Nurses' knowledge of advance directives and perceived confidence in end-of-life care: a cross-sectional study in five countries.

Nurses' knowledge regarding advance directives may affect their administration and completion in end-of-life care. Confidence among nurses is a barrier to the provision of quality end-of-life care. This study investigated nurses' knowledge of advance directives and perceived confidence in end-of-life care, in Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy and the USA using a cross-sectional descriptive design (n = 1089).

Multi-ethnic high school students' perceptions of nursing in the USA and Israel: a descriptive quantitative study.

Background: In order to target new recruits or future generation of ethnic minority nurses about their potential fit in nursing, it is necessary to understand their perceptions of the profession. Successful recruitment of high school students into nursing in part requires congruency between perceptions of an ideal career and perceptions of nursing as a career. The purposes of this study were to compare ethnic minority high school students in the USA and in Israel on their perceptions of nursing as a career, and to understand how those perceptions compare to their perceptions of an ideal career.

Coping with preoperative anxiety in cesarean section: physiological, cognitive, and emotional effects of listening to favorite music.

Background: Listening to music has a stress-reducing effect in surgical procedures. The effects of listening to music immediately before a cesarean section have not been studied. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of listening to selected music while waiting for a cesarean section on emotional reactions, on cognitive appraisal of the threat of surgery, and on stress-related physiological reactions.

Nursing and midwifery education, practice, and issues in Israel.

Nurses deliver most of Israel's healthcare services, yet its nurse per population ratio is only 5.9 per 1000, one of the lowest in the developed world. For several years, the managers of the profession have been pushing to upgrade nursing and to move it into the academic sphere.

Does the conservation of resources motivate middle-aged women to perform physical activity?

This article aims to examine the factors that motivate middle-aged women to engage in leisure physical activity (LPA) and to explore the relationship between resources loss and gains and engaging in LPA. It is a cross-sectional study based on a self-reported questionnaire (n = 949), using variables of the conservation of resources theory and the theory of planned behavior. Results show that women who engage in physical activity experience lower resources loss than inactive women.

Nursing in Israel.

Nurses in Israel struggle with many of the same problems faced by nurses in other parts of the world, such as increased use of technology, overwhelming amounts of information, and demands for high quality of services to larger numbers of people within tighter budgets. In addition to the aging of the general population, the country has welcomed large numbers of immigrants. The nation's expenditures for healthcare and nursing education have, at times, had to take a back seat to the government's efforts to house new immigrants, to relocate groups, and to defend the nation against politically motivated violence and attacks.

The effects of a coaching project in nursing on the coaches' training motivation, training outcomes, and job performance: an experimental study.

Background: Coaching is known to benefit both the trainees and the coaches, yet research in nursing has mainly focused on the benefits to the trainees. There is little knowledge regarding the psycho-educational effects of being a coach.

Objectives: To determine the effects of participation in a coaching project in nursing, on the coaches' training motivation, skills acquisition, self-efficacy, professional attitudes, transfer of training and professional performance.

Genetic testing, genetic information, and the role of maternal-child health nurses in Israel.

Purpose: To examine the rate of genetic testing, the characteristics of those who had these tests, and to examine the public's openness to the possibility of expanding nurses' roles in maternal-child health (MCH) clinics to include providing genetic information.

Design: The study was conducted in nine MCH clinics in the central district of Israel. All women attending the clinics during 1 week were requested to complete the questionnaire.

Stress, self-efficacy and quality of life in cancer patients.

The purpose of the study was to examine the effect of different stressors on various domains of quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients. The study focused on testing a model describing interrelations between two kinds of stress antecedents, two mediating variables--perceived stress and self-efficacy--and QOL. The participants were 60 cancer patients of both genders and various diagnoses.

A psycho-educational program for improving women's attitudes and coping with menopause symptoms.

Objective: To examine the impact of participation in a psycho-educational program on women's attitudes toward menopause, the perceived severity of their symptoms, and the association between the two.

Design: Quasi-experimental. Data were gathered at baseline and 3 months after termination of the program.

Concept mapping: an educational strategy for advancing nursing education.

Topic: Application of concept mapping as a tool in nursing education.

Purpose: To highlight the use of concept mapping as a method for advanced learning in nursing education.

Sources Of Information: Literature from nursing and general education, instructor and student experiences, and opinions from using concept maps as a method of teaching/learning.

Sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students.

Background: Nursing has dealt with sexual harassment long before the term was coined during the 1970s. The current study investigated sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students in Israel following new legislation against sexual harassment in the workplace.

Methods: A self-report questionnaire was administered to 281 nurses and 206 nursing students (80% women) from five medical centres in Israel.