Global genetics: worldwide considerations.
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Genetic Diseases, Inborn↗
Biomedical subjects
Lynn Clark Callister
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Making a difference: goals for improving the health of women and children globally.
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Doing the month: Chinese postpartum practices.
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Attitude to Health↗
Use of PHN competencies and ACHNE essentials to develop teaching-learning strategies for generalist C/PHN curricula.
This paper provides a useful tool for the undergraduate community/public health nursing (C/PHN) faculty member to design courses and learning activities, and to interpret C/PHN education needs to undergraduate curriculum committees and administrators. Specifically, this paper provides a tangible bridge between the Public Health Nursing Competencies (Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations, 2004) and the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE) Essentials of Baccalaureate Education (2000) for both didactic and clinical learning experiences. The tables may be used in multiple ways, including curriculum monitoring and improvement, course development and instructional design, clinical practice planning, and as a foundation for evaluation of conceptual learning and practice competence for the C/PHN generalist. Because C/PHN experiences in undergraduate education are unique and context based, the tables exemplify how two key guiding documents mutually frame the C/PHN educational experience supported by specific learning activities. Further, at a minimum, MSN preparation as a C/PHN specialist is clearly necessary for the teaching and learning of baccalaureate curricular components of C/PHN.
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Giving birth: the voices of Orthodox Jewish women living in Canada.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the meaning of the childbirth experience to Orthodox Jewish women living in Canada. DESIGN: In this phenomenologic study, audiotaped interviews were conducted. Tapes were transcribed verbatim and analyzed for emergent themes. Demographic data also were collected. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS: Thirty Orthodox Jewish women who had given birth to healthy full-term newborns at a university-affiliated Jewish hospital in Montreal, Canada, participated in the study. Data were collected within 2 weeks after childbirth, either in the mother's postpartum hospital room or in her home. RESULTS: The following themes reflecting spiritual/cultural dimensions of the childbirth experience were identified: (a) birth as a significant life event, (b) birth as a bittersweet paradox, (c) the spiritual dimensions of giving birth, (d) the importance of obedience to rabbinical law, and (e) a sense of support and affirmation. CONCLUSION: This study documents cultural, religious, and spiritual dimensions of the childbirth experience of Orthodox Jewish women living in Canada. Knowledge and appreciation of the multiple dimensions of childbirth reflected by this study's findings can contribute to holistic and culturally competent nursing care of women and newborns.
Adolescent↗
Childbearing women's perceptions of nursing care that promotes dignity.
OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of the perceptions of childbearing women about the maintenance of dignity while laboring and giving birth. DESIGN: Descriptive qualitative study. SETTING: A university community in the western United States. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS: Twenty low-risk primiparous women who had recently given birth to healthy term neonates. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Semistructured audio-taped interviews were conducted in the homes of participants using an interview guide. RESULTS: The following themes were identified: (a) nurses played a pivotal role in preserving dignity during childbirth, (b) women appreciated feeling valued and respected, and (c) dignity was enhanced by nursing care that gave women their preferred level of control. CONCLUSION: Nursing behaviors that demonstrate valuing and respect of childbearing women are essential in preserving the quality of the birth experience.
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Making meaning: women's birth narratives.
Birth stories are personal narratives grounded in the pivotal life experience of giving birth. Richly descriptive birth narratives from culturally diverse childbearing women document the importance of listening to the voices of women. Benefits of sharing birth stories include the opportunity for integration of a major event into the framework of a mother's life; the opportunity to share a significant life experience; the opportunity to discuss fears, concerns, "missing pieces" or feelings of inadequacy or disappointment; the opportunity for the woman to gain an understanding of her strengths; and the opportunity to connect with other women. Providing women with the opportunity to share their birth stories is an important nursing intervention.
Adult↗
Creating a context for professional dialogue between United States and Russian nurses: design of an international conference.
This age of globalization challenges nurses to find effective ways to promote interaction to further scholarly efforts across cultural boundaries. This article describes critical conference design elements necessary to create a context for transnational professional dialogue. Collaborative efforts such as study exchanges and workshops resulting from this conference have fostered dialogue on ways to strengthen nursing practice to improve patient and family outcomes in the United States and Russia. The design of such a conference can serve as a model for promoting joint scholarly efforts to increase understanding among nurses across the globe.
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Nursing education and service collaboration: making a difference in the clinical learning environment.
This article focuses on innovative collaborative steps that were identified in recent research conducted by these authors on the relationship between academia and service. These steps are currently being implemented in the hope of improving the important role that the clinical environment plays in student nurses' education. Few factors in nursing education are as important as the clinical environment in which students do their training. This article elaborates on these steps and offers practical suggestions for improving the relationship between academia and service.
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Collaborative international research.
The current age of globalization poses challenges as to how to promote professional interaction to further international scholarly efforts in nursing. Models of global research are defined. Global health priorities are explicated, with recommendations for the conduct of outcomes-focused research leading to the generation of cost-effective interventions that contribute to the health and well-being of individuals, families, communities, and nations throughout the world. The challenges and opportunities in international collaborative nursing research are described based on the experiences of the authors during nearly two decades of collaborative work. International partnerships in globally relevant research, which respect and value equity between nurse researchers practicing in developed and developing countries, are essential.
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Staff nurse perceptions of the contributions of students to clinical agencies.
This study is a replication and extension of Grindel and associates' 2001 study of the perceptions of staff nurses (psychiatric, perinatal, and medical/surgical) regarding the benefits of having students from a baccalaureate nursing program work in clinical agencies. Using the Nursing Students' Contributions to Clinical Agencies tool, the overall perception of students' contributions ranged from -4 to +5, with a mean of 2.50. The two highest ranked items were "allows opportunities for mentoring" and "threatens professional role development," indicating the ambivalence staff nurses feel toward nursing students. Qualitative data also demonstrated the benefits and challenges of working with students. Recommendations are made for the creation of a positive, nurturing learning environment through closer collaboration between nursing education and service.
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