130 results match your criteria: "The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing.[Affiliation]"

Aims: To (1) identify formal and informal healthcare provider knowledge and counselling on newborn care recommendations; (2) identify care guidelines used; and (3) determine healthcare provider training regarding recommendations.

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, many newborn deaths occur in the community between days two to 42 of life.

Introduction: Formal and informal healthcare providers, including nurses and community health workers, counsel newborn caregivers but little is known about their recommendations.

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Problem: Improving the health and well-being of people with disabilities (PWD) should be included https://plato.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/encyclopedia/archinfo.

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Objectives: Parents of young children have unique informational needs and it has been demonstrated that information-seeking behaviors influence health outcomes. Due to social media's popularity, understanding parents' use of social media may assist in disseminating accurate parenting information and in developing targeted interventions. Thus, we aimed to identify and describe the existing literature of parental use of social media for parenting in the U.

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Objective: An integrative review of the literature on advance care planning (ACP) preferences and practices from the perspective of persons with dementia (PWDs) was conducted, both to learn how health-care providers might engage and empower PWDs in ACP during the early stages of dementia and to identify where researchers should focus future work to improve ACP in this population.

Methods: In November 2017, CINAHL, Legal Collection, PsycINFO, PubMed, and SocIndex were searched for empirical studies with PWDs as participants and ACP as a topic of interest.

Results: Eighteen articles, which sampled 1304 PWDs, were found, focusing on 4 domains: engagement in and correlates of ACP participation; ability and attitudes toward ACP participation; ACP interventions; and values and preferences for end of life (EOL).

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Live Discharge From Hospice: A Systematic Review.

J Hosp Palliat Nurs

December 2019

Serena Wu, is undergraduate honors BSN student, The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. Deborah L. Volker, PhD, RN, FAAN, is associate professor emerita, The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing.

Live discharges from hospice may occur because of patient choice or provider choice. However, when discharges occur before death, patients and families may feel abandoned and left to manage care needs previously provided by hospice. The purpose of this systematic review was to better understand the nature of live discharges, including frequency, patient characteristics, and hospice characteristics.

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Aims: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), serious and increasingly prevalent among Mexican Americans, produces symptoms related to high and low glucose levels, medication side effects, and long-term complications. This secondary analysis explored symptom prevalence, differences among symptom burden levels, and how symptoms clustered.

Methods: Clinical measurements and survey data (demographic, quality of life, and the symptom subscale of the Diabetes Symptom Self-Management Inventory) collected from Mexican American adults with T2DM (n = 71) were analyzed for symptom prevalence, differences across levels of symptom burden, and symptom clusters.

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Preparing Chief Nurse Successors: An Evaluation of the Chief Nursing Officer Academy.

J Nurs Adm

January 2019

Author Affiliations: Executive Nurse Advisor, Leadership (Dr Batcheller), The Center for the Advancement of Healthcare Professionals, San Diego, California; Adjunct Professor (Dr Batcheller), Professor and Dean Emerita (Dr Yoder-Wise), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing, Lubbock; Associate Professor (Dr Yoder), The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing; President (Dr Yoder-Wise), The Wise Group, Lubbock, Texas; Education Programs Coordinator (Ms Williams), AMN Healthcare, Austin, Texas.

The traditional role of the chief nursing officer (CNO) is expanding to include new clinical areas and patient populations. Chief nursing officers find themselves challenged to balance both system and site priorities, compounded with the expectation to lead their organization during a merger, acquisition, or hospital closure and the changes in healthcare reimbursement. Chief nursing officers must anticipate emerging issues and be prepared to manage those issues.

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Objective: To describe the monthly variation in the prevalence and patterns of unfinished nursing care and to determine the relationships between the system of nursing care and unfinished nursing care at the US Army Burn Center.

Methods: This was a repeated measures, descriptive study. For one week per month for six months, all nurses providing direct patient care on two inpatient burn units (intensive care and progressive care) were asked to complete an anonymous paper survey, which contained the Perceived Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care instrument, to estimate the prevalence of unfinished nursing care on their unit.

