Deborah Finfgeld-Connett

..To better understand the concepts nursing presence and caring...

..Services that are highly valued include physical and mental health care and child care assistance...

..To optimize treatment effectiveness, women recommend gender-specific programs in which ambivalence is diminished, hope is instilled, and care is individualized...

..At 3-month follow up, both treatment groups decreased their drinking; however, no significant differences were found between them...

..Patient negativity is downplayed and interactions are shaped in thoughtfully creative ways. Therapeutic management of aggression results in positive outcomes for nurses as well as patients...

..Conversely, two non-therapeutic response styles (inflexibility and disengagement) lead to non-therapeutic outcomes...

..In general, participants indicated satisfaction with the program, and 83% noted that they would recommend it to a friend...

..This paper is a report of a critical analysis of the generalizability and transferability of meta-synthesis research findings...

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..The aim of this paper is to add clarity to the concept art of nursing...

..This paper is a report of the development of a theoretical framework of nursing practice based on the convergence of the concepts art of nursing, presence and caring...

..To explicate the similarities and differences between the concepts of caring and social support...

..To clarify the concept of social support...

..This paper reports a meta-synthesis of the concept of presence...

..Nurses are encouraged to help clients evaluate alcohol intervention Web sites to identify the best treatment options. Additional research is recommended to determine the efficacy of online alcohol treatment services...

..The aim of this investigation was to enhance the understanding of the concept of caring...

..Concepts used in nursing are complex and challenging to define. For this reason, concept development is a rigorous and time-intensive process, which requires commensurate financial and time commitments...

..This is particularly important as the demand for empirically based nursing interventions grows...

..Framing care for homeless women within the context of perceived competency offers a new way of understanding their plight and shaping interventions to more expeditiously move them toward healthy and stable lives...

..In addition, both prospective randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses will be used to discuss the implications for clinical practice and make recommendations for future research...