Nursing chronotherapeutics: a conceptual framework.
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.
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D001683:Biological Clocks; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009732:Nursing Care; D013995:Time