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  • The Nonprofit Organization UniverseGo to chapter: The Nonprofit Organization Universe

    The Nonprofit Organization Universe

    Chapter

    This chapter provides an overview of the nonprofit organization in the United States, the main characteristics of nonprofit organizations, and the reality of the nonprofit sector today. It describes the differences between a nonprofit and a for-profit corporation. Nonprofit organizations have existed for many centuries, especially through religious groups or religious-based activities. The nongovernmental sector is growing throughout the world. Increasingly, these organizations are playing key roles in the economic and social contexts of their countries. Unlike private-sector organizations concerned primarily with making a profit, nonprofit organizations are focused on carrying out a specific public-service mission. Successful nonprofit organizations require substantial capability in key areas of management: developing strong boards of directors, recruiting and motivating talented staff and volunteers, creating plans to focus resources on relevant goals and innovative programs, winning the support of diverse stakeholders, raising funds, and wisely managing fiscal and human resources.

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    Financial Sustainability for Nonprofit Organizations
  • Service Delivery and Financial SustainabilityGo to chapter: Service Delivery and Financial Sustainability

    Service Delivery and Financial Sustainability

    Chapter

    This chapter discusses the term “service delivery” and describes a service delivery system in the context of a nonprofit organization. Servitization is the process whereby an organization develops creative and innovative ways to create a product-service system that integrates value-based products and service offerings. The chapter discusses the roles of client-centeredness, decision making, scheduling, priority setting, effective and efficient flow of services or activities, quality assurance, and continuing quality improvement, and how these factors contribute in their own context to influence positively or negatively the financial sustainability of a nonprofit organization. A customer-centric service design is a service delivery system that focuses on providing the best quality service possible to customers or clients or the service target, based on a service concept, a service decision path, service sustainability, and service quality. The chapter explains the relationship between service delivery and financial sustainability.

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    Financial Sustainability for Nonprofit Organizations
  • Vulnerable Populations: Ethical Issues in HIV CareGo to chapter: Vulnerable Populations: Ethical Issues in HIV Care

    Vulnerable Populations: Ethical Issues in HIV Care

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    This chapter focuses on women, who are HIV positive, from a global perspective. It illustrates more easily what makes groups of people, and in this case women, vulnerable and then consider vulnerability from a global health (GH) perspective using the chronic illness, HIV. The chapter presents some examples of situations that make women vulnerable to HIV and, once infected, vulnerable for life, and use a case-based approach to highlight women as a vulnerable population. It also focuses on the real ethical issues that occurred with each case, which one anticipate will help prepare the new GH nurse for practice in the global environment. The chapter demonstrates by using an exemplar of HIV-positive women, vulnerable populations exist both within and outside the United States. Reasons for vulnerability may include stigma, victimization, mental illness, migration, limited access to needed health care or food, or substance use.

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    Global Health Nursing in the 21st Century
  • Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents of Divorced ParentsGo to chapter: Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents of Divorced Parents

    Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents of Divorced Parents

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    Divorce is a lengthy developmental process and, in the case of children and adolescents, one that can encompass most of their young lives. This chapter explores the experience of divorce from the perspective of the children, reviews the evidence base and empirical support for interventions. It provides examples of three evidence-based intervention programs, namely, Children in Between, Children of Divorce Intervention Program (CODIP), and New Beginnings, appropriate for use with children, adolescents, and their parents. Promoting protective factors and limiting risk factors during childhood and adolescence can prevent many mental, emotional, and behavioral problems and disorders during those years and into adulthood. The Children in Between program is listed on the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices. The CODIP and the New Beginnings program are also listed on the SAMHSA National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.

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    Handbook of Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents
  • Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Skill Deficits in Children and AdolescentsGo to chapter: Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Skill Deficits in Children and Adolescents

    Evidence-Based Interventions for Social Skill Deficits in Children and Adolescents

    Chapter

    Children and youth with serious emotional, behavioral, and social difficulties present challenges for teachers, parents, and peers. Youth who are at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) are particularly vulnerable in the areas of peer and adult social relationships. The emphasis on meeting academic standards and outcomes for children and youth in schools has unfortunately pushed the topic of social-emotional development to the proverbial back burner. This chapter emphasizes that social skills might be considered academic enablers because these positive social behaviors predict short-term and long-term academic achievement. Evidence-based practices are employed with the goal of preventing or ameliorating the effects of disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) in children and youth. An important distinction in designing and delivering social skills interventions (SSI) is differentiating between different types of social skills deficits. Social skills deficits may be either acquisition deficits or performance deficits.

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    Handbook of Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents
  • Evidence-Based Interventions for Eating Disorders in Children and AdolescentsGo to chapter: Evidence-Based Interventions for Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents

    Evidence-Based Interventions for Eating Disorders in Children and Adolescents

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    Eating disorders (EDs) are a complex and comparatively dangerous set of mental disorders that deeply affect the quality of life and well-being of the child or adolescent who is struggling with this problem as well as those who love and care for him or her. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) outlines specific criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), and other specified feeding or ED. Treatment of eating disordered behavior typically involves a three-facet approach: medical assessment and monitoring, nutritional counseling, and psychological and behavioral treatment. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) are also evidence-based approaches to treatment for AN. The treatment of EDs should be viewed as a team effort that integrates medical, nutritional, and mental health service providers.

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    Handbook of Evidence-Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents
  • Prevention, Genetic Testing, and Treatment of Genetic DiseaseGo to chapter: Prevention, Genetic Testing, and Treatment of Genetic Disease

    Prevention, Genetic Testing, and Treatment of Genetic Disease

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    This chapter reviews prevention, including genetic counseling. It discusses genetic testing for diagnosis as opposed to screening and the treatment for genetic disease. Methods of prevention begin with education of the public and health care professionals and identification of those at risk. Genetic counseling is the process of helping people understand and adapt to the medical, psychological, and familial implications of genetic contributions to disease. The malignant cells often exhibit aneuploidy as well as translocations that are found only within the tumor cells. Genetic errors that arise from specific cell lines are somatic mutations. It is suggested that there is a thorough collection of family, genetic, and medical history for children entering the adoption process. Nurses may play a variety of roles in genetic counseling that reflect their preparation, area of practice, primary functions, and setting. The chapter explains the incidence of chromosome abnormalities.

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    Lashley’s Essentials of Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice
  • Gender Identity DevelopmentGo to chapter: Gender Identity Development

    Gender Identity Development

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    An individual’s identity development, including his or her preferred gender identity, is a lifelong process, which starts with the earliest interactions with the world. The concepts of gender identity have been explored, studied, debated, and discussed for decades and are currently going through a resurgence of examination, especially in Western cultures. This chapter provides an overview of gender identity development, beginning with an explanation of terms, followed by an exploration of theoretical perspectives which includes cognitive developmental theory, social learning theory, gender schema theory and feminist theory. Topics include current research and perspectives on how gender identity evolves in children and recent shifts in understanding atypical gender identities, including transgender, gender neutral, and gender fluid identification. Finally, implications and strategies for mental health professionals are discussed, especially related to counseling those who are experiencing conflict or distress surrounding issues of gender and gender identity.

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    Counseling Women Across the Life Span: Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention
  • Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in NursingGo to chapter: Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing

    Next Steps Toward Practice Knowledge Development: An Emerging Epistemology in Nursing

    Chapter

    This chapter focuses on introductory arguments about the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) student and graduate’s clinical scholarship, a future practice-oriented nursing epistemology. It explores a model of scientific inquiry and stewardship for the nursing discipline through the development of a body of practice-oriented nursing knowledge to improve health. There is a very strong case to be made that the “good science” evolving from the DNP programs where nursing epistemology and practice knowledge development is valued is indeed being conducted within the framework of a Mode 2 knowledge production paradigm. Finally, there is an operational concern for how practice knowledge is made formal within the academy before it is then further synthesized, reduced, and disseminated in journal format and oral presentation. Practice knowledge generation only needs rigor, proper mentoring, an inquiring mind, and some creativity.

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    Philosophy of Science for Nursing Practice: Concepts and Applications
  • Enhancing Training Through CollaborationGo to chapter: Enhancing Training Through Collaboration

    Enhancing Training Through Collaboration

    Chapter

    This chapter explores how practicum training may be enhanced through effective collaboration between trainers and field supervisors. Successful practicum training requires strong collaboration between the trainee’s university or institution and the supervising field psychologist. Successful collaboration between the university and field site includes consideration of site development and maintenance, effective communication, and training and support across settings. Field placement and coordination play a critical role in the training of school psychologists. The individual fulfilling this role may be recognized with a variety of formal titles, such as field placement coordinator, clinical professor, or director of clinical training (DCT). One of the primary responsibilities of the DCT is the coordination and supervision of practica-related activities, including the placement of candidates in appropriate training sites. The chapter focuses on how supervisors can address trainee problems of professional competence, develop and use remediation plans successfully, and help trainees balance fieldwork with coursework.

