The effect of a short educational intervention on the use of urinary catheters: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of implementation of evidence-based recommendations to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).

Design: Prospective cohort study, conducted in 2010-12, with a before and after design.

Setting: A major referral university hospital.

The process of translating family nursing knowledge into clinical practice.

Purpose: To report on approaches that were used to assist with implementation of family systems nursing (FSN) at a university hospital level in Northern Europe.

Design And Methods: A quasi-experimental research design was used for the first phase of the study. For the second phase, a cross-sectional research design was used.

"The Hidden Client"--women caring for husbands with COPD: their experience of quality of life.

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of quality of life of women, taking care of husbands with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Unstructured, in-depth, tape-recorded personal interviews were used to collect data from six women living with husbands with COPD. The women ranged from 47 to 69 years in age and their husbands had given up work because of the illness.