Purpose: To learn how students experience clinical placements in a setting of diversity and how they cope with the emotional challenges involved. Design: This study is based on inductive, qualitative research undertaken with Israeli nursing students. Method: In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 students: 10 Arabs (5 men and 5 women), 9 Jews (2 men and 7 women), and 1 Circassian. The inter…
Purpose: This Taiwan study investigated the effect of a visual art–based friendly environment on nursing home residents satisfaction with their living environment. Design: A pre-experimental design was used. Thirty-three residents in a nursing home were recruited in a one-group pre- and post-test study. Methods: The four-floor living environment was integrated using visual art, reminiscence, …
Purpose: To describe strategies, culled from experience, for responding to several recruitment challenges in an ongoing randomized clinical trial of delirium in persons with dementia. Organizing Construct: Delirium in people with dementia is common across all cultures. Little research supports the use of specific interventions for delirium. Recruitment of an adequate sample is critical to the v…
Purpose: To assess author credentials of quantitative research in nursing, the composition of the research teams, and the disciplinary focus of the theories tested. Design: Nursing Research, Western Journal of Nursing Research, and Journal of Advanced Nursing were selected for this descriptive study; 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 were included. The final sample consisted of 484 quantitative …
Purpose: To introduce current and emerging approaches that are being utilized in the field of genomics so the reader can conceptually evaluate the literature and appreciate how these approaches are advancing our understanding of health-related issues. Organizing Construct: Each approach is described and includes information related to how it is advancing research, its potential clinical utility…
Purpose: The rapid continuous feed of new information from scientific discoveries related to the human genome makes translation and incorporation of information into the clinical setting difficult and creates ethical, legal, and social challenges for providers. This article overviews some of the legal and ethical foundations that guide our response to current complex issues in health care assoc…
Purpose: Newborn screening has dramatically decreased the morbidity and mortality associated with a wide range of heritable conditions. Continuing advances in screening technology and improvements in the effectiveness of treatment are driving the rapid expansion of newborn screening programs. In this article, we review issues in newborn screening care and opportunities for nurses and nursing fa…
Purpose: Some forms of genetic skin disease are highly prevalent and others are exceedingly rare, but collectively, genetic skin disorders (or genodermatoses) are often poorly understood. The purpose of this article, therefore, is to increase nurses’ awareness and understanding of some of the physical, psychological, social, and ethical issues facing patients with inherited skin disorders. Or…
Purpose: This article reports on recommendations arising from an invitational workshop series held at the National Institutes of Health for the purposes of identifying critical genomics problems important to the health of the public that can be addressed through nursing science. The overall purpose of the Genomic Nursing State of the Science Initiative is to establish a nursing research bluepri…
Every human needs sleeping because it is one of basic needs of human. Sleep quality is a someones activity that produces freshness and fitness feeling when he wakes up. Then, studying concentration is thought focus to lessons by ignoring everything that has nothing to do with the lesson. In studying, getting studying concentration needs to have an adequate sleep so that someones concentration k…