Clinical scholarship is an important professional responsibility for clinically excellent nurses. Nurses with publication goals should develop publishable ideas for a target journal, adhere to the basics of good writing, consider the special requirements of clinical journals, and address issues of authorship and professional goals.

Clinical Nursing Research↗

PubMed1990

Preventing and treating human immunodeficiency virus infection in the homeless.

The problem of human immunodeficiency virus infection in the homeless has received little attention in the literature but is a cause for serious concern. Nineteen health care agencies were studied to explore the types and outcomes of programs targeting this population, and factors associated with prevention and treatment strategies. The results showed that a variety of services were provided, but that little formal evaluation had been conducted. Factors identified were population variability, altered health status, daily survival, provider role conflicts and attributes, and a so-called nonsystem of care. The numerous gaps in knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus infection in the homeless inform future psychiatric nursing care and research.

HIV Infections↗

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Psychiatric rehospitalization of the severely mentally ill: patient and staff perspectives.

Research findings about psychiatric rehospitalization of severely mentally ill persons have provided few insights into its meaning for patients and staff. An attributional analysis of the causes schizophrenic patients and their staff gave for rehospitalization was used to test the limits of attributions theory in predicting how the event would be viewed. Results indicated that patients tended to give internal attributions for their readmission and believed that the cause was not under their control. Staff also attributed the problem to something internal to the patient, however, they were likely to see the cause as patient effort, which is under patient control.

Adolescent↗