Aesthetic Expression as a Means to Nurture "Self" in a Basic Nursing Care Practicum.

Nursing students develop their professional "self" through clinical placement experiences. Aesthetic expression can be used as a means to reflect students' personal knowing and to convey self as nurtured during their clinical journey. In a postconference session of the Basic Nursing Care Practicum course, six students were asked to draw pictures reflecting their clinical experience and then share their stories.

Experiences of discharge planning practices among Indonesian nurses: A qualitative study.

Background: Discharge planning is vital to preventing hospital readmission, and nurses play a key role. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed challenges to hospital services that may persist or recur. Therefore, exploring nurses' experiences with discharge planning practices before and during this pandemic is crucial.

Situational Analysis of Barriers to Continuity of End-of-Life Care in Urban Areas, Bangkok.

This qualitative study was designed to describe the continuity of end-of-life care and identify barriers to continuity in urban Bangkok. Continuity of care is considered an essential part of palliative care to promote the quality of life of patients at the end of life. The majority of studies have been conducted exploring continuity of care in rural communities.

Institutional ethnography of hemodialysis care: Perspectives of multidisciplinary health care teams in Nepal.

Background: Hemodialysis is the most commonly used renal replacement therapy for end-stage renal disease. The collaborative efforts of multidisciplinary teams comprising nephrologists, nurses, pharmacists, and dietitians play a crucial role in enhancing patient outcomes, improving the quality of care, and reducing treatment costs. However, various factors such as healthcare cost reduction, limited resources, profit-driven systems, organizational structure, and involvement in patient care decisions impact the provision of hemodialysis care by the multidisciplinary teams.

Palliative care needs of patients with hematologic malignancies and family caregivers and challenges of palliative care provision in Asia: A review of evidence.

Patients with hematologic malignancies often experience fatigue, lack of vitality, and energy, and high psychological distress. High levels of unmet care needs of patients with hematologic malignancies in Asia were identified. This review provides an overview of current evidence on the experiences and palliative care needs of patients with hematologic malignancies and their families and the barriers and challenges of integrating palliative care into hematology care in Asia.

Growth and development of oncology nursing in Asia.

Oncology nursing is increasingly recognized around the world as being vitally important for an effective cancer control system. Granted, there is variation between and among countries/regions regarding the strength and nature of that recognition, but oncology nursing is clearly seen as a specialty practice and as a priority for development in cancer control plans, especially for high resource countries/regions. Many countries/regions are beginning to recognize that nurses are vitally important to their cancer control efforts and nurses require specialized education and infrastructure support to make a substantial contribution.

The Effect of a Nurse-Led Family Involvement Program on Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Advanced-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

Psychological distress is commonly reported in patients with advanced cancer. Family is considered a psychological supporter for patients during their cancer journey. This study aimed to examine the effect of a nurse-led family involvement program on anxiety and depression in patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer.

Textual Organization of Hemodialysis Nursing Practice: An Institutional Ethnography.

Background: Nursing today deals with organizational changes and reforms within the increased demands of care amid competing resources. In some developing countries, dealing with text documents is a challenge in hemodialysis service organizations. This study aimed to explicate the social organization of textual nursing practices in a hemodialysis unit of a public university hospital in Nepal.

Decision to Withdraw Life- Sustaining Treatments: The Experience of Thai Family Caregivers.

End-of-life decision-making is a complex process and more challenging when decisions are made for others. Little is known about Thai family members' involvement in decision-making to withdraw life-sustaining treatments (LSTs) from loved ones with serious illnesses. This qualitative study explores the experiences of family caregivers in Southern Thailand regarding decisions related to LST withdrawal.

Transitional care programs to improve outcomes in patients with traumatic brain injury and their caregivers: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: Effective nursing interventions for caring for patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury are still challenging during a transition from hospital to home. Since traumatic brain injury has deep-rooted sequelae, patients and their caregivers require better arrangement and information on the condition to achieve improved outcomes after discharge.

Objective: This study aimed to assess transitional care programs to improve outcomes of patients with traumatic brain injury and their caregivers.

Factors supporting career pathway development amongst advanced practice nurses in Thailand: A cross-sectional survey.

Background: Thailand has recently reformed its health care system and this change has contributed to the rapidly increasing need for skilled and experienced specialist nurses and in 2003 a new Advanced Practice Nursing role was formally introduced. While Advanced Practice Nursing is now accepted as a clinical career option, there is little understanding of the factors conducive to successful career development. This study offers the first examination of factors associated with successful career progression for Advanced Practice Nurses in Thailand.

