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A Survey Of Stroke Nurses’ Knowledge Of Secondary Prevention Lifestyle Issues, Maggie Lawrence, Susan Kerr, Hazel Watson, Jennie Jackson, Margaret Brownlee

Dr. Maggie Lawrence

Nurses have an important role to play in providing information and advice on lifestyle risk factors for recurrent stroke. However, patients report receiving little or no lifestyle information. This study aimed to explore stroke nurses' knowledge and practice in relation to the provision of secondary prevention lifestyle information following stroke. Cross-sectional survey methods were used. Participants were members of the Scottish Stroke Nurse Forum (n=97). A self-completed questionnaire was used to collect the data, with descriptive statistics summarizing the results.

Turning Simulation Into Reality: Increasing Student Competence And Confidence, Debra Wagner, Mary Bear, Jane Sander

Debra L Wagner

Clinical experiences are an essential part of nursing education as students learn technical skills, build on critical thinking skills, and hone skills in patient teaching. To build competence and confidence in each of these skill areas, an innovative clinical experience for senior students enrolled in women’s health nursing was developed to provide nursing care and independent discharge teaching for postpartum mothers. Faculty facilitated this clinical experience by designing a simulation laboratory for students to practice their maternal self-care teaching and infant care skills prior to beginning their clinical rotation. In the hospital, students spent a day independently prioritizing new mothers’ …

Alternate Reality: Nursing Research Tools For The Real World, Shannon Fay Johnson

Shannon F Johnson

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Evolving The Theory And Praxis Of Knowledge Translation Through Social Interaction: A Social Phenomenological Study, Carol L. Mcwilliam, Anita Kothari, Cathy Ward-Griffin, Dorothy Forbes, Beverly Leipert

Anita Kothari

Background: As an inherently human process fraught with subjectivity, dynamic interaction, and change, social interaction knowledge translation (KT) invites implementation scientists to explore what might be learned from adopting the academic tradition of social constructivism and an interpretive research approach. This paper presents phenomenological investigation of the second cycle of a participatory action KT intervention in the home care sector to answer the question: What is the nature of the process of implementing KT through social interaction?

Methods: Social phenomenology was selected to capture how the social processes of the KT intervention were experienced, with the aim of representing these …

Carbidopa/Levodopa: A Winning Combination, Bridget Roberts

Bridget R. Roberts

David Robinson arrives at his healthcare provider’s office reporting gradual worsening of his Parkinson’s disease (PD) symptoms. Although his current medication has helped over the past 5 years, it has recently lost effectiveness despite dosage and frequency adjustments. The healthcare provider prescribes carbidopa/levodopa (Sinemet) to be used in combination with Mr. Robinson’s current treatment to decrease the signs and symptoms of his disease.

Searching Cinahl And Medline Tutorial, Shannon Johnson

Shannon F Johnson

This 20 min. tutorial, done in Adobe Captivate software, is designed to walk nursing students through both keyword and subject heading searching in the CINAHL and MEDLINE databases, as configured at IPFW Helmke Library.

Perceptions Of The Role Of The Registered Nurse In An Urban Interprofessional Academic Family Practice Setting, Jennifer Akeroyd, Ivy Oandasan, Ann Alsaffar, Cynthia Whitehead, Lorelei Lingard

Lorelei Lingard

Registered nurses (RNs) in Ontario have been asked to work collaboratively with family physicians (FPs) and other healthcare professionals in the family practice setting to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare delivery (OFPN 2005). Yet, little is known about the optimal utilization of the RN's role in family practice. This study builds on recent conversations regarding utilization of the nursing workforce (Oelke et al. 2008) and the nursing role (White et al. 2008) in the acute care setting by presenting perceptions of the role of the RN in an urban academic family practice setting. Interviews were conducted with 23 …

Enlightened Charity, Martha Libster, Betty Ann Mcneil, Dc

Betty Ann McNeil, D.C.