Current Issue : July - September Volume : 2012 Issue Number : 3 Articles : 6 Articles
Refugee families face a complex transition due to the nature of involuntary migration and the process of acculturation. There\r\nare several risk factors to the family adaptation process during the transition period, which are sociocontextually environmental\r\ndependant. Facilitating a healthy transition for refugee families, therefore, requires the role of nursing to incorporate sociopolitics\r\ninto the discipline. This paper introduces a sociopolitically oriented and community-driven assessment and intervention model\r\nwhich is based on a family systematic approach. Interventions that aid the families in their acculturation process as well as\r\nempowers them to a well-functioning daily life, as per the SARFI model, should be adopted. As such, the future of nursing may\r\nprovide additional primary health care services for refugee families; this is through a team-led ââ?¬Å?family nurseââ?¬Â who provides quality\r\ncare for the family unit in collaboration with other health care professionals and societal authorities....
Background: Current barriers to effective student evaluations in the clinical area are numerous and growing and new\r\npedagogies need to be developed. We developed an educational pedagogy to aid in critical thinking for graduate and\r\nundergraduate nursing students in clinical areas that can replace or augment written care plans.\r\nMethods: Evaluate the effectiveness of the new ABC�s pedagogy (A=Anatomy/physiology, B=Best care,\r\nC=Complications, D=Drugs, E=Evidence based practice) for clinical teaching, using a 5 point Likert scale, for both\r\ngraduate and undergraduate students and faculty through course evaluations.\r\nResults: Total undergraduate students (N = 37) evaluated the ABC�s pedagogy as follows; 98% rated as excellent and 2%\r\nvery good. For graduate students (N= 8) 88% rated the ABC�s as excellent and 12% very good. Staff nurses and advanced\r\npractice nurse preceptors (N =17) rated the pedagogy as 88% excellent, 6% very good, and 6% neither good nor bad.\r\nConclusions: The use of the ABC�s pedagogy in clinical care is a way to evaluate undergraduate and graduate students�\r\ncritical thinking, and to facilitate learning during practicum. It offers a systematic approach to replace written care plans\r\nincludes the major benefit of real-time questions/answers between the professor/preceptor and students and incorporates\r\nevidence-based practice into individualized patient care. The ABC�s are one way to better prepare nursing students in\r\nareas of communication, critical thinking, providing care in clinical experiences, discussion of ethical and professional\r\nissues, as well as affording one-on-one time with the clinical preceptor/professor and promoting exponential learning in a\r\npre- and post-conference environment....
Objective: Various international studies have reported on negative attitudes of nurses and nursing students towards\r\nsubstance misusers and have found that this issue receives little attention in professional nursing education. This research\r\nexamined attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics in a Brazilian nursing student sample and analyzed\r\nassociations between these attitudes and participants� socio-demographic characteristics.\r\nMethods: Study participants were 144 last-year undergraduate students from two private colleges. A scale of attitudes\r\ntowards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics was used for data collection.\r\nResults: The results showed that most participants had positive attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcohol addicts.\r\nIn addition, gender, age and the number of hours participants spent in lectures on alcohol and other drugs during their\r\neducation were associated with positive attitudes towards their work and interpersonal relationships with alcoholics. This\r\nassociation was stronger in females (OR = 3.42), younger participants (OR = 2.18) and students who received more lecture\r\nhours on alcohol and other drugs during their education (OR = 3.53).\r\nConclusion: In conclusion, the authors suggest that education and preparation in coping with alcohol problems increase\r\nnurses� abilities at work and support more positive attitudes towards alcoholic clients. In addition, this study demonstrated\r\nthat a significant part of students had negative attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcohol addicts, despite the fact\r\nthat positive attitudes prevailed in their schools. These results reflect the lack of importance granted to drug issues in\r\nundergraduate nursing curricula in Brazil....
Purpose. This study determined 2010 rates of overweight/obesity in a representative sample of low-income preschoolers in\r\nMississippi, USA and compared rates between 2005 (N = 1250) and 2010 (N = 1765). Significance. Obesity is a significant global\r\nhealth issue because of its well-established negative health consequences. Child obesity is a concern due to risk of early-onset\r\nobesity-related illnesses and the longevity of lifetime exposure to those illnesses. Methods. Identical measures were used in 2005\r\nand 2010 with complex-stratified sampling designs. Results. Chi-square tests revealed that overall obesity/overweight rates between\r\n2005 (20.6%/17.9%) and 2010 (20.8%/17.0%) had not changed significantly for the samples as a whole, nor by gender or race.\r\nAge group comparisons indicated a significant decline in obesity rates of 3 year olds (20.3% in 2005, reduced to 13.1% in\r\n2010, P = 0.035). These findings mimic the trend toward stabilization of obesity rates noted in national low-income preschool\r\npopulations....
Background/Objective: Although some studies conducted in Western cultures have identified positive influences of\r\nsocial support on the psychological and physical states of elderly women with breast cancer, few studies have investigated\r\nthe relationships between social support and its effects on health outcomes in elderly Japanese women with breast cancer.\r\nThe purpose of this study was to describe and investigate the relationships among social support, social support network,\r\nand psychological and physical states among elderly Japanese women with breast cancer.\r\nMethods: Elderly Japanese women with breast cancer (n=65) participated in the study. Measures used in this study were\r\nthe Japanese versions of instruments with established reliability and validity: (1) the Social Support Scale for Japanese\r\nElderly (SSSJE); (2) the Visual Analogue Scale for Social Support (VASSS); (3) the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ)\r\nand (4) the Physical States Interview Form (PSIF). Data analysis included descriptive, t-tests, and Pearson�s correlations.\r\nResults: Descriptive statistics showed that the size of the social support network ranged from 2 to 34 (M=9.09; SD=6.57).\r\nComparisons of psychological states showed a significant difference between the women who were over and under 70\r\nyears old. Psychological states significantly correlated with social support network and conflict among elderly Japanese\r\nwomen with breast cancer.\r\nConclusions: The results reveal that there are significant relationships among social support, social support network, and\r\npsychological and physical states among elderly Japanese women with breast cancer. The results reveal that there are\r\nsignificant relationships among social support, social support network, and psychological and physical states among\r\nelderly Japanese women with breast cancer. Nurses should provide information on social support as an important factor to\r\nhelp elderly Japanese women with breast cancer....
We assessed the extent to which healthcare providers at a large healthcare facility in Sweden screen for intimate partner violence\r\nagainst women and the determinants of such screening. Data on frequency of screening, readiness to screen on many dimensions\r\n(using the Domestic Violence Healthcare Provider Survey Scale), demographic and occupational characteristics were administered\r\nelectronically to 217 healthcare providers. We found that only 50% of participants had during the past 3 month screened for IPV\r\nat least once, and screening activity was marked with inequalities in measured individual characteristics. Participants of female\r\ngender and of doctor/nurse occupation were more likely to screen than male and midwife peers, respectively. Healthcare providers\r\nwho perceived high efficacy in handling IPV issues, low fears of offending clients, professional preparedness, and with availability of\r\nsupport networks for IPV victims were more likely to screen for IPV. Implications of these findings for interventions are discussed....
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