Six Steps in Reading to Appraise Scientific Publications: Discover a Different Path.

Background: Effectively reading scientific publications, for example, research/quality improvement, is an acquired skill. Critical appraisal identifies articles' strengths and weaknesses related to credibility and authenticity or appropriate standards.

Aim: To stimulate rehabilitation nurses' interest/participation in reading to appraise published studies (using brief evaluation questions).

The Journey of Web-Based Education for Caregivers of Persons With Dementia: It Didn't Happen Overnight.

Family caregivers provide long-term, complex care in home settings where most persons with dementia (PWD) live. These men/women caregivers differ in responses and approaches to caring problems. Following our review of the research literature and needs assessment from caregivers of PWD (group 1), a comparison revealed key caregiver gender differences in caring problems and approaches.

Choices: anger and anger management in rehabilitative care.

Background And Purpose: Violent acts are on rise and rehabilitation providers as caregivers may encounter anger on a daily basis. The purpose of this article is to discuss anger and describe anger management strategies based on behavioral interventions grounded in Choice Theory.

Choice Theory: Applying choice theory to anger is the belief that people are internally, not externally motivated, and that outside events do not make people do anything.

Effect of an inpatient nurse-directed smoking cessation program.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a nurse-directed smoking cessation intervention for adults hospitalized in a small community hospital using a quasiexperimental, prospective, longitudinal design with biochemical validation of self-reported tobacco abstinence. Sixty-eight inpatients were assigned to either a control (n = 30) or an intervention group (n = 38). The control group received smoking cessation literature.