Nurse Article Reviews Samples For Students

Abstract

The topic of this paper is regarding the effects of the nursing shortage on patient safety and adverse events. Due to the nursing shortage, there is an increase inare registered more patient adverse events and there is increasedthe risk to the patient’s safety increased. If the nursing shortage problem is not correctedsolved, then there will be a continuance ofcontinue increase in the risk to patient safety risk , andas well as harm to the patient. In the paper there is provided Aan explanation of the nursing shortage, the its cause of the shortage, how the shortageit affects patient safety, and ...

Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

Introduction

The discharge planning process is highly imperative in ensuring a smooth, rapid and even rapid transition of the patient from one healthcare environment to another. The discharge process entails the arrangement of necessary resources, social work evaluation, high-risk screening operations, patient advocacy, chart documentation, collaboration/consultation, family and patient awareness and most importantly counseling. The process is, therefore, complex and seriously requires a personnel with a large assortment both organizational and clinical skills to tackle the diverse patient needs, healthcare schemes, and patent's families and also to promote the optimum functioning of support systems, patients, and families. Delay factors may ...

Introduction

It is important to take the patient history. Nurses should take this history during assessment. When this is done, the patient’s problems are easily captured for the purpose of treatment. This has been made by nurses routinely. Roles of nurses are expanding with the new technology. They take information from patients, type it and make changes where necessary. Information from patients is private and confidential. Taking information from patients requires a practitioner or a specialist, nurse. In addition, taking the history is a fraction of assessment made to the patient. There is a need to use other information gathering techniques. Assessment covers ...

Introductions

The child abuse has become rampant in the recent past all over the globe. This is confirmed by various surveys that have been carried out in different countries; from the under-developed countries in Asia and Africa to the most advanced countries in Europe and America. Furthermore, this epidemic does not choose race, color or tribe it cut across all the children around the globe. Although this is an old phenomenon which has been in the public knowledge for decades, little has been done to alleviate the suffering of these little angels who cannot defend themselves. Thus, the perpetrators of ...

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Abstract

The controversy around domestic violence is not only legal and civil issue. It is also an issue that concern’s the victim’s health and wellness. Victims of spousal abuse are prone to experience trauma following a traumatic experience. In this regards, nurses play a special role in assisting the victims of domestic violence. This paper discusses the article Intimate Partner Violence in Rural U.S. Areas: What Every Nurse Should Know and the relevance of the points presented by the authors.
Keywords: Domestic violence, role of nurse, medical social worker
Over the years, a plethora ...

Article critique

The title of the study provides a clear and succinct indication of the issues which will be touched on in the main study. The issues which will be discussed in the study includes nurse staffing, nurse work schedule and patient mortality have been clearly captured. Such a realization provides the reader with a sneak preview of what to expect when they read the study.

Abstract

The abstract of the study provides a clear breakdown of what the reader should expect to see while reading the paper. The problem of the study has been clearly stated as the independent effects which ...

Lauren (2011) in “Pediatric Heart Murmurs: Evaluation and management in primary care,” gave an overview of the cardiac assessment, diagnosis of heart murmurs, and referral recommendations among children. Lauren noted that most of the heart murmurs were innocent resulting from a turbulent flow of blood in the pulmonary arteries or due to delayed cardiac development that leads to slight ductus arteriosus in neonates. Pathological heart murmurs result from ventricular septal defect, severe cases of patent ductus arteriosus or congenital heart diseases.
The prevalence rate of heart murmurs among newborns is between 0.6% and 4.2%. About 90% of infants and ...

Exam 1

- In experimental studies, the subjects receive treatment and are observed, and a control group is used to verify the effect of the intervention performed on the experimental group. On the other hand, in non -experimental studies, the subjects are not subjected to any process of treatment. In this study, the subjects have not received any treatment at all and data is collected from archived secondary sources. Additionally, experiments usually have both dependent and independent variables. Finally, experiments involve randomization of the sample population into groups which are later to be subjected to specifically defined treatment. This is a non-experimental design. ...

