Recently added articles from Annual Review of Nursing Research:
Preface
Jan 01, 2008; ... All nursing research and all rural health research contribute to the knowledge base of rural nursing research. Knowledge developed from nursing research in urban areas often informs the development of rural nursing studies. Understandings of clinical problems, systems problems, and rural culture ...
Foreword
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Annual Review of Nursing Research (ARNR) series was launched in 1983, more than a quarter of a century ago. Since the initial volume, throughout the years, I have participated as an editor with a number of distinguished nurse colleagues. I am indebted to them for their commitment to and ...
Diabetes Care Among Rural Americans
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The prevalence of diabetes in the United States is higher among those living in rural/ nonmetropolitan statistical areas than in urban centers. Managing this complex chronic illness is complicated by factors such as limited access to care, low socioeconomic status , aging, and ...
Matters of the Heart: Cardiovascular Disease and Rural Nursing
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in the United States and around the world. Most of the work done on CVD among rural populations uses mortality versus prevalence rates because prevalence data for rural populations is difficult, if not impossible, to ...
Intimate Partner Violence in Rural Environments
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The purpose of this chapter is to review nursing and other research related to rural intimate partner violence. The author presents a review of research in the area of intimate partner violence in the rural setting. The findings indicate that there is limited nursing research ...
Hospital-Based Emergency Nursing in Rural Settings
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT In 2006 , the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a series of reports that highlighted the urgent need for improvements in the nation's emergency health services. This news has provided new energy to a growing body of research about the development and implementation of best ...
Building the Rural Mental Health System: From De Facto System to Quality Care
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT About 20% of Americans live in rural America, yet the rural mental health infrastructure has yet to be firmly established. This is due in part to a pervasive belief about the tranquility of rural places and the relatively stress-free environment that they produce. In this ...
Improving the Quality of Rural Nursing Care
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The purpose of this chapter is to review the literature on quality of care in rural areas . Keywords related to rural quality of care were used to search CINAHL and MEDLINE databases for articles published between 2005 and 2007 (limited to studies occurring in the United ...
Nursing Patient Safety Research in Rural Health Care Settings
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Adverse events occur in virtually all health care arenas , and while rural health care settings are no exception, these facilities often face unique financial burdens and personnel shortages. That may hamper patient safety efforts. Many of the interventions recommended to ...
Conducting Culturally Competent Rural Nursing Research
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The face of America is changing. In efforts to provide services to and meet the needs of consumers of different ethnicities and cultures , cultural competence has become a driving force not only in health care but also in business, education, and research. Lack of cultural ...
Establishing the Public's Trust Through Community-Based Participatory Research: A Case Example to Improve Health Care for a Rural Hispanic Community
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This chapter describes the contextual nature of contemporary rural America to provide the background for the case example of a 4-year community-based partidpatory research project to enhance community capacity building in a rural New England community with a large ...
Rural Health Nursing Research Review: Global Perspectives
Jan 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The CINAHL and MEDLINE databases were used to conduct a review of international rural nursing research published between 2003 and 2007. In total, 41 articles were reviewed and organized based on the United Nations Human Development Index, which categorizes countries based on ...
The Intersection of Patient Safety and Nursing Research
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 1 ABSTRACT The individual and collective discussions of the patient safety issue in the United States have mounted from a low roar to a deafening din in the past 10 years. In this chapter the authors (1) discuss the context of patient safety over the past decade and the ...
Medication-Related Errors: A Literature Review of Incidence and Antecedents
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 2 ABSTRACT Patient safety has become a major concern for both society and policymakers. Since nurses are intimately involved in the delivery of medications and are ultimately responsible during the medication administration phase, it is important for nursing to understand ...
Preface
Jan 01, 2006; ... Patient safety is one of the most important topics in health care literature today. It also represents a rapidly developing research area for both nurse scientists and other health care researchers, and, based on the problems addressed, it is necessarily interdisciplinary in nature. In this 24th ...
Fall and Injury Prevention
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 3 ABSTRACT Falls and related injuries are increasingly being recognized as a nursing-sensitive quality indicator, and they continue to be an unsolved patient safety problem in inpatient and outpatient care areas as well as in the community at large. The purpose of this ...
Patient Safety in Hospital Acute Care Units
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 5 ABSTRACT The most visible threats to patient safety associated with nursing care occur on hospital inpatient units. Patient safety research is a new phenomenon, but it builds on the knowledge provided by quality-of-care research done previously. The purpose of this ...
Hospital-Acquired Infections as Patient Safety Indicators
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 4 ABSTRACT Transmission of infection in the hospital has been identified as a patient safety problem adversely affecting patients, visitors, and health care workers. Prevention of infection should not be limited to the hospital epidemiology staff but also must involve the ...
Nurse Home Visit Programs for the Elderly
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 7 ABSTRACT Nurses are the largest professional provider of health care services in the home setting. However, nurse home visit programs are diverse. The purpose of this review was to examine the many factors that influence the effectiveness of nurse home visit programs ...
Nursing Home Safety: A Review of the Literature
Jan 01, 2006; ... Chapter 8 ABSTRACT The number of older persons in the United States is rapidly growing and, based on this growth projection, the number of consumers needing nursing home (NH) care will likely triple in the next 10 years. Although NHs have been bombarded and scrutinized about the ...