The value of an ideal clinical teaching in individual and professional development, also nursing clinical skills is undeniable.1 Clinical teaching, on the other hand, is the highest cost part of each nursing curriculum. And Practicum andinternship play an important role in forming basic skills and professional competencies of nursing students.2 Therefore, much time must be spend on the function...

H ospice and palliative care are intrinsically holistic modalities because we cannot – and must not – separate the caring of the mind, body, and spirit when tending to the suffering of people who have serious illnesses or who are in the process of dying. Many interpretations of palliative care agree that it is about providing comfort, easing suffering, and assisting a person and his/her loved o...

OBJECTIVE To propose a community-based network system and interdisciplinary management for children with cleft lip/ palate, applicable to Thailand and other developing countries. MATERIAL AND METHOD A network was developed for the care of patients with cleft lip/palate by combining primary health care, community-based rehabilitation and institutional expertise (Tawanchai Center), Five worksho...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the experiences of stigma and coping strategies among patients with lung cancer in China. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative. SETTING The oncology department at Liaocheng Peoples Hospital. PARTICIPANTS A purposive sample of 17 patients experiencing stigma related to lung cancer voluntarily participated in data collection. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Individual, semis...

One of the important aspects of the crisis management consists in a comprehensive analysis of the impacts generated and their associated cost. The capacity to carry out an efficient holistic management, through the development of preventive measures and response programs relies on a proper estimation of impacts which helps to mitigate the harshness or can even avoid impacts in face of future cr...

Excess weight is one of the increasing problems of the present society and one of the threatening health conditions around the world. Despite many efforts for prevention and treatment or even surgery, the process of excess weight is not decreased in the world. While most of the studies conducted on excess weight concentrated on the issues why people get excess weight or how the prevention and t...

BACKGROUND Learning in the clinical environment is an important part of nursing education. Several recent studies focusing on clinical learning have been based on hospital settings. Little is known about primary health care (PHC) as clinical environment where district nurses (DNs) or nurses supervise students. It is important to understand more about opportunities and difficulties in supervisin...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost impact of an integrative medicine intervention on an inpatient oncology service. STUDY DESIGN This study used nonrandomized, nonequivalent groups. A baseline sample of inpatient oncology patients at Beth Israel Medical Center admitted to the medical oncology unit before implementation of the Urban Zen Initiative were compared with patients admitted after the Ur...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY The provision of end-of-life (EoL) care in long-term-care settings remains largely underdeveloped in most Chinese societies, and nursing home residents often fail to obtain good care as they approach death. This paper systematically describes the development and implementation mechanisms of a novel Dignity-Conserving EoL Care model that has been successfully adopted by thre...