Biomedical subjects

Tamra J Courey

Publications and source records attributed to Tamra J Courey.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

Mental health needs of children and adolescents at camp: are they being assessed and treated appropriately by the camp nurse?

TOPIC: Increasingly, more children and adolescents are attending camps with mental health concerns. This can pose a challenge for camp nurses who may lack experience in assessment and treatment of mental health issues. PURPOSE: To focus on the importance of addressing and treating mental health needs of children and adolescents at camp utilizing the Scope and Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice. SOURCES: Personal observations, camp nursing experience, and scholarly published literature. CONCLUSIONS: It is paramount that mental health needs of children and adolescents at camp are addressed and managed appropriately by the camp nurse. Education of camp nurses and camp administrators is also a vital part of providing care.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

PubMed2006

Adaptive sampling: recruiting a diverse community sample of survivors of sexual violence.

Accessing vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations is a significant challenge for nurse researchers. Adaptive sampling is a procedure that has been used effectively in community-based research to recruit rare or hidden populations. Structured community assessment, as practiced by community health nurses, can be used to enhance adaptive sampling procedures to recruit research participants. This article(1) describes adaptive sampling techniques, discusses how the techniques can be enhanced with a structured nursing community assessment, and describes how adaptive sampling was used successfully by nurse researchers to obtain a diverse and vulnerable community sample for a grounded-theory study of women's and men's responses to sexual violence.

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Safe medication administration.

Safe medication administration continues to be challenging for healthcare providers as evidenced by the escalating occurrences of actual and potential errors. Creating a safe medication environment requires an interdisciplinary approach and use of evidence-based practice recommendations for safe medication administration.

Humans↗