Reading research critically. I. An introduction to appraisal: designs and objectives.

abstract：AIM:To explore the experiences of patients with coronary heart disease in China. BACKGROUND:The morbidity and mortality rates of people with coronary heart disease have been growing rapidly in the past decades in China, yet little is known about the experiences of Chinese patients with the disease. DESIGN:A qualitati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Zhu L,Ho SC,Sit JW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:The aims of this study were to investigate a sample group of casualty nurses' attitudes towards patients who have attempted suicide in the middle of Taiwan and to identify factors contributing to their attitudes towards attempted suicide. DESIGN:A quantitative study using a questionnaire containing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Sun FK,Long A,Boore J

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug administration is an integral part of the nurse's role. Responsibility for correct administration of medication rests with the nurse, yet medication errors are a persistent problem associated with nursing practice. This review examines what constitutes a medication error and documents contributory factors in medi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： O'Shea E

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To appraise and synthesise empirical studies examining sources of occupational stress and ways of coping utilised by nurse managers when dealing with stress. BACKGROUND:The Nurse Manager's role is challenging yet draining and stressful and has adverse consequences on an individual's overall health ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Labrague LJ,McEnroe-Petitte DM,Leocadio MC,Van Bogaert P,Cummings GG

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To explore nurses' perceived facilitators and barriers to assessing for alcohol use in Taiwan. BACKGROUND:Excessive alcohol use has been associated with health, social and legal problems. Helping health care providers to detect and treat hazardous or harmful drinkers is an important worldwide issue. DESIGN:A cro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Tsai YF

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To explore how healthcare personnel comprehend the term dignity and what they do to attend to, preserve and promote the dignity of patients in the rehabilitation context. BACKGROUND:Literature reveals that knowledge exists concerning the nature of dignity. Literature is scant on how health personne...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Caspari S,Aasgaard T,Lohne V,Slettebø Å,Nåden D

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To examine the level of satisfaction with nursing care from nurses' perspectives, as patients and/or as caregivers for hospitalised relatives. BACKGROUND:Many studies that have examined patients' satisfaction with nursing care in Jordan and worldwide found high ratings of satisfaction with nursing ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Elayan RM,Ahmad MM

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this ethnographic study was to explore the culture of a trauma team in relation to human factors. BACKGROUND:Traumatic injury is the leading cause of death in the first four decades of life in the western world. Evidence suggests that the initial assessment and resuscitation of trauma victims is most su...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Cole E,Crichton N

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To investigate what factors influence caregiver strain in informal caregivers just before inpatients are discharged. BACKGROUND:Previous research has investigated the risk factors related to the burden on caregivers in different clinical contexts. However, the findings from studies analysing these ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Pérez Mármol JM,Flores Antigüedad ML,Castro Sánchez AM,Tapia Haro RM,García Ríos MDC,Aguilar Ferrándiz ME

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effects of self-relaxation training on sleep quality and cognitive functions in the older. BACKGROUND:Ageing causes declines in sleep quality and cognitive functions in older adults, and decreased sleep quality also accelerates declines in cognitive functions. Therefore, it is necess...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Sun J,Kang J,Wang P,Zeng H

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To present a new nursing intervention category called therapeutic enhancement. BACKGROUND:Fewer than half of North Americans follow their physician's recommendations for diet and exercise, even when such are crucial to their health or recovery. It is imperative that nurses consider new ways to promote healthy beh...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Kelly CW

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to develop knowledge on the experiences of male partners of women with cervical cancer during and after the illness. We explore men's experiences of becoming caregivers as well as how the illness trajectory affects or has affected the relationship. BACKGROUND:Receiving a cancer dia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Oldertrøen Solli K,de Boer M,Nyheim Solbraekke K,Thoresen L

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To investigate the clinical characteristics of rejection after upper abdominal cluster transplantation. BACKGROUND:Abdominal organ cluster transplantation is used to treat multiple abdominal organ diseases. Delay in monitoring and treatment can lead to graft failure. DESIGN:A descriptive study. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Zhang H,Chen L,Gu G,Guo Z,Gong F,Wu S,Zhang X,He X

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread inclusion of companion animals into the homes and lives of humans has prompted a considerable amount of research into the health benefits of such relationships. Findings seem to confirm that if humans interact with companion animals they are likely to experience various health benefits. Programmes that ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Brodie SJ,Biley FC,Shewring M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To explore allied health staff perceptions on the role of nurses in subacute care wards. BACKGROUND:A consequence of earlier discharge from acute hospitals is higher acuity of patients in subacute care. The impact on nurses' roles and required skill mix remains unknown. In the same way, nurses' int...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Digby R,Bolster D,Perta A,Bucknall TK

