Nursing presence is an important therapeutic and diagnostic modality in patient-centered care decision-making during end-of-life (EOL) care. Nurses cultivate through intentional awareness actions to support patients, yet there a paucity of relevant literature regarding nursing EOL An evolutionary concept analysis employing Rodger’s techniques was conducted with 20 international research studies nine analyses between 1992 2023. The attributes, antecedents, consequences were described,...

PURPOSE This national online study was conducted to describe nursing faculty perspectives and practices about evidencebased teaching practice (EBTP). BACK GROUND Professional standards for nurse educator stress the importance of EBTP; however, use evidence by in curriculum design, evaluation educational measurement, program development has not been reported. METHOD Nurse administrators accredited programs United States (N = 1,586) were emailed information study, including research consent...

Spirituality is an understudied topic in social computing; however, for Online Health Community (OHC) users facing life-threatening illness, it of fundamental importance. Through in-depth focus groups with OHC stakeholders a US context, we derive definition "spiritual support" use by designers and researchers who study online support. We show that spiritual support integral dimension underlies other types, if ignore spirituality design, fail to mitigate problematic issues arise spaces when...

ABSTRACT THIS STUDY COMPARED the effectiveness of an Internet‐based method with a standard for preparing adolescent patients scheduled out‐patient tonsillectomy procedures. A TWO‐GROUP EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN compared adolescents' state anxiety, knowledge acqui‐sition, postoperative pain intensity, and satisfaction preoperative preparation. PARENTS' STATE ANXIETY their child's preparation also were compared. DATA ANALYSIS REVEALED significantly increased acquisition among adolescents who...

This article presents the findings of a qualitative study investigating how critical care nurses include families in end-of-life care. The major theme, "Supporting Families' Journey Through Dying Process," illustrates organize information to construct "big picture" patients' deteriorating status and artfully communicate this families.

Instrumental support is critical for patients and family caregivers facing life-threatening illnesses, injuries, or chronic conditions (e.g., cancer). We partner with CaringBridge.org—a prominent online health community journaling about crises—to conduct a study of instrumental in the following two phases: content analysis 641 journal updates; survey 991 users. Quantitative results show that: (1) prefer to receive different types than their care networks provide; (2) people generally have...

Educating patients is a primary responsibility of all nurses; however, because time constraints and staff shortages, pediatric oncology nurses are often unable to adequately prepare for cancer treatment. Instead, frequently rely on the Internet as source information about cancer, some which can be outdated inaccurate. Adolescents regard valuable health it easily accessible, less threatening, confidential. Considering need accurate, readily available adolescents with purpose this study was...

Recent changes in health care legislation have presented an unprecedented opportunity for nurses to engage as full partners transforming (Institute of Medicine, 2010). According diverse opinion leaders from insurance, corporate, services, government, and higher education, should more influence than they do now on policy, planning, management (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, More ever before, nursing needs leaders, faculty are a pivotal position educate nursing. This article describes the...

Objective To explore the health-related quality of life (QoL) among children with velocardiofacial syndrome (VCFS) and to compare QoL by gender samples chronically ill healthy children. Design Setting Cross-sectional design, comparing data obtained from a survey parents VCFS previously published comparison groups who are or have other chronic conditions. Participants Parents 45 aged 2 18 years participated in this study. Results were compared on same measures (n = 10,343) variety conditions...

Prison populations are rapidly aging. Persons in prison age quicker and suffer more chronic illness disability than their nonincarcerated peers, posing challenges to caring for prisoners who chronically ill dying. The goal of our study was describe state prisons' practices policies addressing persons with advanced life limiting through a national web-based survey state-level health care professionals. In particular, we focused on planning, use directives, decision-making about goals care,...

Faculty perspectives about holistic nursing education (HNE) were investigated in this descriptive study. All nurse faculty teaching a religious-affiliated university invited to complete researcher-developed survey; surveys analyzed identify themes related respondents' definitions of HNE. Themes included nursing, seeing with eyes, and using pedagogy. Respondents' HNE found be consistent professional standards competencies. Respondents nearly unanimous describing the importance educating...

Critical care settings are known to be fast-paced and technologically advanced. To optimize humanistic care, integration of evidence-based complementary alternative therapies holds promise. However, evidence critical nurses' use in clinical practice has not been evaluated recently.This study sought determine perspectives music therapy, aromatherapy, guided imagery (GI) including perceptions legitimacy, self-reported knowledge, interest gaining beliefs harm/benefits, professional use,...