Battered women: a health care problem in disguise.
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V K Drake
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Crib sheets or security blankets?
This article describes the sanctioned use of crib sheets as a nursing intervention to decrease test anxiety when the classroom is the practice setting for psychiatric/mental health nursing faculty. The products that the students created offered additional unsuspected benefits. The faculty were convinced that the use of crib sheets can be a sound intervention to reduce students' test-taking anxiety.
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Process, perils, and pitfalls of research in prison.
Correctional facilities are fertile fields for conducting nursing research and are virtually untapped by nurse researchers. Colleagues inclined to do research in correctional facilities can make significant contributions to nursing literature. This article focuses on the process, perils, and pitfalls of research in penitentiaries. Prison populations are overlooked and largely ignored by the nursing profession. Historically, nurses have ministered to underserved populations. Incarcerated individuals meet the criteria for underserved and understudied groups. Physical and psychosocial health care problems are abundant and beg to be studied. Administrative officials and inmates were cooperative and demonstrated a willingness to contribute to research. Participation proved to be therapeutic to the inmates and was a mutually rewarding experience for this researcher.
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Mandatory reporting of abuse: practical, moral, and legal issues for psychiatric home healthcare nurses.
Psychiatric home healthcare nurses (PHHNs) work directly with clients and their families in the community and serve as consultants to other home health nurses when concerns of mental health arise. They must be able to identify areas of possible or actual family violence or abuse and intervene appropriately. They must be cognizant of the laws regarding abuse reporting in their states. Decisions to report abuse are practical and moral and, when combined with legal imperatives, create ethical dilemmas for healthcare professionals. Guidelines are presented to help PHHNs understand the complex issues associated with mandatory reporting of abuse.
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