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Patient's perspective: Self-management of type 2 diabetes in Indonesian
ISBN: 9783838317106 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diabetes mellitus is the fourth cause of mortality in the world, after cardiovascular disease, cancer and muscular-skeletal disease .Diabetes mellitus, is incurable and leads to death due to the long-term complications.This study was undertaken using qualitative approach, to explore the patients' perceptions about self-management of diabetes. The findings show that family-based strategies are more successful in the management of diabetes in Indonesia than are programs focusing on the diabetic person alone. In addition, most participants initially did not have adequate knowledge about...
Diabetes mellitus is the fourth cause of mortality in the world, after cardiovascular disease, cancer and muscular-skeletal disease .Diabetes mellitus...
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Independence in Old Age - Older German Women Living Alone
ISBN: 9783838328355 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nursing in Hell: The Katrina Experience
ISBN: 9783838315430 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Disasters cause great human suffering and inflict catastrophic destruction and death. As humans, nurses experience all the emotional, psychological, and physical responses common to all victims of disasters. However, because of their unique position in the health care system, they often are asked to contain these personal responses while providing care for others. Hurricane Katrina, a Category Four hurricane, made landfall on August 29, 2005, along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Louisiana. Health care workers and patients were stranded in hospitals, where they experienced extreme...
Disasters cause great human suffering and inflict catastrophic destruction and death. As humans, nurses experience all the emotional, psychological, ...
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Expanded Nursing Roles in an Irish Healthcare Setting
ISBN: 9783838316314 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General nursing in Ireland has experienced tremendous change and development within the acute healthcare sector over the last decade in response to changes in health policy, demographics, technology, and the need to contain healthcare costs. Nurses roles are developing and expanding to enhance patient care, promote job satisfaction and achieve cost effectiveness within the healthcare services. The study explored nurses perceptions of role expansion in the acute hospital setting in Ireland in order to gain a deeper understanding of how nurses perceived both the concept and application of...
General nursing in Ireland has experienced tremendous change and development within the acute healthcare sector over the last decade in response to ch...
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Wraparound Services in Developing Systems of Care
ISBN: 9783844313444 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research base regarding the effectiveness of intensive community based services for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances is limited. The incremental development of systems of care in Indiana provides an opportunity to compare the outcomes of children served in child and family wraparound teams with the outcomes of a matched sample of children receiving usual public mental health services. Functional assessment data from a state database was examined using logistic regression models. The level of development of local systems of care and...
The research base regarding the effectiveness of intensive community based services for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbance...
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Nursing Scholarship and Practice
ISBN: 9789979542346 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Horizontal Violence Experienced by Nursing Students
ISBN: 9783838312439 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploratory/descriptive study examines horizontal violence and perceived levels of stress experienced by student nurses. King's (1981) theory of goal attainment was used to guide this research. The research questions to be answered are: what types of horizontal violence do student nurses experience, who inflicts acts of horizontal violence, does age, gender, educational level and educational program influence students' perceptions, do acts of horizontal violence effect perceived levels of stress, and is there a relationship between educating students about interpersonal relationships and...
This exploratory/descriptive study examines horizontal violence and perceived levels of stress experienced by student nurses. King's (1981) theory of ...
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Symptoms and Self-Care Strategies in HIV/AIDS
ISBN: 9783838310817 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Efforts to understand the patterns of self-care strategies that are used by people living with HIV/AIDS are imperative in planning effective symptom management. While many people living with HIV/AIDS are experiencing longer lives, the unpredictable course and nature of the disease itself have continued to burden body functions and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWA). The Internet has become a new tool for collecting data in medical research projects and clinical practice. This book reports the results of a study examining types and predictors of self-care activities from...
Efforts to understand the patterns of self-care strategies that are used by people living with HIV/AIDS are imperative in planning effective symptom m...
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Antibiotic Prescription Practices of Nurse Practitioners
ISBN: 9783838312057 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this quantitative survey study was to identify if nurse practitioners would prescribe an antibiotic for a known viral symptom of purulent nasal discharge. This is a relevant issue, given the misuse of antibiotics for viral infections and its contribution to antibiotic resistance. A researcher adapted, mailed-out, force-choice questionnaire was sent to a random sample of 500 nurse practitioners from a registry list was used. The response rate was 56%.The chi-square test revealed that there was a relationship between an antibiotic prescription and purulent nasal discharge....
The purpose of this quantitative survey study was to identify if nurse practitioners would prescribe an antibiotic for a known viral symptom of purule...
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The Secret to Retaining Novice Nurses
ISBN: 9783838316178 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Currently the nursing workforce is experiencing a shortage of nurses worldwide. In the United States alone there were thousands of unfilled nursing positions. Today, each nurse has several patients to care for, many of whom are acutely ill. Many patients have complex medical conditions requiring multiple treatments. With the increased job responsibilities, the seasoned nurse has little time to support the novice nurse. Poor working environments with long and irregular hours, heavy demanding patient loads, and a lack of mentoring have kept recruitment at an all time low. The current nursing...
Currently the nursing workforce is experiencing a shortage of nurses worldwide. In the United States alone there were thousands of unfilled nursing po...
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Issues and Concerns of Individuals Living with Heart Failure
ISBN: 9783838359601 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Individuals whom live with Heart Failure will tell you many areas of their life are interupted. Simple things from going to town, Doctor appointments, and family gatherings, to name a few, become difficult. The multiple medications, wearing oxygen, and sexual aspects of their life are trying. This Thesis oulines how individuals live with Heart Failure, the changes they have made, discuss some medications for treating the symptoms, and alternative therapies.
