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. ...

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, ...

Advances in medicine and technology have transformed cancer into a chronic disease state: enabling earlier, treatable, diagnoses and longer lives. However, the focus in medicine remains in quantity of life: failing to ...

Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) are a new and growing population of patients who pose a challenge to both medicine and nursing. Medical and surgical advances have increased the number of adults with CHD. These ...

This cross sectional study described the relationship between quality of life (QOL) and self-transcendence (ST) in liver transplant recipients. Self-transcendence is a dynamic process reflecting spiritual growth and maturity ...

This descriptive correlational study was conducted to examine the direct and indirect influences of fatigue, self-efficacy for physical activity, and physical activity on quality of life (QOL) in women with breast cancer. ...

Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in the United States and the incidence is increasing over 65 years of age. The lack of effective treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer makes factors other ...

The issue of quality health care has a renewed focus since the Institute of Medicine's 2000 report and has become a primary concern for patients, providers, and payors. Quality needs to be addressed from the perspective ...

BACKGROUND: Overall perceived health (OPH) is a powerful and independent predictor of negative health outcomes and low health-related quality of life and is conspicuously low in patients with HF (HF). PURPOSE: The purpose ...

Coronary artery bypass (CAB) surgery patients experience profound declines in physical, psychological, and relational health-related quality of life (HRQOL) following surgery. The purpose of this study was to examine HRQOL ...