Showing papers in "International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, an alternative approach, based on graphical techniques and simple calculations, is described, together with the relation between this analysis and the assessment of repeatability, which is often used in clinical comparison of a new measurement technique with an established one.

TL;DR: Suggestions for enhancing the capacity for generalization in terms of all three models are offered, which cover such issues as planned replication, sampling strategies, systematic reviews, reflexivity and higher-order conceptualization, thick description, mixed methods research, and the RE-AIM framework within pragmatic trials.

TL;DR: Evidence is documented of various forms of leadership and their differential effects on the nursing workforce and work environments and efforts by organizations and individuals to encourage and develop transformational and relational leadership are needed to enhance nurse satisfaction, recruitment, retention, and healthy work environments.

TL;DR: It is suggested that a dual strategy is needed in order to retain nurses within the profession: a decrease in job demands, coupled with an increase in available job resources.

TL;DR: These findings lend support to previous calls for relationship-centred approaches to care and provide a useful experience-based framework for practice for those involved in care for older people.

TL;DR: Nurse educators need to consider how course experiences contribute not just to potential distress but to eustress, and how educators interact with their students and how they give feedback offers important opportunities to promote self-efficacy and provide valuable support.

TL;DR: Overall burden was greater among adult-child caregivers, especially those who lived with the patient and who had other family duties, whereas for adult children such tasks imply an important change in their lifestyle.

TL;DR: The study confirmed the specific contribution of control and challenged hardy personality dimensions as the explanation of burnout, and active coping had an inverse temporal effect on depersonalisation and lack of personal accomplishment.

TL;DR: To ensure person-centred care is applied to medication activities, nurses should undertake ongoing assessment of patients' needs in relation to their medications and encourage opportunities for increased patient participation.

TL;DR: This review provides a more nuanced understanding of the way nurses reason and act in ethically difficult situations than emerged previously and helps to support nurses in their ethical care and help them to change their conformist practises.

TL;DR: A conceptual model of communication roles of patients, their parents, and health professionals to illuminate communication patterns is proposed and suggests children reside in the background of information sharing with health professionals until they gain autonomy as young people (around age 13).

TL;DR: Most of the literature focuses on the cognitive aspects of culture and recommends learning about the culture of specific groups which is presumed to apply to everyone, but evidence to show how culture is being incorporated into practice is lacking and health professionals appear to be unclear about its meaning.

TL;DR: The development of shared mental models has the potential to improve teamwork in surgery, and thus enhance patient safety, and this insight presents a critical first step towards the development teambuilding interventions in the operating room that would specifically address communication practices in surgery.

TL;DR: Though European mental health nurses' attitudes to mental illness and people with mental health problems differ significantly across some countries, they are largely similar.

TL;DR: The SDLI is a valid and reliable instrument for identifying student SDL abilities and may enable nursing faculty to assess students' SDL status, design better lesson plans and curricula, and, implement appropriate teaching strategies for nursing students in order to foster the growth of lifelong learning abilities.

TL;DR: To identify what factors affect women's decisions to delay childbearing, and to explore women's experiences and their perceptions of associated risks, qualitative empirical studies exploring the views and experiences of women of advanced maternal age are selected.

TL;DR: Soft music was safe, effective, and liked by participants, and it provided greater relief of cancer pain than analgesics alone, extending the Good and Moore theory to cancer pain.

TL;DR: The computer-assisted learning module was an effective strategy for teaching both the theory and practice of handwashing to nursing students and in this study was found to be at least as effective as conventional face-to-face teaching methods.

TL;DR: A theoretical analysis of the concepts of resilience, sense of coherence, hardiness, purpose in life, and self-transcendence was performed in order to identify their core dimensions in an attempt to get an overarching understanding of inner strength.

TL;DR: Eight common themes emerged: the wearing of personal protective equipment; infection control procedures; the fear of contracting and transmitting the disease; adequate staffing levels within the intensive care unit; new roles for staff; morale levels; education regarding extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; and the challenges of patient care.

TL;DR: This cohort study is the first to document empirically in a longitudinal sample, that perceived HIV stigma has a significantly negative and constant impact upon life satisfaction QoL for people with HIV infection.

TL;DR: Results indicate that with training, nurses are a key choice for mandating child abuse and neglect reporting, and particular attention needs to be paid to recognition and reporting of CEA and CN.

TL;DR: Time pressure adversely affected patient safety for nurses with a high level of burnout, but not for nurses in northern Taiwan with a low level of Burnout.

TL;DR: A valid and reliable instrument to assess knowledge of pressure ulcer prevention demonstrated acceptable psychometric properties and can be applied in both research and practice for evaluating knowledge about pressure ulcers prevention.

TL;DR: Being older than 30 years, having more than 10 years of experience, being single, and smoking were associated with a nurse's vulnerability to burnout syndrome as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

TL;DR: It is indicated that a lack of job satisfaction is an important risk factor in the light of nurses' turnover as for most countries the intention to leave cannot be buffered by social support from one's close colleagues.

TL;DR: Common mental disorders were found to be associated with various impairments in work functioning in nurses, these include task-related, intrapersonal and interpersonal aspects of work.

TL;DR: Shift duties were positively associated with abnormal eating behavior among nurses working in hospitals and more health promotional initiatives should be targeted towards hospital nurses whose duties require frequent night shifts to enhance healthy eating.

TL;DR: The experience of moral distress among nurses in Uganda differed somewhat from the experience of nurses in high-income countries, and participants focussed on the impact for patients, communities, and the nursing profession as a whole, rather than on their own personal suffering.

TL;DR: The high patient-to-nurse ratio allows South Korean nurses to focus on more technical tasks that give less stress and have higher job satisfaction because of it, but this also leads to them having less confidence in their patient's ability to take care of themselves upon discharge.