Marilyn A. DeLuca, PhD, RN, is a leader in global health, systems, and workforce. Founder of the consultancy Global Health-Health Systems-Philanthropy, she is lead co-editor of the recent book, Transforming the Global Health Workforce (DeLuca and Soucat, 2013). A registered professional nurse, she is a research assistant professor in the School of Medicine and adjunct associate professor in the...

Clinical observations suggest that nonverbal children with severe intellectual disability exhibit pain in a wide variety yet uniquely individual ways. Here, we investigate the feasibility and describe the initial psychometrics properties of the Individualized Numeric Rating Scale (INRS), a personalized pain assessment tool for nonverbal children with intellectual disability based on the parent'...

In spite of emphasis on patient-centered care and promotion their quality, shortcomings have been seen in psychiatric due to lack compassion. To improve the quality caring nursing, it is important develop implement in-service education based Locsin’s Technological Competency as Caring Nursing (TCCN) theory. Objectives determine nurse managers' perception practice status a preliminary survey ser...

Topical moisturizers are the core treatment for atopic dermatitis (AD), with guidelines recommending at least daily thorough moisturization of both lesional and nonlesional skin. Ultimately, moisturizer selection is an individual, personal choice, but, surprisingly, few have published efficacy acceptability data to support decision making. This clinical feature emphasizes value AD summarizes ty...

BACKGROUND The relationship between nurse staffing and quality of care (QoC) in nursing homes continues to receive major attention. The evidence supporting this relationship, however, is weak because most studies employ a cross-sectional design. This review summarizes the findings from recent longitudinal studies. METHODS In April 2013, the databases PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, and PsycINFO were ...

This study examined the inter-observer reliability and validity of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a measure of depressive symptomatology in stroke patients, and its utility as a screening tool for depression in this population. The CES-D Scale is a brief questionnaire originally designed for use in community surveys. Twenty-seven non-aphasic patients enrolled i...

ity of participants (61%) ranging in age from 36 to 55 years. Notably, most of those responding were in the field of dermatology and dermatologic surgery (46%), the greater proportion of whom were female. In contrast, the remaining specialties were composed mainly of male surgeons. Our results indicate that a large subset of the physicians participating in this study have been injected with eit...

OBJECTIVE To determine how well parents, nurses, physicians, and an Ingram icterometer can detect the presence and the severity of jaundice in newborns. SETTING Normal newborn nursery in a 340-bed teaching hospital. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS Nurses and physicians caring for nursery infants and parents of the infants. INTERVENTIONS Physicians and nurses examining newborns documented w...

CONTEXT Lack of nursing home (NH)-specific palliative care practice guidelines has been identified as a barrier to improving palliative and end-of-life (EOL) quality of care. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to (1) assess which of the guidelines developed by the National Consensus Project, and the corresponding preferred care practices endorsed by the National Quality Forum, are i...