` Literature Review
Will the implementation of strict count process and other means lower the retention of surgical items (foreign bodies) in patients and during surgery and how does it help to increase patient safety?
Ali, A., Omar, B., Okacha, N., Abderrahmane, A., & Mohamed, B. (2012). Paraspinal Textiloma. After Posterior Lumbar Surgery: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. World Neurosurgery, 77(2)375-380. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.017
Paraspinal Textiloma is a complication that is common after posterior lumbar surgery. This study aims to inform spinal surgeons and radiologists on the experience of Paraspinal Textiloma so as to minimize unnecessary death that is ...

Emotional intelligence in Nursing

Emotional intelligence in nursing is the ability to process emotions, understanding and assimilations, and manage emotions. Extensive research outside the practice of nursing has exhibited correlations between significant workplace and measured emotional intelligence and the outcomes of workforce such as management of stress, effective leadership, and performance, retention of jobs, job satisfaction, positive conflict styles and burnout prevention . In a number of nursing research studies, pilot data have exhibited the same results that correlates measured emotional intelligence with nursing performance levels in the nursing leaders and clinical staff, stress adaptation, job satisfaction, professional achievement and some positive clinical outcomes in ...

The research article chosen to critique is, “Using Mock Code Simulation to Improve Responder Performance During the First 5 Minutes of a Code” by Delac, K., Blazier, D., Daniel, L., & N-Wilfong, D. (2013).
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a lifesaving technique, and is very useful in emergencies like drowning or accidents, where the patient is likely to have a heart arrest. Nurse educators are responsible for training nurses and students on this important technique. Training program differs from real life scenario. In real life scenario, nurses go through a range of emotions like fear, confusion, anxiety, etc., that immobilizes them, ...

The case overview “Did infiltrated injection site call for D/C of Taxol infusion?” (2008) by D.A.Tammelleo is dedicated to the liability of physicians and their practice groups for nurses’ malpractice. The case under discussion is Sacks v Neicase. In Sacks v Neicase the complaint, alleging medical malpractice against Dr.M.Sacks and The Medical Oncology Group was filed by Mr.Freeman, who suffered injuries due to Dr. Sacks’ negligence related to the administration of chemotherapy agents. Mr.Freeman died, and his daughter Mrs. Necaise acted as a plaintiff. The court awarded Necaise $ 217, 334.36.
According to Synopsis by Medical Law Institute Press (2007), ...

The following is the critique of the research article titled: “Measuring the nursing workload per shift in the ICU”.

Research problem/purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate the differences in nursing workload between consecutive shifts, using a nursing workload measurement tool. The aim of the study is to measure the workload of nurses between two consecutive shift using the Nursing Activities Score (NAS). This study is designed to solve a common problem related to handling of nursing manpower in the ICU. The research is in line with existing knowledge about man power placement and workload. This research addresses an important issue pertinent to managing the global problem of nurses man power shortage and finding ways to ...

In this scholarly journal, Deal and Grassley (2012) examined the importance of spiritual care delivery by nurses, based on the experience of nurses involved in the care of patients suffering from kidney disease.

It was argued that the spiritual well-being of a patient has a great influence on the other areas of the patient's health and general disposition towards almost all issues concerning the patient’s life. Patients often undergo "spiritual distress" when afflicted with very serious life-threatening ailments such as renal failure as observed in this article. This spiritual distress thus does not augur well for the wellness ...

Sexual assault is an assault of sexual nature or sexual act directed on another person without their consent. Most Sexual assaults are committed by men towards women but it may also involve man to man, woman to man, woman to woman or even towards children. The term sexual assault may be defined as an involuntary sexual act in which a person could be threatened, coerced or even forced to engage in sex against their consent or any sexual touching of a person against their will.
Rape is a form of sexual assault in which there is intercourse or actual penetration either ...

Article 1:

Leininger, M. (1996). Culture care theory, research, and practice. Nursing Science Quarterly,

9(2), 71-78. doi:101177/08943184960090028

Introduction
Nursing theories continue to play a critical role in the delivery of care to diverse populations in the present era. The health care sector is working towards advancing the discipline and professional of nursing by ensuring providers acquire relevant nursing knowledge to deal with present and upcoming health challenges. The author of the article, Madeleine Leininger, uses the culture care theory to show its relevance in helping educate health providers how to transform the practice of nursing through modern practices that accommodate cultural competency.

