abstract：BACKGROUND:Concern regarding newly licensed registered nurses' abilities to cope with the increasing complexity of care has led to the development of a variety of nurse residency program (NRP) initiatives. The unknowns are the extent to which and how various program elements are implemented across NRPs. Without underst...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Barnett JS,Minnick AF,Norman LD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurse-managed health centers (NMHCs) are an innovative health care delivery model that serves as an important point of health care access for populations at risk for disparities in health outcomes. This article describes the process and outcomes of clinical breast health services in two NMHCs located in a large Midwes...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Tsai PY,Peterman B,Baisch MJ,Ji ES,Zwiers K

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A national research agenda is needed to promote inquiry into the impact of credentialing on health care outcomes for nurses, patients, and organizations. Credentialing is used here to refer to individual credentialing, such as certification for nurses, and organizational credentialing, such as American Nurses Credenti...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Hickey JV,Unruh LY,Newhouse RP,Koithan M,Johantgen M,Hughes RG,Haller KB,Lundmark VA

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Institute of Medicine has outlined important components needed in nursing education to prepare the nursing workforce of the future. Previously published work on RN to BSN education has focused mainly on mode of delivery. The purpose of this paper is to examine RN to BSN program components for the facilitation of a...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Conner NE,Thielemann PA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides foods, education, and referrals to participants who are considered to be at nutritional risk. The outreach of the program is impressive, and nearly 9.17 million people participated in the program in 2010. WIC participation is as...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Baumgartel KL,Spatz DL,American Academy of Nursing Expert Breastfeeding Panel.

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with complex chronic conditions (CCC) need extensive, costly care, usually provided at home by parents. These children often rely on technology to survive or avoid complications. Children with CCC receive nursing care in hospital, community, and home settings. An integrative review of 22 nursing studies, from...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Rehm RS

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The idea of a "medical home" is rapidly gaining in popularity in health policy circles today. In the face of a shortage of primary care physicians, it has led to a national debate about who should lead the homes, who should deliver care, the kind of care that should be offered, and the location of that care....

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Keeling A,Lewenson SB

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A better understanding of the needs of adolescents and emerging adults with special health care needs (AEA-SHCNs) is essential to provide health care transition services that represent best practices. The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the research on health care transition for AEA-SHCNs f...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Betz CL,Lobo ML,Nehring WM,Bui K

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quality of care at rural health centers in Rwanda is often limited by gaps in individual nurses' knowledge and skills, as well as systems-level issues, such as supply and human resource management. Typically, nurse training is largely didactic and supervision infrequent. Partners In Health and the Rwandan Ministry of ...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Anatole M,Magge H,Redditt V,Karamaga A,Niyonzima S,Drobac P,Mukherjee JS,Ntaganira J,Nyirazinyoye L,Hirschhorn LR

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 25,000 infants and children die in US hospitals annually; 86% occur in the NICU or PICU. Parents see the child's pain and suffering and, near the point of death, must decide whether to resuscitate, limit medical treatment, and/or withdraw life support. Immediately after the death, parents must decide whether...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Youngblut JM,Brooten D

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This essay considers Nurse Jackie, one of several recent television shows, including HawthoRNe, and Mercy, that features a nurse as the main character. All 3 shows premiered in 2009 and challenged nursing's longstanding invisibility and misrepresentation on television. Although the plots of each show corrected problem...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： McHugh K

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative effectiveness research seeks to identify the most effective interventions for particular patient populations. Meta-analysis is an especially valuable form of comparative effectiveness research because it emphasizes the magnitude of intervention effects rather than relying on tests of statistical significan...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Conn VS,Ruppar TM,Phillips LJ,Chase JA