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    Supervising the School Psychology Practicum: A Guide for Field and University Supervisors
  • Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Go to book: Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology

    Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology:
    Bridging Theory and Application

    Book

    This book integrates theory and practice, and addresses the key principles of sport, exercise, and performance psychology. It reflects the broadening of sport psychology studies to encompass more widespread human performance research. Chapters address such essential concepts as the key principles of sport, exercise, and performance psychology, individual differences, identity development, individual differences associated with personality, motivation, self-efficacy, stress and coping, injury, decision making, job opportunities, and burnout in the context of human performance. Motivation is likely one of the most critical variables in determining one’s behaviors and ultimate success because it impels them to act or sit still. Self-efficacy is said to influence whether people are optimistic or pessimistic, the goals they select, and their willingness to persist in the face of failure. Stressors fall into one of three possible categories-bioecological, psychointrapersonal, and/or social. Bringing these topics to life are companion “Applying the Concepts” chapters demonstrating how these principles are directly applied in real-life situations. The text focuses on the core theories underpinning sport psychology. Interviews with researchers, coaches, athletes, and other individuals from performance-intensive professions vividly reinforce the book’s content. Additionally, the book contains insights on theories and research findings that students can apply to their own experience.

  • Decision MakingGo to chapter: Decision Making

    Decision Making

    Chapter

    This chapter addresses the key principles of sport, exercise, and performance psychology. It reflects the broadening of sport psychology studies to encompass more widespread human performance research. The topic of decision making has been covered in psychology, economics, and motor learning but addressed very sparsely in sport, exercise, and performance psychology. Rational decision making requires defining the problem, identifying criteria, weighing those criteria, generating alternative solutions, and ultimately computing the optimal decision. The chapter introduces the literature on decision making and provides examples of factors that influence the choices people make. The decision to act, move, or what move to make is decided in the response selection stage, and the final stage is when one’s brain and muscles are organized to make the actual move. The key to improve the decision-making over time is to increase personal awareness of own limitations and keep learning and collecting information from reliable sources.

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    Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology: Bridging Theory and Application
  • Acquired Brain Injury in ChildrenGo to chapter: Acquired Brain Injury in Children

    Acquired Brain Injury in Children

    Chapter

    Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes two injury types: primary and secondary. In infants and young children, nonaccidental TBI is an important etiology of brain injury and is commonly a repetitive insult. TBI is by far the most common cause of acquired brain injury (ABI) in children and is the most common cause of death in cases of childhood injury. In 2009, the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) issued validated prediction rules to identify children at very low risk of clinically important TBI, which is defined as TBI requiring neurosurgical intervention or leading to death. The range of outcomes in pediatric TBI is very broad, from full recovery to severe physical and/or intellectual disabilities. Children and adolescents who have suffered a TBI are at increased risk of social dysfunction. Studies show that these patients can have poor self-esteem, loneliness, maladjustment, reduced emotional control, and aggressive or antisocial behavior.

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    Acquired Brain Injury: Clinical Essentials for Neurotrauma and Rehabilitation Professionals
  • Writing Behavioral ObjectivesGo to chapter: Writing Behavioral Objectives

    Writing Behavioral Objectives

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    Objectives have been used for decades in nursing education to set the stage for what is expected of students and to guide faculty in planning teaching and assessment. However, nursing education is evolving and the timeworn practices used to write objectives must evolve as well. This chapter focuses on how to write broad behavioral objectives to support learning in a constructivist, learner-centered online environment to guide teaching and learning that are in step with today’s innovations in education and that follow the call for radical transformation in nursing education. Objectives focused on the desired learning outcomes or intended behavior changes, termed performance. The psychomotor domain is the skills domain in the narrow sense of the word, in that this domain provides a means of identifying outcomes that involve fine, manual, and gross motor movements.

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    Designing and Teaching Online Courses in Nursing
  • Collecting Life HistoriesGo to chapter: Collecting Life Histories

    Collecting Life Histories

    Chapter

    This chapter provides a guide to conducting a life history from conceptualization to dissemination. Life history is used to explain an individual’s understanding of social events, movements, and political causes, that is, how individual members of groups or institutions see certain events and how they experience and interpret those events. As it is unlikely that nurses will be conducting traditional fieldwork to gather life histories because of the extensive periods of time involved, the chapter describes the process for collecting focused life histories by researchers whose only purpose is to document the story of the participant and not to frame this life history within a broader ethnography. It considers life history as a sociocultural methodology and leave oral history on historical research and life review to the one on clinical literature.

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    Nursing Research Using Life History: Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing
  • State of the Art in Nursing Research Using EthnographyGo to chapter: State of the Art in Nursing Research Using Ethnography

    State of the Art in Nursing Research Using Ethnography

    Chapter

    This chapter presents an overview of the state of the art ethnographies conducted by nurses and highlights a few works by the early generation. An extensive search of the literature was conducted to identify ethnographies completed by nurses. Nursing knowledge was a common thread throughout the literature reviewed. The literature review revealed the progress nursing is making in recognizing this gap and attempting to close it. Nursing knowledge is essential in patient care. Using the ethnographic method of inquiry, nurses have been able to identify areas of need both in knowledge and practice and make recommendations for enhanced practice. Caring and patient advocacy were other common themes in the literature. Caring is the essence of nursing and consequently should be incorporated in nursing research. The common purpose of the ethnographic studies reviewed was to explain or understand a phenomenon to increase nursing knowledge.

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    Nursing Research Using Ethnography: Qualitative Designs and Methods in Nursing
  • Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care, 3rd Edition Go to book: Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care

    Teaching Cultural Competence in Nursing and Health Care, 3rd Edition:
    Inquiry, Action, and Innovation

    Book

    Preparing nurses and other health professionals to provide quality health care in the increasingly multicultural and global society of the 21st century requires a comprehensive approach that emphasizes cultural competence education throughout professional education and professional life. The ideas and suggestions presented in this book are offered to stimulate new ideas and invite health professionals to explore new paths on the journey to developing cultural competence in themselves and in others. The book is divided into five parts. Part I is composed of three chapters filled with resources to help educators begin teaching cultural competence. Essential background information about the multidimensional process of teaching cultural competence offers a valuable guide for educators at all levels who are planning, implementing, and evaluating cultural competence education. Educators and researchers are continually challenged to measure outcomes following educational interventions. Part II addresses this challenge by introducing several quantitative questionnaires and assessment tools and discussing implementation and data interpretation strategies in a detailed, user-friendly approach that can be easily adapted by novice and advanced researchers. The tools include Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool (TSET) and Clinical Setting Assessment Tool-Diversity and Disparity (CSAT-DD). Parts III, IV, and V offer a wide selection of educational activities that can easily be applied by educators everywhere. Three chapters provide a general overview and a menu of activities for use in three areas: the academic setting, the health care institution, and professional associations. Five chapters creatively link strategies via detailed case exemplars that spotlight various populations and settings. The book’s final chapter presents important implications for educators everywhere.

  • Global Health Nursing in Clinical PracticeGo to chapter: Global Health Nursing in Clinical Practice

    Global Health Nursing in Clinical Practice

    Chapter
    Source:
    Global Health Nursing: Narratives From the Field
  • A Nurse’s ConflictGo to chapter: A Nurse’s Conflict

    A Nurse’s Conflict

    Chapter

    In this chapter, the author began working in international medical humanitarian aid, with an organization called Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders (MSF). Pediatrics and Pediatric Intensive Care are where the author’s nursing career had started. With assignments in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, and South Sudan, the author have provided care for people who have been displaced due to conflict, victims of war trauma, women with high-risk pregnancies, malnourished and critically ill children, and people with HIV and tuberculosis, and responded to outbreaks of preventable illnesses such as measles and cholera. MSF opened the Sibut project, with a focus on providing care for young children and women of child-bearing age. The security system includes daily contact with all of the village leaders in Sibut, including the Catholic priests, the imams at the Muslim mosque, the village elders, and the militia leaders.

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    Global Health Nursing: Narratives From the Field
  • Therapeutic CommunicationGo to chapter: Therapeutic Communication

    Therapeutic Communication

    Chapter

    The author worked in a public health research lab, after graduation from college. She liked the flexibility of nursing and the promise to always have a job. She was fascinated by the intricacy of the mind-body intersection and how horribly wrong things could get with seemingly small perturbations. She felt that nursing school discouraged any consideration of a career in psychiatric nursing, as a mentor shared a comment by one of her advisors years ago that “only the bad nurses go into psychiatry”. A common occurrence was the admission of patients with psychiatric needs in addition to medical comorbidities. She cared for patients who had anxiety as a consequence of hospitalization, depression due to chronic illness, persons suffering from acute delirium, as well as someone with dementia secondary to HIV. Later she accepted a job at a local community health center that serves a predominance of Latino immigrants.

