Introduction: Mental status examination is a significant phase in delivering nursing care as the basis to make diagnosis. In reality, a lot of nursing students still find it difficult to understand terminologies and structures in mental status assessment. Studies show that interactive multimedia may help students to understand real conditions of the patients which are difficult to visualize. Ho…
Preoperative anxiety is a challenging concept in the preoperative care of patients. Most patients who are about to undergo an elective surgery experience anxiety and it is widely accepted as an anticipated response. Postponement of elective surgical procedures causes significant emotional trauma in the patients as well as on their families and the community in general, and its impact on hospita…
The objective of the study is to understand the lived experiences of nursing students in selected clinical area through the Learning Feedback Diary. This research has utilized the qualitative research method of phenomenology to allow for an exploration of the student nurse's reflective interpretation of their clinical experience. The purpose of a phenomenological approach is to illuminate the s…
Introduction: The effectiveness of teaching and learning process is highly dependent on the methods and strategies of teaching and learning practices. As a result, nurse educator must choose and use the suitable method to help the nursing students to achieve the learning objective. Methodology: There were 218 respondents. This study consisted of two-group quasi experimental study with pre- and …
Background: Psycho-education is an integrated component of nursing; the impact of nursing psychoeducational model has been emphasized by several studies. Aim of this study was to apply psycho-education intervention for psychiatric/mental healthcare team. Design: Aquasi-experimental research design was carried out in this study to fulfill the research aim. Sample: The sample consisted of 30 psyc…
Background and objectves: Obesty s accepted as ndependent rsk factors for many dseases In this context, ths study was conducted to determne the prevalence of chronc physcal dseases n obese women. Methods: The sample of ths descrptve and cross-sectonally study conssted of 108 women patents who hosptalzed wth a chronc physcal dseases n a unversty's publc hosptal, BMI was 30≥ kg/m2, had a suffce…
Parent-child relationship is influenced by the role of social, cultural and contextual factors that determines child development. Drug addiction is very rampant in the society that involves both children and parents. This descriptive phenomenological study was conducted by utilizing10 informants who are children with drug addict parents. Informants were selected using snowball method who posses…
Astudy of the culture and environment of caring among older people care providers including the policies and its interplay in the process of delivering care was conducted to develop an older people care culture theory. This study utilized focused ethnography which involves generating data by observing participants and the structure of an older people health facility in their natural setting. Ad…
Trends for invasion site for coronary interventions are shifting from femoral to radial approach because of the advantageous effects. Assessment of pain associated with puncture site in both approaches (radial/femoral) is important. Purpose of this study is to find the difference in post procedural access site pain in patients undergoing coronary invasive procedures in trans-radial versus trans…
This study aims to understand the perceptions of Filipino's registered nurses about nursing in the past, present and in the future. Colaizzi's methodological approach to phenomenological inquiry was utilized in analyzing the data gathered from this study. The participants of the study are Filipino Registered Nurses who are residing or working either in Filipino or abroad. After significant stat…