Publications by authors named "J Kathy Magilvy"
Background: Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Cardiac self-care practices are essential for managing cardiac illness and improving quality of life. However, these practices may be affected by factors that may hinder or facilitate self-care especially in countries that experience political and economic instabilities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore perceptions of cardiac self-care among Lebanese family caregivers of cardiac patients. The specific aims were to describe the cultural context of cardiac care-giving in Lebanon and to explore the roles of family caregivers in enhancing self-care practices in patients with cardiac diseases.
Background: The role of family caregivers in Lebanon, a country in the Middle East, is assumed to extend beyond care-giving to making decisions on behalf of the patient and assuming responsibility for patient care.
Background: Cardiac disease is the leading cause of death in Lebanon, accounting for 22% to 26% of total deaths in the country. A thorough understanding of perceptions of cardiac illness and related self-care management is critical to the development of secondary prevention programs that are specific to the Lebanese culture.
Purpose: To explore the cultural perceptions of cardiac illness and the associated meaning of self-care among Lebanese patients.
Aim: By describing the practice of a Japanese nurse practitioner, this descriptive case study discusses role development and outcomes before and after the intervention.
Background: One of the first Japanese nurse practitioners intervened at a nursing home during the government-designated trial period for nurse practitioner practice.
Conclusion: Because of the nurse practitioner's meticulous observation and timely care provision to the residents in collaboration with the physician and the other staff in the facility, comparative data showed improvement in daily health status management of every resident and decreased deterioration of residents' health conditions requiring ambulance transfer and hospitalization.
Aim: This paper describes the establishment of the first Japanese nurse practitioner graduate programme and legislative activities to institutionalize nurse practitioners in Japan.
Background: To address the super-ageing population, Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences initiated the first academic graduate level nurse practitioner programme in Japan, based upon the global standard defined by the International Council of Nurses.
Conclusion: In 2010, Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences graduated the first nurse practitioner.