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    Global Health Nursing: Narratives From the Field
  • Culture ChangeGo to chapter: Culture Change

    Culture Change

    Chapter

    Today’s culture change movement is the result of an effort to change the impersonal nature of the nursing home environment and the “institutionalization” of individuals who reside in this setting. This chapter describes signs of “institutionalization” and explains the risks associated with individuals becoming institutionalized. It identifies similarities between institutional life and homelessness and describes core elements of culture change. The chapter reviews positive outcomes associated with culture change and describes the four stages of culture change. The stages of culture change are: the institutional model, the transformational model, the neighborhood model, and the household model. The chapter also describes the actions nurses can take to support culture change. Heightened interest in creating a different style of nursing home life is driving a transformation in this setting. Nurses need to be actively engaged in this process to ensure that change occurs thoughtfully and is based on sound evidence.

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    Fast Facts for the Long-Term Care Nurse: What Nursing Home and Assisted Living Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell
  • The Minimum Data Set (MDS)Go to chapter: The Minimum Data Set (MDS)

    The Minimum Data Set (MDS)

    Chapter

    The Minimum Data Set (MDS) provides a uniform approach to conducting a comprehensive assessment that is recorded on a standardized tool. This chapter identifies the times when an MDS assessment must be completed. A registered nurse (RN) must conduct or coordinate the assessment with the input of other health team members and the resident. Upon completion, the MDS is electronically transmitted to the quality improvement evaluation system assessment submission and processing system designated by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The MDS offers a standardized approach for collecting assessment data. The chapter describes the data that are collected in the MDS assessment tool and explains the Care Areas and their purpose. It also describes the time period for which MDS assessments must be maintained by the nursing home.

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    Fast Facts for the Long-Term Care Nurse: What Nursing Home and Assisted Living Nurses Need to Know in a Nutshell
  • Losses and GriefGo to chapter: Losses and Grief

    Losses and Grief

    Chapter

    Grief is the process that occurs before people come to acceptance. It can be a painful experience involving many different feelings. Losses includes health issues, loss of a career, loss of relationships, an unborn child, and/orability or desire to have children. Experiencing loss and grieving may include physical, emotional, social, and spiritual responses. Grieving is essential for coming to terms with and processing the trauma and resultant losses. Trauma and its accompanying sense of loss may result in a terrible sense of disappointment and failure. Working with mental health professionals and other survivors can be extremely helpful in working through the grieving process. The grieving process involves acknowledgment and acceptance of loss. Psychotherapy is a process of “re-parenting” the inner child who may have had less than ideal caretaking. The neural connections in the brain can heal and change with new experiences.

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    Warrior Renew: Healing From Military Sexual Trauma
  • ACT-AS-IF and ARCHITECTS Approaches to EMDR Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)Go to chapter: ACT-AS-IF and ARCHITECTS Approaches to EMDR Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

    ACT-AS-IF and ARCHITECTS Approaches to EMDR Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

    Chapter

    This chapter describes key steps, with scripts, for the phases of therapy with a dissociative identity disorder (DID) client, and for an eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) session with a DID client. In brief, the method employs the artful use of EMDR and ego state therapy for association and acceleration, and of hypnosis, imagery, and ego state therapy for distancing and deceleration within the context of a trusting therapeutic relationship. It is also endeavoring to stay close to the treatment guidelines as promulgated by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. The acronym ACT-AS-IF describes the phases of therapy; the acronym ARCHITECTS describes the steps in an EMDR intervention. Dual attention awareness is key in part because it keeps the ventral vagal nervous system engaged sufficiently to empower the client to sustain the painful processing of dorsal vagal states and sympathetic arousal states.

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    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special Populations
  • EMDR and Phantom Pain Research ProtocolGo to chapter: EMDR and Phantom Pain Research Protocol

    EMDR and Phantom Pain Research Protocol

    Chapter

    The important elements of the Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Phantom Pain Research Protocol are client history taking and relationship building, targeting the trauma of the experience, and targeting the pain. This protocol is set up to follow the eight phases of the 11-Step Standard Procedure. This chapter presents a case series with phantom limb patients obtained a few before and after EMDR magnetoencephalograms (MEGs) at the University of Tübingen, Germany on arm amputees that show the presence of phantom limb pain (PLP) in the brain images before EMDR and the absence of it after EMDR. In these case series, it is found that PLP in leg amputations is much easier to treat than arm amputations, likely due to the much more extensive and complex arm and hand representation in the sensory-motor cortex compared to the leg and foot representation.

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    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Special Populations
  • CARES Tool: Organization and ConsiderationsGo to chapter: CARES Tool: Organization and Considerations

    CARES Tool: Organization and Considerations

    Chapter

    The CARES tool, in addition to assisting nurses with delivery of evidence-based care of the dying and viewing the care of the dying as an acute event, also needed to be portable and readily accessible. An extensive review of the literature found the most basic common needs of the dying included pain management and comfort measures, breathing assistance, control of delirium, emotional and spiritual support, and self-care for caregivers. This chapter discusses some issues: Nurses receive little to no education on care of the dying and feel they have minimal time to attend in-services, and can be resistant to learning new skills; communication is the foundation for end-of-life care; the nurses’ past personal and professional experiences with death can greatly impact the care they provide dying patients and their families. These issues and concerns helped organize and shape the final version of the CARES tool.

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    Compassionate Person-Centered Care for the Dying: An Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide for Nurses
  • Translating Current Literature Into Evidence-Based Practice: The Role of the DNPGo to chapter: Translating Current Literature Into Evidence-Based Practice: The Role of the DNP

    Translating Current Literature Into Evidence-Based Practice: The Role of the DNP

    Chapter

    Embracing the role of a nurse practitioner with a doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) requires taking on the additional challenge of acting as an effective change agent. A DNP’s primary role is to act as a bridge between research and the bedside nurse. A strong clinical background assists in translating research findings into realistic evidence-based practices that nurses can readily incorporate into their daily routines. Nurses needed to learn what resources were available to meet the specific needs of the dying and how to promote a peaceful death. The CARES tool attempts to give some sense of order and structure to the care of the dying. The CARES tool is based on the immense educational resources provided by experts from the End-of-Life National Education Consortium (ELNEC), the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, and from evidence-based literature reviews.

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    Compassionate Person-Centered Care for the Dying: An Evidence-Based Palliative Care Guide for Nurses
  • Restorative Justice as a Social MovementGo to chapter: Restorative Justice as a Social Movement

    Restorative Justice as a Social Movement

    Chapter

    This chapter presents an overview of the restorative justice movement in the twenty-first century. Restorative justice, on the other hand, offers a very different way of understanding and responding to crime. Instead of viewing the state as the primary victim of criminal acts and placing victims, offenders, and the community in passive roles, restorative justice recognizes crime as being directed against individual people. The values of restorative justice are also deeply rooted in the ancient principles of Judeo-Christian culture. A small and scattered group of community activists, justice system personnel, and a few scholars began to advocate, often independently of each other, for the implementation of restorative justice principles and a practice called victim-offender reconciliation (VORP) during the mid to late 1970s. Some proponents are hopeful that a restorative justice framework can be used to foster systemic change. Facilitation of restorative justice dialogues rests on the use of humanistic mediation.

    Source:
    Restorative Justice Dialogue: An Essential Guide for Research and Practice
  • Emerging Areas of PracticeGo to chapter: Emerging Areas of Practice

    Emerging Areas of Practice

    Chapter

    This chapter describes some of the recent restorative justice innovations and research that substantiates their usefulness. It explores developments in the conceptualization of restorative justice based on emergence of new practices and reasons for the effectiveness of restorative justice as a movement and restorative dialogue as application. Chaos theory offers a better way to view the coincidental timeliness of the emergence of restorative justice as a deeper way of dealing with human conflict. The chapter reviews restorative justice practices that have opened up areas for future growth. Those practices include the use of restorative practices for student misconduct in institutions of higher education, the establishment of surrogate dialogue programs in prison settings between unrelated crime victims and offenders. They also include the creation of restorative justice initiatives for domestic violence and the development of methods for engagement between crime victims and members of defense teams who represent the accused offender.

    Source:
    Restorative Justice Dialogue: An Essential Guide for Research and Practice
  • Case Study 2Go to chapter: Case Study 2

    Case Study 2

    Chapter
    Source:
    Care of the Obese in Advanced Practice Nursing: Communication, Assessment, and Treatment
  • Recovering the Lost Art of NursingGo to chapter: Recovering the Lost Art of Nursing

    Recovering the Lost Art of Nursing

    Chapter

    Nursing practice is a symbiotic relationship between the art and science of professional care. One cannot exist in isolation from the other. Nurses are inclined to connect the art of nursing with terms such as compassion, caring attitudes, the therapeutic relationship, presence, professionalism, advocacy, and competence, otherwise known as the “soft or caring side of nursing”. The greatest threat to the disappearance of the art of nursing lies with the perceived “big three”: time, fiscal restraint, and failure of the system to support a full staff of nurses, so those employed are working at full capacity. It is important to recognize that different practice settings have varying needs. One size does not fit all. Yet the requirements for nursing assessments, developing a plan of care, coordinating care with other health care providers, implementing interventions, and evaluating care outcomes are a requirement of all.