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Translational clinical research has emerged as an important priority for the national research enterprise, with a clearly stated mandate to more quickly deliver prevention strategies, treatments and cures based on scientific innovations to the public. Within this national effort, a lack of consensus persists concernin...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Hastings CE,Fisher CA,McCabe MA,National Clinical Research Nursing Consortium.,Allison J,Brassil D,Offenhartz M,Browning S,DeCandia E,Medina R,Duer-Hefele J,McClary K,Mullen N,Ottosen M,Britt S,Sanchez T,Turbini V

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are limited studies on nursing diagnoses of the elderly living in nursing homes worldwide. This study aimed to define the most frequent nursing diagnoses in the elderly residents of a nursing home elder care and rehabilitation center. Seventy-four elderly individuals were included in the study. Data were collect...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Güler EK,Eşer I,Khorshid L,Yücel SÇ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haiti has long had the largest proportion of people living in poverty and the highest mortality level of any country in the Americas. On January 12, 2010, the most powerful earthquake to hit Haiti in 200 years struck. Before the earthquake, half of all Haitians lacked any access to modern medical care services. Health...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Garfield RM,Berryman E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is hypothesized that workload is a causative factor of the nurse faculty shortage and that nurse faculty workload is not equitable with that of faculty from other academic disciplines, it is not known whether evidence supports this assertion. This paper has three objectives: (1) to identify what is known a...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Gerolamo AM,Roemer GF

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article traces the funding priorities of the John A. Hartford Foundation--the largest private philanthropy in the United States dedicated to aging and health--to increase the competence of the health care workforce (physicians, nurses, and social workers) to care for our aging society. A review of the Foundation'...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Watman R,Escobedo M,Langston CA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article traces the impact of the John A. Hartford Foundation's (JAHF) Hartford Geriatric Nursing Initiative (HGNI) on the geriatric preparation of nursing students. With over 2.6 million practitioners, nurses play a critical role in assuring the health care of older adults. Older adults make up the majority of pa...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Bednash G,Mezey M,Tagliareni E

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative identified 6 competencies for the education of nurses (patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics) and the related knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs) for each competency. The...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Manning ML,Frisby AJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Duke-Nurses Improving Care of Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) is an example of an academic-practice partnership between a university-based school of nursing and a health system that aims to improve care of older adults by simultaneously enhancing the expertise of frontline nursing staff, accelerating the implementatio...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Hendrix CC,Matters L,West Y,Stewart B,McConnell ES

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although interdisciplinarity has become a favored model of scholarly inquiry, the assumption that interdisciplinary work is intuitive and can be performed without training is short-sighted. This article describes the implementation of an interdisciplinary research training program within a school of nursing. We descri...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Larson EL,Cohen B,Gebbie K,Clock S,Saiman L

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Academic and service entities can create sustainable models of collaboration that realign relationships and resources to enhance the critical competencies essential for entry into practice. Our hospital and school collaborated to implement an innovative academic-service partnership model in which the academic and the ...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Murray TA,Crain C,Meyer GA,McDonough ME,Schweiss DM

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although registered nurses rank similarly with physicians in the public's esteem, physicians are more visible than nurses in media coverage, public policy, and political spheres. Thus, nursing workforce issues are overshadowed by those of other health priorities, including Medicare and health reform. The purpose of th...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Donelan K,Buerhaus PI,DesRoches C,Burke SP

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a handoff, communication errors can lead to adverse events and suboptimal patient care. As a result, many institutions want to redesign their handoff processes, but have little specific guidance from the literature. We examined two approaches to nursing end-of-shift reports both taped and written, to identify s...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Welsh CA,Flanagan ME,Ebright P

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although nurses historically have responded to natural disasters, little is known about nurses' intentions to respond during bioterrorism and other infectious disease emergencies where they and their families may be at risk. To investigate that question, we surveyed nurses following their participation in a class on b...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Grimes DE,Mendias EP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethics consultations are utilized in health care to identify and manage conflict, difficult decision-making, and ethical issues. In bioethics mediation, a more updated approach using interpersonal, mediative, conflict management, and dispute resolution skills is merged with ethical principles to manage dilemmas arisin...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Schlairet MC

