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Catherine Lynch Gilliss

Catherine Lynch Gilliss

Helene Fuld Health Trust Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Nursing
School of Nursing
catherine.gilliss@duke.edu
Box 3322 Med Ctr, Durham, NC 27710
155 Jackson Street, #2107, San Francisco, CA 94111

Selected Publications

Sleep symptoms signaling the menopausal transition.

Journal Article Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine · August 2023 Study objectivesTo describe changes in sleep quality and associated sleep symptoms as women begin menopausal transition compared with premenopausal controls.MethodsIn a repeated-measures design, we analyzed data collected every 2-6 months ... Full text Cite

Sleep Self-Report and Actigraphy Measures in Healthy Midlife Women: Validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index.

Journal Article Journal of women's health (2002) · July 2022 Background: Validity of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) has not been established for midlife women before menopause, and evidence suggests that two-factor or three-factor models may be more informative than the PSQI global score der ... Full text Cite

Nurse practitioner students as an essential workforce: The lessons of coronavirus disease 2019.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · May 2021 BackgroundThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) disrupted the education and clinical training of nursing students. Clinical sites shut out students over low equipment supplies, physical distancing requirements, and redeployment of staff.Purp ... Full text Cite

Academic/clinical nursing integration in academic health systems.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · March 2021 BackgroundSustained partnerships that strengthen and expand nursing's contribution to the integration of academic nursing into clinical practice holds the promise of improving Academic Health Systems (AHS).PurposeThe purpose of this paper ... Full text Cite

Depressive symptoms associated with physical health problems in midlife women: A longitudinal study.

Journal Article Journal of affective disorders · February 2020 BackgroundIt is unclear if the relationship between depression and physical health problems in women is related to age, reproductive stage, obesity or socio-demographic risk factors.MethodsLongitudinal data were obtained every 6 months fo ... Full text Cite

Family Involvement in Adult Chronic Disease Care: Reviewing the Systematic Reviews.

Journal Article Journal of family nursing · February 2019 Health care providers, policy makers, and investigators are dependent upon the quality and accuracy of published research findings to inform and guide future practice and research in their field. Systematic reviews, the synthesis of outcomes across studies ... Full text Cite

The Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox: Design and Feasibility of a Skill-based Education Model to Improve Medication Management.

Journal Article J Cardiovasc Nurs · 2017 OBJECTIVE: We present the design and feasibility testing for the "Digital Drag and Drop Pillbox" (D-3 Pillbox), a skill-based educational approach that engages patients and providers, measures performance, and generates reports of medication management ski ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Implementing Electronic Tablet-Based Education of Acute Care Patients.

Journal Article Crit Care Nurse · February 2016 Poor education-related discharge preparedness for patients with heart failure is believed to be a major cause of avoidable rehospitalizations. Technology-based applications offer innovative educational approaches that may improve educational readiness for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Adapters, strugglers, and case managers: a typology of spouse caregivers.

Journal Article Qualitative health research · November 2014 Although family home care problems are frequently described in the health care literature, the ways in which families and other informal caregivers manage those problems are not often addressed. We conducted a descriptive analysis of interviews in which sp ... Full text Cite

The language of data: tools to translate evidence for nurses in clinical practice.

Journal Article Journal for nurses in professional development · November 2013 In clinical practice, nurses are expected to understand and implement the science that supports patient care, yet they fall short of goals to implement evidence in practice. One reason is difficulty in interpreting research results. Interpretation requires ... Full text Cite

Finding meaning in caring for a spouse with dementia.

Journal Article Applied nursing research : ANR · August 2013 Dementia caregiving can be burdensome with many challenges, especially for spousal caregivers who are elderly and may have limited resources and chronic conditions of their own. However, it can also be an opportunity for growth and transcendence. Thematic ... Full text Cite

Commentary on: Nursing research and graduate education.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · September 2012 Full text Cite

An academic-health service partnership in nursing: lessons from the field.

Journal Article J Nurs Scholarsh · March 2012 PURPOSE: To describe the development of an academic-health services partnership undertaken to improve use of evidence in clinical practice. APPROACH: Academic health science schools and health service settings share common elements of their missions: to ed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physical activity, weight, and waist circumference in midlife women.

Journal Article Health care for women international · January 2012 During midlife years, women are at risk of increasing body weight and waist circumference. We evaluated changes in weight and waist circumference from enrollment to 2 years later and examined the influence of physical activity level on those changes among ... Full text Cite

Body mass index in multiethnic midlife women: influence of demographic characteristics and physical activity.

