Background: In order to practice true family-centered care in the NICU setting, a nurse needs to understand the perceptions and concerns of both parents of the neonate. Although research is emerging on fathers’ perceptions ...

Implicit rationing of nursing care and emotionally intelligent leadership style of nurse managers have been found to contribute to patient outcomes. No studies had been done prior to this study to examine possible links ...

Purpose: Birth in America has become medicalized without a significant improvement in maternal or newborn outcomes. Most of these births occur in the hospital setting with an intrapartum nurse in attendance. Intrapartum ...

Published studies documenting adolescents own descriptions of their comfort experiences while undergoing treatment for metastatic cancer is limited. Expanded knowledge of how young patients explicate the meaning and ...

Background: Sleep loss is a global public health burden with far-reaching social, economic, and health consequences. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) causes fragmented sleep and OSA prevalence in adults, 30-70 years of age, ...

Home health nurses are key healthcare providers in all communities, and they have valuable insights on issues such as promoting medication-adherence among community-dwelling elderly patients. Evidence shows that poor ...

Medical errors have an increasing prevalence in the healthcare system today, and communication is often at the heart of many of these issues. Challenges or difficulties for nurses in communicating about errors, as well ...

The purpose of this study was to talk with women who have had a mastectomy in order to discern the experience of viewing self in a mirror post-operatively. More specifically, the study sought to describe the experience ...

Competence is the creation of new rules, reasoning procedures, and the integration of skills, values, knowledge, and attitudes to specific, contextual practice situations (Benner, 2001; Benner, Tanner, & Chesla, 2009). ...

Risk-taking may be an expectation of adolescent development, but negative outcomes related to risky behaviors such as use of drugs, alcohol, and sexual activity require attention from healthcare professionals. For the ...