Experience and management of stigma among persons living with HIV in Bali, Indonesia: A descriptive study.

Aim: This study aimed to describe the level of HIV stigma experience and the HIV stigma management strategies used by persons living with HIV (PLWH) in Bali, Indonesia.

Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted from March to May 2019. In total, 215 respondents were recruited using purposive sampling from hospitals and HIV private clinic.

Moving from fear to realization: Family engagement in tuberculosis prevention in children living in tuberculosis Sundanese households in Indonesia.

Objective: Children living in tuberculosis households need protection. However, families need to be engaged to prevent tuberculosis transmission to children. This study aimed to analyze the details of "moving from fear to realization," which is one category of a substantive theory of family engagement in tuberculosis prevention in children.

Palliative Care Nursing Competence of Chinese Oncology Nurses and Its Related Factors.

In China, the development of palliative care is challenging because of limited available resources and rapidly increasing demands. The nurses' competence is a significant element in providing high-quality palliative care. This cross-sectional study aimed to describe the palliative care competence among oncology nurses and to examine the relationships between it and palliative care knowledge, attitudes, and workplace learning conditions.

Lived experience of caring for dying patients in emergency room.

Background: Dying often occurs in hospitals and frequently in emergency rooms. Understanding caring for critical and dying patients is necessary for quality nursing.

Purpose: This study described the meaning of nurses' lived experience of caring for critical and dying patients in the emergency rooms.

Moving Beyond Suffering: the Experiences of Thai Persons With Advanced Cancer.

Background: Cancer is a leading cause of death in Thailand; however, little research is available that describes the end-of-life experiences of cancer patients. Data presented here are part of a descriptive qualitative study that investigated dying experiences in patients with advanced cancer. Two core themes were identified-living with suffering and moving beyond suffering.

Symptom experience and management among people with acute myeloid leukaemia in Thailand.

In Thailand, haematological malignancy is one of the most common types of cancer. This cross-sectional study, conducted in Southern Thailand, aimed to describe the symptom experiences of and symptom management strategies among patients with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Sixty hospitalized patients with AML were recruited.

Socio-demographic and AIDS-related factors associated with tuberculosis stigma in southern Thailand: a quantitative, cross-sectional study of stigma among patients with TB and healthy community members.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the most important infectious diseases worldwide. A comprehensive approach towards disease control that addresses social factors including stigma is now advocated. Patients with TB report fears of isolation and rejection that may lead to delays in seeking care and could affect treatment adherence.

Living with suffering as voiced by Thai patients with terminal advanced cancer.

Cancer is a leading cause of death in Thailand. Thai cancer patients often seek medical treatment while in advanced stages of the disease. This longitudinal qualitative study aimed to describe the suffering that patients with terminal advanced cancer experience in their everyday life.

Felt needs of parents who have a 0- to 3-month-old child with a cleft lip and palate.

Objective: To describe the felt needs of parents who have children from birth to 3 months of age with a cleft lip and palate.

Design: Parents were interviewed using structured and semistructured questions at 1 week and 1, 2, and 3 months after birth.

Participants: Fifteen parents, including 12 mothers and three fathers, of patients with cleft lip and palate aged 0 to 3 months were interviewed.

Karmic quest: Thai family caregivers promoting a peaceful death for people with AIDS.

This paper reports the constructions of karma by four Thai family caregivers living with a dying person with AIDS in Southern Thailand. These four families form a subset of a larger ethnographic case study exploring the experiences of families living with a relative with AIDS. Serial interviews, observations, and field journal were used as data collection methods with the four families.

Managing shame and stigma: case studies of female carers of people with AIDS in southern Thailand.

The authors of this article discuss the effects of shame and stigma on female caregivers of people living with AIDS in southern Thailand. They conducted a longitudinal ethnographic case study over 8 months and collected data using interviews, observations, field notes, and journaling. The authors performed qualitative content analysis and narrative analysis.

Search for a cure: narratives of Thai family caregivers living with a person with AIDS.

Facing an incurable prognosis Thai families search for a cure for AIDS using all possible means available to them. This paper reports a longitudinal narrative case study of eight family caregivers caring for a relative with AIDS in rural Southern Thailand. The paper demonstrates how the caregivers living with a person with AIDS made sense of illness episodes, and how they chose and evaluated particular treatments and care.