Journal Article Health care for women international · December 2011 We examined the influence of demographic characteristics and physical activity on body mass index (BMI) in multiethnic midlife women. A sample of 236 African, European, and Mexican/Central Americans aged 40-50 completed the initial, 1-year, and 2-year asse ... Full text Cite

Clinical leadership development in accelerated baccalaureate nursing students: an education innovation.

Journal Article Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · July 2011 Nursing faculty members are responsible for assuring competence and safety in the preparation of prelicensure students who are preparing to deliver care in diverse settings. The growing complexity of care and the rapid expansion of knowledge have challenge ... Full text Cite

Developing policy leadership in nursing: three wishes.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · July 2011 Full text Cite

The nature and scope of stressful spousal caregiving relationships.

Journal Article Journal of family nursing · May 2011 The caregiving literature provides compelling evidence that caregiving burden and depressive symptoms are linked with stressful care relationships, however, relational difficulties around caregiving are seldom described in the literature. This article pres ... Full text Cite

The health of our nation and the importance of nursing.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · March 2011 Full text Cite

Reply

Journal Article Nursing Outlook · January 1, 2011 Full text Cite

Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce in nursing: from evidence to best practices to policy.

Journal Article Policy, politics & nursing practice · November 2010 Health policy makers, providers, clinicians, and social scientists are among those who have identified racial and ethnic diversification of the health care workforce as one strategy for solving the seemingly intractable problem of health disparities in the ... Full text Cite

Making the case for nursing workforce diversity.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · September 2010 Full text Cite

Correction

Journal Article Nursing Outlook · September 2010 Full text Cite

The effects of perceived stress and attitudes toward menopause and aging on symptoms of menopause.

Journal Article Journal of midwifery & women's health · July 2010 IntroductionAs part of a longitudinal study of midlife women, the aim of this investigation was to describe the intensity of menopausal symptoms in relation to the level of perceived stress in a woman's life and her attitudes toward menopause and ... Full text Cite

Setting priorities for health reform.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · July 2010 Full text Cite

The Grand Challenges and nursing.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · March 2010 Full text Cite

Application of a partnership model for transformative and sustainable international development.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · January 2010 There are differences of intent and impact between short-term and long-term engagement of U.S. academic institutions with communities of need in developing nations. Global health programs that produce long-term transformative change rather than transient r ... Full text Cite

On the importance of being policy-ready.

Journal Article Nursing outlook · January 2010 Full text Cite

Perspective: Autonomic care systems for hospitalized patients.

Journal Article Acad Med · December 2009 With advancements of medical technology and improved diagnostic and treatment options, children with severe birth defects who would otherwise have no chance of surviving post birth survive to go home every day. The average lifespan in the United States has ... Full text Link to item Cite

Remembering florence schorske wald, friend and mentor

Journal Article Illness Crisis and Loss · January 1, 2009 The world knows Florence S. Wald as "the mother of the American hospice movement." I knew her in her later life as a mentor and friend. This may not seem unusual, as Florence was a warm and generous human being who continued her professional involvements l ... Full text Cite

Issues in clinical trials management. Academic research units: opportunities and challenges for nursing practice.

Journal Article Research Practitioner · September 2008 Improving our ability to translate research findings from discovery into clinical practice is a priority if we are to benefit from scientific discovery. The academic research unit serves as a catalyst for investigator-initiated and industry-initiated clini ... Cite

Improving the health of the community: Duke's experience with community engagement.

Journal Article Acad Med · April 2008 Evidence is accumulating that the United States is falling behind in its potential to translate biomedical advances into practical applications for the population. Societal forces, increased awareness of health disparities, and the direction of clinical an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Elizabeth C. Clipp, PhD, RN, FAAN.

Journal Article Journal of gerontological nursing · March 2008 Full text Cite

" I take the good with the bad, and I moisturize": defying middle age in the new millennium.

Journal Article Menopause (New York, N.Y.) · July 2007 ObjectiveTo examine how women in their 40s understand "middle age" in the context of sociocultural ideas about the life course.DesignIn-depth interviews were conducted with a subset of 53 volunteers (19 European American, 17 African Ameri ... Full text Cite

Depressive symptoms, physical activity, and weight gain in premenopausal Latina and White women.

Journal Article Maturitas · September 2006 ObjectivesDescribe changes and examine the association between depressive symptoms, physical activity, body mass index (BMI), and perceived health among Latina (n=81) and White (n=151) women in the first year of the late-premenopausal stage.Me ... Full text Cite

Symptom experience and self-care strategies among healthy, midlife African-American women.

Journal Article Journal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA · December 2005 The transition into menopause is an experience that is unique to every woman. This experience can encompass anything from an occasional hot flash to complete and utter distress. Considerable attention is being paid to African-American women as they transit ... Cite

Biopsychological markers of distress in informal caregivers.

