Nursing students' experiences regarding physical restraint use in long-term care facilities: A qualitative descriptive study.

Background: Despite many harmful effects, physical restraints are still used in long-term care facilities. Most existing studies have focused on staff. Nursing students observe staff's use of restraints during gerontological nursing practicums, but there are few studies on nursing students' experiences regarding restraint use in long-term care settings.

Effects of a Web-Based Educational Program Regarding Physical Restraint Reduction in Long-Term Care Settings on Nursing Students: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.

Physical restraint is still frequently used in many countries. However, a lack of education hinders physical restraint reduction in long-term care facilities. No study has yet to examine the effects of physical restraint reduction education on nursing students.

Nursing home staff's perceptions of barriers and needs in implementing person-centred care for people living with dementia: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: This study explored nursing home staff's barriers and needs in implementing person-centred care for people with dementia.

Background: Person-centred care is an imperative international policy and the best-practice standard for dementia care. However, a gap exists between policy and practice.

Understanding Educational Barriers and Needs of North Korean Defector Nursing Students: A Qualitative Descriptive Study.

Introduction: A growing number of North Korean defector students enter nursing schools in South Korea. Many of them, however, quit nursing school and fail to obtain a nurse license. The purpose of this study was to describe the educational barriers and needs of North Korean defector nursing students.

Men's experiences after prostatectomy: A meta-synthesis.

Objective: The purpose of this review was to critically analyze, interpret, and synthesize the literature on men's experiences after prostatectomy.

Design: A meta-synthesis was conducted.

Data Sources: Six databases (PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, AgeLine, and Sociological Abstract) were searched from the earliest year to 2016.

What Is the Status Quo of Evidence-Based Community Health Nursing?

Background And Purpose: With an increasing emphasis on evidence-based nursing in general, evidence-based practice has become a buzzword among community health nurses in many countries. Despite the global interests, evidence-based community health nursing is not even clearly defined in the literature and very little is known about the current status of evidence-based community health nursing. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to identify the status quo of evidence-based nursing in community health nursing through an integrative literature review.

Effects of a Multicomponent Restraint Reduction Program for Korean Nursing Home Staff.

Purpose: Physical restraints are used frequently in Korea, suggesting a growing need for access to programs focused on reduction. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of a multicomponent restraint reduction program (MRRP) for nursing staff in Korean nursing homes.

Design: A cluster-randomized, single-blind, controlled pretest-posttest design was used.

Staff perceptions of barriers to physical restraint-reduction in long-term care: a meta-synthesis.

Aims And Objectives: To critically review the existing qualitative studies to identify, from the perspective of staff, the barriers to physical restraint reduction in long-term geriatric care facilities.

Background: Despite the adverse physical and psychosocial effects, physical restraints are still used frequently in many geriatric long-term care facilities around the world. There is, however, no study that synthesises the existing qualitative literature regarding the barriers to the restraint reduction from the perspective of facility staff.

Older adults' definitions of health: A metasynthesis.

Background: Despite many gerontological studies focusing on the health of older adults, little attention has been paid to their perceptions of health. Understanding older adults' health perceptions is important because their self-perceptions are important predictors of and strongly related to survival and mortality. Older adults have different perceptions of health compared with younger adults because of their age-related changes, diseases, and limitations.

Nursing staff views of barriers to physical restraint reduction in nursing homes.

Purpose: There are few studies globally regarding the barriers to restraint-reduction. The purpose of this study was to describe the views of nursing staff (both nurses and geriatric care assistants) regarding the barriers to reducing physical restraint use in Korean nursing homes.

Methods: Forty registered nurse and geriatric care assistant informants participated in the first round of interviews and 16 of them participated in second confirmatory interviews.

The experiences of Korean immigrant caregivers of non-English-speaking older relatives with dementia in American nursing homes.

The purpose of this article is to describe Korean immigrant caregivers' experiences regarding American nursing home placement of their non-English-speaking older relatives with dementia. Qualitative descriptive methods and qualitative content analysis were used. A total of 17 semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 Korean immigrant family caregivers.

Nonpharmacological intervention for agitation in dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to systematically review the literature regarding the effectiveness of nonpharmacological interventions for agitation in older adults with dementia.

Methods: Seven electronic databases (to 2004) were searched, and randomized clinical trials employing nonpharmacologic interventions for agitation in dementia published in English or Korean were selected. In addition, the reference lists from relevant review articles and all eligible studies were searched to identify other trials.

Family caregivers of older people in nursing homes.

Purpose: This paper aims to review literature related to the experiences of family caregivers after institutionalization of their older relatives.

Methods: Thirty-one research-based articles were reviewed for information on the following six dimensions: caregivers' involvement in care; the effects of institutionalization on mental health of caregivers; predictors of caregivers' mental health; caregivers' feelings; caregivers' difficulties and needs; and interventions for caregivers.

Results: Family caregivers continued their caregiver roles after institutionalization.

The influence of culture on the experiences of Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian-American family caregivers of frail older adults: a literature review.

Purpose: The purpose of this review is to explore cultural influences on the experiences of Korean, Korean American, and Caucasian American family caregivers caring for frail older adults in terms of the selection of a primary caregiver, caregiving motivation, support/help-seeking, and negative emotional responses(depression and burden).

Methods: Seven electronic databases were searched to retrieve studies from 1966 to 2005. Thirty-two studies were identified.

Agitation in dementia: concept clarification.

Aim: The aim of this paper is to clarify the concept of agitation in dementia through analysing definitions, critical attributes, components, boundaries, antecedents and consequences of agitation.

Background: The concept of agitation is not well defined. In addition, there exists much confusion about the characteristics and boundaries of agitation, as well as the distinction between agitation and related concepts.