Health promotion through forgiveness intervention.

The purpose of this article is to offer evidence-based forgiveness interventions clinically useful to nurses in holistic health promotion for individuals, families, and communities. Forgiveness interventions are developed and described within four approaches inspired by midrange nursing theorists who have adapted their theories from Bandura's Social Learning Theory and Frankl's Theory of Meaning. Interventions are also assimilated from a comprehensive review of theoretical and research literature.

Toward a trajectory of adjustment in women with end-stage renal disease on haemodialysis.

Aims: To examine the lived experiences of community-dwelling women with end-stage renal disease undergoing haemodialysis treatment.

Background: End-stage renal disease is a chronic progressive disease with renal transplantation as a major treatment option. However, the majority of patients choose haemodialysis as their primary treatment.

Women's experience of spirituality within end-stage renal disease and hemodialysis.

The purpose of this descriptive, phenomenological qualitative study is to describe women's lived experiences of spirituality within end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and hemodialysis. The purposive volunteer sample of 16 women regularly attended two outpatient dialysis centers in a large Midwestern city. Audiotaped, transcribed interviews were analyzed using Colaizzi's method.

Concept analysis of forgiveness with a multi-cultural emphasis.

Aim: This paper is a report of a concept analysis of forgiveness.

Background: Worldwide interest in and funding for forgiveness research has brought about a body of knowledge from many disciplines that could be clinically useful to nursing. At this time, nurse scholars are beginning to challenge one another to focus on this important area of inquiry.

Perceptions of incorporating spirituality into their care: a phenomenological study of female patients on hemodialysis.

This phenomenological study was aimed at understanding how women with end stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis want nurses to address their spirituality. Interviews were conducted with 16 women from outpatient hemodialysis centers in a large Midwestern city. Eighty-three significant statements yielded meanings representing four theme clusters, highlighting how these women prefer nurses to incorporate spirituality into their care: (a) displaying genuine caring, (b) building relationships and connectedness, (c) initiating spiritual dialogue, and (d) mobilizing spiritual resources.

Coming to the cultural "in-between": nursing insights from a Hmong birth case study.

This article discusses the historical background and traditional beliefs of the Hmong. Cultural conflict occurs when traditional Hmong beliefs and Western health care ideologies are misunderstood. A specific case study focuses on care of a Hmong woman and her husband after a precipitous birth, hemorrhage, and surgical intervention.

Adjustment, spirituality, and health in women on hemodialysis.

End stage renal disease (ESRD) is progressive, requiring adjustment. This descriptive correlational study examined levels of and relationships between adjustment, spiritual well-being, and self-perceived health in women with ESRD. The sample included 65 women aged 24 to 82 receiving hemodialysis at five outpatient centers in a large metropolitan area.