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M J Craft

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Classification of nursing interventions for care of the integument.

The Classification of Nursing Interventions research team at The University of Iowa, College of Nursing is building a taxonomy of nursing interventions that will include all of the direct care treatment activities that nurses perform on behalf of patients. This report describes the study in which 12 nursing interventions and their associated activities for care of the integument were extracted from a large database and validated through a two-round Delphi survey. Using an adaptation of Fehring's model for determining diagnostic content validity of nursing diagnoses, a definition, critical activities, and supporting activities were developed for each of the following interventions: Bathing, Bedrest Care, Hair Care, Nail Care, Oral Health Maintenance, Oral Health Promotion, Oral Health Restoration, Positioning, Pressure Management, Skin Care--Topical Treatments, Skin Surveillance, and Wound Care. Further research is needed to validate supporting activities and to continue classifying interventions and activities that nurses use in treating impaired skin integrity (potential and actual) and altered oral mucous membrane integrity (potential and actual).

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Program characteristics influencing nurse selection of CE offerings.

The purpose of this study was to identify program characteristics that influence decision-making in the selection of continuing education (CE) offerings by registered nurses licensed in a state with mandatory CE. A sample of 238 nurses were asked to identify the level of importance for 35 CE program characteristics on a Likert-like scale. The data indicated that all characteristics were of some importance to participants, with high levels of importance given to items demonstrating professional values. The findings suggest that even though CE may be mandatory, nurses still select educational offerings on the basis of quality and contribution to their professional practice.

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Inductive methodology and a research team.

Large teams of researchers using inductive methodologies are relatively rare and present unique challenges to team members. A team from the University of Iowa reports on what it experienced during a project to develop a taxonomy of nursing interventions.

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Accurate assessment of infant emesis volume.

When infants vomit, hospital nurses sometimes record these volumes in ccs. Fluid replacement is often based on these estimates. A review of the literature indicates that this subjective assessment is highly problematic.

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Effects of child visitation in adult critical care units: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the behavioral and emotional responses of the child and of the nonhospitalized adult family member (NHAFM) to facilitated child visitation in the critical care setting. DESIGN: Quasi-experimental, posttreatment design. SETTING: An adult surgical intensive care unit at a large Midwestern teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Twenty families participated in the study, 10 families in a restricted and 10 families in a facilitated visitation group. Each family unit had a child, an NHAFM, and a critically ill family member. In the control group the NHAFMs visited the patient in the customary routine, but children were restricted from visiting. After a 2-week waiting period a facilitated child visitation intervention was implemented for the experimental group. OUTCOME MEASURES: The child completed measures on anxiety as measured by the Manifest Anxiety Scale and behavioral and emotional changes as measured by the Perceived Change Scale. The NHAFM completed measures on anxiety as measured by the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and mood as measured by the Mood Adjective Check List. Family functioning, as measured by the Feetham Family Functioning Survey, and life event changes, as measured by the Life Event Scale, were examined as extraneous variables. INTERVENTION: The Child Visitation Intervention encompassed systematic facilitation and supervision of children visiting a critically ill adult family member in a surgical intensive care unit and provision of emotional support before, during, and after visitation (the intervention protocol may be obtained from the investigators on request). RESULTS: Children in the facilitated visitation group had a greater reduction (t = 4.0, df = 18, p = 0.0004) in negative behavioral and emotional changes as measured by the Child-Perceived Change Scale when compared with children in the restricted visitation group. CONCLUSION: Facilitated child visitation may help children deal with the critical illness of an adult family member and deserves further study.

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