    Source:
    Fast Facts for the Clinical Nurse Manager: Managing a Changing Workplace in a Nutshell
  • The Emerging Market for Nonprofit Control: Business Model ImplicationsGo to chapter: The Emerging Market for Nonprofit Control: Business Model Implications

    The Emerging Market for Nonprofit Control: Business Model Implications

    Chapter

    This chapter discusses both successes and failures in affiliation and collaboration techniques among nonprofits, including details on what the parties involved found to be the most valuable or most problematic aspects of the affiliations. It explores an overview of what has been and is versus what could be in the business models for both the nonprofit and the for-profit sectors, with the aim of shaking things up in the nonprofit world’s business-as-usual model. Clearly, a new business model is needed for the new paradigm, one that enables nonprofit organizations to adapt to the industry’s greater demands and the emerging market for corporate control without sacrificing core values. Capitalizing on the opportunities presented by the new human service paradigm will require nonprofit providers to adopt a new business model that is both capable of pursuing traditional consolidation strategies and supported by innovative organizational and financial designs.

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    Partnerships for Health and Human Service Nonprofits: From Collaborations to Mergers
  • Administrative Consolidations, Administrative Services Organizations, and Joint ProgrammingGo to chapter: Administrative Consolidations, Administrative Services Organizations, and Joint Programming

    Administrative Consolidations, Administrative Services Organizations, and Joint Programming

    Chapter

    This chapter focuses on a series of case studies and best practices for partnerships that discuss in detail the provision of back-office support for nonprofit partners. Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC) is a nonprofit public health institute that creates and sustains healthier communities using best practices to improve community health through direct service, partnership, innovation, policy, research, technical assistance, and a prepared work force. Traditional back-office services are usually designed to address many of the challenges of today’s changing nonprofit environment. Services depend on the level of organizational need and affordability, but are usually identified through a comprehensive organizational assessment of the nonprofit client. The Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC) is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that was founded in 1969 following a historic meeting between the city’s business and community leaders. Most nonprofits never rise to the scale of having a full internal administrative staff and purchased equipment.

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    Partnerships for Health and Human Service Nonprofits: From Collaborations to Mergers
  • Merger Case StudiesGo to chapter: Merger Case Studies

    Merger Case Studies

    Chapter

    For nonprofit agencies, there are generally two ways of growing: organically, which takes longer and is more detailed, or through strategic partnerships with other nonprofits. This chapter focuses on a wide range of strategic partnerships. Few nonprofits in the sector, other than hospitals and insurers, enter into strategic partnerships, and far fewer merge or affiliate with other nonprofits. The Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC), however, is one of the rare nonprofit health and human service organizations that has been engaged in mergers and affiliations in the past 20 years. Environmental factors such as increased organizational competition or decreased foundation or donor funding encourage nonprofits to contemplate mergers. Nonprofit mergers provide a variety of benefits including the opportunity for expanded social impact. Merged nonprofits can roll together annual audits, combine insurance programs, and consolidate staffs and boards. Mergers and affiliations are one way that organizations are attempting to temper competition.

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    Partnerships for Health and Human Service Nonprofits: From Collaborations to Mergers
  • Moving Past Traditional Nursing Research Program Barriers Toward SuccessGo to chapter: Moving Past Traditional Nursing Research Program Barriers Toward Success

    Moving Past Traditional Nursing Research Program Barriers Toward Success

    Chapter

    This chapter provides examples of programs and services beyond the foundational elements and global resources that can be used to overcome traditional nursing research barriers. It is assumed that at least one doctorate-prepared nurse researcher is available to facilitate research opportunities and educate nurses about research and evidence-based practice. Many clinical nurses fully understand their clinical roles but are completely unaware of opportunities and resources in nursing research within their hospital. Since contributions of nursing research are vital to the science and art of nursing and provide foundation for evidence-based practices, it is important to overcome the traditional cluster of barriers that include problems with nursing research visibility/priority, time and money, and research education. Nurses need confirmation that nurse leaders support research; when it is visible, it is valued. Moreover, nurses need time, education, and resources to complete rigorous research that leads to discoveries and answers to important clinical problems.

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    Building and Sustaining a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Program
  • Disseminating ResearchGo to chapter: Disseminating Research

    Disseminating Research

    Chapter

    This chapter addresses the need for dissemination of research and focuses on dissemination both inside the hospital organization and outside. Disseminating results of research is often the most exciting phase of the process, as it is the culmination and highlight of countless hours of work. Common areas for dissemination internally include presentations to colleagues on people’s unit, as well as across hospital organization. Internal presentations offer a direct way for people to provide new evidence for practice in their hospital organization. In addition, however, it is important that results of their research reach nurses and other health professionals nationally and internationally. Thus, people want to participate in media dissemination of their research, systematically look for calls for abstracts to present at professional conferences, and disseminate their research through professional publications. Disseminating results, whether internally or externally, by media, poster, oral presentation, or publication, requires effort and attention to detail.

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    Building and Sustaining a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Program
  • When the Unthinkable Happens: A Mindfulness Approach to Perinatal and Pediatric DeathGo to chapter: When the Unthinkable Happens: A Mindfulness Approach to Perinatal and Pediatric Death

    When the Unthinkable Happens: A Mindfulness Approach to Perinatal and Pediatric Death

    Chapter

    This chapter explores traumatic grief and loss and discusses various treatments for it. It focuses on mindfulness-based interventions for specific use in traumatic grief with bereaved parents. Traumatic grief appears relatively responsive to the psychosocial approach, particularly when it includes exposure elements, such as retelling the story of the loss, reutilization, and building tolerance to the emotions associated with loss. More recently, Thieleman, Cacciatore, and Hill have presented evidence for a mindfulness-based, psychosocial approach for specific use in traumatic grief with bereaved parents. Western culture’s interest in mindfulness has grown exponentially, and practices have been integrated into a variety of general, psychotherapeutic treatment approaches including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), mindful- ness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). Of all mindfulness practices, one of the most cost-effective strategies to help providers working with bereaved parents is meditation.

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    Perinatal and Pediatric Bereavement in Nursing and Other Health Professions
  • Creativity 101, 2nd Edition Go to book: Creativity 101

    Creativity 101, 2nd Edition

    Book

    Creativity must represent something different, new, or innovative. It has to be different and also be appropriate to the task at hand. The first chapter of the book deals with the Four-Criterion Construct of Creativity, which attempts to integrate both Western and Eastern conceptions of creativity. This is followed by a chapter which addresses how creativity operates on individual and social/environmental levels, and the effects and outcomes of the creative mind. Chapter 3 discusses the structure of creativity. A key work on creative domains is that of Carson, Peterson, and Higgins, who devised the creativity achievement questionnaire (CAQ) to assess 10 domains. The fourth chapter discusses measures of creativity and divergent thinking tests, Torrance Tests, Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPOC) and Finke Creative Invention Task. Some popular personality measures use different theories, such as Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire, which looks at extraversion, neuroticism and psychoticism. Chapter 6 focuses on a key issue, intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation and their relationship to creativity. While the seventh chapter deals with the relationship between creativity and intelligence, the eighth chapter describes three ’classic’ studies of creativity and mental illness which focus on the connection between bipolar disorder and creativity, usage of structured interviews and utilization of historiometric technique. One school admissions area that already uses creativity is gifted admissions—which students are chosen to enter gifted classes, programs, or after-school activities. The book also talks about creative perceptions and dwells upon the question whether creativity is good or bad.

  • Measures of CreativityGo to chapter: Measures of Creativity

    Measures of Creativity

    Chapter

    As everyone knows, true creativity comes from simple formulas and the memorization of data. This chapter focuses on divergent thinking tests, which are still the most common way that creativity is measured. Guilford derived the core ideas behind divergent thinking as well as many popular measures. The people who score the Torrance Tests are specifically trained to distinguish responses that are truly original from those that are just bizarre. There are other tests that measure creativity, but most are either a variation on divergent thinking or use some type of raters. For example, the Evaluation of Potential Creativity (EPOC) has begun to be used in some studies and may be promising, but is still largely rooted in a mix of divergent thinking scoring and raters. Another test is the Finke Creative Invention Task, which is clever but also requires raters for scoring.

    Source:
    Creativity 101
  • Creativity and PersonalityGo to chapter: Creativity and Personality

    Creativity and Personality

    Chapter

    The Big Five, which this chapter discusses in more detail, are extraversion, neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience. Each of these five factors represents a continuum of behavior, traits, and inclinations. There are some popular personality measures that use different theories, such as Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire, which looks at extraversion and neuroticism as well as psychoticism. The personality factor most associated with creativity is openness to experience. Indeed, one way that researchers study creativity is by giving creative personality tests. Being open to new experiences may also help creative people be more productive. King found that people who were creative and high on openness to experience were more likely to report creative accomplishments. DeYoung and S. B. Kaufman, of course, are not the only people to blend or split different factors of personality to present new models. Fürst, Ghisletta, and Lubart suggest three factors: plasticity, divergence, and convergence.

