Listing of articles in 2005 -> May/June.
| Guest Editorial: Wound Care: The Challenges Ahead | | JoAnne D. Whitney, PhD RN CWCN FAAN | | | | Guest Editor
Knowledge of how wounds heal and are best managed has advanced rapidly over the past two decades. The understanding that guides care is founded on basic and clinical science combined with expert experience and opinion. Much has been learn. | | >> Continue Reading |
| Pressure Sore and Skin Tear Prevention and Treatment During a 10-Month Program | | Barbara Brillhart, PhD RN CRRN FNP-C | | | | This article reports the results of a 10-month skin care program for 30 clients on a residential Alzheimer’s disease unit. The majority (n = 26) of the clients were free of pressure sores and skin tears through preventive care durin... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Monitoring Pressure Ulcer Healing in Persons with Disabilities | | Maria Mullins, MD MBA • Susan S. Thomason, MN RN APRN-BC CWRN • Maria Legro, PhD EdM | | | | Pressure ulcers are a significant source of morbidity that seriously affect quality of life in persons with disabilities. Inpatient treatment is required for most patients in this vulnerable popul... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Wound Management in Vulnerable Populations | | Barbara Pieper, PhD RN CS CWOCN FAAN | | | | While wound management is a significant challenge for many rehabilitation patients, vulnerable populations are at particular risk. In addition, considerable focus is being placed on vulnerable populations within health care. Rehabilit... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Commentary: Wound Management in Vulnerable Populations | | Catherine A. Warms, PhD RN CRRN | | | | Rehabilitation Nursing Editorial Board Member
This article views a common and important rehabilitation nursing problem, wound management, from a vulnerable-populations perspective. Although the principles of caring for wounds are universal, the characte | | >> Continue Reading |
| Using Mixed Methods in Disability and Rehabilitation Research | | Thilo Kroll, PhD • Melinda T. Neri, BA • Kaye Miller, MSN CRRN | | | | This paper will discuss the theoretical design considerations and the practical integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in disability and rehabilitation research, which have gained recent popularity among researchers of va... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Commentary: Using Mixed Methods in Disability and Rehabilitation Research | | Janet Seacrest, PhD RN | | | | Rehabilitation Nursing Editorial Board Member
Nursing is concerned with the whole person, so is it reasonable to expect one avenue of research to answer a question about a phenomenon concerning complex human beings? Kroll, Neri, and Miller present a tho | | >> Continue Reading |
| Wound Care for Burn Patients in Acute Rehabilitation Settings | | Beth Hall, BS RN | | | | Caring for patients who are recovering from severe burns is not common in most inpatient rehabilitation settings. Nursing challenges include patients’ physical and psychological changes and their high care deman... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Current Issues: Strategies to Improve Patient and Healthcare Provider Safety in Patient Handling and Movement Tasks | | | | | Over the past few decades, there has been growing concern over the increasing number and severity of musculoskeletal injuries associated with patient handling tasks, especially in nursing personnel. This concern has led to reports recomme... | | >> Continue Reading |
| Clinical Consultation: How Do We Manage Difficult Ostomy Pouching in the Rehabilitation Setting? | | | | | Situation: A morbidly obese 30-year-old woman was admitted to our acute rehabilitation hospital after gastric bypass surgery with a diagnosis of general deconditioning. Postoperatively, she had developed abdominal complications, including a dehisced ... | | >> Continue Reading |
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