http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org • BACKGROUND Attempts to improve end-of-life care increasingly focus on family-centered care, but few validated assessment tools exist. • OBJECTIVES To evaluate 3 new short questionnaires measuring nurses’ perspectives on family-centered end-of-life care in the intensive care unit and to show the usefulness of the questionnaires. • METHODS Principal components analy...

Introduction: Revision of the traditional teaching methods as well as employment of modern and active learning method through educational systems is tangible. Application of such methods are quite common in different scientific areas. Therefore, performing modern educational approaches such as self-directed and long-life learning such as Guided Discovery Learning (GDL) is a step toward the stud...

Like every healthcare system today, the Cleveland Clinic health system is a combination of medical hospitals, institutes, and services in which the implementation of uniform care methodologies faces significant barriers. The guiding principle of the Cleveland Clinic, 'Patients First,' focuses on the principle of patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) but deliberately lacks details due to the ...

Nursing leaders from the VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System (VAECHCS) developed an evolving model of caring theory-guided practice. As leaders and administrators with multiple roles, functions, and perspectives in a large healthcare system, the authors create and hold space for human caring and relationship-centered care within a clinical practice setting. This article contributes an overvi...

PURPOSE Professional nursing ethics is a living, dynamic set of standards for nurses'professional moral behavior. Furthermore, in daily clinical nursing training, nursing students are constantly confronted with decision-making that is moral in nature. The aim of this study was to identify the perceived ethical attitudes in the clinical training process of senior nursing students using Q-methodo...

Objective: To map the contributions and strategies to implement advanced practice nursing in primary health care. Materials methods: This scoping review was carried out following guidelines of Joanna Briggs Institute six databases, namely: LILACS, MEDLINE, WoS, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, addition a bibliographic repository. A total 3,076 studies were found, from which 12 selected. Results: The men...

Objective: To determine a broad definition of the term interpersonal skills in nursing. Materials and methods: This theoretical study follows Walker Avant’s method concept analysis to examine defining attributes concept. A literature search on aspects nursing was conducted databases, e-books, institutional repositories recognize uses, attributes, antecedents, consequences, empirical referents E...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis is the most prevalent chronic rheumatologic disease of children. The quality of life (QOL) in these individuals is affected by physical pain, discomfort, treatment complications, and frequent absences from school leading to academic failure. No research similar to the present investigation was performed in this area. Aim: ...