What Native Americans want nurses to know: Attitudes and behaviors desired in client/nurse relationships.

Objective: This study examined Native American perceptions of attitudes and behaviors desired in their client/nurse relationships for the purpose of informing cultural-competency education and practice.

Design: A descriptive-qualitative methodology was used and face-to-face interviews were conducted.

Sample: A targeted sampling approach was applied; the sample included Native Americans employed at a western reservation casino.

Intentionality in reducing health disparities: Caring as connection.

Objective: Inadequate health care quality may contribute to Native American health disparities through racial/ethnic discrimination by health care professionals. Nursing approaches to relationships and caring offer a means to understand health disparities through an unconventional lens. The study objective was to examine health disparities within the context of patient/nurse relationships.

Optimizing the Benefits of Self-Monitoring Among Patients With Cancer.

Purpose/objectives: To investigate oncology professionals' perspectives about, experience with, and envisioned feasibility of incorporating patient self-monitoring as a patient-centered practice. 
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Research Approach: An interpretive, descriptive study.

Long-Term Learning in a Short-Term Study Abroad Program: "Are We Really Truly Helping the Community?".

Objective: To discover long-term learning outcomes in a short-term study abroad program. Students worked directly with community members to identify health issues, implement educational workshops addressing those issues, and evaluate health outcomes.

Design And Sample: This is a qualitative, descriptive study.

Tracking and journaling the cancer journey.

Clinicians sometimes suggest to patients that they keep track of illness-related issues. Self-monitoring is a helpful term to describe these at-home activities that yield essential information for self-management. The purpose of this article is to create greater awareness of the opportunities (and potential shortcomings) of patient self-monitoring for oncology nursing practice.

Transformative learning theory: facilitating mammography screening in rural women.

Purpose/objectives: To use transformative learning to investigate what experiences serve as catalysts for mammography screening, the cognitive and affective responses that result from the catalyst, and how screening behavior is impacted.

Research Approach: A descriptive qualitative study.

Setting: Southeastern Wyoming.

"How I kept track of it of course was my business": cancer patient self-monitoring as self-stylized work.

Objectives: Self-monitoring behaviors of cancer patients benefit patients, caregivers, and providers, and yet the phenomenon of self-monitoring from the cancer-patient perspective has not been studied. We examined cancer patients' self-monitoring preferences and practices, focusing on the meaning of self-monitoring within the cancer experience.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted among adult cancer patients who had been seen at least once at a rural United States cancer center.

'Being a Part of Treatment': the meaning of self-monitoring for rural cancer patients.

Background: The diagnosis and treatment of cancer entail managing vast amounts of information in order for patients to participate effectively in disease self-management. Information management includes patients' responses to acquire, manage, and use external and internal information, such as through self-monitoring practices.

Objective: The study objective was to examine the meaning of self-monitoring practices within the context of rural patients' responses to internal and external information.

Processes inherent in mammography-screening decisions of rarely or never-screened women.

Breast cancer is a significant cause of mortality and morbidity. A strong association exists between survival and early detection through regular mammography. Impoverished women underuse this life-saving screening, resulting in a disproportionate cancer burden.