Publications by authors named "Anthony W McGuire"
Aim: The aim of the study was to describe registered nurses' prelicensure educational experience as nursing students with physical disabilities.
Background: Social and academic support help establish connections with the educational environment, but efforts to engage students with disabilities are inconsistent. Faculty support beyond required accommodations facilitates a sense of empowerment.
Background: Assessing depression in patients hospitalized with coronary heart disease is clinically challenging because depressive symptoms are often confounded by poor somatic health.
Objective: To identify symptom clusters associated with clinical depression in patients hospitalized with coronary heart disease.
Method: Secondary analyses of 3 similar data sets for hospitalized patients with coronary heart disease who had diagnostic screening for depression (99 depressed, 224 not depressed) were done.
Background: Depression screening in cardiac patients has been recommended by the American Heart Association, but the best approach remains unclear.
Objectives: To evaluate nurse-administered versions of the Patient Health Questionnaire for depression screening in patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome.
Methods: Staff nurses in an urban cardiac care unit administered versions 2, 9, and 10 of the questionnaire to 100 patients with acute coronary syndrome.
Background: Care of cardiac surgery patients has changed substantially in the past decade, with an emphasis on streamlined procedures and shortened hospital stays. The few qualitative reports of patients' perspectives of this experience focus primarily on physical complications and discomforts during the immediate postoperative period.
Objective: To examine patients' perceptions of the quality of the nursing and medical care they received during their hospital stay after cardiac surgery.