Academic Articles & Research Papers

Engaging Older Adults to Guide the Development of Passive Home Health Monitoring to Support Aging in Place

By 2050, most adults aged 65 and older in the United States will want to age independently at home, a goal that will strain healthcare resources. Adults aged 50 and older (N = 112) were recruited for study participation between 2018 and 202...

Hepatocellular carcinoma: Implications for Asia-Pacific Oncology Nurses

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a prominent malignancy in the Asia-Pacific region. Despite considerable knowledge about it's scope and nature this malignancy remains incurable. This manuscript reviews the epidemiology of this cancer, its ...

Concepts of Epidemiology

Abstract Epidemiology is a population science that underpins health improvement and health care, and is concerned with the pattern, frequency, trends, and causes of disease. This book teaches its applications to population health research, ...

Nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure: A scoping review

Objectives: This study aimed to review and summarize the studies of nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure. Methods: The review was performed using Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework....

Robots and Robotics in Nursing

Technological advancements have led to the use of robots as prospective partners to complement understaffing and deliver effective care to patients. This article discusses relevant concepts on robots from the perspective of nursing theories...

Natural Language Processing of Nursing Notes

Natural language processing includes a variety of techniques that help to extract meaning from narrative data. In healthcare, medical natural language processing has been a growing field of study; however, little is known about its use in n...

Joint Optimization of Transform and Quantization for High Efficiency Video Coding

In high efficiency video coding (HEVC), transformation and quantization are separately performed to eliminate the perceptual redundancy of visual signals. However, a uniform quantizer can inevitably degrade the compression efficiency of fix...

Association of Case Management Nursing with Swallowing and Voice Recovery and Quality of Life After Transoral Thyroidectomy: A Retrospective Study with Predictive Modeling.

The Balanced Opioid Initiative: protocol for a clustered, sequential, multiple-assignment randomized trial to construct an adaptive implementation strategy to improve guideline-concordant opioid prescribing in primary care

Abstract Background Rates of opioid prescribing tripled in the USA between 1999 and 2015 and were associated with significant increases in opioid misuse and overdose death. Roughly half of all opioids are prescribed in primary care. Althoug...

Profiles of Time Management Dispositions and Influencing Factors Among Nursing Interns: A Latent Profile Analysis.

Relationship between grief and coping strategies among nurses dealing with patient deaths: a descriptive, cross-sectional, correlational study

Abstract Background Nurses often face significant emotional distress and grief when dealing with patient deaths, especially in acute hospital settings. Despite extensive literature offering guidance on nursing practices for providing optima...

A Model to Predict Heart Disease Treatment Using Data Mining

Background and Aim: Nowadays heart disease is very common and is a major cause of mortality. Proper and early diagnosis of this disease is very important. Diagnostic methods and treatments of the disease are so expensive and have many side ...

How Demographic and Academic Factors Relate to Critical Thinking Skills among Indonesian Nursing Students

Background: Critical thinking is a core competency for nursing students because it supports clinical judgment, evidence-based practice, and patient safety. However, evidence on critical thinking among nursing students in Indonesia remains l...

Symptom clusters and core symptoms of Chinese patients with lung cancer: a cross-sectional study

Background: Chinese lung cancer patients experience various cancer-related symptoms during the course of disease, which usually occur as symptom clusters, leading to heavy symptom burden and low quality of life. Identifying symptom cluster ...

Effect of stress ball use before cholecystectomy surgery on surgical fear, anxiety and comfort of patients: a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Thinking about surgery generally causes fear and anxiety among patients. These negative feelings may affect the healing process. This study aimed to investigate the effects of a stress ball on surgical fear, anxiety and ...

Administration of Pro Re Nata Medication: A Retrospective Quantitative Study in Mental Health Acute Care Inpatient Units.

Students’ experiences of sexual harassment; a descriptive cross-sectional study in a college of education, Ghana

Introduction: Sexual harassment is a component of gender-based discrimination that indicates unequal power relations and affects students' psychological and physical well-being and academic achievement. This study assessed students’ experie...

Religion as a Social Determinant of Public Health

Abstract Religious institutions and public health institutions seek to improve the well-being of their communities, many times with aligned interests but occasionally at odds with each other. This book explores for the first time the inters...

Experiences of Caring for Adolescents Living with HIV (ALHIV): A Qualitative Interview with Caregivers

Meble Kasande, Andrew Natwijuka, Eve Katushabe Snr, Anne Tweheyo Otwine Snr Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara, UgandaCorrespondence: Meble Kasande, Bishop Stuart University, Faculty of Nursing and Hea...

How nurses address psychosocial needs in patients with advanced heart or lung failure: a qualitative interview study

Abstract Background Patients with advanced heart failure or lung failure often experience significant changes in psychosocial needs, which may affect their quality of life, emotional wellbeing, and daily functioning. Although nurses are wel...