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Nurse Convicted For Cocaine Possession Struck Off Nursing & Midwifery Council Register
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
A nurse who was convicted at Leicester Magistrates Court for possession of 2.14g of cocaine in February 2007 was struck of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register at a hearing in London on 26 September 2008. Asif McGuinness, a 40 year old Registered Nurse (Mental Health) from Knighton, Leicester was fined £200 for contravening section 5 and schedule 4 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
NMC Responds To House Of Lords Inquiry Into New Draft EU Directive On Patients' Rights
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
NMC responds to House of Lords inquiry into new draft EU Directive on Patients' Rights The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the regulator for all nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom, has responded to a House of Lords Committee inquiry into the proposed EU Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare.
Long Beach Memorial RNs Settle Groundbreaking Contract
Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Registered nurses at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center (LBMMC), one of the largest hospitals in the West, yesterday reached a tentative agreement with hospital officials on a new collective bargaining contract that addresses the nurses' key priority for patient safety protections along with substantial gains in nurse rights and compensation that will allow the hospital to continue recruiting and retaining RNs.

Journal of Research in Nursing current issue

Guest Editorial: Compassion and smiles: what's the evidence?
Smith, P. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Commentary: Working together: the key to achieving quality care for an ageing population
Nolan, M. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000

'A stony road... a 19 year journey': 'Bridging' through late-stage Parkinson's disease
Williams, S., Keady, J. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0000
AbstractStudies reporting the lived experience of late-stage Parkinson's disease are sparse. Using constructivist grounded theory and centre-stage storyline generation as the methodological approach, this study reports on 69 interviews with 13 people with late-stage Parkinson's disease and their family carers who were recruited from the caseload of two specialist Parkinson's disease nurses working in North Wales and one consultant geriatrician. The interviews were conducted longitudinally between June 2007 and April 2008, and all participants were diagnosed with late-stage idiopathic Parkinson's disease using Brain Bank clinical criteria. All interviews and the subsequent sharing, modification and testing of the results of data analysis were conducted in the person's home and with their participation as partners in the research process. From this process, bridging emerged as the centre-stage storyline in adjusting to life with late-stage Parkinson's disease, and this consisted of three temporal stages, namely: 1) building on the past; 2) bridging the present and 3) broaching the future. These three stages were underpinned by three linked sequential foundations, namely biographical, situational and crumbling. These stages, foundations and properties of bridging have important implications for the understanding of late-stage Parkinson's disease and informing the nursing role in developing and providing appropriate supportive interventions.

Evidence-Based Nursing current issue

[Purpose and procedure] Purpose and procedure
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[EBN notebook] Critical appraisal of cost-effectiveness and cost-utility studies in health care
Soares, M., Dumville, J. C Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0000

[EBN notebook] Evidence-based practice targets the individual patient. Part 1: how clinicians can use study results to determine optimal individual care
Bassler, D., Busse, J. W, Karanicolas, P. J, Guyatt, G. H Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0000


Research in Nursing & Health

Nurse staffing and medication errors: Cross-sectional or longitudinal relationships?
Barbara A. Mark, Michael Belyea Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:54:00 -0000
We used autoregressive latent trajectory (ALT) modeling to examine the relationship between change in nurse staffing and change in medication errors over 6 months in 284 general medical-surgical nursing units. We also investigated the impact of select hospital and nursing unit characteristics on the baseline level and rate of change in medication errors. We found essentially no support for a nurse staffing-medication error relationship either cross-sectionally or longitudinally. Few hospital or nursing unit characteristics had significant relationships to either the baseline level or rate of change in medication errors. However, ALT modeling is a promising technique that can promote a deeper understanding of the theoretically complex relationships that may underlie the nurse staffing-medication error relationship. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
The relationships among self-esteem, stress, coping, eating behavior, and depressive mood in adolescents
Pamela Martyn-Nemeth, Sue Penckofer, Meg Gulanick, Barbara Velsor-Friedrich, Fred B. Bryant Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:54:00 -0000
The prevalence of adolescent overweight is significant, almost 25% in some minorities, and often is associated with depressive symptoms. Psychological and psychosocial factors as well as poor coping skills have been correlated with unhealthy eating and obesity. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among self-esteem, stress, social support, and coping; and to test a model of their effects on eating behavior and depressive mood in a sample of 102 high school students (87% minority). Results indicate that (a) stress and low self-esteem were related to avoidant coping and depressive mood, and that (b) low self-esteem and avoidant coping were related to unhealthy eating behavior. Results suggest that teaching adolescents skills to reduce stress, build self-esteem, and use more positive approaches to coping may prevent unhealthy eating and subsequent obesity, and lower risk of depressive symptoms. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health
Relationships between patient-centered cancer nursing interventions and desired health outcomes in the context of the health care system
Laurel E. Radwin, Howard J. Cabral, Gail Wilkes Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:00:00 -0000
A non-experimental longitudinal prospective study was conducted to examine the relationships between patient-centered nursing interventions (PCNIs), system characteristics, patient characteristics, and desired health outcomes (DHOs) for 173 hematology-oncology patients. Forty-nine nurse participants provided system characteristics data. Confirmatory factor analyses yielded parsimonious scales to operationalize the variables. In the path model, one PCNI - individualization - was positively related to three subsequent DHOs: authentic self-representation, optimism, and sense of well-being. Two additional PCNIs - responsiveness and proficiency - were positively related to subsequent trust in nurses. PCNIs did not vary with patient race, ethnicity, age, gender, or educational level. Patient-centeredness of care for cancer patients may be enhanced by quality improvement activities that measure and monitor these PCNIs and resultant outcomes. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res. Nurs. Health

 

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