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Nurses To Make Aged Care An Election Year Issue, Australian Nursing Federation
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 -0800
The massive $300 wages gap between aged care and public hospital nurses is set to become an election year issue with the launch of a national advertising campaign by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) and the NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA)...
Nurses, Fair Elections Advocates To Deliver "Prop. 15 Disinfectant Cleanser" To CA's Shadow Government: Lobbyists
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0800
What This Wednesday, Registered Nurses and advocates for fair elections will deliver a case of "Prop. 15 disinfectant cleanser" to a group sworn to defeating the campaign-finance initiative...
ANA Nurses Join President Obama For PA Health Reform Rally
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 -0800
Members of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the US, joined President Obama today in Glendale, PA to demonstrate their strong support for the President and his goal of achieving meaningful health reform now...
Journal of Research in Nursing current issue
Peer review and international collaboration: the bedrock of a learned journal, the way forward for quality care
Bishop, V.
Clinical practice development
White, E.
A potent mix: older people, transitions, practice development and research
Cheek, J.The discussion to follow reflects on aspects of findings from research spanning more than a decade focusing on the substantive area of transitions in the care and support needs of older people. Rather than being a report of any of the individual research projects per se, some key issues that have emerged in these studies, and what they might mean for aspects of clinical practice development, are discussed. The aim is to encourage us to take time out to think about what otherwise may be assumed or unexplored understandings of aspects of both clinical practice itself, and how to develop that clinical practice with respect to older people and the transitions they undergo. Three areas of reflection form the focus of the paper. They are around creating a dynamic, contextualised and active research programme able to assist clinical development and practice; capturing and working with the complexity that is a transition; and questioning how independent some of the older people living in the community who participated in the research actually are. Implications for how services and supports are thought about and configured are highlighted throughout. Reflecting on research in this way is an essential part of taking time to care, and can assist in the development of thoughtful and optimal clinical practice.
Evidence-Based Nursing current issue
Purpose and procedure
New look Evidence-Based Medicine
Solomon, J.
Intensive glucose control in type 2 diabetes reduces cardiovascular disease, but not cardiovascular or all-cause mortality, and increases risk of severe hypoglycaemia
Chyun, D.
Research in Nursing & Health
Strategies to recruit and retain college smokers in cessation trials
M. Meghan Davidson, Nikole J. Cronk, Kari Jo Harris, Solomon Harrar, Delwyn Catley, Glenn E. Good Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:50:00 -0000
Techniques to recruit and retain college fraternity and sorority members who reported past 30-day smoking into a cessation trial are described. Recruitment efforts included relationship-building, raffles, and screening survey administration during existing meetings. Surveys were administered to 76% (n = 3,276) of members in 30 chapters, 79% of eligible members agreed to participate, and 76% of those completed assessments and were enrolled in the trial (n = 452). The retention rate was 73%. Retention efforts included cash incentives, flexible scheduling, multiple reminders, chapter incentives, and use of chapter members as study personnel. Retention was not related to demographic, behavioral, or group characteristics. The strategies of partnership, convenience, and flexibility appear effective and may prove useful to investigators recruiting similar samples. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Implementation fidelity in community-based interventions
Susan M. Breitenstein, Deborah Gross, Christine A. Garvey, Carri Hill, Louis Fogg, Barbara Resnick Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:33:00 -0000
Implementation fidelity is the degree to which an intervention is delivered as intended and is critical to successful translation of evidence-based interventions into practice. Diminished fidelity may be why interventions that work well in highly controlled trials may fail to yield the same outcomes when applied in real life contexts. The purpose of this paper is to define implementation fidelity and describe its importance for the larger science of implementation, discuss data collection methods and current efforts in measuring implementation fidelity in community-based prevention interventions, and present future research directions for measuring implementation fidelity that will advance implementation science.© 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Organizational determinants of work outcomes and quality care ratings among Army Medical Department registered nurses
Patricia A. Patrician, Jingjing Shang, Eileen T. Lake Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:24:00 -0000
The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and several single-item measures were administered to registered nurses (RNs) working within 23 U.S.-based Army Medical Department (AMEDD) hospitals. Data were analyzed with logistic regression for nested data. Unfavorable nursing practice environments had a substantial association with job dissatisfaction (OR 13.75, p < .01), emotional exhaustion (OR 12.70, p < .01), intent to leave (OR 3.03, p < .01), and fair to poor quality of care (OR 10.66, p < .01). This study provides the first system-wide analyses of nursing practice environments in AMEDD hospitals in the U.S. Similar to findings in civilian samples, poor quality work environments are associated with less favorable RN work outcomes and quality of care ratings. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
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Nurses To Make Aged Care An Election Year Issue, Australian Nursing Federation
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:00:00 -0800
The massive $300 wages gap between aged care and public hospital nurses is set to become an election year issue with the launch of a national advertising campaign by the Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) and the NSW Nurses' Association (NSWNA)...