Journal Article Biological research for nursing · October 2004 BACKGROUND: Thirty caregiving wives participated in a study of caregiving distress and negative mood (depressive symptoms) by making diary entries on stressful caregiving situations and collecting saliva samples 4 times a day. At the end of the 7-day study ... Full text Cite

Great expectations: a position description for parents as caregivers: Part II.

Journal Article Pediatric nursing · January 2004 Parents caring for a child with a chronic condition must attend to a myriad of day-to-day management responsibilities and activities. Part I of this two-part series (in the previous issue of Pediatric Nursing) reviewed both the adult and pediatric family c ... Cite

Partnering in the cultivation of the next generation of ethnic minority nurse scientists: responding to a compelling national agenda.

Journal Article Journal of National Black Nurses' Association : JNBNA · December 2003 Health disparities continue to exist between communities of color and the poor and the health of the nation as a whole. Highly competent and culturally sensitive nurse researchers are needed to contribute to the elimination of disparities. There is however ... Cite

Great expectations: a position description for parents as caregivers: Part I.

Journal Article Pediatric nursing · November 2003 Parents caring for a child with a chronic condition must attend to a myriad of day-to-day management responsibilities and activities. This two-part series examines parental roles and responsibilities in detail. Part I will review both the adult and pediatr ... Cite

Family predictors of disease management over one year in Latino and European American patients with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Family process · January 2003 Family context is thought to influence chronic disease management but few studies have longitudinally examined these relationships. Research on families and chronic illness has focused almost exclusively on European American families. In this prospective s ... Full text Cite

Hospital experiences of young adults with congenital heart disease: divergence in expectations and dissonance in care.

Journal Article American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses · March 2002 BackgroundDespite increasing survival for adults with congenital heart disease, little is known about hospitalization for young adult patients with this disease and for their families. Because of the complexity of the disease and its management du ... Cite

Psychological morbidity of Thai families of a person with schizophrenia.

Journal Article International journal of nursing studies · January 2002 The paper presents data on families of a person with schizophrenia in rural Thailand, using the resiliency model of family stress, adjustment, and adaptation. The aim is to assess the impact of family factors on psychological morbidity of the mothers and r ... Full text Cite

Families and chronic illness: A synthesis of current research

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · January 1, 2002 The purpose of this review of 73 articles reporting family research was to identify major areas of inquiry and to draw conclusions about what is known about families in which a member has a chronic illness. The review identified two distinct clusters of re ... Full text Cite

There is science, and there is life

Journal Article Families, Systems and Health · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into community-based longitudinal research.

Journal Article Journal of women's health & gender-based medicine · January 2001 This report examines the impact of individualized, population-based recruitment and retention approaches on the development of a subject pool, enrollment, and retention at 12 months of healthy, community-based women in three ethnic groups: African American ... Full text Cite

A critical review of current nursing faculty practice.

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners · December 2000 PurposeTo critically examine the current literature on nursing faculty practice, using the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties (NONPF) Guidelines for Evaluation of Faculty Practice, and to examine faculty practice models' strengt ... Full text Cite

Can addressing family relationships improve outcomes in chronic disease? Report of the National Working Group on Family-Based Interventions in Chronic Disease.

Journal Article The Journal of family practice · June 2000 The management of patients with chronic disease constitutes the largest single cost to the health care system in the United States. New approaches and methods are needed to reduce preventable complications and to enhance the health and well-being of patien ... Cite

The family and disease management in Hispanic and European-American patients with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Diabetes care · March 2000 ObjectiveTo determine the relationship between the characteristics of families involved in disease management and the self-care practices of Hispanic and European-American (EA) patients with type 2 diabetes.Research design and methodsA to ... Full text Cite

Evaluating advanced practice nursing care through use of a heuristic framework.

Journal Article Journal of nursing care quality · January 2000 In our modification of a quality of care framework, we blended the labels of both models with respect to structure, labeling it structure/inputs. We then specified the types of characteristics in each of the 12 cells that can guide the evaluation of the ar ... Full text Cite

Disease management status: a typology of Latino and Euro-American patients with type 2 diabetes.

Journal Article Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.) · January 2000 The number of indicators of chronic disease management is large and no practical framework is available to guide selection for use in intervention programs. In addition, it is often difficult to integrate multiple disease management indicators into a compr ... Full text Cite

Conceptual approaches to studying family caregiving for persons with severe mental illness

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · January 1, 2000 This article critically analyzes the conceptual frameworks commonly used to study family caregivers who have a family member with a severe mental illness. Those frameworks that are commonly in use present significant limitations to the study of the family ... Full text Cite

Resolving disease management problems in European-American and Latino couples with type 2 diabetes: the effects of ethnicity and patient gender.

