Effects of psychological distress on blood pressure in adolescents.

abstract：:Intensive care units are care centers where, in order to provide the maximum benefit to individuals whose life is in danger, many lifesaving technological tools and devices are present, and morbidity and mortality rates are high. In the intensive care unit, when classic treatments fail or become unbearable because of ...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Erdoğan Z,Atik D

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This empirical study found that a holistic perioperative program significantly reduced patient pain and anxiety about surgery. Modalities included guided imagery, eye pillow, aromatherapy, and a written personal healing plan. Nurses are in a prime position to deliver these interventions, given their frequent direct co...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Sears SR,Bolton S,Bell KL

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health care is experiencing a paradigm shift that has the potential to redefine traditional roles, systems, and practices. At Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the nursing organization has capitalized on this potential and has been energized by the array of opportunities for innovation and ...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Warfel WM,Allen R,McGoldrick T,McLane S,Martin SG

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dialysis is often considered slow, repetitive, and with programmed intervals. Patients often perceive it as time taken from their lives with a sense of ineluctability and emptiness, engendering a negative emotional and cognitive perception of the world and one's place in it. Today, it is possible to improve the qualit...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Burrai F,Othman S,Brioni E,Micheluzzi V,Luppi M,Apuzzo L,Delli Zotti GB,La Manna G

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of reflexology on pain intensity in patients with fibromyalgia, using an experimental repeated-measures design, and a convenience sample of 30 fibromyalgia inpatients. Thirty patients aged 18 to 70 years with fibromyalgia and hospitalized in the algology clinic were ...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Akin Korhan E,Uyar M,Eyigör C,Yönt GH,Khorshid L

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In home care, clients' behaviors are of primary concern. Behavioral change toward health maintenance and health promotion is influenced by the role of the nurse and the client in the process of change. The proposed definition of compliance is consistent with the philosophy of nursing and, in particular, with that of h...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Kontz MM

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current evidence demonstrates that probiotics reduce diarrheal duration from a number of etiologies. Professional nursing practice based on evidence and clinical expertise supports a diet-containing probiotics to manage acute diarrhea. Dietary limitations included in the BRAT (bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast) die...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Salfi SF,Holt K

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Until recently, little attention has been given to spiritual dimensions in the nursing literature. This article reviews spiritual nursing care in the nursing literature, including basic concepts and current thoughts on spirituality-related research. In addition, it describes mechanisms that may be used to promote spir...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： McEwen M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although there are multiple ways of achieving baccalaureate-level nursing education, all graduates must demonstrate critical thinking abilities to practice competently. The purpose of this study was to measure the changes in critical thinking abilities of students pursuing various pathways in the same baccalaureate nu...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Brown JM,Alverson EM,Pepa CA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The article describes a study that addressed perceptions of unilateral and egalitarian role functions for nurses, physicians, and consumers in a long-term, 345-bed psychiatric facility in the western United States. Findings indicated that physicians desired to retain authority for health care decisions and that nurses...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Hammond K,Bandak A,Williams M

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For family caregivers of patients with heart failure (HF), providing care and working outside the home is a common experience. Nurses need to consider the effect work and caregiving has on the caregiver. This study explored for differences in caregiver and patient variables between 19 employed and 22 unemployed family...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Saunders MM

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pressure ulcers are a frequently encountered difficulty in clinical nursing care. In cases of pressure ulcers, continued pressure on soft tissue leads to pathological processes in affected tissues that include ischemia and hypoxia, nutritional and metabolic disorders, and degeneration and necrosis. Pressure ulcers are...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Ji S,Zhang G,Hua Y,Jin X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared and examined the effects of aroma gargling, cold water gargling, and wet gauze application on thirst, halitosis, and sore throat in patients after spine surgery. A quasiexperimental pretest/posttest control group design was employed. Samples were total 70 patients (aroma gargling: 24 samples, cold ...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Oh KE,Song AR,Sok SR

