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Spanish-dementia knowledge assessment scale (DKAS-S): psychometric properties and validation

open access: yesBMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most frequent cause of cognitive impairment. Community knowledge of the disease has proven to be a very important aspect of the development of interventions and the evaluation of their effectiveness. However, it
A. Carnes   +8 more
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Nursing practice towards crack and other drugs from the perspective of nursing students

open access: yesRevista de Pesquisa Cuidado é Fundamental Online, 2014
Objective: The objective was to discuss how to act in front of the crack and other drugs from the perspective of nursing students. Methods: We applied the methodology of action research with fourteen nursing students in a University Center in the city of
Fernanda Matos Fernandes Castelo Branco   +1 more
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Current status of nurse staffing: a qualitative study based on nursing manager's perspective

open access: yesDi-san junyi daxue xuebao, 2021
Objective To investigate the current status of nursing staffing based on nursing manager's perspective, and determine the key factors affecting the human resource allocation.
LIU Xianli   +4 more
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Contextualizing the Global Nursing Care Chain: International Migration and the Status of Nursing in Kerala, India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I explore the issue of nursing status in Kerala, India and how over time a colonial discourse of caste‐based pollution has given way to a discourse of sexual pollution under expanding migratory opportunities.
Abraham   +59 more
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Nursing and people from other cultures

open access: yesCultura de los Cuidados, 2012
Nursing, profession specialized in caring for people, faces in these moments the fact of having to care for people from other cultures. Sometimes only negative aspects from them are perceived and often without even being conscious of such perception ...
Isabel Gentil García
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Cruel Britannia: a personal critique of nursing in the United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The United Kingdom (UK) once led the world in nursing but because of the exigencies of the funding mechanisms of the National Health Service (NHS), it has fallen a long way behind other countries. We aim to raise awareness inside and outside the UK about
Shields, L., Watson, R.
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Serological study on toxoplasmosis in the Haliti-Paresí community of the Utiariti indigenous territory, Campo Novo do Parecis, Mato Grosso, Brazil

open access: yesParasite Epidemiology and Control, 2019
Toxoplasma gondii is the etiological agent of toxoplasmosis, a widespread zoonosis that affects several homeothermic animals, including humans.
Ana Letícia Carvalho Santos   +7 more
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Ethnography: principles, practice and potential [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Ethnography is a methodology gaining popularity in nursing and healthcare research. It is concerned with studying people in their cultural context and how their behavior, either as individuals or as part of a group, is influenced by this cultural context.
Draper, Janet
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Attracting Israeli nursing students to community nursing

open access: yesIsrael Journal of Health Policy Research, 2020
Background The shift from inpatient care to community patient care has had an essential impact on the nursing profession. Despite the growing demand for community nurses in many countries, their number remains relatively low and many students do not ...
Yael Sela-Vilensky   +2 more
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Best Practices and Innovations for Managing Codeine Misuse and Dependence

open access: yesJournal of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2016
Purpose. Promoting and ensuring safe use of codeine containing medicines remains a public health issue given the rise in reporting of misuse and dependence particularly in countries where available over–the-counter (OTC). The aim of this unique study was
Ian J. Norman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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