example of literature review in nursing research

... deciding, recommending, selecting, judging, explaining, discriminating, supporting, and concluding The essential evaluation in the literature review is to clearly distinguish among opinions, theories, ... actual literature review following the theory of argument What is a Literature Review? Novice researchers tend to approach the literature review as nothing more than a collection of summaries of ... Discussion Quality in A Meeting Duration of Cbis Ease of Use Ease of Use of Innovation Ease of Use of Software Package Economic Value Dimensions for Isd Efficacy Efficiency of Meeting Processes Employees...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:38

... competent in the use of genetic content begins in nursing education programs It was with this in mind that this book, The Essentials of Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice, was written Part I of the ... genetics Developing an individualized plan of care Reinforcing and interpreting genetic counseling and testing information Supporting families when they are receiving counseling and making decisions ... types of inheritance The topics of prevention of genetic disease, genetic testing, and treatment are presented, including aspects of genetic counseling Part II applies these principles to nursing...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... during a systematic clustering sampling taken from the three Municipal districts of Sari with assistance of health care providers' of health centers Instruments Our instruments for collecting ... present values Residents in homes scored better in all domains This means residents living at homes possessed better HRQoL than nursing home residents For elderly residents in nursing home, role physical ... conducted in Sari city in Mazandaran province in the North of Iran (Islamic Republic of) with assistance of 220 elderly people from October 2010 to February 2011 The sample consisted of Iranian...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... significant, length of psychiatric nursing experience (P = 028, HR = 1.76, CI 95% 1.06–2.90) and scores on the CS (P = 027, HR = 90, CI 95% 81– 99) In this investigation of nursing staff working in a high ... fulltime nursing position corresponding to a high patient-to-staff level of 1:5 100 questionnaires were sent out to ordinary members of the nursing staff 70 questionnaires were returned No reminders ... Compassion Fatigue (CF) in the ProQOL in a binary logistic regression model using a forward stepwise method (Wald) In the final model, including only variables significantly contributing to the model,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... second property of a discriminative instrument is a cross sectional relationship with a theoretical criterion or prediction, and again, in none of the examples offered by Hankins we see this ... References Hankins M: How discriminating are discriminative instruments? Health and quality of life outcomes 2008, 6(1):36 Kirshner B, Guyatt G: A methodological framework for assessing health indices ... reliability Yet in none of the Hankins examples is this type of reliability calculated or reported The first example uses an intraclass correlation between two different measures as the estimate of reliability,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... which discriminations are made Both Norman and Wyrwich raise the interesting issue of what constitutes a meaningful discrimination, and whether Delta is an index of such discriminations This ... discrimination, for reasons explained above Wyrwich asks 'Understanding the Role of Discriminative Instruments in HRQoL Research: Can Ferguson's Delta Help?' to which the answer is a definitive ... perspective of interpretability (what size of discrimination should be considered important?) Implicit in this argument is that a measure of discrimination would be useful if the discriminations...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Mimivirus intein in this specific "intein allele"-type (Fig 1C) This underlines the presence of intein subclasses ("intein alleles") each exhibiting its own preference of harboring site, even in such ... I Intein containing genes are indicated by bold letters in the figure Numbers in parentheses on the right of species name designate the numbering of paralogs Sequences corresponding to inteins ... last asparagine residues of the intein, and the first threonine residue of the downstream extein Accordingly the Mimivirus intein is a canonical "asparagine-type" intein, of which the close homologues...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Mimivirus intein in this specific "intein allele"-type (Fig 1C) This underlines the presence of intein subclasses ("intein alleles") each exhibiting its own preference of harboring site, even in such ... I Intein containing genes are indicated by bold letters in the figure Numbers in parentheses on the right of species name designate the numbering of paralogs Sequences corresponding to inteins ... last asparagine residues of the intein, and the first threonine residue of the downstream extein Accordingly the Mimivirus intein is a canonical "asparagine-type" intein, of which the close homologues...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... Deming's TQM principles and the works of Juran [20,21] Examining the methodology and philosophical underpinnings of Six Sigma are not an objective of this review, as Six Sigma's approach of problem ... zation-wide training and leadership behavior modeling to bring about significant cultural change and quality and financial gains In contrast to the number of transformational strategies originating in manufacturing, ... valuable insights from impressive results reported in other formats, but that area of reporting was not our main interest Nor did our search strategy allow for the inclusion of studies involving individual...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Deming's TQM principles and the works of Juran [20,21] Examining the methodology and philosophical underpinnings of Six Sigma are not an objective of this review, as Six Sigma's approach of problem ... zation-wide training and leadership behavior modeling to bring about significant cultural change and quality and financial gains In contrast to the number of transformational strategies originating in manufacturing, ... valuable insights from impressive results reported in other formats, but that area of reporting was not our main interest Nor did our search strategy allow for the inclusion of studies involving individual...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... poor (Annex contains a simplified table of the advantages and constraints facing USAID in urban child health programming.) Country Examples of Urbanization A review of urbanization in the three countries ... (several examples of urban programs in various countries are given in this chapter) “Synthesis of Available Urban Slum Child Health Data”: summary of evidence of health status and main determinants of ... an understanding of the system of land tenure in vigor and of the positive and negative political stakes involved in recognizing illegal settlements and providing them with certain municipal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... fistula is an injury that occurs due to direct traumatic tearing of the vaginal tissues, as a result of violent sexual assault, including rape, mass rape, and the forced insertion of objects into a ... surgical repair, counseling, and other services, needlessly suffering the lifelong consequences of this injury The upcoming meeting in Addis Ababa is the first-ever gathering of individuals and organizations ... The Pole Institute in Goma focused an issue of its quarterly magazine on GBV in North Kivu province (Pole Institute, 2004) This informative publication includes a comprehensive overview of how...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... delaying or inhibiting seed germination, emergence, growth, flowering, fruiting, ripening or appearance of certain organs), reducing abundance/survival of offspring, changing colour or causing ... tumours and carcinomas when administered to rats Literature Review of Organic Chemicals of Emerging Environmental Concern in Use in Auckland 26 in drinking water at high doses of 1000 to 10,000 ... production in New Zealand 3.3 Paints and coatings Table Environmental hazard profile of paints and coatings, including antifouling paints Qualitative environmental hazard rating 16 Reason for ranking...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... and networks insofar as at all possible There are examples in the literature of including a focus on settings in patient education Bourbeau et al., for example emphasised that it is often advantageous ... preliminary work on recruiting and motivating patients It is naturally easier to adjust individual interventions to the individual patient For example, integrating different forms of coaching in ... subcomponents for inclusion in a multifaceted approach often lack systematisation and categorisation and descriptions are often limited to pointing to the insufficiency of just focusing on disseminating knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... percentage of better housing materials in the central in terms of rammed earth floors, iron sheets for roofing than grass thatched housing that is preferred in the north as an indicator of lower living ... activities include Industries for coffee processing, soft drinks factories, metal works, and cotton ginning Over 98% of Apac’s population is rural based with over 80% of the population involved in some ... purposes of securing rights in land, neither is it empowering communities to make choices concerning improvements in land management in their areas, by shifting locus of decision making away from individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... treatment of mental disorders background Disorders included in review An update of the 2006 systematic review of the literature examining the efficacy of a broad range of psychological interventions ... Procedure Review of RCTs published between 1979 and 2009 in peer-reviewed journals investigating the effectiveness of a range of high- and low- intensity psychological interventions Findings Individual ... during the maintenance phase Psychosocial interventions appear to have the greatest benefit in reducing risk of relapse and improving functioning during the maintenance phase A number of intensive...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:39

