Health Education Needs of Incarcerated Women

Purpose: This study identifies the healthcare education needs of incarcerated women in a state corrections facility. Methods: This was a naturalistic qualitative study. Focus groups included two g…

Evaluation of Printed Health Education Materials for Use by Low-Education Fam…

Purpose: Millions of adults lack adequate reading skills and many written patient education materials do not reflect national guidelines for readability and suitability of materials, resulting in b…

Writing: Ensuring the Stars Align

Edition

Volume 46, Number 4

ISBN/ISSN

1527-6546

Collation

Hlm. 217

Series Title

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, Volume 46, Number 4 July 2014

Call Number

(05) 610.5 WIL j

Israeli Nurses’ Intention to Report for Work in an Emergency or Disaster

Purpose: This study investigates the effect of personal characteristics and organizational factors on nurses’ intention to report for work in a national emergency. Design: A convenience sample w…

Typologies of Professional Identity Among Graduating Baccalaureate-Prepared N…

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of professional identity arising from the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) attitudes among students completing their prelic…

The Effect of Postinjury Depression on Quality of Life following Minor Injury

Purpose: To describe quality of life (QoL) in the year following minor injury and to test the hypothesis that individuals with depression in the postinjury year experience lower QoL than do individ…

The Relationship Between Emergency Department Crowding and Patient Outcomes: …

Purpose: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a significant patient safety concern associated with poor quality of care. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the relationship between…

Exploring the Frequency of Blood Pressure Documentation in Emergency Departments

Purpose: One of the most commonly performed task in the emergency department (ED) is reported as the monitoring of vital signs, yet there are no published standards of care that provide guidelines …

A Patient-Focused Framework Integrating Self-Management and Informatics

Purpose: This article introduces a framework to (a) guide chronic illness self-management interventions through the integration of self-management and nursing informatics, (b) focus self-management…

Family Sense of Coherence and Family Adaptation Among Childbearing Couples

Purpose: A family sense of coherence is important to successful family adaptation during parental transition. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between family sense of cohe…