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To highlight what was important to parents with respect to consultation groups at well-child clinics. BACKGROUND:Parents managing of their role as parents affect the child's health and are therefore an important priority for public health. Well-child clinics in Norway practise consultations in grou...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Hjälmhult E,Glavin K,Okland T,Tveiten S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To examine the relationships of work-related factors (e.g., autonomy, work schedule, supervisory and peer support) to nurses' job satisfaction and intent to leave their current position. BACKGROUND:Low job satisfaction and high turnover of nurses are major problems for health care. To improve nurse...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Han K,Trinkoff AM,Gurses AP

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The research reported in this article formed part of a project evaluating nursing developments in four demonstration wards in one health authority, and the article focuses on evaluation of patient satisfaction. The evaluation of patient satisfaction is a topic surrounded by much methodological debate and therefore it ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Pontin DJ,Webb C

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To analyse the relationships between depressive symptoms, sense of coherence and emotional and social loneliness among nursing home residents without cognitive impairment. BACKGROUND:Depression symptoms and loneliness are major health problems for older people. Sense of coherence, which is based on...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Drageset J,Espehaug B,Kirkevold M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To explore this complexity further, enhancing understanding of professionals' experience of violence and reasons for non-reporting with regard to people with a learning disability. BACKGROUND:This article reports on a qualitative follow-up study to a whole-population survey investigating the under-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Lovell A,Skellern J

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about how children and young people experience and manage the critical illness of a parent and a parent's admission to the intensive care unit (ICU). OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to search and interpret the existing literature describing children's and young people's experiences of a ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： MacEachnie LH,Larsen HB,Egerod I

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the study was to explore and describe the strategies young women with type 1 diabetes used to manage life transitions. The paper describes one aspect of how guilt dynamic often operates between mothers and daughters and how the women managed the guilt dynamic to create stability in their lives. BACKGROU...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Rasmussen B,Dunning T,Cox H,O'Connell B

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To identify mothers' perceptions of the supporting or straining factors involved in motherhood generally and in relation to child's atopic dermatitis and food allergy at the age of 1-2 years. BACKGROUND:The main person who cares for a child in the early years of life is usually the mother. Information on mothers' ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Alanne S,Laitinen K,Söderlund R,Paavilainen E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM AND OBJECTIVES:To describe the (a) prevalence and perceptions of cardiovascular disease and related health conditions in African Americans with osteoarthritis pain, (b) their knowledge of cardiovascular safety of commonly prescribed analgesics for osteoarthritis and (c) frequency of high-risk analgesic use. BACKGR...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Booker SQ,Content VG

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of this study was to explore how the planning, daily care and follow-up procedures work in the care trajectory for patients treated with home enteral tube feeding, from the perspective of hospital and community care nurses. BACKGROUND:Discharge planning for patients in need of home enteral tube feeding is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Bjuresäter K,Larsson M,Nordström G,Athlin E

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To examine changes in quality of life among patients with breast cancer and factors related to it, during the first three months after diagnosis. BACKGROUND:Numerous studies have examined quality of life among cancer survivors or among patients with cancer after aggressive treatment; such research has demonstrated...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Cheng SY,Lai YH,Chen SC,Shun SC,Liao YM,Tu SH,Chen CS,Hsiang CY,Chen CM

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To gain knowledge of how women experience pain and pain treatment after breast cancer surgery and to identify areas of pain management that they believe could be improved. BACKGROUND:According to the literature, 20-60% of patients develop chronic pain after breast cancer surgery and treatment. Beca...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Hovind IL,Bredal IS,Dihle A

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:To explore the differences in clinical practice activities and work-related burden between nurses with past work experience other than nursing (second career nurses: SCNs) and nurses without any past work experience (nonsecond career nurses: NSCNs). BACKGROUND:The number of SCNs is increasing. Some...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Hama T,Takai Y,Noguchi-Watanabe M,Yamahana R,Igarashi A,Yamamoto-Mitani N

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study aimed to investigate the experiences and challenges of New Zealand registered nurses of Chinese ethnicity who have been working during the COVID-19 pandemic. BACKGROUND:New Zealand's nursing workforce is becoming increasingly multicultural as foreign nurses make up an essential part of the New Zealand ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： Song J,McDonald C

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS AND OBJECTIVE:To measure and explore between 2007-2010 measure and explore the nature of family resilience in the context of families with a member with chronic pain. BACKGROUND:Chronic pain impacts on the entire family. The literature suggests that it is possible to strengthen resilience in individuals with chro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical nursing

authors： West C,Buettner P,Stewart L,Foster K,Usher K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00