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Wound Related Pain and Attachment in the Older Adults
ISBN: 9783838342191 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A constellation of physical and psychological factors may be involved in the mediation of pain during wound dressing change. In this study, the attachment framework was examined to determine how personal views of self (attachment anxiety) and others (attachment avoidance) may affect anticipation of pain, anxiety, and pain during dressing change. Attachment styles are systematic patterns of expectations, emotional reactivity, strategies for distress management and social behaviour that are based on an individuals belief about the self and others. Internal working models are...
A constellation of physical and psychological factors may be involved in the mediation of pain during wound dressing change. In this study, the at...
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Bullying of Irish and Filipino Nurses in a Dublin Hospital
ISBN: 9783838369525 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research has identified work bullying as a major cause of stress to nurses. It affects victims both physically and psychologically. It shows a direct relationship between the incidents of workplace bullying and the nature of the organisational climate and the style of management that nurses experience. It shows that policies in place to deal with bullying and harassment are ineffective.
This research has identified work bullying as a major cause of stress to nurses. It affects victims both physically and psychologically. It shows a di...
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The woman's experience of bereavement
ISBN: 9783838347035 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As community palliative care services for the elderly increase so too will the demand for appropriate bereavement support. The literature reveals older spousal caregivers are susceptible to bereavement problems, older women are at further risk and that bereavement is affected by the caregiving situation. However, older women carers' experience of bereavement appears to have been neglected. Therefore, the purpose of this book is to provide a deeper understanding of the meaning of bereavement as it is experienced by three older women who have cared for their palliated spouse. The essence of...
As community palliative care services for the elderly increase so too will the demand for appropriate bereavement support. The literature reveals olde...
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Pharmaceutical Company Influence on Nurse Practitioner Prescribing
ISBN: 9783838354811 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The influence of pharmaceutical industry sponsored education, promotions and gifts on the prescribing practices of physicians and medical students has been well documented in the literature. Nurse practitioners (NPs) also prescribe pharmaceutical products for their patients. However, the effect of corporate promotions on the prescribing practices of nurse practitioners has not been assessed. This quantitative, descriptive study investigated the relationship between pharmaceutical company sponsored educational programs, promotions and gifts and the self-reported prescribing...
The influence of pharmaceutical industry sponsored education, promotions and gifts on the prescribing practices of physicians and medical students h...
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Culture Change in Healthcare
ISBN: 9783838352114 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leaders of successful hospitals realize that, for their organizations to remain sustainable in a dynamic and unpredictable health care environment there must be an understanding of and strong commitment to the organizational culture. However, nursing leaders have been unsuccessful in achieving the types of cultural changes that lead to an increase in quality of care and in the job satisfaction of nurses. This book, address a method to identify any cultural differences among the key stakeholder groups with respect to attributes identified as necessary for a Magnet work environment....
Leaders of successful hospitals realize that, for their organizations to remain sustainable in a dynamic and unpredictable health care environment the...
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Patients' Perceptions of Feeling Known by their Nurses Scale
ISBN: 9783838355986 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of the nurse-patient relationship to the overall well-being of the person has been explored by nurses. The purpose of this study was to develop a measure of patients perceptions of feeling known by their nurses. Development of the scale was guided by Newmans Health as Expanding Consciousness (1994) and data from a qualitative descriptive study conducted in 2003 (Somerville). The four themes that emerged from the qualitative study were used to guide the development of the 85- item scale. This scale was exposed to a panel of nurse experts and was piloted with five...
The importance of the nurse-patient relationship to the overall well-being of the person has been explored by nurses. The purpose of this study was ...
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Tending The Spirit At The Ebb of Life
ISBN: 9783838358109 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spiritual well-being and spiritual issues come more into focus as a person with a life threatening illness begins to acknowledge that they are dying. At the same time the person's usual resources for maintaining their spiritual well-being are often diminishing. Health professionals working with palliative care patients and their families often struggle to navigate these issues especially when they are also faced with managing complex physical symptoms. This book explores issues around tending the person's spirit in the acute care setting and provides practical suggestions to assist health...
