Recently added articles from Research and Theory for Nursing Practice:
Responding to Peer Reviews: Pointers That Authors Don't Learn in School
Dec 01, 2008; ... Having now accumulated several years of experience as an editor, I have encountered many of the common errors that authors make. As an author, I made them, too, and sometimes still do. Writing for publication in a research or technical field is, after all, a learned skill, honed with practice ...
Experience and Expertise: How Do They Relate to Quality and Safety?
Dec 01, 2008; ... Often in clinical practice and research, length of clinical experience is equated with expertise. Clinical experience is generally viewed as an important indicator of clinical competence and is a factor that is used when selecting individuals to serve as mentors in both practice and educational ...
Bringing Evidence to the Point of Care
Dec 01, 2008; ... In a previous Evidence-Based Practice article entitled "Battling Esoterrorism" (Levin, 2008), I concluded by asking nurses of the world to join our forces in the battle. Of my New York State colleagues, two signed up immediately. For this article they have provided two battle strategies used in ...
Moving Beyond Biomedical Understanding of Lipodystrophy in People Living With HIV/AIDS
Dec 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this article is to move beyond the biomedical standpoint in the field of HIV/AIDS in order to contribute to the recognition of lipodystrophy as a phenomenon that reaches far beyond its current definition as an unfortunate side effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy ...
Developing a Positive Emotion-Motivated Tai Chi (PEM-TC) Exercise Program for Older Adults With Dementia
Dec 01, 2008; ... Exercise, particularly Tai Chi, has many known benefits, especially in reducing fall risk. However, exercise studies have tended to exclude older adults with dementia (OAD), who may be at high fall risk but have difficulty participating in formal exercise programs. This paper describes ...
Exploring the Concepts of Vulnerability and Resilience in the Context of HIV Infection
Dec 01, 2008; ... Based on the unique physical, psychological, and social nature of HIV infection, clients with HIV infection have been categorized as both vulnerable and resilient in the existing literature. Concept exploration of vulnerability and resilience via an integrative literature review was conducted in ...
Leg Ulcers and Problems of the Lower Limb: An Holistic Approach
Dec 01, 2008; ... Leg Ulcers and Problems of the Lower Limb: An Holistic Approach Edited by Ellie Lindsay and Richard White. Aberdeen, UK: HealthComm UK Limited (www.healthcomm-uk.com), 2007, 260 pp., £24.99 (softcover) This slim, softcover book is the most recent addition to growing international ...
Journeys From Addiction to Recovery
Dec 01, 2008; ... Addiction affects us all. It has wide-reaching consequences for the individual, the family, and society as a whole. This article attempts to assist providers and addicts in understanding the road to recovery. Transformation from addiction to recovery is best explained by recovering addicts ...
A Call to Action (or Not) for Nurses
Oct 01, 2008; ... At a recent meeting that I attended, the dinner speaker gave an interesting presentation on the "Voice of Nursing" over time. Her main point was that nursing's voice as a profession has seldom been unified and that this fact often works against our progress in a political sense. However, her ...
High Reliability Organizations: Implications for Nursing Knowledge Development
Oct 01, 2008; ... One of the most challenging goals health care organizations face today is how to create practice environments that ensure the consistent delivery of high-quality safe care to all patients. A number of major reports over the past 10 years have documented safety issues in health care. A landmark ...
If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It
Oct 01, 2008; ... In a previous column, "EBP by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose" (Levin, 2008), I briefly mentioned the need to describe the practice problem that clinicians observe, intuit, or otherwise believe exists. I will devote this column to a greater explication of describing the practice problem, first ...
The Transformative Potential of Realigning Agape and Eros in the Continued Development of Nursing's Role
Oct 01, 2008; ... Nursing may reach its highest potential when there is an integration of Agape love and Eros love within nursing. That is, an ontological framework from which service and giving of the self are aligned with creative power and development of the self. The concepts of Eros and Agape give the nurse ...
Community Health Action Model: Health Promotion by the Community
Oct 01, 2008; ... The goal of the Community Health Action (CHA) model is to depict community health promotion processes in a manner that can be implemented by community members to achieve their collectively and collaboratively determined actions and outcomes to sustain or improve the health and well-being of ...
Self-Efficacy and Social Support as Mediators Between Culturally Specific Dance and Lifestyle Physical Activity
Oct 01, 2008; ... Culturally specific dance has the potential to generate health benefits but is seldom used even among studies advocating culturally specific interventions. This study examined the components of self-efficacy and social support as mediators between culturally specific dance and lifestyle physical ...
Theoretical Substruction Illustrated by the Theory of Learned Resourcefulness
Oct 01, 2008; ... This article describes the process of theoretical substruction and uses this process to examine the significance of Rosenbaum's resourcefulness theory for nursing research and practice. The article discusses relocation as a phenomenon of interest to gero-psychiatric nurses working with elders ...