Western Journal of Nursing Research articles from June 1996

Western Journal of Nursing Research archives from June 1996

Caregiving and ethnicity.(Symposium: Criss-Cultural Family Caregiving)
June 1, 1996... In the United States, caregiving for frail elders became a legitimate research concern about 15 years ago when data began to show what home health and public health nurses had known all along - that providing care to frail elderly family...

Toward a cross-cultural perspective of family caregiving.(Symposium: Criss-Cultural Family Caregiving)
June 1, 1996... The exchange of support and services and the provision of nurturance, sustenance, and care for dependent relatives, including elders and children, is a universal family function (Leininger, 1981). Most studies of family caregiving, however,...

Toward a cross-cultural understanding of family caregiving burden.(Symposium: Criss-Cultural Family Caregiving)
June 1, 1996... Some experiences of family caregivers are probably similar across cultures. One of these is that caregiving is difficult and may be burdensome. However, whether caregiving burden-as conceptualized and measured among Anglos-is culturally...

The relevance of familism in cross-cultural studies of family caregiving.(Symposium: Criss-Cultural Family Caregiving)
June 1, 1996... Familism, the perceived strength of family bonds and sense of loyalty to family, undoubtedly relates to family members' propensity to provide care to elderly relatives. Familism also may relate to the quality of the care provided to elders,...

Uncovering the cultural context for quality of family caregiving for elders.(Symposium: Criss-Cultural Family Caregiving)
June 1, 1996... Quality of elder health care is a critical issue in gerontological nursing, and a body of nursing research has focused, both directly and indirectly, on the quality of care elders receive (e.g., Lang, Kraegel, Rantz, & Krejci, 1990). This...

Pregnancy and delivery practices and beliefs of Ethiopian immigrant women in Israel.
June 1, 1996... Since the 1980s, over 50,000 people have emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel (Israel Statistics Department, 1992). Most of these people are Falashas or Amhara Jews from rural Ethiopian villages where lifestyle and beliefs are more consistent...

A descriptive study of nurse managers and leadership.
June 1, 1996... Over the past 5 years, health care organizations have changed dramatically. Strategies such as reengineering, restructuring, vertical and horizontal integration, mergers, acquisitions, and rightsizing and downsizing have had a major impact on...

The relationship between education and ethical behavior of nursing students.
June 1, 1996... Under the influence of important changes within and outside health care, decision processes in care situations have become among the most difficult tasks of nurses. More than ever, taking personal responsibility for the care of a patient...

Ridit analysis on ordinal data.
June 1, 1996... In nursing, many phenomena are measured on an ordinal level. Despite the fact that the nature and restrictions of ordinal data are known to nurse researchers, the arithmetic mean is frequently encountered in nursing research to summarize...

Nurturing longitudinal samples.
June 1, 1996... Nurturing a longitudinal sample is an often slighted aspect of nursing research. Attrition of a study sample over the course of a longitudinal study is a serious obstacle to meaningful study outcomes. According to Haberlein and Baumgartner...

Using the Internet to enhance nursing knowledge and practice.
June 1, 1996... Nurses in all areas require access to current, comprehensive, high-quality information. Although most nurses use journals and textbooks with proficiency, the information that is uncovered is often limited in scope as well as timeliness. Yet,...