There has recently been a dramatic increase in demand for healthcare innovation. In this thesis we present a framework for analyzing a digital health innovation ecosystem in the US. Our framework consists of four key activities: innovation generation, entrepreneurial team formation, early company incubation, and validation of the core innovation. Throughout the paper we analyze the existing lit...

Social support and social network concepts are resources applicable to Family Nursing, as they are aimed at improving families' quality of life, and also at promoting, strengthening and maintaining their well-being. This study aimed to reflect on the main social network and social support concepts, relating them with Family Nursing, with a view to their application in nursing research and pract...

The 7th International Family Nursing Conference took place June 1-4, 2005, in the beautiful and picturesque Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia. Participants included 340 international colleagues from 21 countries. The theme of the conference was “Opening Spaces: Inviting Dialogue in Family Nursing”. Hosted by the School of Nursing, University of Victoria, and the School of Nursing, Uni...

OBJECTIVES Identify useful concepts related to the emotional context facing family members of nursing home residents. These concepts can be used in future studies to design and test interventions that benefit family caregivers. DESIGN Secondary data analyses of qualitative ethnographic data. SETTING Two nursing homes in a large Midwestern city; 8 months of data collection in each. PARTICI...

When a loved one is admitted to a nursing facility, family members usually experience a variety of emotions. Feelings of guilt, fear, and distrust are common. The facility staff must make every effort to engage the family and establish trust to forge a constructive collaboration in the care of the nursing facility resident. Even with conscientious and compassionate staff efforts to establish an...

This is a theoretical reflection on the clinical nursing care in mental health that is offered to the family. In view of having a family member with mental suffering, the family would delegate the care to that relative to the mental institution, thus there should be collaboration between the nursing and medical team to organize the environment and ensure family and social isolation. With the Ps...

Family caregiving is an area that has received extensive attention in the professional and public domains. The graying ofAmerica, the looming aging and retirement of the baby-boomers, increased pressures to care for the chronically ill in their homes, and changes in health care service reimbursement systems all contribute to the generalized concerns regarding caregiving. Nursing constitutes the...