Spiritual well-being and spiritual issues come more into focus as a person with a life threatening illness begins to acknowledge that they are dying. ...
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Sgsonoa: The New Technique
ISBN: 9783843353076 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This manuscript aspired to generate a health-teaching approach that will provide an efficient and effective intervention to promote independence to those with visual impairment. The study combined two techniques of health teaching called Sighted Guidance on Spatial Orientation and Non-Optical Aids (SGSONOA) in improving the visual functioning of visually impaired adults with glaucoma. The author understands that an adult with visual impairment needs a unique way of learning since their sense of vision, which is necessary for acquisition of knowledge, is affected. It is believed that the...
This manuscript aspired to generate a health-teaching approach that will provide an efficient and effective intervention to promote independence to th...
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Family-centered care shapes the outcome
ISBN: 9783838302515 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study revealed that optimal family well-being was characterized by (a) mobilization of positive personal coping resources in dealing with stroke- related disability and daily care hassles, (b) realignment of personal competence in activities of daily living, (c) harmonization of intra-familial relationship, and (d) active and proactive management of care issues. Families who failed in part or in whole to maintain these four features were considered as having functional or dysfunctional well-being. The results are informative in enabling nurses to derive culturally- sensitive and...
This study revealed that optimal family well-being was characterized by (a) mobilization of positive personal coping resources in dealing with stroke-...
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Dying at Home: A Lived Experience
ISBN: 9783838342061 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Increasing numbers of elderly are dying at home. Nurses continually illuminate choices for clients who walk the path of terminal illness yet are unaware of the meaning of dying at home for the client. This study is the first to identify the lived experience of dying at home.Participants were 10 white males, 67-83 yrs old,with a mean education of 9 yrs, diagnosed as terminally ill, in Hospice care, Ohio residents and were willing to share the meaning of dying at home. Sample size was determined by redundancy of information.Parses research methodology was used to analyze the unstructured,...
Increasing numbers of elderly are dying at home. Nurses continually illuminate choices for clients who walk the path of terminal illness yet are unawa...
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Asthma Management Through Care Pathways
ISBN: 9783843362368 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asthma is a chronic disease, which affects up to 20% of children in Ireland. This effects individual patients well-being and adds costs to the Health Services. This study examines the use of care pathways in the primary health care setting in Ireland based upon research in 13 general practices in the Dublin area. The research indicates that a strong trend towards the use of self management plans by practice nurses is paralleled by an increasing wish by patients to adopt this approach in order to achieve a level of empowerment and improvement in relation to the condition. ...
Asthma is a chronic disease, which affects up to 20% of children in Ireland. This effects individual patients well-being and adds costs to the Hea...
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The Lived Experiences of Dominican Women with Stage IV Breast Cancer
ISBN: 9783843361361 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The diagnosis of breast cancer, for most, elicits anxiety and fear due to the disease and treatment process, which usually has a devastating effect on the person, both physically and emotionally. Would ethnicity change or modify this stereotypical response? This study was done to illuminate the perceptions of Dominican women living with Stage IV breast cancer (advanced breast cancer). This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of Dominican women diagnosed with Stage IV breast cancer using a purposive sample of convenience to illuminate their perceptions of living with advanced...
The diagnosis of breast cancer, for most, elicits anxiety and fear due to the disease and treatment process, which usually has a devastating effect on...
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Looking Out That Window Too: Loss in Pregnancy
ISBN: 9783838395494 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study, was to gain new and different understandings of loss in pregnancy as defined by the women. Deductive approaches using theories of grief to guide research methodologies are abundant in the literature. Perhaps this emphasis on the experience of grief has overshadowed other aspects of the experience that might be different than or more than grief as it has been defined. Understanding the experience of loss in pregnancy instead of categorizing it- deciding what is a loss and what is not, who is allowed to grieve and for how long -...
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study, was to gain new and different understandings of loss in pregnancy as defined by the women. ...
