Journal Articles: Recent submissions

  • Hospital Nurse Counseling of Patients Who Smoke. 
    O. GOLDSTEIN, ADAM; FITZGERALD, SANDRA (American Public Health Association, 1987)
    Smoking-related diseases comprise a large portioti of hospital admissions. This paper reports the attitudes and behaviors of a group of hospital-based nurses toward counseling patients on smoking cessation. The majority ...
  • Using referral guidelines to support best care outcomes for patients. 
    Bowers, Ben; Cook, Rosemary (Mark Allen Publishing Ltd, 2011)
    District nurses play a pivotal role in individuals’ care pathways by meeting their needs in the community. However, district nurses are frequently referred patients for whom other inter professional colleagues have more ...
  • What outcomes do dutch healthcare professionals perceive as important before participation in moral case deliberation. 
    DE SNOO-TRIMP, JANINE; WIDDERSHOVEN, GUY; SVANTESSON, MIA (Bioethics, 2017)
    Background: There has been little attention paid to research on the outcomes of clinical ethics support (CES) or critical reflection on what constitutes a good CES outcome. Understanding how CES users perceive the importance ...
  • Primary care nursing, education for changing roles and boundaries. 
    ROSS, FIONA; CORBETT, KEVIN (Radcliffe Medical Press, 2005)
    The primary care landscape continues to be redrawn, driven by the modernization agenda in general practice, public health policies, national care standards and the movement to involve the public and patients in service ...
  • Educating Nurses to Provide Appropriate Patient Materials 
    D. DeSllets, Lynore; S. Dickerson, Pamela; Editors, Associate (The Journal of Continuing Education in Nurse, 2009)
    Assessing and addressing heath literacy is a key issue in providing quality patient education. Often, nurses do not know how to do this. Continuing nursing education provides a venue for filing this gap in knowledge, ...
  • Women and Part-time Work. 
    Lane, Nikala (British Journal of Management., 2004)
    This paper examines theoretical explanations of the employment disadvantage experienced by many female part-time workers. Data from a survey of 643 qualified National Health Service (NHS) nurses is used to establish employment ...
  • Why rape survivors participate in the criminal justice system. 
    Patterson, Debra; Campbell, Rebecca (JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY, 2010)
    After a rape, survivors may seek help from multiple community organizations including the criminal justice system (CJS). Research has found that few survivors report their assaults to the police and of those who do report, ...
  • Quality indicators, tools for the management of best practices in Health. 
    Pretto Báo, Ana Cristina; Coelho Amestoy, Simone; Schebella Souto de MouraIII, Gisela Maria (Rev Bras Enferm, 2018-08-19)
    Objective: To analyze how nurses recognize and use quality indicators, aimed at contributing to the management of best practices in Health. Method: Case study with a qualitative approach, conducted with twelve nurses from ...
  • Challenges for nursing education in Angola, the perception of nurse leaders affiliated with professional education institutions 
    Marchi-Alves, Leila Maria; Arena Ventura, Carla A; Trevizan, Maria Auxiliadora (Human Resources for Health, 2013)
    Background: Angola is one of the African countries with the highest morbidity and mortality rates and a devastating lack of human resources for health, including nursing. The World Health Organization stimulates and takes ...
  • International prisoner health care, how nurses can do more. 
    Norman, Ann; Tysoe, Elizabeth (British Journal of Nursing, 2006)
    This short article provides a summary account of the authors' recent visit to an international prisoner healthcare conference in Estonia, where there were a number of medical model presentations. The authors have explored ...
  • Hospital nurses’ information retrieval behaviors in relation to evidence based nursing. 
    Alving, Berit Elisabeth; Buck Christensen, Janne; Thrysøe, Lars (Health Libraries Group, 2018)
    Objective: The purpose of this literature review is to provide an overview of the information retrieval behavior of clinical nurses, in terms of the use of databases and other information resources and their frequency of ...
  • Educators’ and Parents’ Perception of What School Nurses Do. 
    Maughan, Erin; Adams, Rachael (The Journal of School Nursing, 2011)
    The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine how ratios influenced relationships between school nurses and the educators and parents with whom they work; and how the relationships influenced the understanding and ...
  • Maternity Quality Improvement through Nurses’ Self-care. 
    Drick, Carole Ann (International Journal of Childbirth Education, 2018-04)
    Quality Improvement (QI) focuses on the prime relationship between nursing care and patient outcomes. Nowhere has self-care been considered as important and studied within a holistic perspective. The major premise is that ...
  • School Nurse Perceptions of Student Anxiety. 
    A. Muggeo, Michela; S. Ginsburg, Golda (The Journal of School Nursing, 2018)
    Anxiety disorders are common in youth. Because somatic complaints are a hallmark feature of anxiety, these students frequently visit their school nurse, creating an ideal opportunity for nurses to identify and assist them. ...
  • Workload of Nurses and Care Left Undone, Do we Really Care Enough? 
    Aslan, Manar; Karaaslan, Ayfer (International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016)
    Background: International researches have consistently demonstrated a clear relationship between inadequate nurse staffing and poor patient outcomes. Because of it can occur as care left undone in many countries, but in ...
  • What more can community nurses do to manage adult malnutrition. 
    Holdoway, Anne; Anderson, Liz (Malnutrition, 2019)
    This article gives an outline of the key groups at risk of malnutrition in the community and the effects and clinical consequences of not identifying and managing these groups. It outlines the potential health and social ...
  • How searching under time pressure impacts clinical decision making. 
    van der Vegt, Anton (Journal of the Medical Library Association, 2020)
    Objective: Clinicians encounter many questions during patient encounters that they cannot answer. While search systems (e.g., PubMed) can help clinicians find answers, clinicians are typically busy and report that they ...
  • How nurses support family caregivers in the complex context of end-of-life home care. 
    N. Becqué, Yvonne; A. C. Rietjens, Judith; van der Heide, Agnes (BMC Palliative Care, 2021)
    Background: Family caregivers are crucial in providing end-of-life care at home. Without their care, it would be difficult for many patients to die at home. In addition to providing care, family caregivers also need support ...
  • Places and social contexts associated with simultaneous use of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana among young adults 
    LIPPERMAN-KREDA, SHARON; J. PASCHALL, MALLIE; F. SALTZ, ROBERT (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018)
    Introduction and Aims. Little is known about social–ecological correlates of simultaneous use of alcohol with other substances. This study examined places and social contexts associated with simultaneous use of alcohol, ...
  • The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Adolescent Use, Consequences, and Perceived Risk 
    Unknown author (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2016)
    Background: Currently, only four states have legalized recreational marijuana use for adults over 21 years of age. Therefore, little is known about the influence that legalization will have on adolescent marijuana use. ...

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