"Permission to Touch": Nurses' Perspectives of Interpersonal Contact during Patient Care.

The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' perceptions about the use of interpersonal touch in their clinical practice. A qualitative descriptive approach with content analysis method was used to identify common themes. Registered nurses (N = 22) participated in focus groups and individual interviews.

Professional identity and hospital-based registered nurses: A phenomenological study.

Introduction: Nurses continue to struggle to define their role as professionals in the hospital-setting often being represented in media as less competent than other health care providers. Paradoxically, an annual poll of the public consistently identifies nursing as the most trusted profession. This dichotomy of simultaneously being considered incompetent yet holding a high level of trust leads nurses to question their own professional identity.

Multiple family group intervention for spinal cord injury: Quantitative and qualitative comparison with standard education.

To evaluate a Multiple Family Group (MFG) education and support intervention for individuals with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) and their primary caregivers. We hypothesized that MFG would be superior to an Education Control Group (EC) for improving patient activation and coping skills, social supports, and relationship functioning. A large free-standing inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation facility.

Benefits and adverse effects of cannabis use among adults with persistent pain.

Background: Increasingly, states are legalizing cannabis for recreational use. Improved accessibility may allow adults with pain to use cannabis more liberally. Greater understanding is needed about how adults with pain perceive the effects of cannabis, particularly those who also use opioid analgesics.

Opioid Initiation to Substance Use Treatment: "They Just Want to Feel Normal".

Background: Opioid use disorder has drastically increased in recent years within adult populations. Limited understanding exists regarding how people enter medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder-particularly those who initiate opioid use to treat a painful condition.

Objectives: This research examines the process involved when adults first initiate the use of opioid medicines to treat pain through enrollment in an outpatient MAT program.

Assessing the value of the Meaningful Use Clinical Summary for patients and families with pediatric asthma.

Electronic clinical summaries are innovations supported by the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, known as "Meaningful Use" (MU). The MU clinical summary documents the shared understanding of the plan of care for patients and assists families in managing asthma-related health care. The purpose of this analysis was to identify the communicative value of the summaries to patients and families.

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.

Views on Exercise.

Introduction: There is a large prevalence of asthma, particularly among Hispanic children. Although physical activity is a good way to manage asthma, more Hispanic children with asthma lack activity than their healthy classmates. Given this, the purpose of this study was to explore the development of exercise perceptions in Hispanic children with asthma and to further develop an existing explanatory theory.

Grand Multiparous Mothers' Embodied Experiences of Natural and Technological Altered Births.

In-depth interviews of a purposive sample ( = 14) of grand multipara mothers (five or more births) was conducted to investigate the mothers' embodied experiences of natural, technologically altered births and oxytocin inductions in U.S. hospitals from 1973 to 2007.

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.

Intervention with substance-abusing mothers: are there rural-urban differences?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine rural-urban differences among substance-abusing mothers enrolled in the Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) from 1998 to 2008 in Washington State.

Methods: This was a longitudinal study utilizing PCAP data reports of 773 women enrolled from 1998 to 2008. Differences across urban-rural PCAP participants were examined.

Intervention with substance-abusing mothers: Are there rural-urban differences?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine rural-urban differences among substance-abusing mothers enrolled in the Parent-Child Assistance Program (PCAP) from 1998 to 2008 in Washington State.

Methods: This was a longitudinal study utilizing PCAP data reports of 773 women enrolled from 1998 to 2008. Differences across urban-rural PCAP participants were examined.

Living on the edge of asthma: A grounded theory exploration.

Purpose: Most asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations for asthma are preventable. Our purpose was to develop a grounded theory to guide interventions to reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and ED visits.

Design And Methods: Grounded theory inquiry guided interviews of 20 participants, including 13 parents and 7 children.

A systematic review of the literature on screening for exercise-induced asthma: considerations for school nurses.

Asthma is a major cause of illness, missed school days, and hospitalization in children. One type of asthma common in children is exercise-induced asthma (EIA). EIA causes airway narrowing with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath during exercise.

Pediatric patients with asthma: a high-risk population for subsequent hospitalization.

Objectives: Asthma is one of the most common chronic conditions among children and is one of the leading causes for pediatric hospitalizations. More evidence is needed to clarify the risks of repeat hospitalization and the underlying factors contributing to adverse health outcomes among pediatric patients hospitalized with asthma. The purpose of this study was to examine the risk of subsequent hospitalizations among pediatric patients hospitalized with asthma compared to a reference cohort of children hospitalized for all other diagnoses.