A Phenomenological Study: Student Nurses' Perceptions of Care of the Dying in a Hospice-Based Facility.

Despite emerging evidence of increased death education in nursing curricula, research suggests the graduate nurse is unprepared to effectively communicate and manage the array of symptoms experienced by the dying patient. This qualitative phenomenological research study's intent was to explore the impact of clinical experience in a community-based free-standing hospice facility as an effective pedagogical strategy for preparing student nurses to care for patients and families at the end of life (EOL). The researchers used descriptive phenomenology rooted in Husserl's philosophy.

Service-Learning: Promoting Empathy Through the Point-in-Time Count of Homeless Populations.

Background: An interprofessional service-learning experience, using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Point-in-Time (PIT) count of unsheltered homeless, was used as the basis of exposing nursing and public health students to those facing homelessness and housing insecurity in their community.

The concept of decisional control: building the base for evidence-based nursing practice.

Purposes: The purposes of this article are to add clarification to the meaning of decisional control and provide a review of research related to the concept.

Definitions And Characteristics Of Decisional Control: A summary of the definitions of decisional control is followed by a discussion of the characteristics of the concept. The concept of decisional control includes the ability or power to decide what will be one's involvement in health care decisions.

Developing a clinical teaching handbook and reference manual for part-time clinical faculty.

To orient nurses who are already clinical experts to their new role as clinical educators, we developed a department-specific handbook and a reference manual that included materials which could not, as a practical matter, be photocopied extensively. These materials allowed us to quickly orient new clinical instructors to the responsibilities and skills they would need for clinical instruction and supervision. Providing these orientation and training materials also helped solve the clinical nursing faculty shortage at our institution by supporting nurses who, despite expertise in clinical areas, lacked formal training or experience as educators.

Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma: a clinicopathologic and electron microscopy study.

A 66-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with a neurological syndrome characterized by ataxia and diplopia. Magnetic resonance of the brain documented an ischemic medullary lesion. Examination of the heart revealed a grade 2/6 systolic murmur at the left sternal border and apex that radiated towards the axilla.