Dialysis: Destination or Journey

Dialysis: destination or journey.

The continued poor survival and diminished quality of life for patients treated with dialysis, particularly elderly individuals, is an important health care issue. In this issue of JASN, Vandecasteele and Kurella Tamura propose a change from a process-driven approach to dialysis care to one that incorporates a realistic assessment, in collaboration with the patient, of the relationship between ...

Nanomedicine: destination or journey?

Nanomedicine in a broad sense is the application of nano-scale technologies to the practice of medicine. The creation of nanodevices such as nanobots capable of performing therapeutic functions in vivo is a destination within the emerging field of nanomedicine. On the journey to that destination, significant technological advances across multiple scientific disciplines continue to be proposed, ...

Performance measures: the destination or the journey?

Guest editorial: Evidence-based practice: destination or journey?

Journey or destination? Evaluating student learning about race, class, and privilege in health care.

The purpose of this research was to use narrative analysis to study final papers in a Social and Cultural Issues in Health Care course in order to understand how to improve nursing student learning about discrimination and oppression in health care. The study addressed two questions: a) What were the dimensions of diversity in the student population, including hidden dimensions such as social c...