Synopsis

The outcome ...

NMHC is a care delivery model that uses advanced practice nurses to lead practice arrangements for the provision of comprehensive care services to vulnerable populations. Ely (2015) notes that NMHC-centered models associate with colleges, schools, universities, nursing departments, social service agencies, non-profit health organizations, and qualified health centers. Through NMHC, nurses acquire the skills needed to reframe service delivery in primary health care. The building blocks of this model include primary care, chronic disease management, wellness education, as well as care integration and coordination (Ely, 2015).
Various major studies demonstrate that primary care is cost-effective when delivered under nurse ...

Though often forgotten by the nursing community and the medical community in general, major depressive disorder is important to address for several reasons. Firstly, it is the most common mental disorder among older adults residing in the United States, as well as worldwide. It is also associated with a handful of other debilitating impairments related to physical and psychiatric health that may be considered more serious. These side effects often force major depressive disorder to take a backseat when a patient is being diagnosed; a doctor may not notice the symptoms. If nurses are trained to notice the signs, ...

Part 1. Differences between quantitative and qualitative research

Research is the parlance used to refer to the search of knowledge. It is described by Kothari (2004) as both a scientific and systematic search for information and an art of scientific investigation. There are two approaches used in research, namely quantitative and qualitative research and they vary greatly on how the research is done. Quantitative research only uses measurable data to analyze while the qualitative research approach mainly uses data that are narrative and subjective. The goal or research objective of quantitative data is to use statistical models using a systematic procedure. This approach uses various steps to progress logically ...

Abstract

Spirituality involves actions and attitudes based on the belief there is a supreme being and hope even when faced with challenges. The incorporation of spirituality in the provision of nursing care facilitates the improvement the patients’ emotional, social and psychological health. This helps them in coping with the challenges associated with their ailments. Though this is a concept supported by most nurses and patients, it has not been effectively incorporated in nurse training. Its effectiveness relies on the nurses’ ability to understand ad apply this concept. The paper explores a research study carried out to determine nurses’ understanding and view on spiritual ...

The main purpose of the article is to identify the key aspects of the leadership skills that every nurse should have. According to the article, it is pivotal for the nurses to adopt a wide range of leadership behaviors and characteristics. It states that adopting these skills, nurses may have a great effect on their role in medicine. Clearly, in order for the nurse to be successful, it is also important to be able to cooperate and adapt to a new team. The main leadership characteristics that every nurse should have are: collaboration with coworkers, caring environment, great support ...

Article #1: Becker, R., et al. (2011). “Functional dysphagia therapy and PEG treatment in a clinical geriatric setting.” Dysphagia, 26, 108-116.
1). Summary: The article by Becker et al. delves on the outcomes of two Functional Dysphagia Therapy (FDT) with one group using percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG), and another group of non-PEG users.
2) Element: The victims of stroke and those with cerebrovascular diseases have neurogenic dysphagia, 50% and 30% respectively. The result of this study revealed a mortality rate of 19.7%, and lower for the second group of non-PEG users which is at 8.6%.
3) Outcome: Those ...

Problem

What is the problem the study was conducted to research?
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a global health issue. There is an increase in type 2 diabetes in African-Americans. Lack of knowledge in lifestyle and treatment interventions has led to the increase of T2DM in African-Americans. Type 2 Diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, renal diseases and lower limb amputations. African-Americans having T2DM also suffer from high blood pressure and low glycemic levels in blood.

Why is the problem an important one for nursing to research?

Diabetes has become a serious health issue among the public. Registered nurses should have latest knowledge about different interventions for diabetes. The article is ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

Emergency nursing deals with a wide range of responsibilities due to the diverse number of patients with unique illness. This profession tends to be dynamic because one is required to make every patient comfortable and well taken care of. One of the key responsibilities to many nurses is having a sense of humor, which helps in lightening the tension between the nurse and the patient. Thus, this paper will examine and analyze three articles that discuss the importance of nurses visiting new born babies, the relevance of elders seeking more health care than other ages, and the significance of burses having a ...

