Showing papers in "International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2011"

TL;DR: The use of the methodological metaphor of triangulation on convergent, complementary, and divergent results from mixed methods studies is exemplified and an example of developing theory from such data is provided.

TL;DR: The objective was to develop guidelines for reporting reliability and agreement studies and the proposed guidelines intend to improve the quality of reporting.

TL;DR: A systematic mapping review of the evidence-base for the relationship between nursing home nurse staffing and how this affects quality of care for nursing home residents and to explore methodological lessons for future international studies is reviewed.

TL;DR: The study provides additional support about role stress as an important predictor of burnout and engagement in nursing, even after controlling for personal resources and socio-demographic variables.

TL;DR: Individual differences in nurse turnover antecedents among groups of nurses are identified as a possible reason for the absence of one comprehensive turnover model that holds for the general nursing population.

TL;DR: This study showed that negative development of burnout was predicted by not feeling well prepared for a nursing job, lacking study interest, high levels of performance-based self-esteem and depressive mood in the final year of education.

TL;DR: Emotional closeness to significant others from which one derives a sense of security appears to be important for loneliness, and the frequency of contact with family and friends did not explain the experience of loneliness.

TL;DR: This study is one of the first to empirically review a specific nurse staffing method, based on an individual assessment of each ward to determine staffing requirements, rather than a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

TL;DR: The CPOT was successfully implemented and seemed to have positive effects on pain assessment and management nursing practices in the ICU, and fewer analgesic and sedative agents were administered during the post-implementation phase.

TL;DR: Education interventions to improve nurses' judgements and decisions are complex and the evidence from comparative studies does little to reduce the uncertainty about 'what works'.

TL;DR: It would appear that socialising factors within the education process, negative clinical experiences and the ageist bias within the broader community play an important role in these student's career choices.

TL;DR: In patients with stroke, the FSS-7 showed better psychometric properties and had better potential to detect changes in fatigue over time than the Fss-9 version, suggesting satisfactory grounds for removal of items #1 and #2 for its application.

TL;DR: The ambivalent influence of methadone on opiate-dependent individuals' QoL is illustrated, and how something commonly perceived as a 'good' can also be a 'bad' for some people is demonstrated.

TL;DR: It is concluded that nurses need to engage more fully with ICT so that they contribute to shaping the care system and emerge as leaders of the new care systems delivering future clinical activity.

TL;DR: The study provides cross-national confirmation of the impact of job characteristics and organizational conditions on nurses' well-being and indicates differences in job characteristics partially explain the observed cross- national differences in distress/well-being.

TL;DR: Preliminary evidence is produced that situation awareness, communication, teamwork and coping with stress are the principal non-technical skills required for effective performance as a scrub nurse.

TL;DR: Nursing research has neither clear understanding nor consensus about the concept of work motivation, nor has a universal definition been adopted, and it may be concluded that staff nurses appear to be motivated.

TL;DR: Quality nursing care in nursing home implies a balanced, individual approach to medical, physical and psychosocial care, including interpersonal aspects of care.

TL;DR: There was enough evidence to show that inferences made from scores obtained from the proposed CAT should be sound, and to establish a scoring system and to evaluate the construct validity of the proposed critical appraisal tool before undertaking reliability testing.

TL;DR: It is suggested that improving the psychosocial work environment, and specifically occupational rewards, may be helpful in retaining nurses and consequently reducing nursing shortage in Europe.

TL;DR: Quantitative evidence showed that hospice care at home reduced general health care use and increased family and patient satisfaction with care, and main themes in the qualitative literature revealed that home hospice services support families to sustain patient care atHome and hospice day care services generate for the patient a renewed sense of meaning and purpose.

TL;DR: There is evidence thatintensive care patients' sleep is significantly disrupted and alternative methods of quantifying sleep for intensive care patients may be required.

TL;DR: A more comprehensive understanding of factors that influence intent to leave is provided and the importance of a good working environment for the retention of new graduate nurses is supported.

TL;DR: This study confirmed a relationship between knowledge, risk perception and vaccination behaviours among nurses and identified sentinel items of knowledge and risk perception that could inform future vaccination campaigns.

TL;DR: The findings suggested that adherence to therapeutic regimens may be enhanced by improving a sense of controllability for patients who experience symptoms related to high blood pressure, barriers to adherence may be reduced by assessing and clarifying the meaning of illness identity and causal attributions.

TL;DR: The intervention group showed higher urine leakage cure rates and BMI reduction and compliance to the intervention was the consistent predictor for the effectiveness of the exercise treatment, suggesting that multidimensional exercise strategies may be effective for all three types of urinary incontinence.

TL;DR: These are concepts that practitioners may consider when devising interventions to assist patients with heart failure in undertaking and maintaining regular exercise patterns, namely perceived costs and benefits, self-efficacy and social support.

TL;DR: Irrespective of the degree of mobility and activity thin patients are at higher risk for pressure ulcers at the sacrum, ischial tuberosity, trochanter and shoulder than normal weight and obese patients, and the assumption that the etiology and pathogenetic mechanisms of trunk and heel PU development might be partially different is supported.

TL;DR: Both headphone and broadcast music are effective for reducing the preoperative patient's anxiety in the waiting room in order to take infection control into account.