Nurses, Fair Elections Advocates To Deliver "Prop. 15 Disinfectant Cleanser" To CA's Shadow Government: Lobbyists
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:00:00 -0800
What This Wednesday, Registered Nurses and advocates for fair elections will deliver a case of "Prop. 15 disinfectant cleanser" to a group sworn to defeating the campaign-finance initiative...
ANA Nurses Join President Obama For PA Health Reform Rally
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:00:00 -0800
Members of the American Nurses Association (ANA), the largest nursing organization in the US, joined President Obama today in Glendale, PA to demonstrate their strong support for the President and his goal of achieving meaningful health reform now...
Journal of Research in Nursing current issue
Peer review and international collaboration: the bedrock of a learned journal, the way forward for quality care
Bishop, V.
Clinical practice development
White, E.
A potent mix: older people, transitions, practice development and research
Cheek, J.The discussion to follow reflects on aspects of findings from research spanning more than a decade focusing on the substantive area of transitions in the care and support needs of older people. Rather than being a report of any of the individual research projects per se, some key issues that have emerged in these studies, and what they might mean for aspects of clinical practice development, are discussed. The aim is to encourage us to take time out to think about what otherwise may be assumed or unexplored understandings of aspects of both clinical practice itself, and how to develop that clinical practice with respect to older people and the transitions they undergo. Three areas of reflection form the focus of the paper. They are around creating a dynamic, contextualised and active research programme able to assist clinical development and practice; capturing and working with the complexity that is a transition; and questioning how independent some of the older people living in the community who participated in the research actually are. Implications for how services and supports are thought about and configured are highlighted throughout. Reflecting on research in this way is an essential part of taking time to care, and can assist in the development of thoughtful and optimal clinical practice.
Evidence-Based Nursing current issue
Purpose and procedure
New look Evidence-Based Medicine
Solomon, J.
Intensive glucose control in type 2 diabetes reduces cardiovascular disease, but not cardiovascular or all-cause mortality, and increases risk of severe hypoglycaemia
Chyun, D.
Research in Nursing & Health
Strategies to recruit and retain college smokers in cessation trials
M. Meghan Davidson, Nikole J. Cronk, Kari Jo Harris, Solomon Harrar, Delwyn Catley, Glenn E. Good Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:50:00 -0000
Techniques to recruit and retain college fraternity and sorority members who reported past 30-day smoking into a cessation trial are described. Recruitment efforts included relationship-building, raffles, and screening survey administration during existing meetings. Surveys were administered to 76% (n = 3,276) of members in 30 chapters, 79% of eligible members agreed to participate, and 76% of those completed assessments and were enrolled in the trial (n = 452). The retention rate was 73%. Retention efforts included cash incentives, flexible scheduling, multiple reminders, chapter incentives, and use of chapter members as study personnel. Retention was not related to demographic, behavioral, or group characteristics. The strategies of partnership, convenience, and flexibility appear effective and may prove useful to investigators recruiting similar samples. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Implementation fidelity in community-based interventions
Susan M. Breitenstein, Deborah Gross, Christine A. Garvey, Carri Hill, Louis Fogg, Barbara Resnick Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:33:00 -0000
Implementation fidelity is the degree to which an intervention is delivered as intended and is critical to successful translation of evidence-based interventions into practice. Diminished fidelity may be why interventions that work well in highly controlled trials may fail to yield the same outcomes when applied in real life contexts. The purpose of this paper is to define implementation fidelity and describe its importance for the larger science of implementation, discuss data collection methods and current efforts in measuring implementation fidelity in community-based prevention interventions, and present future research directions for measuring implementation fidelity that will advance implementation science.© 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Organizational determinants of work outcomes and quality care ratings among Army Medical Department registered nurses
Patricia A. Patrician, Jingjing Shang, Eileen T. Lake Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:24:00 -0000
The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index, the Maslach Burnout Inventory, and several single-item measures were administered to registered nurses (RNs) working within 23 U.S.-based Army Medical Department (AMEDD) hospitals. Data were analyzed with logistic regression for nested data. Unfavorable nursing practice environments had a substantial association with job dissatisfaction (OR 13.75, p < .01), emotional exhaustion (OR 12.70, p < .01), intent to leave (OR 3.03, p < .01), and fair to poor quality of care (OR 10.66, p < .01). This study provides the first system-wide analyses of nursing practice environments in AMEDD hospitals in the U.S. Similar to findings in civilian samples, poor quality work environments are associated with less favorable RN work outcomes and quality of care ratings. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
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