Healthcare Should Be Public or Private?
Men's Transformative Role in Nursing Leadership and Healthcare Delivery Systems: Breaking the Gender Barriers
Enhancing Engagement in Nursing Education: The Impact of Gamification on eLearning Modules
A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy on Motor Function among Stroke Patients in Selected Hospitals in Erode
Effectiveness of Guided Imagery on Stress among High Risk Pregnant Mothers
A Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge Regarding Breast Complications and their Management among Primi Post Natal Mothers in a Selected Hospital in Bangalore
Honey and Cancer: A Sustainable Parallel Relationship Especially for Developing Nations
Nursing Perspective on Pain Management
Nightingale’s Theory and its Application to Pediatric Nursing Care
Academic Strategies that Facilitate Learning in Millennial Nursing Students
Transformational Leadership: A Strategy towards Staff Motivation
Awareness of Good And Bad Touch Among Children
Suicide Among Youth: A Preventable Public Health Concern
The Impact of Culture on Faculty Retention in Nursing Education
Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Nursing Student Success
Psychological and Cognitive Determinants of the Health Literacy on Soon-To-Be-Aged and Older Adults: a Systematic Review
It Takes a Village to Assure Nurse Professionalism
Lessons Learned: Employing Focus Groups as a Research Methodology
One of the most important features of adolescence period is the emergence of sexual desire and the onset of sexual activity, which is expected to be taught as part of the curriculum. The current study aims to evaluate the needs of sex education of adolescents and to determine their attitude towards sex education. It is a descriptive-analytic study that was conducted in Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2014. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The sample size in this study was 400 students. SPSS version 18 was used to analyze the data. The frequency distribution table, the mean and standard deviation of the scores were used to describe the data, and, parametric tests (T, ANOVA) and Pearson correlation coefficient were used for analysis. The results of this study showed that educational needs of about 80% of students in puberty period was about "skin health education”, “nutrition education”, “education of emotional changes", "teaching methods of transmission and prevention of HIV / AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases” and “the training of normal and painful menstruation and its causes and how to control pain”. There was a positive and significant relationship between sex and time of providing information, between age and mean score of opinions and between attitudes and opinions about educational needs. Also, from the participants' point of view, the best time of education was during high school years, and the best method of sex education was at schools by a nurse or midwife, and most of them received their sexual information from friends and books. Students' attitude toward sex education to adolescents was fairly good. They should be trained in cases they do not have a good attitude towards them.
Being an elderly woman presents itself with array of unique problems, then these problems are aggravated by the marked changes in the socioeconomic transformation, which leads to a number of changes in different aspects of living conditions. Sleeping problems are one of the many problems in our modern society with major psycho-physical implications. The major changes in elderly women's sleep formation are decrease in sleep quality, sleep disturbance, difficulty in starting and maintaining sleep. Elderly women take lot of medications for good sleep, but this will lead to complications, and the possibility for using technology for improving sleep is also majorly accounted for. This is a new way by which better sleep in elderly women could be sustained and the paper has underlined the important role of technology, that it could play. In the study, quasi experimental pre-test post-test only design was adopted to assess preexisting health conditions and effect of light therapy on quality of sleep among elderly women in selected old age home in Bhubaneswar, by taking 48 elderly women in experimental and control group through simple random sampling method. Total study was conducted in following four phases, i.e. pre intervention, intervention, post intervention, and follow up. Light therapy was given in morning for 30 minutes by cool white florescent LED in 10,000 LUX light to the experimental group. The result of pre-existing health conditions showed that sleep disorder is found maximum in control group (91.66%) and experimental group (87.5%). The result revealed that at the end of light therapy in intervention and during follow up period, highly significant increase in global score of quality of sleep was found compared with pre intervention score. The light therapy has also significant impact on sub components of sleep quality. It was concluded that light therapy has been shown to be effective non-pharmacological therapy for improving quality of sleep among elderly.
Varicose veins are commonly found among people with occupations demanding a prolonged standing period and heavy work. This study was conducted to assess clinical morbidities and risk factors of varicose veins among construction workers. The cross-sectional study was conducted among 176 workers in the age group of 30 – 55 years. Presence of sign and symptoms were assessed using a self-structured checklist and presence of risk factors associated with varicose veins were assessed using self-structured risk factor checklist. Among the selected workers, 67.61% were males and 55.5% of the participants did activities related to standing after work. Bulging veins in legs were seen in 28.98% with swelling of the leg in 22.73%. Risk factors assessment showed consumption of alcohol in 86.36%, and heavy weight carrying in 97.73%. Awareness of the varicose veins and the causative risk factors among workers are important to reduce the morbidity.
People with HIV positive are experiencing discrimination and stigmatization in their altitude of hope in spite of their treatments and many orientation programs. The aim and purpose of the present study was to examine the correlation linking the hope and resilience of HIV positive patients. Hence the present study was conducted with a purpose to promote the better mental health status of HIV positive patients, with an intention to discover out the relationship of hope and resilience, and suitable safety and health measures both for the individual and policymakers were listed out. The present research was conducted on a sample of 40 HIV positive patients. Purposive sampling technique was employed in collecting the data. Adult Hope Scale was used to amount hope and Resilience Scale was used in the present study to collect the data. Results clearly revealed that there exist significant and positive relationship between HIV positive patients and HIV Negative people with regard to Hope and Resilience. The present study paves way for significant anticipation and provisions for the affected and suggests necessary treatment has to be carried out in order to keep away from the disease.
Resilience is a process of recovery, an individual's capability and a consequence of successfully adapting despite adverse circumstances or suffering to personal wellbeing and protection. The aim of this paper is to define resilience as a concept, construct, process, and outcome during adolescence. A review of the literature on adolescent resilience was conducted and analyzed using resilience as a concept, construct, process, and outcome during adolescence. Adolescence is considered as a phase of rapid development with consequences such as the adoption of risky behaviors. Promoting resilience in adolescents require protective processes at three different levels which include individual level, family level, and community level interventions. These factors promote individual's positive coping and fast recovery during adversities, which results in improved mental and physical health, such as enhanced self-esteem, hopefulness, problem-solving, and better confidence in facing challenges. Nurses must be mindful of the developmental stages, coping styles, level of stress, and risk behaviors in order to understand their level of resilience. Understanding resilience would assist nurses in practicing holistic nursing care to adolescents.
Preoperative assessment plays a vital role in all surgeries that are to be performed under general anesthesia. It helps in the preparation of the patient and optimization of risk factors before surgery, involvement of multidisciplinary teams to avoid complications, decrease length of stay, and reduce the delays in surgery. The aim of this quality research work was to improve preoperative anesthesia assessment compliances of patients undergoing elective orthopedic surgeries. A retrospective review of data was conducted for orthopedic services in a tertiary care hospital for a period from January to June 2017 of all patients planned for elective surgeries. The data analysis showed only 31% compliances. In order to enhance these compliances, a preoperative nurse was hired in the service and she functioned closely with the surgeons. After interventions, the preoperative compliances increased from 31 to 81% in the next three months from July to September 2017. The targeted benchmark to achieve maximum compliances is up to 95 to 100%. Preoperative optimization not only benefits in early recognition of risk factors, but it also contributes towards positive clinical outcomes of patients after surgery. Moreover, it promotes speedy recovery and decreases the length of hospital stay.