Discussion on Ethical Issue

The situation at the healthcare institute on moral grounds is not sound at all. The aggravated situation is caused by the added financial stress that is faced due to the Affordable Care Act and changing reimbursement strategies. Human Resource in the institution is lacking due to the reason that we have not opted to recruit any further new graduate nurses in order to tackle the financial stress that the institution is facing. Morally the situation is worsened, as the institution will have to deal with the situation with the remaining registered nurses. Human Resource is not that much which ...

Nurse burnout refers to a state of diminished morale amongst nurses deployed to serve in an army setting. The environment under which these particular nurses work tends to create certain perceptions concerning their occupation as nurses. Moreover, it gives a negative rather than positive view concerning this particular occupation. This occurs due to the traditional modes of operation within the camps. The answers to the specified questions in the study appear below.
4a.The main objective of this study included investigating the impacts of certain environments on nurses and their motivation to work under such conditions. In such environments as displayed ...

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In times of global economic turmoil, an ever-expanding population and scarcity of resources, competition is getting tougher by the minute. Financial stability has now become the sole purpose of one’s existence, and this shift in priorities not only fuels conglomerates and promotes corporate culture, but also prompts individuals to explore illicit means to maximize their net wealth; the most common example being money laundering.
Money laundering is the concealment of money, which is obtained through illegal means. The crime is systematically pursued by both individuals and corporations seeking to evade tax or ...

Article Review

ARTICLE REVIEW
The article titled as “How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study” explains how incorporating different elements of patient care in the nursing practice can influence the level of patient satisfaction and help in promoting better healthcare. The article is based on a qualitative research performed on four groups of nursing professionals. The study design consisted of twenty six registered nurses responsible for providing utmost level of patient care in a hospital setting. The interviews conducted with these nurses were recorded and later transcribed for a thorough analysis.
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The title of the chosen article for this assignment is “Use of self-care strategies in the management of bipolar disorder and their relationship to symptoms, illness intrusiveness, and quality of life” authored by Edward Wynter and Tania Perich. The scholarly article presents a study on specified self-care strategies important for managing bipolar disorder. It further asserts that self-care benefits those with bipolar disorder for the improvement of their quality of life. The research method used in this particular study was quantitative through the use of Self-Care Strategies Questionnaire (SCSQ). The questions were classified according to the six domains of ...

INTRODUCTION

Breast cancer is a global health threat due to its frequent nature with a frequency of 30% amongst other types of cancer. In women, breast cancer comes second in causing cancer related deaths. Despite these known facts, there are several incidences with the current research showing that it has been increasing for the past two decades. (Suhail, 2012)
Breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment cause numerous psychological and physical effects on women. These include inability to perform roles in the family, social dysfunction, chemotherapy (sometimes with acute consequences), depressive symptoms and negative emotions amongst other effects. When one is diagnosed ...

Introduction

The study was carried out to determine the leadership competencies and the strategic vision which is essential for management which concerns a change in the complex healthcare organizations. Certain nations such as Switzerland do not have the leadership skills required in the nursing sector. The adapted program to solve the satiation was the “Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Clinical Leadership Programme.” The purpose of adopting it was to ensure that it would support that program. The study was supposed to determine the best methods that would be used in the process of the formation of the vision. The vision ...

Describe your key point and discuss how the knowledge of your chosen key point impacts the care you provide as an LPN/LVN?
Documentation is essential for ethical, effective, and safe nursing practice. Essentially, documentation (electronic, paper, visual or audio) serves as evidence of services or care provided (Williams, 2009). Documentation enables a licensed practical nurse (LPN) to have accurate surveillance of the progress of a patient and to accurately communicate with other healthcare providers. In nursing practice, documentation is essential for proper decision-making regarding the future treatment, care regimen, and continuity of care. Ideally, a licensed practical nurse is ...

Human life is sacred. The teaching about life is similar in its application in both religious perspectives as well as in nursing perspective. Just as the way religions such as Catholic Church view the aspect of human dignity, so is the way nursing profession view it. This discussion will focus on some of the major key principles of Catholic Social teachings and their application in nursing practice.

Dignity of a human person

According to the Catholic Church teachings, human life is sacred, meaning that it5 has been sanctified and should be given the respect it deserves. Their teachings also argue that human dignity depicts ...

