Review of the Effectiveness of Enteral Feeding in Pediatric Oncology Patients [Formula: see text].

Enteral supplementation for nutritional support in pediatric oncology patients remains nonstandardized across institutions and between providers. Pediatric oncology patients frequently fail to meet their growth curve percentiles, lose weight, and/or are malnourished due to both the oncologic process as well as side effects from chemotherapy and radiation treatments. Methods of increasing weight include enteral feeding (nasogastric, nasoduodenal/jejunal, or gastrostomy), parenteral intravenous feeding, and oral supplementation.

Nurses' Perceptions of Caring for Childbearing Women who Misuse Opioids.

Purpose: This study explored obstetric nurses' perceptions of providing inpatient care during labor, birth, and postpartum to pregnant and parenting women with histories of misusing opioids. Specific aims included to 1) describe common themes associated with nurses' perceptions of caring for this population, and 2) identify specific areas for intervention development.

Study Design And Methods: Grounded theory methods, as described by Corbin and Strauss, were used to guide data collection and to identify common themes.

Issues that impact type-2 diabetes self-management in rural communities.

Purpose: To evaluate and synthesize the evidence related to issues that impact type-2 diabetes self-management in rural communities.

Data Sources: A systematic review of the literature from 2008 to 2013 was conducted using the following health science databases: CINAHL, PubMed, Cochrane Library, and OVID. Other databases searched included the clearinghouses of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC); National Rural Health Association (NRHA), State Offices of Rural Health (SORH), and Rural Health Research & Policy Centers (RHRPC).

Development and psychometric evaluation of the genomic nursing concept inventory.

Translation of genome science to improve health outcomes requires nurses to develop genomic competency and literacy, and a robust measure of genomic literacy is needed to advance evidence-based nursing education. This study aimed to develop and evaluate the Genomic Nursing Concept Inventory (GNCI), which is a scale to measure understanding of the genetic/genomic concepts most critical to nursing practice. Applying a multistep process, key concepts were drawn from essential nursing genetic/genomic competencies and validated by expert opinion.

Effect of Iyengar yoga practice on fatigue and diurnal salivary cortisol concentration in breast cancer survivors.

Purpose: To examine the effect of regular Iyengar yoga practice on measures of self-perceived psychosocial function and diurnal salivary cortisol secretion in stage II-IV breast cancer survivors (n = 18).

Data Sources: Women were randomly assigned to attend yoga practice for 90 min twice weekly for 8 weeks (n = 9) or to a wait-listed, noninterventional control group (n = 9). Traditional Iyengar yoga routines that progressively increased in difficulty as participants gained strength and flexibility were used.

Cancer-related concerns of spouses of women with breast cancer.

Objective: To describe spouses' reported cancer-related demands attributed to their wife's breast cancer, and to test the construct and predictive validity of a brief standardized measure of these demands.

Methods: Cross-sectional and longitudinal data were obtained from 151 spouses of women newly diagnosed with non-metastatic breast cancer. Descriptive statistics were computed to describe spouses' dominant cancer-related demands, and multivariate regression analyses tested the construct and predictive validity of the standardized measure.

Building the ship of death: part I.

This is the first in a series of two consecutive articles, both of which present the results of original research from a team of music-thanatology musician-clinicians working in Spokane, Washington. This article presents not only an overview of the music-thanatology narration style (through direct excerpts from clinical narratives), it also describes the interconnected physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of 11 dying persons and their families as they occur in a hospital setting. Core to narrative medicine practice, in the first article, we welcome these excerpts from patient, provider, and caregiver experiences to stand on their own, in their own voice, without interpretation.