Nursing Phenomena and Research Strategies

Strategies for teaching nursing research online.

BACKGROUND Nursing, like many disciplines in university settings, is experiencing increasing demand for online courses. Development and implementation of online courses with the quality of education nursing students experience in traditional classroom settings, is essential to maintaining integrity of the educational process. Nursing research has been offered in the online format in the RN-BSN ...

Nursing networks: strategies to strengthen research and extension studies.

Nursing phenomena in inpatient psychiatry.

Little is known about the question if the nursing diagnosis classification of North American Nursing Association-International (NANDA-I) describes the adult inpatient psychiatric nursing care. The present study aimed to identify nursing phenomena mentioned in journal articles about the psychiatric inpatient nursing care and to compare these phenomena with the labels and the definitions of the n...

Translational research and nursing.

Translational research is presented in a context of transformation in scientific findings, originating in basic, clinical research laboratories or epidemiological studies and providing new clinical tools, processes or applications(1). Translational research is aimed at improving patient care and promoting public health. To reach this goal, the intent is to build a bridge that connects the resea...

Nursing rehabilitation and exercise strategies in the nursing home.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate how weight training or nursing-based rehabilitative care programs in nursing homes impact on resident performance of Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and objectives tests of physical performance. METHODS This study involved a quasi-experimental control, longitudinal comparison of functional status over a 10-month period, where baseline stat...