Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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To explore the reasoning strategies and criteria for clinical decision making used by Iranian critical care nurses. ⋯ Deeper understanding of how nurses make decisions in the stressful environment of the critical care units provide useful information to facilitate making more efficient decisions as well as promoting the outcomes of independent and collaborative nursing care interventions.
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Exploring factors associated with the incidence of sexual harassment of hospital nurses by patients.
To identify factors affecting nurse-perceived sexual harassment and specific types of patient sexual behavior experienced by Japanese nurses. ⋯ Establishing a safer working environment could enable nurses to provide better care for patients and thereby promote the development of good relationships between nurses and patients.
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The purpose of the study was to explore nurses' perceptions of barriers and facilitators to adoption of an electronic health record (EHR) in a rural Midwestern hospital. ⋯ Understanding and management of facilitators and barriers to EHR adoption may impact nurses' ability to provide and document nursing care.
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Heart failure is an increasing global health problem which adversely affects all aspects of a patient's health-related quality of life (HRQOL). ⋯ A comprehensive symptom management and prevention program that includes the described health outcome measures could lead to improved HRQOL for Thai heart-failure patients, and perhaps others.