Method

Research Design and Research Tradition
Sample and Setting
The researchers employed purposive sampling which is the most appropriate to use in a qualitative study. They considered the family members of elderly patients and chose those who they judged would be best able to relate their experiences in the ED. They made sure that different age groups, gender, and civil status were represented. The authors did not set a sample size beforehand and is also appropriate in a qualitative study because sample representativeness is not based on the size but on how much participant narratives mirror reality (Everest, 2014). As ...

Could there be a way for consumers to gain information on their predisposition to diseases or to tailor fit health care according to their genetic predisposition? Due to the onset of high technology, it is now possible for people to acquire their genetic information through direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of personal genetic (PG) and personal genomic (PGM) testing. This is especially useful when they want to be knowledgeable about their inherited susceptibility to disease or to have disease treatment tailored fit. Direct to consumer genetic testing has both risks and potential benefits. I believe that consumers should have direct access ...

Nursing Burnout

Nursing Burnout
Nursing burnout is a major area of concern as it relates to human resource development and patient care. As nurses reach burnout, their job satisfaction declines, and errors in patient care increase. This study sought to determine what work environment characteristics most relate to an increase in burn out, across multiple departments, in the hospital setting. In other words, the research question was: regardless of nursing area, are there certain factors that increase nurses’ experience of burnout. The hypothesis was that certain personal characteristics, work conditions, and relationships between colleges would all contribute to burnout, thus negatively ...

McIntyre, M., McDonald, C., & Racine, L. (2013). A Critical Analysis of Online Nursing Education: Balancing Optimistic and Cautionary Perspectives. Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, 45(1), 36–53. Retrieved from http://file:///C:/Users/Customer/ Downloads /A%20Critical%20Analysis%20Online%20Nursing%20 Education%20(1).pdf
As populations of nursing students become more distributed, the ability to teach is increasingly relying on technology through the development of online nursing education. Learning institutions incorporate the nontraditional method in order to remain competitive, accessing students residing outside urban cities. E-learning programs use computers to obtain materials and to interact with the instructor and other students ...

Bacteraemia in Cellulitis Article Review Bacteraemia in Cellulitis Article Review

Purpose of the article
The main purpose of the article is to determine the medical results of bacteraemia in cellulitis of a human being’s leg. To achieve the purpose, the article shall explore the occurrence of bacteraemia in cellulitis. The article also highlights the risks involves in bacteraemia cellulitis and also the duration of time in which a patient stays at a hospital. The rate of the recurrence of cellulitis is also determined with the morality in patients put into consideration. In order to achieve the objectives of the experiment, records of about 214 patients diagnosed with cellulitis ...

Summary

According to philospher Justice in Swerissen and Duckett article a good death is about how individuals wish to die and reasons on the cause of good death. It makes pain life experiences to these people and family responses to the issue of terminating his life to avoid more pschological and cycological stress. The communirty at large has arole to play in ensuring that these patients are highly protected and care. Education and setting good standards for health services ensures that good life ending for these patients and their preferences maintained.
A good death is one where an individual decides ...

The servant leadership style tends to be highly effective in healthcare organizations. Adoption of the servant leadership model presupposes establishing a work environment aimed at promoting shared decision making as well as community experience.
It is considered that the term ‘servant leadership’ was proposed by the American philosopher Robert Greenleaf. It is worth noting that this type of leadership requires the deepest level of intuitive perception and understanding, empathy, the ability to look within and around, a sense of community and a stable framework of values (Marquis & Huston, 2012, 52). According to this theory, a person should be focused on helping and ...

Moran, Katherine J., and Rosanne Burson. “Understanding the Patient-Centered Medical Home”. Home Healthcare Nurse 32.8 (2014): 476-481. Web.
The populations of every country in the world are continuing to grow and in developed countries, the improved quality of living and superior health care available has extended life expectancies far beyond that of the past. A consequence of these developments is a growing number of senior adults requiring medical care in a home setting. According to a study by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), almost 92 percent of the participants stated they wanted to remain in their homes as ...

