Caring for Our Wounded Warriors

Wounded warriors: their last battle.

Deborah Grassman’s presentation, “Wounded Warriors: Their Last Battle” has dramatically and almost singlehandedly increased awareness of Veterans and their unique end-of-life issues in both VA and the community. Not only has Ms Grassman given this presentation to dozens of audiences across the country, a DVD has been widely distributed to VA and community healthcare providers as an effective te...

Wounded warriors' perspectives: helping others to heal.

Ned Foote (Corporal, U.S. Marine Corps, retired); Juan Arredondo (Sergeant, U.S. Army, retired); Jonathan D. Pruden (Captain, U.S. Army, retired). They have walked the walk and paid the price. A very high price. They are veterans who sustained major limb loss during the Vietnam or Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF) conflicts. Their names are Juan Arredondo, Ned Foote, ...

Caring for our wounded warriors: A qualitative examination of health-related quality of life in caregivers of individuals with military-related traumatic brain injury.

The purpose of this study was to develop a conceptual framework that captures aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for caregivers of individuals with military-related traumatic brain injury (TBI). We analyzed qualitative data from nine focus groups composed of caregivers of wounded warriors with a medically documented TBI. Focus group participants were recruited through hospital-ba...

Caring for our patients.

Elkeen weet wat die gehalte van versorging wat die verpleegkundige aan haar pasiënte gee behoort te wees. Word hierdie behoort te wees egter so oorgedra na die werklike situasie? Dié vraag word objektief beskou aan die hand van navorsing oor pasiënt-tevredenheid, voorligting oor borsvoeding, die sterwende pasiënt en drukplekversorging. Die verpleegkundige moet haar pasiënt nie net met haar gevo...

Caring for our most vulnerable patients.