Typologies of Professional Identity Among Graduating Baccalaureate-Prepared N…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of professional identity arising from the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) attitudes among students completing their prelicensure education. Design: This mixed-method study used a modified Q-methodology design with a purposeful sample of 36 baccalaureate students graduating from three campuses of a large Midwestern unive…

The Effect of Postinjury Depression on Quality of Life following Minor Injury

Purpose: To describe quality of life (QoL) in the year following minor injury and to test the hypothesis that individuals with depression in the postinjury year experience lower QoL than do individuals with no depression. Design: Prospective, longitudinal, cohort design. A total of 275 adults were randomly selected from injured patients presenting to an urban emergency department. Methods: A…

The Relationship Between Emergency Department Crowding and Patient Outcomes: …

Purpose: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a significant patient safety concern associated with poor quality of care. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the relationship between ED crowding and patient outcomes. Design: We searched the Medline search engine and relevant emergency medicine and nursing journals for studies published in the past decade that pertained to ED cr…

Exploring the Frequency of Blood Pressure Documentation in Emergency Departments

Purpose: One of the most commonly performed task in the emergency department (ED) is reported as the monitoring of vital signs, yet there are no published standards of care that provide guidelines for the frequency of obtaining vital signs in the ED. The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine the frequency of documentation of vital signs recorded during ED visits across Veterans Hea…

A Patient-Focused Framework Integrating Self-Management and Informatics

Purpose: This article introduces a framework to (a) guide chronic illness self-management interventions through the integration of self-management and nursing informatics, (b) focus self-management research, and (c) promote ethical, patient-empowering technology use by practicing nurses. Methods: Existing theory and research focusing on chronic illness, selfmanagement, health-enabling technolo…

Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation Among Childbearing Couples

Purpose: A family sense of coherence is important to successful family adaptation during parental transition. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between family sense of coherence, stress, family and marital functioning, and depressive symptoms among Chinese childbearing couples. Design: A cross-sectional design was used. Two hundred and twenty-four Chinese childbearing …

Postpartum Women’s Sleep Quality and Its Predictors in Taiwan

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore postpartum women’s sleep quality and its predictors in Taiwan. Design: Cross-sectional design. Methods: Postpartum women (N = 327) were recruited during their postnatal check-ups in Taiwan. Data were collected from October 2008 to July 2009 using a demographic form, the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Physical Symptoms Checklist, Perc…

Conducting Important and Ethical Research

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ISBN/ISSN

1527-6546

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Hlm. 73

Series Title

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 46, Number 2 March 2014

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(05) 610.5 WIL j

Basic Nursing Care: Retrospective Evaluation of Communication and Psychosocia…

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of psychosocial aspects of basic nursing care, as e-charted by nurses, when using an interface terminology. Methods: An observational, multicentre study was conducted in acute wards. The main outcome measure was the frequency of use of the psychosocial interventions in the electronic nursing care plans, analysed over a 12 month retrospective …

Nurses’ Scope of Practice and the Implication for Quality Nursing Care

Purpose: This article provides an overview of the implications for patients’ health status and care needs when assessments are performed by nurses not licensed or competent to perform this task. The WaterlowTM scale (Judy Waterlow, The Nook, Stroke Road, Henlade, TAUNTON, TA3 5LX) scenario is used as a practice example to illustrate this case. Organizational Construct: The international nur…