Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Mary Curry Narayan.
Your patient is a Catholic, and you are not. How can you be sensitive to the patient's spiritual needs? How do Catholics think about health and illness? What kind of spiritual resources do they draw upon when facing a health crisis?
Home care staff frequently become anxious when a patient with active infectious tuberculosis is referred for home care. Using a home care patient case study, this article reviews tuberculosis epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and infection control. It also discusses home health staff's role in case finding because home care patients with chronic disease and immunosuppression conditions are at risk for active tuberculosis disease.
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OASIS M0520 instructions indicate: If the patient is incontinent AT ALL-even occasional leaking-mark "Patient is incontinent." This article describes why "leaking" is incontinence, various causes of urinary incontinence, and what nurses should do when they discover their patients have this problem. By addressing incontinence in its early stages, the nurse may prevent the patient from developing debilitating incontinence.
Culturally competent care adapts care to the patient's cultural needs and preferences and begins with a cultural assessment that forms the care plan's foundation. Nurses who assess their patients' cultural beliefs, values, and practices are better able to individualize care and achieve positive outcomes. This article describes a cultural assessment tool, strategies for obtaining cultural assessment data, and a process for creating a culturally appropriate care plan.
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Nurses from the Inova Health System, an integrated care system in northern Virginia, used the Future Search process to create an action plan for their future practice.