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    Creativity 101
  • Creativity and Mental HealthGo to chapter: Creativity and Mental Health

    Creativity and Mental Health

    Chapter

    This chapter explores three ’classic’ studies of creativity and mental illness. The first is Jamison whose focus is on the connection between bipolar disorder and creativity. The second is Andreasen, who used structured interviews to analyze 30 creative writers, 30 matched controls, and first-degree relatives of each group. The writers had a higher rate of mental illness, with a particular tendency toward bipolar and other affective disorders. The third major work is Ludwig, who utilized the historiometric technique. All three studies have come under serious criticism. Many of the studies of Big-C creators are historiometric, akin to Ludwig’s work. Some such studies claim that eminent creators show higher rates of mental illness. A much more common approach is to look at everyday people and give them measures of creativity and mental health. Typically, researchers look at what are called subclinical disorders—in other words, they’re not clinically significant.

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    Creativity 101
  • Creativity and Admissions, Hiring, and FairnessGo to chapter: Creativity and Admissions, Hiring, and Fairness

    Creativity and Admissions, Hiring, and Fairness

    Chapter

    One school admissions area that already uses creativity is gifted admissions—which students are chosen to enter gifted classes, programs, or after-school activities. Both education and business play great lip service to creativity. Puccio and Cabra review the literature on creativity and organizations and do a nice job of highlighting how every couple of years, a new report from industry emphasizes the importance of creativity. It is important to note that there is a large inconsistency between gender differences on creativity tests and actual creative accomplishment. Although gender differences on creativity tests are minor or nonexistent, differences in real-world creative accomplishment are large and significant. This chapter shows how creativity can play a role in admissions and hiring. Hiring measures tend to have better validity, even the general mental ability (GMA) measures; even if minorities score lower, the accuracy of prediction is consistent by ethnicity.

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    Creativity 101
  • Creative Perceptions (of Self and Others)Go to chapter: Creative Perceptions (of Self and Others)

    Creative Perceptions (of Self and Others)

    Chapter

    Creative people are also often seen as being outsiders and eccentric. Sen and Sharma’s examination of creativity beliefs in India tested beliefs about the Four P’s and found that creativity was more likely to be described as a holistic essence of an individual, and less likely to be focused on the product or process. Romo and Alfonso studied Spanish painters and found that one of the implicit theories that the painters held about creativity involved the role of psychological disorders. Plucker and Dana found that past histories of alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco usage were not correlated with creative achievements; familial drug and alcohol use also was not significantly associated with creative accomplishments or creative personality attributes. Humphrey, McKay, Primi, and Kaufman did find that illegal drug use predicted self-reported creative behaviors even when openness to experience was controlled.

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    Creativity 101
  • Policy, The Future of Nursing, and Indian CountryGo to chapter: Policy, The Future of Nursing, and Indian Country

    Policy, The Future of Nursing, and Indian Country

    Chapter
    Source:
    American Indian Health and Nursing
  • The Future of Nursing Report and American Indian Nursing EducationGo to chapter: The Future of Nursing Report and American Indian Nursing Education

    The Future of Nursing Report and American Indian Nursing Education

    Chapter

    This chapter explains the seminal Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: The Future of Nursing (FoN): Leading Change, Advancing Health and the background organizations that wrote it. It demonstrates some key recommendations of FoN: Leading Change, Advancing Health report and its “fit” with Indian Country. The chapter differentiates between challenges in obtaining nursing education in Indian Country and those in dominant culture settings. The IOM’s effort with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) on the FoN has been noticed by many, yet direct care nurses are largely unaware of the report. The chapter outlines the FoN recommendations into two groups: gaining education, practicing to its fullest scope, and pushing for more, including lifelong learning; and shaping policy, being at the table as full partners in health care redesign, and leading change. For American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) nurses graduating from tribal colleges and universities (TCU), the majority will have an associate’s degree.

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    American Indian Health and Nursing
  • Psychopathological Problems in Older AdultsGo to chapter: Psychopathological Problems in Older Adults

    Psychopathological Problems in Older Adults

    Chapter

    The medical model in psychiatry assumes medical intervention is the treatment of choice for the constellations of diagnosed symptoms that comprise various mental disorders. These treatments may include pharmacotherapy, electroconvulsive treatment, brain stimulation, and psychosurgery. Therefore, psychopharmacology for older adults can be considered palliative rather than a cure for a brain disease causing psychopathology. Older adults experience many psychopathological problems, including anorexia tardive, anxiety disorders, delusional disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia, and co-occurring disorders with substance abuse/dependence disorders. Therefore, it is critical for the social worker to understand the various manifestations of psychological problems in older adults from the perspective of an older adult, rather than extrapolating information commonly taught in social work programs that neglect to focus on older adults and restrict teaching to psycho-pathological problems in younger and middle-aged adults.

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    Clinical Gerontological Social Work Practice
  • Dying and DeathGo to chapter: Dying and Death

    Dying and Death

    Chapter

    For older adults, the phenomenon of death is accepted and does not induce the fear experienced by younger adults. Older adults who do not engage in end-of-life planning may receive unwanted, unnecessary, costly, and painful medical interventions or withdrawal of desired treatment. Many older people feel that the goal of palliative care is to make the best possible dying experience for the older adult and his/her family. In addition to palliative care, an older adult will most likely find himself or herself in an intensive care unit as part of his or her terminal care. Euthanasia, or hastened death, is seen by some as an alternative to palliative care. A psychological aspect of death that an older adult is concerned with, in addition to place of death, is whether he or she will die in his or her sleep or die suddenly, making the death experience an individual phenomenon.

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    Clinical Gerontological Social Work Practice
  • Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and ReformGo to chapter: Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and Reform

    Dorothea Lynde Dix: Privilege, Passion, and Reform

    Chapter

    Dorothea Lynde Dix was born into an upper-class, highly educated, intelligent, and politically connected Bostonian family. These opportunities provided the foundation necessary to propel her into a leadership role as national and international advocate for the most vulnerable groups in the mid-1800s. Dorothea utilized her Methodist father’s background to augment the teachings of her adopted religious calling, Unitarianism, which promises salvation through leading a directed life. This chapter explores her leadership role in this period of American history. It also shows how her family background, pursuit of education, personality, and religious commitment to humanitarianism enabled her to confront seemingly insurmountable obstacles to implement national and international reform of care for psychiatrically disabled and imprisoned populations. In the final phase of her career, Dorothea was chosen for a national role to lead nursing during the American Civil War, a role that she considered as within her scope of knowledge and skills.

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    Nursing’s Greatest Leaders: A History of Activism
  • Issues Specific to the ElderlyGo to chapter: Issues Specific to the Elderly

    Issues Specific to the Elderly

    Chapter

    Multiple physical changes can impair the mental health of the aging individual. These changes include: acid-based imbalances, dehydration, electrolyte changes, hypothermia or hyperthermia, and hypothyroidism. This chapter reviews the most common mental health disorders affecting the elderly population and trends affecting care delivery. Moreover, chronic, unresolved pain has been associated with an increased risk of a mental health disorder such as depression, suicide, or anxiety. The aging individual may exhibit signs and symptoms of insomnia such as sleeping for short periods during the night, sleeping during times of normal social activities, arising early in the morning while others sleep, and experiencing daytime sleepiness. The chapter concludes by applying the nursing process from an interpersonal perspective to the care of an elderly patient with a mental health disorder.

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    Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: An Interpersonal Approach
  • Musculoskeletal DisordersGo to chapter: Musculoskeletal Disorders

    Musculoskeletal Disorders

    Chapter

    Musculoskeletal disorders are some of the most common causes of illness and hospitalization in children due to their active nature. This chapter reviews common pediatric musculoskeletal disorders, etiology of pediatric musculoskeletal disorders, and pediatric-specific care of musculoskeletal disorders. The musculoskeletal system supports the body structure and provides for client movement. Skeletal growth is most rapid during infancy and adolescence. Injury to the epiphysis can affect bone growth. The most common pediatric musculoskeletal disorders involve pediatric trauma. Torticollis is a symptom that causes a child’s chin to be rotated to one side and the head to the other side. The two most common disorders that can cause torticollis include: Congenital muscular torticollis, and Acquired torticollis. Osteomyelitis is an infection of the bone that occurs most often in infancy or between the ages of 5 and 14 years.

    Source:
    Fast Facts for the Pediatric Nurse: An Orientation Guide in a Nutshell
  • Metabolic DisordersGo to chapter: Metabolic Disorders

    Metabolic Disorders

    Chapter

    The endocrine or ductless glands work with the nervous system to regulate the body’s metabolic processes. Hormones interact with specific target organs to create an effect on the body. This chapter reviews the pathophysiology behind the metabolic system in pediatric clients. It describes nursing care required for pediatric clients with various metabolic conditions. The chapter explores instruction necessary for families of clients with metabolic conditions. Most of the glands and structures of the endocrine system develop during the first trimester of fetal development. Hormonal control is immature until approximately 18 months of age, leaving the infant prone to dysfunction of the endocrine system. Hundreds of hereditary biochemical disorders affect the metabolism. As the infant adjusts to life, symptoms can rapidly emerge that are life-threatening. The most common endocrine dis.