... knowledge of 50% on type of care [for umbilical cord] was incorrect by international standards, but was in keeping with Nursing Council of Kenya teaching." The authors "recommend that the local Nursing ... is reinforced by [32]: "Some suggestive findings include an association between increases in the supply of essential drugs (combined with training) and more appropriate use of medications in primary ... prescribing." [31] This kind of research would be simple to do, and it would also provide a baseline indicator of available information resources at each point of care (i.e references within reach of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... of their role, lack of social and working support, course of the disease, and disruptions in family life All these factors were associated with a considerable damage of QOL The feeling of being ... one of the main objectives is the development of supporting activities rather than reducing symptoms and preventing relapses only Until recently, due to the inclusion of new drugs, research on ... included The hits retrieved by database were: MEDLINE via Pubmed (73), Web of Science (93) and PsycINFO (49) In accordance with the inclusion criteria, titles and abstracts of citations obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... [4] in 1966 (27 cases), Dybowski & Makuchowa [5] in 1974 (32 cases) Since the introduction of effective anti-tubercular agents and the general decline in incidence of tuberculosis, involvement of ... is better In cases involving complete disruption of symphysis, some form of bridging in the form of plate or bone graft has been advocated [12] Differential diagnosis in such cases includes osteitis ... report along with review of 15 cases NUMBER OF CASES Almost all cases reported have been presented in advanced stages with complications in the form of abscess, sinuses opening to groin or vulva,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... changed training conditions [24] During a muscle training program lasting several weeks, a distinct increase in activity occurred during the first weeks and the activity then dropped to the initial ... the spine by their inherent “balancing or tuning mechanism” for a short period of time till it stabilizes into a single pattern This spinal balancing mechanism might result in a wavy pattern of ... during the follow-up till it follows one of final path of progression, stabilization or regression (Figure 3) Reviewing literature, we could say that “tuning/balancing mechanism” of paraspinal...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20