Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510119
Managing Uncertainty in Nursing - Newly Graduated Nurses' Experiences of Introduction to the Nursing Profession
Elina Ingvarsson, BSc, RN, Josefin Verho, BSc, RN, and Kristina Rosengren, PhD, RN
Article Type: ORIGINAL ARTICLE | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
The introduction to nursing, which is the conversion of theoretical knowledge into practice skills in complex healthcare settings, is emphasized as difficult due to patient safety. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe newly graduated nurses' experiences of introduction to nursing in a medical department (medical, emergency) at a university hospital in western Sweden. A manifest qualitative content analysis with an inductive approach was used based on five semistructured interviews wi...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510117
Longitudinal Study of Lung Function, Exhaled Nitric Oxide and Level of Asthma Control in Children and Adolescents
Uarlhinson Oliveira Andrade, Giselle Santos Magalhaes, Nulma Souto Jentzsch and Maria Gloria Rodrigues-Machado
Article Type: Original Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Asthma is a heterogeneous disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the airways, defined by history of respiratory symptoms of wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness and coughing, along with chronic airflow limitation. This disease presents different phenotypes which may be related to the natural history of the disease, with immune, inflammatory and structural characteristics of the airways and clinical control. The inflammation, structural changes caused by the maintenance of the infl...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510116
Family-Centered Care - A Tool to Decrease Malnutrition among Children in Vietnam
Anna Hagstrom, Hedvig Floren and Kristina Rosengren
Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
Data collection was gained by seven semi-structured interviews with nursing students in their last year at the Advanced Nursing Program at Hanoi Medical University, Vietnam. Data was analyzed through a manifest qualitative content analysis. One category was found; Support through family-centered care, which includes two subcategories; Supporting healthy eating habits within the family and Managing limited resources, which describe nursing student's experiences of malnutrition among children in V...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510115
Continuity of Care Model for Older Adults
Carmen M Sarabia Cobo
Article Type: Editorial | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
In 2000, the world population of people over 60 was 600 million and the projection for 2050 is 2,000 million. This means the consequent increase in chronic, degenerative, debilitating and, therefore, the increase in consultations and hospitalizations for this population. It is important that the elderly dependent suffer numerous hospital admissions that may lead to return to his home in different conditions that he entered. It is therefore necessary to emphasize something important for nurses: t...
Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5823/1510114
Difficulties in Clinical Nursing Education: Views of Nurse Instructors'
Gulten Sucu Dag, Hulya Firat Kilic and Refia Selma Gorgulu
Article Type: Research Article | Indexed Archive: Volume 5
The study was conducted to determine the difficulties that nurse instructors' experiences in clinical education. This is a descriptive study. The sample of this study was comprised of 199 nurse academicians. A socio-demographic data collection form and a survey on the difficulties that nurse instructors' experiences in clinical education form was developed by researchers to be used for data collection in an electronic environment. It was determined that the difficulties of nurse instructors' exp...
