Journal of advanced nursing
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This study describes three tacit definitions of informal caregiving and explores the extent to which differences in these tacit definitions explain variation in caregivers' negative mood over time. ⋯ Better understanding of caregivers' tacit definitions can facilitate and enhance effective support and interventions for caregivers.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Relaxation and music to reduce postsurgical pain.
We investigated the effects of relaxation, music, and the combination of relaxation and music on postoperative pain, across and between two days and two activities (ambulation and rest) and across ambulation each day. This secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial was conducted from 1995 to 1997. ⋯ Nurses can safely recommend any of these interventions for pain on both postoperative days and at both ambulation and rest.
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This methodological research developed and evaluated the moral distress scale from 1994 to 1997. ⋯ The results support the reliability and validity of the MDS.
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Critical ethnography is being adopted increasingly by nurses as a legitimate form of research methodology. This paper explores the research practices and dilemmas that emerge from this methodology using a recently completed ethnographic study of nurse-nurse and nurse-doctor interactions in a critical care hospital setting. ⋯ In working with critical ethnography using a poststructural analysis, we were able to generate valuable insights about previously hidden areas of relationships among nurse participants in a research group during all stages of the research process. It also provided a means of informing the analysis of ethnographic texts.