Introduction

This article is authored by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. Hilary is a principal lecturer specifically in Nursing Practice, Development and Research in Sunderland, Unite Kingdom. The co-author, Stephen Craig is a senior nursing lecturer in Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The title of the article is “A Guide to Taking a Patient’s History”. The article was accepted and published in the journal called “Nursing Standard”. The article was published on the twenty fourth or August in the year two thousand and seven.

Summary of the Article

The article is focused on the process of taking patient history. In authoring the article, Llyod & Craig ( ...

Facilitator:

Nursing research critique
Many nurses believe that they offer holistic care to the patients at the hospitals yet the level of holistic care that they offer remains unknown to most of the nurses. No known variable can attach to the relation between the family, friends, nurses and the patients during the medical attention and the holistic care (Geri &Haber, 2003). Nancy baumhover and Linda Hughes undertake a research into the spirituality and support for family presence during invasive procedures and resuscitations in adults with the view of bringing a solution to the existing dilemma in the relationship circus and the ...

The article “Birth Plans: Are They Really Necessary?” discusses the practice of using birth plans in regulating relationships between womenand labor and delivery facilities. The two experts in this area, Polly Perez, a Perinatal Nurse Consultant, and Stacy Lepsch, a Clinical Nurse Level II, express opposing opinions on this issue. Lepsch believes that birth plans have little value in the modern obstetric care as they only constraint delivery nurses and often represent unrealistic expectations of the future parents. Moreover, empirical evidence suggests that birth plans do not improve the overall birth experience and may even hamper it. According to Lepsch, a close ...

Introduction

The purpose of this study is to compare two nursing articles in terms of their research purpose, research methodology, and research designs. The articles which have been chosen for this study are based the topic of Maggot Debridement Therapy.

Following are the articles which have been chosen for this analysis:

- Larval therapy for leg ulcers (VenUS II): randomized controlled trial – Quantitative Study
- Patients’ perceptions and experiences of larval therapy - Qualitative Case Study
The first article has been written by Dumville. The article was published in the year 2009 in the BMJ journal. The second article Kitching. The article was published in the year 2004 ...

British Journal of Community Nursing, 2013, Volume 18, Number 1, Pages 40 to 42

Summary of Article
The article entitled “A ‘good death’ at home: community nurses helping to make it possible” was written by Elizabeth Adamson and Susanne Cruickshank and published in the British Journal of Community Nursing in 2013. The authors presented relevant concerns regarding the increasing trend of addressing end-of-life choices of patients, particularly opting to die at their respective homes. This trend was allegedly supported by thrusts in government policies which acknowledge adherence to conform to patients’ preferences for addressing end-of-life situations. The authors have emphasized that the role of community nurses were seen as instrumental in attending ...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a social reality occurring as physical, psychological or sexual abuse. Among women, and pregnant women in particular, prevalence varies by country and clinical setting but is recognized as a significant health problem. Risk factors are identified as age, socioeconomic status, minority status and marital status (Bailey, 2010). In gravid women, IPV has been associated with undesirable pregnancy outcomes arising from physical trauma, mental health issues, STD and genitourinary infections, as well as unfavorable health behaviors. To address IPV, universal screening coupled with zero tolerance policies has been recommended but current clinical practice varies across health care ...

of Adult Intimate Partner Violence
of Adult Intimate Partner Violence
- Bull, A. (2010, September). Childhood experiences of Appalachian female survivors of adult intimate partner violence. The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 6(8), 606-611.
- The basic clinical concern that underlies the decision to conduct this study is “to discover the lived experience of childhood in women who were survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) and who were born and raised in southern Appalachia”. Furthermore, the increasing cases of violence in families in southern Appalachia is a major concern of this study.
- The study is a ...

Pressure ulcer is among the most common causes of long term morbidity in patients with spinal cord injury and the leading cause of hospitalization for such patients. The cost of treatment per patient ranges from $2,000 to over $120,000. Pressure ulcers can lead to other complications like local tissue infection, sepsis or amyloidosis. Hydrotherapy is one of the two specialized treatment modalities recommended for wound healing. The two types of hydrotherapy include whirlpool therapy and pulsatile lavage therapy.

Pulsatile lavage treatment uses a pulsatile pressurized stream of normal saline to provide localized hydrotherapy to pressure ulcers. The treatment ...