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Background: Military nurses provide care to seriously injured service members in flight, on the ground, or at sea during transport from the point of injury to a facility capable of providing higher levels of care. From this experience nurses are at increased risk of developing negative behavioral health symptoms. Spirituality, a belief in someone or something greater than oneself, could provide behavioral health support for military nurses who serve in this role.

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Objective: To determine what factors influenced dietary fat intake (DFI) among black emerging adults.

Participants: Sample included 251 black emerging adults, ages 18-25 years, living in the US.

Methods: This was a nonexperimental cross-sectional study based on self-report data.

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Quality of life of burn survivors treated in the military burn center.

Nurs Outlook

November 2017

Organizational Psychology Department, Alliant International University, San Diego State University, & Psychology Department, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA.

Background: Limited research explains the quality of life (QOL) among burn survivors during post-hospitalization rehabilitation.

Purpose: To determine the QOL of military and civilian burn survivors treated in the military burn center.

Methods: In this longitudinal study, QOL was examined in 131 burn survivors (88 civilians; 43 military).

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Racial disparities in health are persistent and pervasive in the United States. Researchers and policymakers have known for decades that access to health care is not sufficient for addressing health disparities because of the socially situated roots of the disparities. We argue that the lack of progress in alleviating health disparities is the result of a lack of overarching framework to guide both policymakers and researchers in their efforts.

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Family Presence During Trauma Resuscitation: Family Members' Attitudes, Behaviors, and Experiences.

Am J Crit Care

May 2017

Karen O'Connell is associate professor of pediatrics and emergency medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and Children's National Health System, Washington, DC. Jennifer Fritzeen is program manager, Trauma and Burn Surgery, Children's National Health System. Cathie E. Guzzetta is a nursing research consultant and a clinical professor, The George Washington University School of Nursing. Angela P. Clark is associate professor emeritus, The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, Austin, Texas. Christina Lloyd is a nursing consultant in Washington, DC. She was a neonatal intensive care unit family specialist, Children's National Health System. Shari H. Scott is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, psychiatric emergency room, Parkland Health and Hospital System, Dallas, Texas. Michael D. Aldridge is an assistant professor of nursing, Concordia University, Austin, Texas. Barbara Kreling is a qualitative research consultant, Children's National Health System.

Background: The paradigm is shifting from separating family members from their children during resuscitation to one of patient- and family-centered care. However, widespread acceptance is still lacking.

Objective: To measure attitudes, behaviors, and experiences of family members of pediatric patients during the resuscitation phase of trauma care, including family members who were present and those who were not.

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The objective of this study was to better understand the post-deployment behavior health symptoms and readjustment/reintegration experienced by military nurses who provided en route care while serving in Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. Employing an exploratory, concurrent, mixed-methods design with an electronic survey consisting of several valid instruments and single, face-to-face interviews; data were gathered from 119 surveys and 22 interviews. Four qualitative themes aligned with the Post-Deployment Readjustment Inventory items.

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Patient turnover influences the quality and safety of patient care. However, variations in the conceptual underpinnings of patient turnover limit the understanding of the phenomenon. A concept analysis was completed to clarify the role of patient turnover in relation to outcomes in the acute care hospital setting.

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The purpose of this systemic literature review is to unveil a greater understanding of Physical Activity in Latinas. We used PubMed and PsycInfo databases to search for articles published between 1991 and August 2016, examining physical activity and its correlates exclusively in adult Latinas. Only 21 primary studies met the inclusion criteria.

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Sexual health and sexual rights are integral to nursing science but ignored in nursing publications. We searched Advances in Nursing Science for prevalence of these topics. Fifteen articles (1.

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This article reviews the history of social justice in nursing and argues that education needs to be redesigned to allow nurses to return to the profession's social justice roots. A review of social justice literature in nursing practice and education was conducted. Although social justice is a recurring theme in the literature, definitions are abstract, calls to action are ambiguous, and theoretical frameworks continue to emphasize the individual nurse-patient dyad.

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Predictors of dual control of HIV and diabetes.

AIDS Care

September 2016

c Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing , Emory University, Atlanta , GA , USA.

Diabetes is one of the most frequently diagnosed comorbidities in individuals living with HIV. Dual control of both conditions is essential because both diseases negatively impact the immune and vascular systems. The purpose of this retrospective study was to assess the factors associated with dual control of HIV and diabetes.

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