title: Nursing chronotherapeutics: a conceptual framework.
abstract: Nurses frequently make decisions about when treatments and actions are performed. The nursing concern driving this review is the timing of nursing activities to optimize desired and minimize untoward effects. A nursing conceptual framework is proposed that highlights individual and environmental factors, as they relate to rhythmic responses; as well as places within the framework for nursing actions based on customary and usual temporal patterns.
authors.forename: U E
authors.initials: UE
authors.lastname: Westfall
mesh_terms: D001683:Biological Clocks; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009732:Nursing Care; D013995:Time