUND:In recent years, the number of innovative roles in nursing and midwifery has increased dramatically across all areas of health care. A comprehe...

journal_title：Journal of advanced nursing

authors： McKenna H,Richey R,Keeney S,Hasson F,Sinclair M,Poulton B

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00