    Source:
    Fast Facts for the Pediatric Nurse: An Orientation Guide in a Nutshell
  • The Image Director Technique for DreamsGo to chapter: The Image Director Technique for Dreams

    The Image Director Technique for Dreams

    Chapter

    The “Image Director Technique” was developed to target recurring nightmares or bad dreams and those targets that are directly related to a traumatic experience. This technique is a special module that is embedded in the Standard Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Protocol. The technique begins with the worst image of the dream and then accesses and measures it as in Phase 3 of the Standard EMDR Protocol that includes the image, cognitions, emotions, and sensations. Clients are more likely to work with short clips or films if the subjective units of disturbance (SUD) of the target image is low. This technique can also be considered an imagery exposure method that is based in systematic desensitization, a behavioral approach. Often, clients prefer the tactile bilateral stimulation (BLS) because they can close their eyes in order to be visually undisturbed during the creation of the new images.

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    Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Scripted Protocols: Basics and Special Situations
  • Clinical Information ManagementGo to chapter: Clinical Information Management

    Clinical Information Management

    Chapter

    This chapter focuses on office automation and systems that are useful in the mental health field, along with principles to be aware of when considering the use or purchase of such systems. Most managers have to rely on input from outside in order to form an opinion about how to resolve complex issues. The complexity of the issue increases significantly when the current federal health care laws are incorporated into the task of choosing appropriate clinical information management software. The significance of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) would seem to dictate at least a brief foray into its content because it lays the foundation for virtually everything that is happening in the clinical information management (CIM) realm. The information provided in the chapter can give a backdrop by which current practices can be examined for goodness of fit with the available client information management systems.

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    Supervision and Agency Management for Counselors
  • The Senior House Calls ProgramGo to chapter: The Senior House Calls Program

    The Senior House Calls Program

    Chapter

    The Senior House Calls program (SHC) was started as a component of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing (TTUHSC SoN) practice program through a 2-year grant from a local foundation. Operated as part of the Larry Combest Community Health and Wellness Center (LCCHWC), it primarily serves the needs of vulnerable elders in the area. SHC is a nurse-managed clinical service for homebound elders that provides comprehensive primary care through advanced practice nurses who are employees of the SoN. The goal of this program is to provide access to a continuum of community-based services for the elderly population in the city of Lubbock, as an alternative to institutional care. Family therapy services are provided in the SHC program; those needing more intensive therapy are referred to appropriate services. SHC is largely funded through Medicare since almost 99” of its patient volume is covered by Medicare.

    Source:
    Nurse-Led Health Clinics: Operations, Policy, and Opportunities
  • The 19130 Zip Code Project: A Journey to Our NeighborhoodGo to chapter: The 19130 Zip Code Project: A Journey to Our Neighborhood

    The 19130 Zip Code Project: A Journey to Our Neighborhood

    Chapter

    The 19130 Zip Code Project at the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) started as a curriculum innovation: the CCP Department of Nursing’s response to the national shift toward community-based health care. The project resulted in the refocusing of the nursing curriculum and the development of partnerships with CCP’s neighbors in the 19130 zip code. It also is an excellent example of a nurse-managed wellness center without walls. The Zip Code Project has put down deep roots in the neighborhood and in the nursing curriculum. It has produced a community-based model for educating local health professionals and a service-learning model for enhancing health service delivery by local agencies. The faculty arranged community-based clinical experiences for nursing students in the neighborhood surrounding CCP. Although CCP sits in the middle of the zip code, faculty knew little about community-based health care services in the community.

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    Nurse-Led Health Clinics: Operations, Policy, and Opportunities
  • Adolescence and Young AdulthoodGo to chapter: Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Chapter

    Many developmental models view human growth from a space of lack or abundance, a perpetual fulcrum swinging from the word survive at one end to thrive at the other. This chapter discusses Urie Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory of human development to conceptualize female adolescent and young adult development. The contextual focus of this theory provides a global framework for counselors to view young women as individuals who both influence, and are influenced by, their surroundings. Customs, beliefs, and the government all play a role in the development of children and adolescents. When young females overcome the stigma associated with mental health services, they typically seek treatment in one of two primary settings: community mental health centers and schools. Relational-cultural theory (RCT) is an evolving feminist model of human development that views connection to others as essential to growth and disconnection as a major cause of disrupted functioning.

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    Counseling Women Across the Life Span: Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention
  • Sedation and MonitoringGo to chapter: Sedation and Monitoring

    Sedation and Monitoring

    Chapter

    This chapter talks about monitoring equipment, and procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA). In addition to respiratory suppression, the medications used for PSA may suppress the autonomic nervous system’s ability to adequately respond to hypovolemia; therefore, close monitoring of vital signs is important for the well-being of patients. PSA medications promote a rapid recovery stage with minimal postprocedure impairment. Patients need to be observed until there is no risk of cardiorespiratory depression or compromise; monitoring vital signs, including level of consciousness (LOC), with ability to intervene quickly with resuscitation efforts if needed. The rapid response system (RRS) provides critical care expertise when intensive care unit (ICU) level care is needed for compromised patients outside of the ICU, including radiology. The RRS is the radiology nurse’s resource when patients have adverse reactions to sedation, procedures, or diagnostic tests.

    Source:
    Fast Facts for the Radiology Nurse: An Orientation and Nursing Care Guide in a Nutshell
  • Resilience and Preventive ParentingGo to chapter: Resilience and Preventive Parenting

    Resilience and Preventive Parenting

    Chapter

    This chapter presents the best measures for resilience and community protection for some of the social determinants of digital diseases in the future for further discussion with families, school workers, and allied health professionals. It suggests that high levels of resilience may prevent development of mental health problems, like depression, stress, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, supporting the suggestion that fostering resilience may prevent development of mental health problems in adolescents. The chapter presents a case report of a 14-year-old, brought to consultation by his mother, who has been worried about his weight. This case report points out how important it is to build up resilience skills through the development of caring and supportive relationships within and outside the family. The chapter suggests a four-pronged approach to prevent the excessive use and the problems associated with the Internet. It includes regulatory, parental, educational, and technological approaches.

    Source:
    Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors, Assessment, and Treatment
  • Brief Report: Seneca Center: A Residential Treatment Program Without Psychiatric DrugsGo to article: Brief Report: Seneca Center: A Residential Treatment Program Without Psychiatric Drugs

    Brief Report: Seneca Center: A Residential Treatment Program Without Psychiatric Drugs

    Article
  • Book Review: Reading Lessons: The Debate Over LiteracyGo to article: Book Review: Reading Lessons: The Debate Over Literacy

    Book Review: Reading Lessons: The Debate Over Literacy

    Article
  • Announcement: Introducing Our “Journal Partner”Go to article: Announcement: Introducing Our “Journal Partner”

    Announcement: Introducing Our “Journal Partner”

    Article
  • Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part I – Acute Risks and Psychological EffectsGo to article: Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part I – Acute Risks and Psychological Effects

    Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part I – Acute Risks and Psychological Effects

    Article
  • Applied Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of ADHD: A Review and RapprochementGo to article: Applied Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of ADHD: A Review and Rapprochement

    Applied Behavior Analysis in the Treatment of ADHD: A Review and Rapprochement

    Article
  • A Medication-Free Parent Management Program for Children Diagnosed as ADHDGo to article: A Medication-Free Parent Management Program for Children Diagnosed as ADHD

    A Medication-Free Parent Management Program for Children Diagnosed as ADHD

    Article
  • EditorialGo to article: Editorial

    Editorial

    Article
  • Empirical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives on the Use of MethylphenidateGo to article: Empirical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives on the Use of Methylphenidate

    Empirical, Ethical, and Political Perspectives on the Use of Methylphenidate

    Article
  • News Commentary: NIH Consensus Report Highlights Controversy Surrounding ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant TreatmentGo to article: News Commentary: NIH Consensus Report Highlights Controversy Surrounding ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant Treatment

    News Commentary: NIH Consensus Report Highlights Controversy Surrounding ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant Treatment

    Article
  • The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia: A Critical OverviewGo to article: The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia: A Critical Overview

    The Genetic Theory of Schizophrenia: A Critical Overview

    Article
  • Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT): A Critical ReviewGo to article: Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT): A Critical Review

    Programs of Assertive Community Treatment (PACT): A Critical Review

    Article
  • Prepsychotic Treatment for Schizophrenia: Preventive Medicine, Social Control, or Drug Marketing Strategy?Go to article: Prepsychotic Treatment for Schizophrenia: Preventive Medicine, Social Control, or Drug Marketing Strategy?

    Prepsychotic Treatment for Schizophrenia: Preventive Medicine, Social Control, or Drug Marketing Strategy?

