Describing the work of nursing: the case of postsurgical nursing interventions for men with prostate cancer.
Nursing interventions were provided to older men following prostate surgery during a controlled clinical trial examining nursing care and its effects on quality of life outcomes. The Nursing Intervention Lexicon and Taxonomy (NILT), consisting of 7 categories of nursing interventions, was used to classify intervention statements extracted from 32 home care records. Two major categories of interventions were patient teaching (45%) and psychologically based interventions (20%). In a comparison of the types of interventions provided upon discharge from the hospital with those provided at the end of 1 month of home care, it appeared that patients had not yet shifted from the crisis to the chronic phase of their illness course based on Rolland's framework.
Robinson
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University of San Diego, CA, USA.
Hughes
L C
LC
Adler
D C
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Strumpf
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Grobe
S J
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McCorkle
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D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000145:classification*; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000145:classification / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009737:Nursing Records; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000451:nursing*; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology / Q000601:surgery; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014937:Work / Q000145:classification