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Nurses in diverse settings around the world work toward improving human health. Attainment of this goal depends, in part, on selecting and using appropriate technology. The article describes the framework of technology assessment and suggests ways in which nurses can be involved in evaluating health care technologies, deliberating on appropriate applications, and, if not selecting, then at least having input into the selection of technologies from the individual patient level through and including health policy.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Worldwide catastrophic events such as civil war have forced 1 in every 130 people in the world to flee her or his home and become a refugee or displaced person. The article draws upon contemporary refugee experiences from Afghanistan, the Sudan, and the former Yugoslavia to introduce the role of nursing during the refugee journey from flight to asylum seeking. It is hoped that the article will provide nurses with a beginning awareness of the nurse's role in the care and comfort of refugees and displaced people. Central to this role is the gathering of humanitarian, sociocultural, and personal information to enable extensive networking and relationship building with refugees for ongoing empowerment and increased problem-solving capabilities.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The impact of the global epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in developed countries has been far reaching, but its impact in developing countries is much more devastating. The common underlying theme that helps explain HIV and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is inequality. The resources available to nurses in all these countries vary markedly. Although there are many instances of nurses responding in an altruistic manner, the evidence indicates that many nurses are reluctant to provide care for individuals with HIV infection. HIV and AIDS have enabled an examination of broader, fundamental questions about the nature of nursing in health care and in society.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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A holistic view of aging states that humans are seen to be endeavoring toward wholeness from birth until death within an ever changing world. Nurses are part of that wholeness, evolving with patients throughout their lives. The Commonwealth of Australia has designed the concept of aged care assessment teams (ACATs) to address the specific and unique needs of its aging communities. The article provides an example of the role of a clinical specialist in psychiatric-mental health nursing who provides a holistic approach to the assessment process as nurse consultant to two ACATs in rural South Australia.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The article describes how a dream-sharing group facilitated by a nurse therapist can become the means by which the participants gain spiritual awareness. First, the characteristics of spiritual awareness are identified and discussed. Second, the practice, structure, and process of a dream-sharing group are described, with dream narratives and interactions from a particular group being used as illustrations. Finally, the attributes of a sensitive and caring listener and the leadership qualities of a nurse facilitator of such a group are outlined in the hope that nurses in different settings will be enabled and encouraged to provide this important aspect of nursing care.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Pain assessment and pain management are complex tasks. Knowledge and beliefs of patients, physicians, and nurses about pain are key determinants of clinical decision making. Despite new theoretical insights, routine approaches to pain assessment and management persist in practice. Culture is a potent force in shaping beliefs, behavior, and meaning about pain. In health care contexts, there may be conflict between care and cure and differing perceptions about the role and status of nurses that impinge on the provision of pain relief. The article explores aspects of culture, knowledge, and belief and their influence on pain management from an Australian perspective.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Environmental issues are currently topical with the realization that natural resources are finite. With this realization has also come the knowledge of the complexity of the problem at both local and broader levels. Because of this complexity and the extent of the existing and growing environmental damage, all people in all areas of life need to be aware of and actively involved in caring for the environment, with no single group having total responsibility to help conserve the environment. As a professional body concerned with caring for people, nurses must act in a local capacity by being informed of wider environmental issues. By knowing and understanding what happens to products such as disposable items, which have become an integral part of the hospital equipment, and how they are disposed of, the nurse is better able to make choices about whether they are appropriate for use in different health care settings.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The article discusses the provision of appropriate care that is sensitive to the special physical and psychosocial needs of the circumcised client seeking midwifery services in Australia. Aspects addressed include prevalence of the practice globally; potential problems for the prenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal periods; and implications for the midwife caring for the woman during these periods. Appropriate strategies for management include gaining an awareness of individual, cultural, and personal needs; provision of appropriate education in the prenatal and postnatal periods; establishment of positive working relationships with the family as a whole; and provision of adequate pain relief at all times. Health care policy can affect the ability of midwives and other health professionals to provide for culturally specific health needs.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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The article outlines the relationships that obtain among schizophrenia, smoking, and smog. An overview of known scientific facts concerning the pathogenesis of schizophrenia is first provided. The relationship this has with nicotine addiction is discussed next, and finally the notion is introduced that heterocyclic amines found in cigarette smoke and petroleum fumes serve as a potent environmental neurotoxin that seriously compromises mental health in biologically susceptible individuals. It is argued that such biologic susceptibility takes the form of cerebral diabetes, which accounts for the serious impairment of glucose metabolism as demonstrated by positron emission tomography. Central to this argument is the view that diabetes can be peripheral, without affecting the central nervous system, or central, without affecting the peripheral system.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID

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Major health concerns are not currently addressed in Vietnam as the country strives to upgrade its economic status. The current standard of medical care is rudimentary at best, as is the education and practice of Vietnamese nurses. The Ministry of Health in Vietnam has directed the Medical College of Hanoi to commence a 4-year degree in nursing in 1994. Historical, practical, political, economic, social, and cultural issues affect the development of nursing as a profession. Assistance from the West is sought by the Medical College in Hanoi.

ISSN:0887-9311    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1995

数据来源: OVID