    Article
  • Brain Disease Hypothesis for Schizophrenia Disconfirmed by All EvidenceGo to article: Brain Disease Hypothesis for Schizophrenia Disconfirmed by All Evidence

    Brain Disease Hypothesis for Schizophrenia Disconfirmed by All Evidence

    Article
  • The International Journal of Risk & Safety in MedicineGo to article: The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine

    The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine

    Article
  • The Tragedy of Schizophrenia: Its Myth of IncurabilityGo to article: The Tragedy of Schizophrenia: Its Myth of Incurability

    The Tragedy of Schizophrenia: Its Myth of Incurability

    Article
  • Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part II—Adverse Effects on Brain and BehaviorGo to article: Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part II—Adverse Effects on Brain and Behavior

    Psychostimulants in the Treatment of Children Diagnosed With ADHD: Part II—Adverse Effects on Brain and Behavior

    Article
  • Transcendental Health Care Ethics: Beyond the Medical ModelGo to article: Transcendental Health Care Ethics: Beyond the Medical Model

    Transcendental Health Care Ethics: Beyond the Medical Model

    Article
  • What Is Really Known About Psychological Alterations Produced by Psychiatric Drugs?Go to article: What Is Really Known About Psychological Alterations Produced by Psychiatric Drugs?

    What Is Really Known About Psychological Alterations Produced by Psychiatric Drugs?

    Article
  • The Failure of the Modern Experiment and the Use of Psychotropic DrugsGo to article: The Failure of the Modern Experiment and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs

    The Failure of the Modern Experiment and the Use of Psychotropic Drugs

    Article
  • Private Speech and Self-Regulation in Children with Impulse-Control Difficulties: Implications for Research and PracticeGo to article: Private Speech and Self-Regulation in Children with Impulse-Control Difficulties: Implications for Research and Practice

    Private Speech and Self-Regulation in Children with Impulse-Control Difficulties: Implications for Research and Practice

    Article
  • AbstractsGo to article: Abstracts

    Abstracts

    Article
  • From the EditorsGo to article: From the Editors

    From the Editors

    Article
  • Index Volume 27Go to article: Index Volume 27

    Index Volume 27

    Article
  • Advances in Research With Gender and Sexual Minority Youth in the 21st CenturyGo to chapter: Advances in Research With Gender and Sexual Minority Youth in the 21st Century

    Advances in Research With Gender and Sexual Minority Youth in the 21st Century

    Chapter

    Using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory, this chapter highlights the unique strengths and challenges faced by gender and sexual minority (GSM) youth and highlights future directions for research that we believe hold promise in promoting the health and well-being of this special population. It presents a review of the research as applied to physical and mental health disparities that impact GSM youth and discusses the two dominant psychosocial models that explain the contributing factors to these disparities. Notably, public opinion has been shifting toward greater acceptance and inclusion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and the 21st century has seen a large increase in the number of protections and rights afforded to GSM individuals. Future research should continue to examine and replicate the impact of minority stress in more recent cohorts of GSM adolescents to determine whether improvements in the social environment result in decreases in health disparities.

    Source:
    LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities
  • EditorialGo to article: Editorial

    Editorial

    Article
  • EthicsGo to chapter: Ethics

    Ethics

    Chapter

    This chapter opens with the challenge Nightingale and her close colleagues faced in establishing nursing as a profession when the ethical standards of the existing (secular) nurses were (generally) so low. The ethical issues she had to deal with in her own school, soon after it opened, are discussed three thorny problems with appointments. Anyone reading Nightingale’s writing on nursing will be struck by how often and how forcefully she insisted on high ethical standards. The reason for the emphasis on ethical standards is obvious enough in the task Nightingale faced in raising the new profession from its disreputable past. The International Council on Nursing (ICN) established its Code of Ethics in 1953, again based on Nightingale principles. It identified four responsibilities: to promote health, to prevent illness, to restore health, and to alleviate suffering. The code asks nurses not only to act ethically themselves, but to challenge unethical practices.

    Source:
    Florence Nightingale, Nursing, and Health Care Today
  • The Embodiment of a Caring NatureGo to chapter: The Embodiment of a Caring Nature

    The Embodiment of a Caring Nature

    Chapter

    The caring nature striven for is that which has the potential to “gently shake the world”, as Gandhi said, and to move healthcare toward the whole-person, whole-planet healing that Nightingale. This work continues to be an invitation to pause, intentionally create space for reflection and intention, and move into the world with a refined sense of purpose, presence, and authentic power. Caring Science is not the property of a particular profession or system; it does not belong to the annals of nursing any more than the halls of medicine, finance, or law. Nurses have simply been granted the privilege of ushering the texture of its message into the stratosphere; a nursing lens has been the kaleidoscope of sacred human interaction chosen for this tender phase of its being and becoming.

    Source:
    A Handbook for Caring Science: Expanding the Paradigm
  • Caritas Nursing and Professional Practice in PeruGo to chapter: Caritas Nursing and Professional Practice in Peru

    Caritas Nursing and Professional Practice in Peru

    Chapter

    This chapter describes the state of Caring Science nursing practice in Peru. It discusses how performance improvement initiatives contribute to the success of advancing nursing as a caring discipline. The chapter is the narrative, lived experience of a Peruvian American nurse who reflects on a 10-year journey to create space for the emergence of postmodern nursing in Peru. It describes the traditional machismo and paternalistic environment where enfermeras peruanas practice, an environment not reported in the peer-reviewed literature. Next, the chapter describes the exemplar project implemented to develop a space for nursing and then explains the curative versus carative epistemology. Finally, it describes the recent advancements and discusses the relevance to the future plans. The Caritas revolution in nursing continues to advance from North America, to Europe, to Africa, to Asia, and now to South America through the Watson Caring Science Institute scholars and postdoctoral fellows.

    Source:
    A Handbook for Caring Science: Expanding the Paradigm
  • Sexual Teen Dating Violence Victimization: Associations With Sexual Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School StudentsGo to article: Sexual Teen Dating Violence Victimization: Associations With Sexual Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students

    Sexual Teen Dating Violence Victimization: Associations With Sexual Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students

    Article

    Adolescent dating violence may lead to adverse health behaviors. We examined associations between sexual teen dating violence victimization (TDVV) and sexual risk behaviors among U.S. high school students using 2013 and 2015 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey data (combined n = 29,346). Sex-stratified logistic regression models were used to estimate these associations among students who had dated or gone out with someone during the past 12 months (n = 20,093). Among these students, 10.5% experienced sexual TDVV. Sexual TDVV was positively associated with sexual intercourse before age 13, four or more lifetime sexual partners, current sexual activity, alcohol or drug use before last sexual intercourse, and no pregnancy prevention during last sexual intercourse. Given significant findings among both sexes, it is valuable for dating violence prevention efforts to target both female and male students.

    Source:
    Violence and Victims
  • Central Nervous SystemGo to chapter: Central Nervous System

    Central Nervous System

    Chapter
    Source:
    Radiation Oncology Question Review
  • Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault in PregnancyGo to chapter: Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault in Pregnancy

    Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault in Pregnancy

    Chapter

    Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual assault are common violent crimes perpetrated on women. Obstetric (OB) complications associated with trauma include miscarriage, preterm labor, and placental abruption. Ongoing mental health issues, including depression and anxiety, are more prevalent in pregnant women subjected to any form of IPV, whether or not direct physical violence is involved. One study showed that pregnant women subjected to verbal threats were twice as likely to deliver low-birth-weight infants. All women who present to an OB triage unit or an emergency department (not just those who present with an injury or complication) must be screened for IPV. An organized plan for providing the victim with resources must be readily available when a screen is positive. This chapter discusses presenting symptomatology, history and data collection, physical examination, laboratory and imaging studies, differential diagnosis, clinical management and follow-up care of IPV and sexual assault.

    Source:
    Obstetric Triage and Emergency Care Protocols
  • How to Assess Our Own Expertise: Certification and AccreditationGo to chapter: How to Assess Our Own Expertise: Certification and Accreditation

    How to Assess Our Own Expertise: Certification and Accreditation

    Chapter

    Certification and accreditation offer assurances to the public that an individual or institution provides accurate and reliable simulation instruction and evaluation. Achieving certification suggests that the individual is able to perform at a predetermined level of expertise, in order to provide simulation experiences or services in a consistent and accurate manner within the scope of simulation knowledge and competencies. The determination to obtain new knowledge may be daunting. Understanding the myriad options available to novice simulation users is important. Clarifying the differences among certification, fellowship, and certificate of attendance especially aids understanding. The process of certification sets rigorous and high standards for planning, implementing, and evaluating simulation experiences. Knowledge of the key aspects of simulation is essential for the certification of health care simulation professionals. Participant reflection enhances clinical judgment as part of the learning experience and is facilitated during the debriefing exercises that follow an instructional simulation.

