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E J Adaskin

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PubMed1994

When industry courts your clinical research skills, should you collaborate?

Hospital/industry collaboration is as yet rare in Canadian nursing research. Dupont Canada Inc. invited this research team to become one of four sites taking part in a study of decubitus ulcers in intensive care unit patients. The project was regarded as an opportunity to study an important nursing problem. Collaboration involved a multicenter meeting to plan the research with personnel from the four sites and data collection on the incidence of pressure sores in intensive care unit patients. Industry contributed funding for the project, work on the overall research design, coordination of the sites, and data analysis. The hospitals contributed clinical knowledge, access to the patients, and skilled nurses to collect skin care data. The authors have gained from the collaboration, as has industry. In this article, we review the process, problems, and benefits of collaboration with industry and provide recommendations for nurses getting involved in hospital/industry collaborative research.

Clinical Competence↗
PubMed1989

Using motivational theory with the long-term psychiatric client.

This article discusses how psychiatric nurses or nursing students can use motivational theory to work with the long-term client. It is primarily nurses who work most continually with all phases of the long-term client's responses to his or her illness and deal most directly with his or her frustration and despair. This article describes the practical application of motivational theory with a group of clients who demonstrate typical variability in their illness responses. A combination of paper-and-pencil exercises, the Goal Attainment Scaling form (Garwick & Brintelli, 1977) and Checklist for In-Session Achievement, can be used with role play to assist clients to achieve their goals. Nurses and clients are both more likely to experience success when reasonable goals are set, and the focus for treatment is on ability rather than disability.

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PubMed1965

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Child Behavior Disorders↗
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The impact of computerization on nursing: an interview study of users and facilitators.

When health care settings are computerized, nurses' jobs are affected. Hospitals must understand this important phenomenon in order to develop the best possible implementation strategies that consider the impact nurses may experience. The goals of this study were the following: 1) to explore the personal and job-related effects of computerization on nurses; 2) to determine the factors that helped these nurses cope during the computerization process; and 3) to derive recommendations that could assist hospitals implementing computerization in future. Twenty nurses were identified by their peers as knowledgeable informants for a research interview: 10 staff nurse users and 10 nurse educators or administrators serving as facilitators of the change. The confidential interviews were analyzed using a grounded theory approach with constant comparative analysis of the emerging categories. The investigators developed a visual model showing six themes that have the greatest effect on the nurses: 1) time frame, 2) choice of software, 3) communication, 4) the change process, 5) training, and 6) leadership. These themes were considered within a broad hospital context, in which budget, nurse involvement, policy practice issues, and other concurrent projects also influenced nursing. In addition, personal characteristics of each nurse affected how each nurse experienced the change to computerization. Recommendations from the respondents addressed a wide range of factors that may be useful to other hospitals planning to implement computerization in nursing.

Attitude to Computers↗