Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe a substantive theory that details how adolescents manage living with a parent experiencing chronic noncancer pain (CNCP). Design: Grounded theory methods were used to recruit 30 young adults, ages 18 through 21 years, from community settings. Methods: During open-ended interviews, participants were asked to look back on their adolescence and t…
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a change in the oral care practices of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses for ventilated patients after a national effort to increase evidence-based oral care practices. Design: Descriptive comparison of ICU nurses in 2004–2005 and 2012. Method: Two convenience national surveys of ICU nurses were collected in 2004–2005 (n =…
Purpose: The purpose of the study was to identify the experiences of the grandparents who were taking care of orphan grandchildren in Botswana. Design: A descriptive qualitative design was used to interview 12 grandmothers 60 years and older in a semi-urban village in Botswana. Content analysis was used to analyze the data. Findings: The ages of the grandmothers interviewed ranged from 60 to 80…