Care Nursing (care + nursing)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Kinds of Care Nursing

  • critical care nursing

  • Terms modified by Care Nursing

  • care nursing practice

  • Selected Abstracts


    Systematic review of the effectiveness of primary care nursing

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, Issue 1 2009
    Helen Keleher
    This paper reports on a systematic review that sought to answer the research question: What is the impact of the primary and community care nurse on patient health outcomes compared with usual doctor-led care in primary care settings? A range of pertinent text-words with medical subject headings were combined and electronic databases were searched. Because of the volume of published articles, the search was restricted to studies with high-level evidence. Overall, 31 relevant studies were identified and included in the review. We found modest international evidence that nurses in primary care settings can provide effective care and achieve positive health outcomes for patients similar to that provided by doctors. Nurses are effective in care management and achieve good patient compliance. Nurses are also effective in a more diverse range of roles including chronic disease management, illness prevention and health promotion. Nevertheless, there is insufficient evidence about primary care nurses' roles and impact on patient health outcomes. [source]


    Establishing an action research group to explore family-focused nursing in the intensive care unit

    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING PRACTICE, Issue 1 2007
    Fiona Coyer RN ENB100 PGCEA PhD
    This paper presents the first phase of a four-phase collaborative action research study which aimed to facilitate family-focused nursing in the intensive care environment. The purpose of phase one was to determine intensive care nurses' perceptions of family-focused critical care nursing and the appropriateness of family-focused nursing in the intensive care unit. A collaborative action research group was established with six registered nurses working in the intensive care unit of a metropolitan tertiary referral hospital. Data were collected through group discussions and analysed using open coding. Findings revealed two categories related to perceptions of family-focused intensive care nursing: partnership in care and maintaining a balance. The group unanimously agreed that family-focused nursing was appropriate in the intensive care environment. The three subsequent action research phases of this study are reported elsewhere. [source]


    ,The everlasting trial of strength and patience': transitions in home care nursing as narrated by patients and family members

    JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING, Issue 6 2001
    Dip NEd, Eva Efraimsson MSc
    ,,The aim of this study was to describe and interpret patients' and their family members' lived experiences of caring at home. Twelve tape-recorded narratives, with seven patients and five family members, were interpreted in accordance with a phenomenological,hermeneutic method inspired by Ricoeur. ,,The findings revealed life situations where natural caring was changed into patient,care-giver relations and the home became a public room. The patients had to deal with decreased abilities and the family members with adjusting to caring needs. ,,The changes in the life situations were interpreted as long lasting and trying transitions. ,,Implications for nursing and further research are proposed. [source]


    Critical care nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists interface patterns with computer-based decision support systems

    JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS, Issue 11 2007
    APRN (Assistant Professor of Health, Community Systems, Coordinator of the Nursing Education Graduate Program), PhD(c), Scott Weber EdD
    Abstract Purpose: The purposes of this review are to examine the types of clinical decision support systems in use and to identify patterns of how critical care advanced practice nurses (APNs) have integrated these systems into their nursing care patient management practices. The decision-making process itself is analyzed with a focus on how automated systems attempt to capture and reflect human decisional processes in critical care nursing, including how systems actually organize and process information to create outcome estimations based on patient clinical indicators and prognosis logarithms. Characteristics of APN clinicians and implications of these characteristics on decision system use, based on the body of decision system user research, are introduced. Data sources: A review of the Medline, Ovid, CINAHL, and PubMed literature databases was conducted using "clinical decision support systems,""computerized clinical decision making," and "APNs"; an examination of components of several major clinical decision systems was also undertaken. Conclusions: Use patterns among APNs and other clinicians appear to vary; there is a need for original research to examine how APNs actually use these systems in their practices in critical care settings. Because APNs are increasingly responsible for admission to, and transfer from, critical care settings, more understanding is needed on how they interact with this technology and how they see automated decision systems impacting their practices. Implications for practice: APNs who practice in critical care settings vary significantly in how they use the clinical decision systems that are in operation in their practice settings. These APNs must have an understanding of their use patterns with these systems and should critically assess whether their patient care decision making is affected by the technology. [source]


    2020 , Clinical Academic Careers: implications for critical care nursing

    NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 1 2009
    Professor Margaret C Smith
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    Critical care nursing: towards 2015

    NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 6 2008
    Dominique M. Vandijck
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    The impact of the impact factor on publication in critical care nursing

    NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 4 2008
    Ingrid Egerod RN, PhD Associate Professor
    No abstract is available for this article. [source]


    Managing today's reality of delivering critical care nursing

    NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 5 2006
    Maureen Coombs MBE
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    Developing best practice in critical care nursing: knowledge, evidence and practice

    NURSING IN CRITICAL CARE, Issue 3 2003
    Paul Fulbrook
    Summary ,Because the current drive towards evidence-based critical care nursing practice is based firmly within the positivist paradigm, experimentally derived research tends to be regarded as ,high level' evidence, whereas other forms of evidence, for example qualitative research or personal knowing, carry less weight ,This poses something of a problem for nursing, as the type of knowledge nurses use most in their practice is often at the so-called ,soft' end of science. Thus, the ,Catch 22' situation is that the evidence base for nursing practice is considered to be weak ,Furthermore, it is argued in this paper that there are several forms of nursing knowledge, which critical care nurses employ, that are difficult to articulate ,The way forward requires a pragmatic approach to evidence, in which all forms of knowledge are considered equal in abstract but are assigned value according to the context of a particular situation ,It is proposed that this can be achieved by adopting an approach to nursing in which practice development is the driving force for change [source]


    The history of nursing in the home: revealing the significance of place in the expression of moral agency

    NURSING INQUIRY, Issue 2 2002
    Elizabeth Peter
    The history of nursing in the home: revealing the significance of place in the expression of moral agency The relationship between place and moral agency in home care nursing is explored in this paper. The notion of place is argued to have relevance to moral agency beyond moral context. This argument is theoretically located in feminist ethics and human geography and is supported through an examination of historical documents (1900,33) that describe the experiences and insights of American home care/private duty nurses or that are related to nursing ethics. Specifically, the role of place in inhibiting and enhancing care, justice, good relationships, and power in the practice of private duty nurses is explored. Several implications for current nursing ethics come out of this analysis. (i) The moral agency of nurses is highly nuanced. It is not only structured by nurses' relationships to patients and health professionals, i.e. moral context, it is also structured by the place of nursing care. (ii) Place has the potential to limit and enhance the power of nurses. (iii) Some aspects of nursing's conception of the good, such as what constitutes a good nurse,patient relationship, are historically and geographically relative. [source]