Cancer is an illness that knows no international boundaries. There are more than eight million global cancer deaths each year. A life-threatening diagnosis generates significant emotional problems for many patients across ...

This study tested a theoretical model of quality of life of stroke survivors derived from King's conceptual framework for nursing. The model proposed that stroke survivors' perceptual integrity (cognition), social support, ...

The objective of this research was to identify the relationship between preadmission patient characteristics and patient satisfaction with nursing care. The two characteristics studied were perceived quality of life and ...

Caregiving has been associated with negative psychological and physical consequences for years (Molloy, Johnston, & Witham, 2005). Some research indicates that caregivers with higher perceived control may experience ...

The topic of nurse educator life balance is significant to the nurse educator community, which is facing a national nurse faculty shortage, challenges in producing enough new nurses, and a continuing shortage of nurses. ...

The number of patients with chronic heart failure (HF) is at an all-time high and the incidence is expected to increase as our population ages. HF patients experience impaired cognition, exertional shortness of breath, and ...

Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common malignant intraocular tumor occurring in childhood. While survival rates in the United States (U.S.) are high, children are left with the impact of treatment including enucleation, ...

Background: Nursing home residents with dementia often have an array of neuropsychiatric symptoms, including dementia-related agitation. It is theorized that many of these agitation symptoms occur due to unmet psychosocial ...

Problem: Cancer patients lack information and support needed to make the transition to survivorship. This problem was addressed by testing a psycho-educational group intervention, the Mid-Life Directions Workshop, for its ...

Background: In the United States, each year about 22,440 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, the deadliest gynecological cancer - with an estimated 14,080 deaths each year. Patients with recurrent ovarian cancer have ...