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Making Me Feel Comfortable: Developing Trust in the Nurse for Mexican Americans
Trust (confianza) is an important component of patient-centered care and culturally competent care and a major element in the Hispanic culture. The aim of this study was to conceptualize the process of the development of interpersonal trust by hospitalized patients in their nurses. Using the grounded theory method, English-speaking Mexican American patients (N = 22) were interviewed. The core category was Making Me Feel Comfortable. The cyclical process included a beginning stage (Having Needs, Relying on the Nurse), middle stage (Coming Across to Me, Taking Care of Me, Connecting), and end point (Feeling Confianza) with t...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - October 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Jones, S. M. Tags: Research Reports Source Type: research

Feasibility Testing of a Protocol to Stop Ineffective Drug and Nondrug Treatments
Ineffective treatments continue to be given to nursing home residents with dementia, and many more treatments are started than stopped. The Track and Trigger Treatment (T3) Protocol assists nurses to track responses to new treatments and get ineffective treatments stopped or altered. This preliminary study determined feasibility for end users and examined differences between two randomized groups in assessments, treatment changes, nurse time, and drug costs over 8 weeks. Controlling for number of medical diagnoses, 41 residents in the T3 group had significantly more treatments stopped than 37 residents in the usual care gr...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - October 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Kovach, C. R., Hekel, B., Rababa, M. Tags: Intervention Research Source Type: research

Qigong Effects on Heart Rate Variability and Peripheral Vasomotor Responses
Population aging is occurring worldwide, and preventing cardiovascular event in older people is a unique challenge. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a 12-week qigong (eight-form moving meditation) training program on the heart rate variability and peripheral vasomotor response of middle-aged and elderly people in the community. This was a quasi-experimental study that included the pre-test, post-test, and nonequivalent control group designs. Seventy-seven participants (experimental group = 47; control group = 30) were recruited. The experimental group performed 30 min of eight-form moving meditation 3 ti...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - October 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Chang, M.-Y. Tags: Intervention Research Source Type: research

Close but Not Quite: How to Get to the Publication Goal
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Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - October 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Conn, V. S. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Midwest Nursing Research Society News
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Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Lach, H. W., Aaronson, L. S. Tags: Information Exchange Source Type: research

Review and Synthesize Completed Research Through Systematic Review
The evidence-based health care movement has generated new opportunity for scholars to generate synthesized sources of evidence. Systematic reviews are rigorous forms of synthesized evidence that scholars can conduct if they have requisite skills, time, and access to excellent library resources. Systematic reviews play an important role in synthesizing what is known and unknown about a particular health issue. Thus, they have a synergistic relationship with primary research. They can both inform clinical decisions when the evidence is adequate and identify gaps in knowledge to inform research priorities. Systematic reviews ...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Hopp, L., Rittenmeyer, L. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Embedding Research in Undergraduate Learning Opportunities
As a means of promoting scholarship, faculty are increasingly including undergraduate nursing students as team members in faculty-led research projects. Research involvement is a high-impact educational practice that enhances student engagement and retention rates and enables the reflection and integration of learning. The purpose of this article is to describe the benefits and innovative ways of directly involving undergraduate nursing students in faculty-guided research projects. Case examples from four non-research-intensive nursing programs are presented to illustrate the benefits of undergraduate student research invo...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Jansen, D. A., Jadack, R. A., Ayoola, A. B., Doornbos, M. M., Dunn, S. L., Moch, S. D., Moore, E. M., Wegner, G. D. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Conducting Research With Community Groups
This article presents case studies that demonstrate how CBPR principles guided the development of (a) a healthy body weight program for urban, underserved African American women; (b) a reproductive health educational intervention for urban, low-income, underserved, ethnically diverse women; and (c) a pilot anxiety/depression intervention for urban, low-income, underserved, ethnically diverse women. These case studies illustrate the potential of CBPR as an orientation to research that can be employed effectively in non-research-intensive academic environments. (Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research)
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Doornbos, M. M., Ayoola, A., Topp, R., Zandee, G. L. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Collaborating With Businesses to Support and Sustain Research
This article describes the steps and processes involved in successfully obtaining research funding from businesses. In addition, case examples for securing and maintaining funding from health care agencies (evidence-based practice services) and from a health manufacturing company (product evaluation) are used to demonstrate the process. (Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research)
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Moch, S. D., Jansen, D. A., Jadack, R. A., Page, P., Topp, R. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Secondary Data Analysis as an Efficient and Effective Approach to Nursing Research
Meeting the expectation for scholarly productivity can be challenging for nursing faculty, especially in the absence of grant or other funding. Secondary data analysis is one strategy to address this challenge. The use of existing data to test new hypotheses or answer new research questions has several advantages. It typically takes less time and resources, is low risk to participants, and allows access to large data sets and longitudinal data. Despite these advantages, limitations do exist, including a lack of knowledge of the existence of rich data sets and how to obtain and evaluate the contents, insufficient or outdate...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Dunn, S. L., Arslanian-Engoren, C., DeKoekkoek, T., Jadack, R., Scott, L. D. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Using the Electronic Health Record in Nursing Research: Challenges and Opportunities
Changes in the patient record from the paper to the electronic health record format present challenges and opportunities for the nurse researcher. Current use of data from the electronic health record is in a state of flux. Novel data analytic techniques and massive data sets provide new opportunities for nursing science. Realization of a strong electronic data output future relies on meeting challenges of system use and operability, data presentation, and privacy. Nurse researchers need to rethink aspects of proposal development. Joining ongoing national efforts aimed at creating usable data output is encouraged as a mean...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Samuels, J. G., McGrath, R. J., Fetzer, S. J., Mittal, P., Bourgoine, D. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Twitter and Health Science Research
Twitter is a communication platform that can be used to conduct health science research, but a full understanding of its use remains unclear. The purpose of this narrative literature review was to examine how Twitter is currently being used to conduct research in the health sciences and to consider how it might be used in the future. A time-limited search of the health-related research was conducted, which resulted in 31 peer-reviewed articles for review. Information relating to how Twitter is being used to conduct research was extracted and categorized, and an explanatory narrative was developed. To date, Twitter is large...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Finfgeld-Connett, D. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Science on a Shoestring: Building Nursing Knowledge With Limited Funding
This article provides an overview of some cost-effective research approaches and gives suggestions for finding other sources of funding. Examples of more cost-effective research approaches include adding complementary questions to existing funded research projects; conducting primary analysis of electronic patient records and social media content; conducting secondary analysis of data from completed studies; reviewing and synthesizing previously completed research; implementing community-based participatory research; participating in collaborative research efforts such as inter-campus team research, practice-based research...
Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Conn, V. S., Topp, R., Dunn, S. L., Hopp, L., Jadack, R., Jansen, D. A., Jefferson, U. T., Moch, S. D. Tags: Special Issue Articles Source Type: research

Research Reconstructed: Strategies to Conduct Research With Limited Funding
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Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - September 8, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Conn, V. S. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Midwest Nursing Research Society News
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Source: Western Journal of Nursing Research - July 24, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Lach, H. W., Aaronson, L. S. Tags: Information Exchange Source Type: research