Journal of clinical nursing
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Comparative Study
The effects of giving pacifiers to premature infants and making them listen to lullabies on their transition period for total oral feeding and sucking success.
This research aimed to assess the effect of giving pacifiers to premature infants and making them listen to lullabies on the transition period to total oral feeding, their sucking success and their vital signs (peak heart rate, respiration rate and oxygen saturation). ⋯ Neonatal intensive care nurses can accelerate premature infants' transition to oral feeding and develop their sucking success by using the methods of giving them pacifiers and making them listen to lullabies during gavage feeding.
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Comparative Study
Association of distress symptoms and use of complementary medicine among patients with cancer.
The aim of this study was to investigate the association between distress symptoms and the types of complementary and alternative medicine use in patients with cancer. ⋯ Health care providers should ask their patients about their complementary and alternative medicine use to avoid possible adverse interactions between conventional treatment and complementary and alternative medicine interventions, in particular, those remedies that are likely to interact with cancer medications.
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Comparative Study
An evaluation of the effectiveness of relaxation therapy for patients receiving joint replacement surgery.
To examine the effect of relaxation therapy on reducing patient anxiety and pain before and after total joint replacement. ⋯ Clinical practice should include complementary relaxation therapy to alleviate pain and anxiety in patients with joint replacement.
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Comparative Study
Using narrative inquiry with older people to inform practice and service developments.
The aim of the study was to examine the usefulness of narratives of older peoples' hospitalisation experiences as a focus for informing practice and service developments. ⋯ Narrative inquiry is a valuable methodology for understanding older peoples' experiences of health care. Stories developed from older peoples' hospitalisation experiences are a useful basis for identifying aspects of practice that could be developed.
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The goal of this study was to describe how persons with fibromyalgia manage their lives given the multiple symptoms they experience, in particular how they use non-pharmacologic strategies, or how they incorporate these strategies along with pharmacologic agents. ⋯ Our findings suggest that nurses should discuss the self-management strategies found with persons who have fibromyalgia in the context of individual patient experiences.