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Testing a Model of Communication, Uncertainty, and Emotional Well-being in Older Breast Cancer Survivors
The uncertainty and disruption caused by ongoing physical symptoms contributes to emotional distress and thoughts of recurrence for older breast cancer survivors. Uncertainty may be due to a lack of information about whether ...
An Innovative Strategy to Increase Patient Hand Hygiene Autonomy of Hospitalized Adults
(2018-04-02)
Despite recognition that patients carry pathogens on their hands and demonstrate poor hand hygiene practice, little attention has been given to interventions that increase hand hygiene practices of patients. Studies that ...
Information Retrieval of Self-care and Dependent-care Agents Using NetWellness, a Consumer Health Information Network
Since the earliest times a major focus of nursing has been to provide health care information to those in their care. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate information retrieval of consumers using ...
Bone health education for osteoporosis risk reduction in premenopausal women: A quality improvement project
In the United States, about 8.5 million women live with osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is a debilitating systemic skeletal disorder characterized by low bone mass and reduced bone mineral density that occurs with the loss of ...
Patient Satisfaction with Postpartum Teaching Methods Used by Nurses
Background. Maternity nurses have a responsibility to provide extensive teaching to new mothers after they deliver their babies prior to discharge from the hospital. Since patient satisfaction is an important indicator of ...
Patients' Perceptions of Patient Education as Enablement
The efficacy of nursing interventions such as patient education from the recipient's or participant's viewpoint has been studied infrequently. This qualitative study examines perceptions of participants in childbirth ...
Navigating the change of life: The menopausal transition of Thai immigrant women
Given that women continue to live more than three decades after menopause and their health and well being in later life are determined by quality of health during the menopausal transition, menopause has become an important ...
Comparison of Three Teaching Methods on Four-through-Seven Year Old Children's Understanding of the Lungs in Relation to a Peak Flow Meter in the Management of Asthma: A Pilot Study
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of three teaching methods on 4-through-7-year-old children's understanding of the lungs in relation to a peak flow meter in the management of asthma. Nineteen children, ...
A pilot study of tailored teaching on non-drug enhancements for managing postoperative pain
The Agency for Healthcare Quality Research (AHRQ cites the under-use of non-drug methods for pain management as among the top twenty-five issues in patient safety (AHRQ, 2001) in acute care hospitals. Little is known about ...
The Relationships Between Health Literacy, Self-efficacy and Readiness for Change to Health Promotion Behaviors in Urban Black Women
Problem: Black women have been shown to experience higher rates of morbidity and mortality as a result of stroke, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and overweight or obesity than women of other races/ethnicities. ...