    Source:
    Simulation Scenarios for Nursing Educators: Making It Real
  • Genetic Alterations in CancerGo to chapter: Genetic Alterations in Cancer

    Genetic Alterations in Cancer

    Chapter

    In human cancer, the role of genetic mutations, epigenetic alterations, and cellular repair mechanisms are becoming increasingly apparent. Recent studies have elucidated significant variations of the genetic codes that underpin cancer development in a variety of cancer subtypes. Genetic variations provide a backbone upon which cancer cells can adapt to overcome both intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms designed to limit the growth of abnormal cells. This chapter provides an overview of the types of mutations, various epigenetic modifications, DNA repair mechanisms, and their relationship to the development of cancer, as well as various techniques utilized for the detection of these genetic alterations in cancer. With the development of new, advanced, and sensitive molecular techniques like next-generation sequencing and digital droplet polymerase chain reaction, our understanding of cancer biology is rapidly developing, and a critical appreciation and knowledge of these cancer-associated changes will likely lead to continued development of more effective therapies.

    Source:
    Cancer Genomics for the Clinician
  • Theoretical Perspectives on Biodemography of Aging and LongevityGo to chapter: Theoretical Perspectives on Biodemography of Aging and Longevity

    Theoretical Perspectives on Biodemography of Aging and Longevity

    Chapter

    This chapter reviews biodemographic theories of aging that attempt to answer the proverbial ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions in gerontology. Biodemography of aging represents an area of research that integrates demographic and biological theory and methods and provides innovative tools for studies of aging and longevity. The historical development of the biodemography of aging is closely interwoven with the historical development of statistics, demography, and even the technical aspects of life insurance. The chapter also reviews some applications of reliability theory to the problem of biological aging. Reliability theory of aging provides theoretical arguments explaining the importance of early-life conditions in later-life health outcomes. Moreover, reliability theory helps evolutionary theories explain how the age of onset of diseases caused by deleterious mutations could be postponed to later ages during the evolution this could be easily achieved by simple increase in the initial redundancy levels.

    Source:
    Handbook of Theories of Aging
  • The Interpretive Perspective on AgingGo to chapter: The Interpretive Perspective on Aging

    The Interpretive Perspective on Aging

    Chapter

    This chapter describes the interpretive perspective in all its richness and variability in guiding research and advancing understanding of a wide range of phenomena in aging and life-course research. It discusses the interpretive perspective with other variants of social science theorizing, particularly normative perspectives on aging and life course-placing its development in historical context. The chapter addresses the contentious issue of causal explanation, as understood in diverse disciplinary contexts. It highlights some prominent normative theoretical approaches in social gerontology, by way of providing a comparative context for our primary consideration of the interpretive perspective. A given theoretical perspective in gerontology can focus solely on macro level, structural phenomena, on micro-level behavior and social interaction, or on understanding of the links between macro and micro phenomena.

    Source:
    Handbook of Theories of Aging
  • How Theories of Aging Became Social: Emergence of the Sociology of AgingGo to chapter: How Theories of Aging Became Social: Emergence of the Sociology of Aging

    How Theories of Aging Became Social: Emergence of the Sociology of Aging

    Chapter

    This chapter traces the development of concepts and theories in the sociology of aging from the 1940s through the mid-1970s through seven themes. The first theme describes the importance of age in social structure and the place of the aged in changing societies. The second theme focuses on the issue of ‘successful aging’: how to define, measure, and achieve it. The third theme highlights the tension between social structure and individual agency in the activity versus disengagement theory controversy. The fourth theme concerns the social meanings of age, age cohorts, and generations, as well as interactions between age groups. The fifth theme focuses on families, aging, and intergenerational relations. The sixth theme of age stratification deals with the interplay between cohort succession and the aging of individuals. The seventh theme addresses the life course as a socially constructed process.

    Source:
    Handbook of Theories of Aging
  • Theories of the Politics and Policies of AgingGo to chapter: Theories of the Politics and Policies of Aging

    Theories of the Politics and Policies of Aging

    Chapter

    There can be little doubt that older people have today assumed a special place in the American social policy and political landscape. They constitute a large and growing population, they are increasingly well organized, and they are the recipients of public benefits that are the envy of every other social policy constituency in the nation. This chapter reviews and assesses different theoretical approaches that may help account in all or in part for these fairly recent and remarkable developments. The organization here centers on six distinct theoretical avenues for better understanding these political and policy developments: the logic of industrialization and policy development, the role of political culture and values, the presence of working-class mobilization, the impact of individual and group participation, the weight of state structure, and the effects of policy in shaping subsequent events.

    Source:
    Handbook of Theories of Aging
  • Obesity in Rural AmericaGo to chapter: Obesity in Rural America

    Obesity in Rural America

    Chapter

    The obesity epidemic is even more pronounced in rural America, and is a growing concern as rural adults and children are now more likely to be obese than urban adults and children. People who are overweight or obese are at increased risk for chronic disease and conditions such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, gallbladder disease, osteoarthritis, and some types of cancers. For women, obesity also is associated with complications of pregnancy, menstrual irregularities, hirsutism, and psychological disorders such as depression. Stress has been linked to obesity in adults and in children, and rural residents are continually subject to the stresses of poverty, limited access to health care, and geographical and social isolation. In rural communities, community organizations and families need to come together to identify common goals related to obesity prevention and identify and mobilize human and community assets to implement strategies they believe will work for their community.

    Source:
    Rural Public Health: Best Practices and Preventive Models
  • Critical Issues in Applied Sport PsychologyGo to chapter: Critical Issues in Applied Sport Psychology

    Critical Issues in Applied Sport Psychology

    Chapter

    The guru-driven nature of sport psychology has contaminated the field and how it is perceived, evaluated, and valuated by coaches, athletes, and decision makers in organizations who may want to utilize the services of sport psychology practitioners. This chapter provides a foundational and fundamental rationale for advancing evidence-based and validated athlete assessment and intervention protocols. The prevalent approach to applied sport psychology is practitioner-centered. The American Board of Sport Psychology (ABSP) mission is to advance practice, education, and training standards in the field of applied sport psychology as well as provide licensed psychologists the opportunity to achieve board certification in sport psychology. Sport psychologists and sport psychology practitioners must distinguish themselves from coaches and other practitioner-advisors who work with athletes. Sport psychology offers practitioners of highly disparate education, training, experience, and credentials an unparalleled opportunity to break into the elite strata of sports.

    Source:
    Evidence-Based Applied Sport Psychology: A Practitioner’s Manual
  • JournalsGo to chapter: Journals

    Journals

    Chapter

    Springer Publishing Company was regrettably late in starting the publication of journals. Matt Fenton managed the production department, and responded to any small problem with instant help. The management of journal publishing is somewhat different from that of book publishing. In addition to the informational value of the contents and the financial income to the publisher, the journals bring repeated publicity about the publisher to readers. At the psychology convention of 1986 a small group of the authors gathered near our exhibit booth for no particular reason. Dr. Eisenberg provided good advice through the years on manuscripts suitable for our Series in Rehabilitation. The first nursing journal was established: Scholarly Inquiry in Nursing Practice. The readers of the journal were the readers of Springer nursing books, those who aspired to advancing the profession through research, education, or innovative practices.

    Source:
    The History of Springer Publishing Company
  • Ascites/Fluid RetentionGo to chapter: Ascites/Fluid Retention

    Ascites/Fluid Retention

    Chapter

    This chapter discusses the assessment and laboratory findings, imaging, diagnosis and management of ascites. A common complication of cirrhosis is ascites, or the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity. Ascites that develops from cirrhosis is associated with portal hypertension. The patient with cirrhosis and ascites may complain of increased weight gain, lower extremity edema, and abdominal bloating or distension. Physical examination findings may reveal a distended or even tense abdomen, positive fluid wave, dullness to abdominal percussion, and peripheral edema. Routine laboratory testing, such as complete blood count, complete metabolic panel, and liver function testing, should be performed with new-onset ascites and at routine return visits. Patients with cirrhosis and ascites can develop electrolyte imbalances and renal failure. Ultrasound is helpful to determine whether ascites is present if there is any uncertainty upon physical examination. Patients should abstain from alcohol consumption and avoid using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

    Source:
    Fast Facts About GI and Liver Diseases for Nurses: What APRNs Need to Know in a Nutshell
  • Presbyterians and Others in the Reformed TraditionGo to chapter: Presbyterians and Others in the Reformed Tradition

    Presbyterians and Others in the Reformed Tradition

    Chapter

    Reformed churches are predominantly Presbyterian in polity, where the congregation is governed by a group of elected elders who are lay persons and a minister. Regional groups of churches form a Presbytery, and groups of Presbyteries form Synods that together form the national General Assembly. The Reformed Tradition is monotheistic, affirming one God, in three persons. The persons of the Trinity are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Reformed Christians are called, always and everywhere, to a committed pursuit of social justice and human wholeness. Disease, illness, suffering, and death, and indeed natural disaster as well, are a consequence of humankind’s choosing to go its own way and to live. Theologically, death is a consequence of human willfulness or going our own way in disobedience to God. Reformed Christian religious terminology reflects, in large part that found in mainstream Protestant Christian traditions.

    Source:
    Religion: A Clinical Guide for Nurses

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