Journal Article Family process · January 2000 The management of type 2 diabetes requires major life style changes. How patients and family members resolve disagreements about disease management affects how well the disease is managed over time. Our goal was to identify differences in how couples resol ... Full text Cite

Implementing a nurse information system in a nurse-managed primary care practice: a process in progress.

Journal Article Clinical excellence for nurse practitioners : the international journal of NPACE · March 1999 As part of a larger project, a nurse-managed primary care clinic (Valencia Pediatric and Family Practice) sought to implement a nursing information system for the purposes of (1) patient record keeping, (2) capturing advanced practice nursing interventions ... Cite

Family Nursing Network

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · January 1, 1999 Full text Cite

Family transitions in congenital heart disease management: The impact of hospitalization in early adulthood

Journal Article Journal of Family Nursing · January 1, 1999 With advances in medical and surgical management of congenital heart disease (CHD), it is becoming more common for patients to survive into adulthood. This article reviews family management of CHD over the life course of the disease and presents the findin ... Full text Cite

The family and type 2 diabetes: a framework for intervention.

Journal Article The Diabetes educator · September 1998 Four broad groups of factors have been linked with self-management behavior in type 2 diabetes over time: (1) characteristics of patients, (2) amount and management of stress, (3) characteristics of providers and provider-patient relationships, and (4) cha ... Full text Cite

Growing up with congenital heart disease: the dilemmas of adolescents and young adults [see comment].

Journal Article Cardiology in the young · July 1998 Advances in diagnosis, medical management and surgical intervention have improved the longevity and quality of life for children with congenital heart disease. Despite this, research studies specifically examining the psychosocial concerns of adolescents a ... Full text Cite

Nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives, and physician assistants in California.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · May 1998 California's health care industry includes workers prepared in many ways to perform many jobs. One significant group of health care workers prepared to provide care that often overlaps with physician-generated services is known as "nonphysician providers." ... Cite

The dilemmas of parents of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · May 1997 ObjectiveTo provide a better understanding of parents' experiences as their children with congenital heart disease mature through adolescence and young adulthood.DesignA qualitative pilot study.SettingThe physician practices of t ... Full text Cite

Measuring parental grief after childhood cancer: potential use of the SCL-90R.

Journal Article Death studies · May 1997 To contribute to a better understanding of the utility of the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90R; L. Derogatis, 1983) with bereaved samples, an exploratory factor analysis was conducted on SCL-90R responses of 97 parents 2 years after the death of their ... Full text Cite

Practice environment for nurse practitioners in California. Identifying barriers.

Journal Article The Western journal of medicine · October 1996 Barriers exist that prevent nurse practitioners from using their primary health care knowledge and skills. We present the incidence of and specific barriers experienced by nurse practitioner respondents in California, the state with the largest number of n ... Cite

Congenital heart defects and parent-adolescent coping

Journal Article Families, Systems and Health · January 1, 1996 This study examined coping in parent-adolescent dyads among adolescents who have had surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. Single, separate interviews were conducted with eight parents and their adolescent children. The interviews were transcribed ... Full text Cite

The frequency and troublesomeness of symptoms associated with Alzheimer's disease.

Journal Article Journal of community health nursing · January 1995 An increased understanding of the frequency and troublesomeness of symptoms for family members who are caring for a victim of Alzheimer's disease (AD) would be helpful for nurses in working with these families. This article reports on the changes of these ... Full text Cite

Stories of transition: Parents recall the diagnosis of congenital heart defect

Journal Article Family Systems Medicine · January 1, 1995 This study reports the recollected stories of eight parents regarding their experiences of having an infant diagnosed with a congenital heart defect. The qualitative research design incorporated interactive interviews and thematic data analysis, using grou ... Full text Cite

"Success" in family nursing: experts describe phenomena.

Journal Article Nursing & health care : official publication of the National League for Nursing · April 1994 Cite

Managed outcomes: a strategy to improve the nation's health.

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners · March 1994 Current health care delivery systems in the United States have led to high cost, uneven quality, less than universal coverage, undue emphasis on a medical/clinical model, and scant attention to primary care and prevention. In the context of health care ref ... Full text Cite

Fecal coliform contamination in child day-care centers

Journal Article Pediatrics · January 1, 1994 Cite

Correlates of fatigue in older adults with rheumatoid arthritis.

