Nursing interventions: alternatives in consolidation

Nursing interventions: alternatives in consolidation.

In the first decades of the 20th century, the concern to develop Nursing as a science was intensified, generating a movement to incorporate research methods used by pioneers from other knowledge areas. This search, still currently observed, has enabled great advances for good quality care, however, there are still doubts about which procedure is more efficient for care to patients in several si...

Consolidation of long-term memory: evidence and alternatives.

Memory loss in retrograde amnesia has long been held to be larger for recent periods than for remote periods, a pattern usually referred to as the Ribot gradient. One explanation for this gradient is consolidation of long-term memories. Several computational models of such a process have shown how consolidation can explain characteristics of amnesia, but they have not elucidated how consolidati...

Video games as nursing interventions.

Nursing Interventions for Poststroke Fatigue.

Nursing interventions for smoking cessation.

BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals, including nurses, frequently advise people to improve their health by stopping smoking. Such advice may be brief, or part of more intensive interventions. OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of nursing-delivered smoking cessation interventions in adults. To establish whether nursing-delivered smoking cessation interventions are more effective than no...