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Does treating tobacco addiction in persons with mental illness compromise their quality of life?
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In contrast to overall declining smoking rates, the high rates among persons with mental illness remain unchanged. They consume 44% of purchased cigarettes and are heavier, more addicted smokers. Smoking is the most salient risk factor for their premature death, estimated at 25 years. Chemicals...
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Evaluation of the living with hope program for rural women caregivers of persons with advanced cancer.
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Hampton, M., Cooper, D., Holstlander, L., Ghosh, S., Williams, A., Duggleby, W., McLean, R. T., Hallstrom, L.
Background Hope has been identified as a key psychosocial resource among family caregivers to manage and deal with the caregiver experience. The Living with Hope Program is a self-administered intervention that consists of watching an international award winning Living with Hope film and...
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Family members providing home-based palliative care to older adults: The enactment of multiple roles
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Clemmer, S., Ward-Griffin, C., Forbes, D.
Canadians are experiencing increased life expectancy and chronic illness requiring end-of-life care. There is limited research on the multiple roles for family members providing home-based palliative care. Based on a larger ethnographic study of client-family-provider relationships in home-based...
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Healthcare Providers’ Knowledge of Disordered Sleep, Sleep Assessment Tools, and Nonpharmacological Sleep Interventions for Persons Living with Dementia: A National Survey.
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Jones, A., Crick, K., Wielandt, P., Brown, C. A., Wilson, D.
Alarge proportion of personswith dementiawill also experience disordered sleep. Disordered sleep in dementia is a common reason for institutionalization and affects cognition, fall risk, agitation, self-care ability, and overall health and quality of life.This report presents findings of a survey...
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Rapoport, J., Norris, C. M., Hamilton, S., Jacobs, P.
The purpose of this study was to compare the cost of a day spent in an intensive care unit and a day spent on a general nursing unit. A descriptive design was used, based on patient level data, to examine and compare unit costs per day for each of the ICU and non-ICU portions of a patient’s...
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International research capacity-building programs for nurses to study the drug phenomenon in Latin America: challenges and perspectives
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Caufield, Catherine, Olson, Joanne, Wright, Maria G.M., Gray, Genevieve
The First International Research Capacity-Building Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas is a result of a partnership between the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Faculty of Nursing in the...
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International research capacity-building programs for nurses to study the drug phenomenon in Latin America: Challenges and perspectives
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Olson, J., Wright, G., Gray, G., Caufield, C.
The First International Research Capacity-Building Program for Nurses to Study the Drug Phenomenon in the Americas is a result of a partnership between the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Faculty of Nursing in the...
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Living with grey: Role understandings between clinical nurse educators and advanced practice nurses.
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Professionalization efforts in nursing have opened up new opportunities for nurses to develop the roles in which they work. One of these roles is advanced nursing practice. However, the development of the advanced roles, with their aims of making an advanced contribution in education,...
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Merging social networking environments and formal learning environments to support and facilitate interprofessional instruction.
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Greidanus, Elaine, Carbonaro, Michael, King, Sharla, Drummond, Jane, Patterson, Steven
This study describes the redesign of an interprofessional team development course for health science students. A theoretical model is hypothesized as a framework for the redesign process, consisting of two themes: 1) the increasing trend among post-secondary students to participate in social...