Care-giving as a Canadian-Vietnamese tradition: ‘It's like eating, you just do it’

Care-giving as a Canadian-Vietnamese tradition: ‘It's like eating, you just do it’

The objective of this study was to examine how Vietnamese family caregivers (FCGs) perceive, manage and experience end-of-life care-giving for seriously ill family members. Using an instrumental case study design, this longitudinal qualitative research employed the use of cultural brokers/language interpreters to help ensure that the research was conducted in a culturally-appropriate manner. Pa...

Advance care planning: just do it!

Nearly everyone agrees that helping patients to plan ahead by defining their goals of care is a worthy endeavor. Those who disagree probably have the good sense to keep it to themselves. Advance care planning (ACP) is one way to aspire to the triple aim of improving care, improving health, and reducing costs, promoted by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Centers for Medicare and Med...

Do you know quality care when you see it?

The mission of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is to promote excellence in oncology nursing and quality cancer care, but have you ever considered how that mission comes to life in your daily practice? Just as it can be challenging to describe the essence of nursing practice beyond listing specific tasks we perform each day, it may be difficult to routinely identify high-quality care. Our tim...

Just Do It

Just Do It

I n the target article, I tried to make several points. The most important of these are: 1) adaptations sometimes can be illuminated by studies of current reproductive consequences; 2) studies of current reproductive consequences (adaptiveness) can help us understand the extent to which psychological mechanisms are general purpose; 3) environmental novelty can foul-up the development of psychol...