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses who work with seriously ill and dying patients are engaged in helping them live fully until they die. Most theories of death and dying deal with conscious activities only. Yet many people find relief form the fear and loneliness of life-threatening illness if given the opportunity to express their totality, mea...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Muff J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concept mapping is a teaching-learning strategy that can be used to evaluate a nursing student's ability to critically think in the clinical setting. Nursing students who are committed to patient care, seldom express the ideas of reasoning, and critical thinking in health team care. This article is a description of an...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： George A,Geethakrishnan R,D'Souza P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When caring for the dying, the holistic nurse must be cognizant of many factors involved in this extraordinary process. Many of these factors, including the phenomena of the fear of death, the influences that cause it, and the behavior associated with it, have been discussed in this article. This article presented a n...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Mayer S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elders with chronic diseases frequently have problems with activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living. This article describes a holistic, elder-friendly community model. The review of the nursing, healthcare, and social science literature offers insight into the complexity of community reso...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Weierbach FM,Glick DF

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Presented is the first reported case series of chronic neck and back pain associated with breast scars from breast surgery and successfully treated with an integrative medicine assessment and treatment approach, which included the assessment technique of autonomic response testing and the scar therapy technique of neu...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Chung MK,LaRiccia PJ

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to show how patients' reactions in periods of crisis of acute illness influenced and made the learning process more difficult. Eleven patients with first-time acute cardiac infarction were interviewed. Many of the patients expressed the positive dimensions of having had cardiac infarction. Th...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Gabrielsen E,Nåden D,Lindström UA

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the baby boom generation ages, it is anticipated that half a million cases per year will be added to the 19 to 21 million Americans not living in institutions or serving in the military who have low vision or blindness. The 4 major causes of vision loss and blindness in the United States are cataract, diabetic reti...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Sharts-Hopko NC

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Losses of later life can prove overwhelming to older adults. Some elderly persons seem to cope with these losses with a spirit of acceptance and serenity. The purpose of this study was to identify qualities in selected nursing home residents that allow them to transcend difficulties and continue living with some degre...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Bickerstaff KA,Grasser CM,McCabe B

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional pilot study evaluated associations between religion/spirituality, forgiveness, sleep, and health, which were all highly correlated for adult women living in a homeless mission. While causation cannot be determined, these findings help to provide a theoretical framework for studies with stronger de...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Brewer-Smyth K,Kafonek K,Koenig HG

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interventions utilized by nurses to manage "difficult" patients and outcomes indicating successful interventions were investigated. Themes included getting the difficult patient label, difficult patient behaviors, reflecting on the label and passing it on, coping with a difficult patient, interventions that worked, an...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Juliana CA,Orehowsky S,Smith-Regojo P,Sikora SM,Smith PA,Stein DK,Wagner DO,Wolf ZR

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caring behaviors displayed toward nurses by nurse managers and nurse peers play a significant role in establishing relationships that promote a healthy work environment. A qualitative study was done to identify behaviors perceived to be caring toward nurses. The theoretical background used for the study was Nursing as...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Longo J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bioelectrodynamics is an interdisciplinary subject that offers a pathway for nursing to develop a new patient care strategy in health care. The application of bioenergy to living organisms has the potential to advance medical science in the areas of prevention, cancer, wound care, pain, and many other chronic diseases...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Purnell MC,Whitt MA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of nurse-physician collaboration has significance in today's changing health care environment. Two camps' views concerning nurse-physician collaboration are presented. Camp I supports nurse-physician collaboration using four indicators: (1) mutual power-control, (2) separate and combined practice spheres, ...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Jones RA

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atmosphere in which community health nurses (CHNs) work in city, suburban, and rural neighborhoods has become increasingly dangerous. Using Neuman's Systems Theory, four graduate students surveyed CHNs from three certified home health agencies to ascertain the real and perceived safety risks which these workers fa...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Gellner P,Landers S,O'Rourke D,Schlegel M

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes a demonstration/research project to implement and evaluate community-developed, community-based strategies that address childhood lead poisoning. The project will increase knowledge of childhood lead poisoning as an environmental health risk, as well as hazard, exposure, and outcome surveillance fo...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Rothman NL,Lourie R,Gaughan J,White N

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary therapies are becoming increasingly popular, particularly for symptoms such as sleep disturbance. The herb valerian may be useful as a mild sleep aid in clinical populations, such as persons with rheumatoid arthritis. This article reviews valerian to inform healthcare providers of potential uses and safe...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Taibi DM,Bourguignon C,Taylor AG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Learning to listen for indications of significant relationships and experience of connection is an important skill for the nurse. The nurse needs to be aware of the variety of expressions of spiriting, recognizing that it is often not expressed in traditional religious language. Dealing effectively with spiriting with...

journal_title：Holistic nursing practice

authors： Burkhardt MA

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00