Aim To identify sustainable curricular practices that promote student resilience. Method Sophomore students in a four-year baccalaureate nursing program attended positive psychology seminar and formal mentoring led by senior- junior-level students. ‘resilience was measured pre- post-intervention using the Predictive 6-Factor Resilience Scale (PR6). Additional rich descriptions from experience o...

This article presents an instrument and data testing a theory of the Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action. Pilot testing involved 185 items administered to 82 nurses in 3 countries. The instrument includes 7 subscales addressing the nurse's personal and professional selves, the patient's personal and illness selves, the bidirectional interaction, the moral maturity of bo...

Six "pure" types of case-manager activity are identified using chart data from 922 cases in the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration. The association between case-manager actions and client characteristics, and between case-manager activities and service use outcomes is used to test predictive validity. Case-manager activity is generally more associated with caregiver than client characte...

OBJECTIVE To validate previously proposed findings and to develop an objective, feasible and efficient bifactorial (risk factors: gait impairment and balance disorders) fall risk assessment. DESIGN Prospective follow-up study Setting: Nursing homes (Halle/Saale, Germany). SUBJECTS One hundred and forty-six nursing home residents (aged 62-101 years) were recruited. METHODS Gait data were c...

OBJECTIVE To determine the sensitivity and positive predictive value of the Becton-Dickson Directigen AB performed on-site in a nursing home compared to viral culture. SETTING A 721-bed skilled nursing facility for veterans and spouses. DESIGN MEASUREMENTS: Nasopharyngeal specimens were obtained with a low clinical threshold from residents during 3 influenza seasons for rapid antigen testing ...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated dipstick urinalysis for elderly and practically none present confidence intervals. Furthermore, most previous studies combine all bacteria species in a "positive culture". Thus, their evaluation may be inappropriate due to Yule-Simpson's paradox. The aim of this study was to evaluate diagnostic accuracy of dipstick urinalysis for the elderly in nursing home...

BACKGROUND In developed countries generally about 7 out of 10 deaths occur in institutions such as acute care hospitals or nursing homes. However, less is known about the influence of non-medical determinants of place of death. This study examines the influence of socio-demographic and regional factors on place of death in Switzerland. DATA AND METHODS We linked individual data from hospitals...

AIMS Biochemical investigations have shown that an indigenous milk enzyme - alkaline phosphatase (ALP) - which is detectable in the lactocytes, plays a very important diagnostic role in clinical medicine, since its activity varies in different tissues and serves as a specific indicator of disease states. The purpose of this study was to evaluate ALP activity in human colostrum as a possible ear...

Distances walked in walking tests are important functional markers, although they are not accepted as defining characteristics of Ineffective Peripheral Tissue Perfusion. The aims of this study were to verify the distances participants with and without this nursing diagnosis walked in the six-minute walk test and if these measures may be considered defining characteristics of this phenomenon. P...