Nursing: Forever Changed by a Pandemic

Forever changed: posttraumatic stress disorder in female military veterans, a case report.

PURPOSE. This paper examines the experience of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a female veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the barriers to treatment she encountered in an outpatient psychiatry clinic. DESIGN AND METHODS. Case report data were obtained through review of records and interviews with a veteran combat nurse diagnosed with chronic PTSD. CONCLUSIONS. Sex differences...

Globalization of Nursing Profession During a New Pandemic

Willingness of university nursing students to volunteer during a pandemic.

OBJECTIVE The global threat of an influenza pandemic continues to grow and thus universities have begun emergency preparedness planning. This study examined stakeholder's knowledge, risk-perception, and willingness to volunteer. DESIGN AND SAMPLE The design of this study is a cross-sectional survey. Questionnaires were sent to 1,512 nursing students and were returned by 484, yielding a respon...

The 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic influenza and the nursing home.

Seasonal and pandemic influenza clinically remain remarkably similar in long-term care populations. Clinicians cannot distinguish clinical influenza, whether seasonal or pandemic H1N1, from other respiratory viral infections in individual patients. Part of the difficulty in the clinical diagnosis relates to fewer clinical features that might help with diagnostic differentiation, such as fever. ...

“HIV Changed My Life Forever”: An Illustrative Case of a Sub-Saharan African Migrant Woman Living with HIV in Belgium

Living with HIV and AIDS changes everything for people diagnosed with HIV and it can be the most difficult experience in life. Like most people who have chronic diseases, these individuals have to deal with living a normal and quality life. Globally, more women (51%) than men are HIV positive. The main aim of this paper was to describe a sub-Saharan African migrant woman’s lived experience, and...