Functional status, personal health, and self-esteem of caregivers of children in a body cast: a pilot study.

Background: There is a lack of literature describing the changes in daily routine that parents caring for a child in a body cast must experience. The investigator's clinical experience suggested that determining these changes in parental daily routine would inform nurses of appropriate interventions for these parents.

Purpose: This Roy Adaptation Model-based pilot study was designed to examine the relation of personal health and self-esteem to functional status of caregivers of children in a body cast.

A community nursing center for the health promotion of senior citizens based on the Neuman systems model.

This article describes a community nursing center that provided clinical learning experiences for students from two schools of nursing. Work at the center was based on the Neuman systems model, which views the client as a system in interaction with environmental stressors. Nursing interventions focused on health promotion services for an underserved elderly population.

Advanced practice nursing and conceptual models of nursing.

This column focuses on advanced practice nursing. A definition and central competency of advanced practice are given and four roles assumed by advanced practice nurses are identified. Questions related primarily to the advanced practice role of nurse practitioner are raised.