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Nurse Struck Off For False Prescriptions, UK
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0700
A district nurse, qualified to prescribe, was struck off the Nursing and Midwifery register for obtaining drugs with false patient prescriptions.
Earwax Removal: National Guidelines Released
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 -0700
The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first comprehensive clinical guidelines to help health care practitioners identify patients with cerumen (commonly referred to as earwax) impaction. The guidelines emphasize evidence-based management of cerumen impaction by clinicians, and inform patients of the purpose of ear wax in hearing health. "Approximately 12 million people a year in the U.S.
Weeklong Celebration To Honor Urology Nurses' Compassionate Care, USA
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:00:00 -0700
The Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA) has designated November 1-7, 2008, as "Urology Nurses and Associates Week" to celebrate the unique skills and contributions of urology nurses and associates. During this special week, SUNA encourages facilities and organizations across the country to honor the dedicated work of urology nurses and associates.

Journal of Research in Nursing current issue

Guest Editorial: Compassion and smiles: what's the evidence?
Smith, P. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Commentary: Working together: the key to achieving quality care for an ageing population
Nolan, M. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

'A stony road... a 19 year journey': 'Bridging' through late-stage Parkinson's disease
Williams, S., Keady, J. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000
AbstractStudies reporting the lived experience of late-stage Parkinson's disease are sparse. Using constructivist grounded theory and centre-stage storyline generation as the methodological approach, this study reports on 69 interviews with 13 people with late-stage Parkinson's disease and their family carers who were recruited from the caseload of two specialist Parkinson's disease nurses working in North Wales and one consultant geriatrician. The interviews were conducted longitudinally between June 2007 and April 2008, and all participants were diagnosed with late-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease using Brain Bank clinical criteria. All interviews and the subsequent sharing, modification and testing of the results of data analysis were conducted in the person's home and with their participation as partners in the research process. From this process, bridging emerged as the centre-stage storyline in adjusting to life with late-stage Parkinson's disease, and this consisted of three temporal stages, namely: 1) building on the past; 2) bridging the present and 3) broaching the future. These three stages were underpinned by three linked sequential foundations, namely biographical, situational and crumbling. These stages, foundations and properties of bridging have important implications for the understanding of late-stage Parkinson's disease and informing the nursing role in developing and providing appropriate supportive interventions.

Evidence-Based Nursing current issue

[Purpose and procedure] Purpose and procedure
Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[EBN notebook] Economic evaluation of healthcare technologies using primary research
Soares, M., Dumville, J. C Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[Treatment] Review: venepuncture is less painful than heel lance for blood sampling in neonates
Mainous, R. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0000


Research in Nursing & Health

Life course theory as a framework to examine becoming a mother of a medically fragile preterm infant
Beth Perry Black, Diane Holditch-Davis, Margaret S. Miles Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:55:00 -0000
Life course theory, a sociological framework, was used to analyze the phenomenon of becoming a mother, with longitudinal narrative data from 34 women who gave birth prematurely after a high-risk pregnancy, and whose infant became medically fragile. Women faced challenges of mistimed birth and mothering a technologically dependent infant. Before social ties were established, legal and biological ties required mothers to make critical decisions about their infants. Liminality characterized mothers' early involvement with their infants. The mothers worked to know, love, and establish deeper attachments to this baby. The infant's homecoming was a key turning point; it decreased liminality of early mothering, increased mothers' control of infants' care, and gave them time and place to know their infants more intimately. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Erratum re: Community cardiopulmonary resuscitation training in Greece. Res Nurs Health, 31, 165-171 (2008)
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:27:00 -0000
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Reliability and validity of the Sexual Pressure Scale for Women-Revised
Rachel Jones, Elsie Gulick Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:20:00 -0000
Sexual pressure among young urban women represents adherence to gender stereotypical expectations to engage in sex. Revision of the original five-factor Sexual Pressure Scale was undertaken in two studies to improve reliabilities in two of the five factors. In Study 1 the reliability of the Sexual Pressure Scale for Women-Revised (SPSW-R) was tested, and principal components analysis was performed in a sample of 325 young, urban women. A parsimonious 18-item, four-factor model explained 61% of the variance. In Study 2 the theory underlying sexual pressure was supported by confirmatory factor analysis using structural equation modeling in a sample of 181 women. Reliabilities of the SPSW-R total and subscales were very satisfactory, suggesting it may be used in intervention research. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res. Nurs. Health

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