Journal of advanced nursing
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Comparative Study
A comparative concept analysis of centring vs. opening meditation processes in health care.
To report an analysis and comparison of the concepts centring and opening meditation processes in health care. ⋯ Centring and opening are overlapping, yet distinct meditation processes. The term meditation cannot be used in a generic way in health care. The differences between centring and opening have important implications for the further development of unitary-transformative nursing theories.
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To explore moral distress in relatives doctors and nurses, in end-of-life care decision-making, in the adult intensive care unit. ⋯ This is the first time that moral distress is explored, in a case approach, among relatives, doctors, and nurses intimately involved in end-of-life decisions in intensive care. Dissemination of findings will make a large contribution to international knowledge and understanding in this area and alert healthcare professionals and relatives to an otherwise under-recognized, but potentially detrimental, experience. Findings will inform education, practice, and policy.
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This paper assessed the reliability and construct validity of the new version of a patient classification instrument. ⋯ The findings give the evidence that the new scale is a reliable and valid tool to assess patient care needs and care category and that it can be used to guide nursing management practice in determining the nursing staff workload.
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This paper is a report of the development and psychometric testing of the Swedish version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire to measure bodily focus of attention. ⋯ Our results indicate that the two models tested in this study do not provide a good fit to the observed data. Further refinement and testing of the Swedish version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire is therefore required. The concept of body awareness may be useful in the management of chronic disease and can be addressed in nursing.
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Editorial Comparative Study
A citation analysis of nurse education journals using various bibliometric indicators.