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The Intervention Model to Manage Secondary Traumatic Stress in Rwanda
ISBN: 9783838384290 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It was previously established that mental health workers in Rwanda experience secondary traumatic stress (STS) when working with trauma survivors. The effects of STS can be serious and permanent in mental health workers when working with traumatized clients. This study aimed to develop an intervention model to manage STS in mental health workers in Rwanda. It was carried out into five cycles using action research approach.A total of 180 participants were selected using convenience sampling to collect quantitative data. 30 unstructured interviews were also conducted to collect...
It was previously established that mental health workers in Rwanda experience secondary traumatic stress (STS) when working with trauma survivors. T...
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The Lived ICU Experiences of Nurses, Patients and Family Members
ISBN: 9783843394628 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical illness and the admission of a family member to an intensive care unit is an extremely stressful experience that may result in an emotional turmoil, high level of stress, role conflict, interruption of normal home routines, and potential changes in relationships among patients and family members. This phenomenological study explored the lived intensive care unit experiences of nurses, patients and family members during critical illness in the intensive care unit using a purposive sample of five participants from each category. Content analysis of narratives elucidated that...
Critical illness and the admission of a family member to an intensive care unit is an extremely stressful experience that may result in an emotional...
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Kidney Transplantation
ISBN: 9783843383844 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is an increasing incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in the Philippines. It has been one of the top ten killer disease in the country, affecting children, adolescent and young adults in their productive years. For persons with ESRD, kidney transplantation has become the chosen and highly effective method of treatment during the past decades. It is considered as established therapeutic technique in the country, successful transplantation restores almost a normal life and offers a full potential for the full return of a healthy productive life. Kidney transplantation is performed...
There is an increasing incidence of End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) in the Philippines. It has been one of the top ten killer disease in the country, a...
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Learning In The Workplace
ISBN: 9783843393690 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This investigation follows a group of newly qualified UK based Primary Care Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) through the very crucial first year of professional practice in their new role. The main focus is on professional development in the clinical environment, where both formal and informal learning takes place. Results from this study have produced findings that are unique to ANPs, highlighting the pioneering quality of the role along with key components that foster professional learning and development.
This investigation follows a group of newly qualified UK based Primary Care Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs) through the very crucial first year of...
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Anaemia in Pregnancy
ISBN: 9783845410777 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present investigation was undertaken to analysis of anaemia in pregnancy of Dhule and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra. This book containing the prevalence, causes of anaemia in Indian pregnant women and risk factors for maternal anaemia in the population and its remedies. The study suggested that, it is necessary to make the people aware about anaemia, its adverse effects and give the information to overcome it.
The present investigation was undertaken to analysis of anaemia in pregnancy of Dhule and Jalgaon districts of Maharashtra. This book containing th...
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Stressors and Coping Strategies Among Nursing Students
ISBN: 9783844321692 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of nursing education is to provide academic and clinical experiences in an environment that facilitates student learning and creates an emotional climate, which will facilitate the development of students as people and nurses.The main objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of stress and its relationship between educational environment, coping strategies and academic performance among students Of the 178 students, 41 of the students giving a prevalence of distress between nursing student about 24.3%. . The highest scores domain was students perception of...
The purpose of nursing education is to provide academic and clinical experiences in an environment that facilitates student learning and creates an em...
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Understanding Fetal Demise: A Qualitative Inquiry
ISBN: 9783843384957 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fetal mortality or commonly known as stillbirth is one of the contemporary crisis of health in the Philippines. Data are not conclusive and most cases are unreported. Numerous studies were done worldwide to explore fetal demise experiences. (Hsu et. al,2002; Trulsson,2004; Ekelin et al, 2008). Moreover, it is assumed that loss is something personally experienced and is culturally defined. This qualitative research aimed to discover the experiences of adolescent mothers on fetal demise and explored on their coping strategies. Filipino adolescent mothers expressed that it was a learning...
Fetal mortality or commonly known as stillbirth is one of the contemporary crisis of health in the Philippines. Data are not conclusive and most cas...
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