Individuals whom live with Heart Failure will tell you many areas of their life are interupted. Simple things from going to town, Doctor appointments,...
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Effectiveness of infeciton control education program
ISBN: 9783838312200 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last few decades, human life has been threatened by the sequential emergence of a number of unknown infectious and non-treatable diseases, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as well as real strains of influenzas. However, many studies presented that frontline health-care workers, nurse, who have the most opportunity to provide primary care to patients with a potentially lethal infectious disease are themsevelves at high risk of contracting the disease. The experience learned from the SARS outbreak studies have evidenced...
In the last few decades, human life has been threatened by the sequential emergence of a number of unknown infectious and non-treatable diseases, s...
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Cigarette Smoking and Nursing Home Utilization in the United States
ISBN: 9783838318998 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cigarette Smoking and Nursing Home Utilization in the United States represents a timely, thoughtful, and pioneering examination of the relationship between cigarette smoking and the cost of nursing home care. Although there have been many studies of the cost of smoking, very few studies have focused on the costs of nursing home care due to smoking. This book takes us through a comprehensive literature review of the risk factors affecting nursing home utilization, the epidemiology of smoking and disease, mortality due to smoking, and use of medical care services caused by smoking. Dr....
The Cigarette Smoking and Nursing Home Utilization in the United States represents a timely, thoughtful, and pioneering examination of the relationshi...
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The Art of Case Management in Practice
ISBN: 9783838366111 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the specialised field of Nurse Case Management and the need for formal training for Nurse Case Managers (NCMs). In particular, the study aimed to establish what the outcomes should be of a learning programme for practising NCMs in South Africa. I used a descriptive survey study design. Data was collected using the Delphi technique. The Delphi technique involves questionnaires to be distributed, collation of the data returned and the distribution of a revised questionnaire for input from the participants. Each questionnaire distributed becomes a 'round' and forms part of...
This book focuses on the specialised field of Nurse Case Management and the need for formal training for Nurse Case Managers (NCMs). In particular, th...
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Exploring the Impact of Afghan Women's Community Participation
ISBN: 9783838315485 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Community participation is a key component in successful implementation of community health programs worldwide, but research on its impact is limited. Using an ethnographic approach, this study explored the impact of resettled San Francisco Bay area Afghan refugee womens long-term participation on the local Afghan community and their own lives. Findings chapters are organized by four overarching themes. Context of participation describes history, recent, personal and resettlement experiences, and culture. Transitions and patterned responses identifies the nature, specific...
Community participation is a key component in successful implementation of community health programs worldwide, but research on its impact is limit...
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Circumpolar Nursing
ISBN: 9783838340791 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on a study that explored Sami nurses' culture, identity and traditions in their practice in rural, arctic areas of Norway. Overall, ruralism was not considered a challenge, but connected to decreased recruitment and retention of workforce. Appreciating traditional ways of nursing and healing, a strong sense of separating what was allowed at work/private time was conveyed, causing a view of their nursing job as something Norwegian, and perhaps a little 'un-Sami'. Challenges were perceptions of self-worth among Sami people themselves, language problems, and a sense of lack of...
This book is based on a study that explored Sami nurses' culture, identity and traditions in their practice in rural, arctic areas of Norway. Overall,...
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A Phenomenological Study
ISBN: 9783838372594 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Degree completion nursing students bring professional maturity, clinical expertise, and practitioner experience to the education setting and are searching for ways to understand and deal with the complexity of their practice and the complex adaptive systems of health care. Through a qualitative phenomenological research design based on human science inquiry, the ways in which registered nurses (RNs) experience professional transformation in Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree completion education programs informed by complexity science were explored. Eleven study participants were...
Degree completion nursing students bring professional maturity, clinical expertise, and practitioner experience to the education setting and are searc...
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Facilitating clinical skills teaching
ISBN: 9783838347844 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clinical skills facilities create learning environments that will realistically simulate care environments without the inherent risks in actual practice settings. Student nurses on qualifying need to be fit for purpose and so fit for practice. Nurse lecturers utilise their clinical knowledge and expertise when teaching clinical skills however do they consider the underpinning educational evidence base when considering how best to teach and facilitate learning of clinical skills? This book analyses how teachers of nursing set out to teach the principles of clinical skills but that...
Clinical skills facilities create learning environments that will realistically simulate care environments without the inherent risks in actual pra...
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Identified Capabilities Among Older Adults: Basis for a Wellness Program
ISBN: 9783838344324 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The background concepts and happenings are given an impetus on this investigation to work the research problems. Older adults are increasing in number because people are indeed living longer, not only because lifestyle have changed but also because of technological advances in all areas of society. Older individual must continue to learn in order to pursue opportunities that help them reach their fullest potential. Wellness is an integrated method of functioning, which is oriented toward maximizing the potential of which the individual is capable, within the environment where he is...
The background concepts and happenings are given an impetus on this investigation to work the research problems. Older adults are increasing in number...
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Health Promotion and Realist Evaluation Models
ISBN: 9783838390307 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are three broad themes integrated throughout this thesis. The first relates to the development and implementation of a multimedia health care program called "Ambulances for Asthma." The second relates to program evaluation within health care and recounts the methodological challenges related to the evaluation of this program. The third portrays the self reflective evaluation journey of the author informed by auto-ethnography. Six linked projects are presented, culminating in a metaevaluation of the health promotion [process, impact and outcome (PIO)] and realist evaluation models from...
There are three broad themes integrated throughout this thesis. The first relates to the development and implementation of a multimedia health care pr...
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