Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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This purpose of this article is to frame firearm violence as a health and public health problem, to illustrate the magnitude of the problem, to examine factors that increase the risk to be injured by a firearm, or conversely, that confer protection, and to identify relevant priority areas for nursing science. ⋯ The goals of nursing are to keep people healthy and safe and to help return those injured to their optimal levels of health and well-being. Understanding the factors that come together to injure people with a firearm in various physical, social, economic, and cultural environments positions nurses to both extend the dialogue beyond pro-gun versus anti-gun and to design and carry out rigorous studies to reduce firearm violence.
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To explore nurse-family communication during and after family meetings. ⋯ Findings from this exploration of nurse communication during and after family meetings can inform how nurses may best assist families during surrogate decision making in the intensive care unit.
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To test whether communication mediated relationships among nurses' work environments and nurse outcomes of job satisfaction and intent to stay. ⋯ A potential solution to the nursing shortage in Jordan emerges by identifying communication with physicians as a mediator in the relationship between the work environment and selected nurse outcomes.
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The primary purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, job stress, cognition-based trust, and affect-based trust; the secondary purpose was to determine the effect of distributive justice, procedural justice, interactional justice, cognition-based trust, and affect-based trust on job stress in hospital organizations. ⋯ Reducing employees' job stress and improving their perceptions of organizational trust and organizational justice can improve their levels of cognition-based trust and affect-based trust regarding their managers. As the job stress of nurses decreases, the effectiveness of health services may increase as organizational trust and justice develop.
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Meta Analysis
The Relationship of Frailty and Hospitalization Among Older People: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis.
This research explored the relationship between the stages of frailty and risk for hospitalization in older adults and evaluated the risk for hospitalization among the elderly in relation to various frailty assessment indexes. ⋯ Professional nursing staff should use frailty indicators in a timely fashion to assess the status of frailty in older people and should effectively develop frailty prevention strategies to decrease the risk for hospitalization and to enhance quality of life for older adults.