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A Mobile Phone HIV Medication Adherence Intervention: Care4Today™ Mobile Health Manager
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative study designed to describe the experience of HIV medication adherence using a mobile phone application. For the purpose of this qualitative study, nine semi-structured focus ...
The Ideas of Empathy in Nursing: A Conceptual Analysis
The term empathy has long been of interest in nursing, since empathy is one way in which nurses move from generalized knowledge to particular knowledge of another. Empathy enables the nurse to comprehend the situation of ...
An emergency department patient's perception of safety
Purpose: Because the patient's perception of safety in the healthcare system has not been adequately examined, the purpose of this study was to discover an Emergency Department patient's perception of safety so as to add ...
To Report or Not Report: A Qualitative Study of Nurses' Decisions in Error Reporting
This qualitative study was successful in utilization of grounded theory methodology to ascertain nurses’ decision-making processes following their awareness of having made a medical error, as well as how and/or if they ...
Factors That Influence Health-related Quality of Life and Satisfaction with Care Among Adults at a Community-based AIDS Service Organization
The purpose of this study was two-fold: (a) to describe health-related quality of life and satisfaction with care among adults at a community-based AIDS service organization, and (b) to identify the socio-demographic ...
Nurses' information processing related to surveillance as an intervention in the care of stroke patients
Background. The phenomena 'failure to rescue', defined as the inability to recognize a complication and consequently to save a patient's life, has recently received much attention. Surveillance is a term describing a nursing ...
A Grounded Theory Study Exploring Lesbian Patient Self-disclosure of Sexual Orientation in Acute Care
Background: Lesbians are a vulnerable population that has experienced discrimination in health care. Evidence-based strategies for supporting lesbian self-disclosure of sexual orientation have been developed for primary ...
Effects of Virtual Reality on Symptom Distress in Children Receiving Cancer Chemotherapy
The objective of this study was to test the premise that virtual reality, as a developmentally appropriate distraction intervention, mitigates chemotherapy related symptom distress in older children with cancer aged ...
An Investigation of the Relationship Among Social Support, Motivation, Perceived Competence, and Pursuit of a Baccalaureate Degree Among Associate Degree Nurse Graduates
The Institute of Medicine Reports of the last ten years highlight the increased complexity of health care and the need for new ways for health providers to respond. While other professional programs have adapted to the ...
Effect of heparin injectate volume on pain and bruising using the Roy Model
This quasi-experimental study examined the effect of heparin injectate volume on pain and bruising using the Roy model. The study was undertaken to provide nurses with information on responses produced by two injectate ...