Biomedical subjects

S Van Ort

Publications and source records attributed to S Van Ort.

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PubMed1989

Home health care--providing a missing link.

1. If nurses are to provide the continuity of care that helps patients at home achieve expected patient outcomes, nurses must diagnose actual and potential health problems and design a plan of care. 2. Before patient outcomes can be identified, nurses must first recognize, assess, and describe the patient's defining characteristics. 3. The study found that nurses use a limited range of nursing diagnoses and incompletely document the care they give. 4. Results of the study indicated that nurses provide continuity of care between the hospital and home; there is also a need for home-based health care to provide support for elderly caregivers whose health is less than good.

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Feeding nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease.

The purpose of this exploratory, descriptive study was to identify and categorize the behaviors of caregivers and residents that elicit, sustain, or extinguish feeding. Although preliminary analysis yielded initial categories, mutually exclusive categories were difficult to distinguish. Relationships among identified cues and specific feeding behaviors are being examined in further analysis. The relationship between specific feeding behaviors and the environmental context of feeding is also being examined. The goals of studying feeding behaviors in nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease are to enhance mealtime for both residents and caregivers and to encourage functional feeding behavior as much as possible. Identification of behaviors that elicit, sustain, and extinguish functional feeding can facilitate development of behavioral and environmental nursing interventions to promote functional feeding.

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Prospective payment and baccalaureate nursing education: projections for the future.

The implementation of a prospective payment system has had a profound effect on health care delivery in the United States. Providing realistic nursing experiences for baccalaureate students has become a challenge in the new arena of increased patient acuity, decreased length of patient stay in acute care settings, and increased use of home care services. The purpose of this study was to describe changes in the health care system and projected changes in baccalaureate nursing education associated with prospective payment. The descriptive survey design used a mail questionnaire to which deans or their designees from 186 National League for Nursing (NLN) accredited baccalaureate nursing programs responded. Outcomes of the study indicated specific health care delivery changes in all geographic areas and all types of institutions. Projected changes in nursing education included curriculum, teaching methods, and clinical learning experiences.

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Evaluating audio-visual and computer programs for classroom use.

Appropriate faculty decisions regarding adoption of audiovisual and computer programs are critical to the classroom use of these learning materials. The author describes the decision-making process in one college of nursing and the adaptation of an evaluation tool for use by faculty in reviewing audiovisual and computer programs.

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Microteaching: developing tomorrow's teachers.

Microteaching is a technique for developing teaching skills. The authors report a study that assessed graduate students' perspectives of a microteaching experience. Information is provided to help current and potential faculty members to improve their teaching skills through microteaching.

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Nursing diagnoses and functional health patterns in patients receiving external radiation therapy: cancer of the head and neck.

A descriptive study using clinical methods was conducted to identify and describe core and site-specific symptoms reported by 15 patients with cancer of the head or neck who received external radiation therapy. A 45-item Radiation Symptom Scale (RSS) was designed by the investigators for this study. Symptoms identified by patients with a mean occurrence of at least "sometimes" were considered potential defining characteristics and were submitted to a panel of experts for identification of nursing diagnoses. Eighteen nursing diagnoses with their associated defining characteristics were identified and classified within eight Functional Health Patterns. Half of the nursing diagnoses were formulated within the Nutritional-Metabolic and Activity-Exercise health patterns. Four of the health patterns were primarily physiologic; four were primarily psychologic-behavioral. Results of the study describe the nursing needs of patients who receive radiotherapy to the head and neck and are formulated within a nursing diagnosis/Functional Health Pattern framework. These findings have implications for nursing assessment, nursing interventions, and evaluation of patient outcomes, and findings provide a beginning empiric basis for identifying nursing diagnoses and their associated defining characteristics for cancer patients who receive external radiation therapy.

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