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The imposition of mandatory hospital nurse staffing ratios is among the more visible public policy initiatives affecting the nursing profession. Although the practice is intended to address problems in hospital nurse staffing and quality of patient care, this commentary argues that staffing ratios will lead to negativ...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Buerhaus PI

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides an assessment of strategies implemented nationwide to counter the nursing faculty shortage, highlights those indicating most promise, and proposes a basis for evaluating outcomes. The deficit of educators is a key impediment to filling the growing demand for nurses generated by an aging populatio...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Allan JD,Aldebron J

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transdisciplinary health research training has been identified as a major initiative to achieve the vision for research teams of the future as articulated in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research. To address the need for scientists who can integrate diverse scientific approaches and work...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： McDaniel AM,Champion VL,Kroenke K

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As the aging baby boom generation begins to place additional pressures on the health care system and the nursing workforce of the same generation begins to retire, the worsening nursing shortage has the potential to seriously impact the delivery of health care in the United States and is receiving considerable attenti...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Kirschling JM,Harvey-McPherson L,Curley D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health disparities are inequities in the health of different groups of people that may lead to needless pain, suffering, and premature death. The Yale-Howard Partnership Center on Reducing Health Disparities by Self and Family Management is part of a federally-funded initiative to foster the development of partnership...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Jenerette CM,Funk M,Ruff C,Grey M,Adderley-Kelly B,McCorkle R

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concerns about the quality and safety of health care have changed practice expectations and created a mandate for change in the preparation of health care professionals. The Quality and Safety Education for Nurses project team conducted a survey to assess current levels of integration of quality and safety content in ...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Smith EL,Cronenwett L,Sherwood G

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes a regional education/service partnership that has thrived for > 20 years. The collaboration takes place between a tertiary medical center and a university-based school of nursing located in a rural underserved area. Several critical issues have been creatively addressed by the partners including...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Horns PN,Czaplijski TJ,Engelke MK,Marshburn D,McAuliffe M,Baker S

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is difficult to clarify the characteristics of the nursing profession and the problems that exist within this field. Gaining an understanding of nurses' perceptions regarding their profession can improve knowledge on this subject. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the perceptions of Iranian Register...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Nikbakht Nasrabadi A,Emami A

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Teachers and educational researchers in nursing have persisted in their attempts to teach students critical thinking and to evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts. Yet, despite the plethora of studies investigating critical thinking, there is a paucity of research providing evidence that teachers' efforts improve...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Scheckel MM,Ironside PM

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The processes and outcomes of nurses' work are described extensively in studies about patient care, nursing education and training, job satisfaction, health care quality and management, and organizational behavior. These studies evaluate the relationship between nurses' behavior and organizational health (ie, producti...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： McNeely E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elder mistreatment (EM) is a growing and hidden problem. Nurses have a responsibility to identify potential and actual EM victims. The purpose of this article is to describe the roles of nurses on interprofessional elder mistreatment teams. Current nursing roles in the recognition and management of EM include assessme...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Baker MW,Heitkemper MM

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Institute of Medicine's quality initiatives have collectively emphasized the importance of information technology to the transformation of health care. Not coincidentally, federal initiatives in 2004 have signaled the start of "the decade of health information technology." Building on those reports, this article d...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： McBride AB

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Focus group methodology uses focused interviews to obtain information from individuals and interactions among individuals in a small group setting. In this article we share the insights we have gained from using focus group methodology in work with an under-served population of black menopausal women. This methodology...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Ruff CC,Alexander IM,McKie C

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-based research projects are critically needed to reduce health disparities and ensure the delivery of health care that is culturally appropriate and relevant to families and communities. The purpose of this article is to share experiences and lessons learned from utilizing a participatory action approach in ...

journal_title：Nursing outlook

authors： Garwick AW,Auger S

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00