Journal Article Nursing research · March 1993 The purposes of this study were to describe the prevalence of fatigue, examine the association between fatigue and doctor visits, and identify correlates of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). On average, a high degree of fatigue was reported to occur ev ... Cite

A randomized clinical trial of nursing care for recovery from cardiac surgery.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · March 1993 ObjectiveTo determine the efficacy of a psychoeducational nursing intervention in patients who receive coronary artery bypass graft and valve repair surgery.DesignA cluster-randomized controlled trial design.SettingTwo hospitals ... Cite

A framework for understanding family caregivers' recovery work after cardiac surgery.

Journal Article Family and Community Health · July 1992 75 adult cardiac surgery patients and their primary family caregivers were assigned to a treatment group in which they received telephone calls by nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 wks following hospital discharge designed to monitor and assist patients with ... Link to item Cite

Predictors of general activity 8 weeks after cardiac surgery.

Journal Article Applied nursing research : ANR · May 1992 In this secondary analysis, the influence of mood states and self-efficacy beliefs on recovery of general activities 8 weeks after cardiac surgery were investigated. Study data were taken from a randomized clinical trial with 156 subjects who were either i ... Full text Cite

Family nursing research: precepts from paragons and peccadilloes.

Journal Article Journal of advanced nursing · January 1992 The authors present 10 precepts that address the successes, as well as complexities and shortcomings, found in family nursing research as it has been conducted over the past decade. Problems with methodology, data collection and aggregation, random variabl ... Full text Cite

Randomization by cluster.

Journal Article Nursing research · November 1991 Cite

Monitoring nursing interventions and data collection in a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Western journal of nursing research · June 1991 Full text Cite

The family dimension of cardiovascular care.

Journal Article Canadian journal of cardiovascular nursing = Journal canadien en soins infirmiers cardio-vasculaires · April 1991 Cardiovascular disease, like many other life-style-related health problems, is argued to have its origins related in part to health practices first learned in the family. Further, empirical work has shown that the responses of family members to the onset o ... Cite

Family nursing research, theory and practice.

Journal Article Image--the journal of nursing scholarship · January 1991 The absence of critical dialogue regarding what constitutes family nursing prevents the further development of the specialty area of family nursing. In this essay, the author issues nine challenges faced by those who would contribute to the development of ... Full text Cite

Patterns of fecal coliform contamination in day-care centers.

Journal Article Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · December 1990 During a six-month period, on four separate occasions, six licensed day-care centers had cultures taken from environmental surfaces as well as the hands of children and teachers. Fecal coliforms were recovered from 64 (9.5%) of the 675 surfaces sampled. Re ... Full text Cite

Improving family functioning after cardiac surgery: a randomized trial.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · November 1990 As part of a randomized clinical trial of in-hospital and postdischarge nursing interventions designed to facilitate the individual patient's recovery and improve the family's functioning after cardiac surgery, we followed 67 patient-spouse pairs for 6 mon ... Cite

Nurse-monitored cardiac recovery: a description of the first 8 weeks.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · September 1990 Health problems and related patient management during early recovery after cardiac surgery are not well documented. As part of a larger study of recovery from cardiac surgery 75 patient-care giver pairs received telephone calls from nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ... Cite

Impact of childhood cancer on healthy school-age siblings.

Journal Article Cancer nursing · June 1990 One part of a study on the effects of childhood cancer on families focused on the emotional reactions of school-age siblings. The authors identify themes in the siblings' feelings taken from transcripts of interviews with them. Responses were categorized a ... Full text Cite

Nurse-monitored cardiac recovery: A description of the first 8 weeks

Journal Article Heart and Lung: Journal of Critical Care · January 1, 1990 Health problems and related patient management during early recovery after cardiac surgery are not well documented. As part of a larger study of recovery from cardiac surgery 75 patient-care giver pairs received telephone calls from nurses at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 ... Cite

Expected and realized benefits from cardiac surgery: an update.

Journal Article Cardio-vascular nursing · July 1989 Cite

Data gathering by telephone. An application in a study of clinical nursing.

Journal Article Progress in cardiovascular nursing · July 1989 This article addresses the use of the telephone in collection of research data. First, the authors review the benefits and limitations of data collection by telephone as they are discussed in the literature. Collection of data by telephone has been favorab ... Cite

A health-education program for day-care centers.

Journal Article MCN. The American journal of maternal child nursing · July 1989 Cite

Health policy and the family: Agenda for the year 2000

Journal Article Family Systems Medicine · January 1, 1989 Full text Cite

Improving recovery following cardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial.

Journal Article Journal of advanced nursing · September 1988 To enhance individual and family health during recovery from heart surgery, this study employed nursing interventions based on self-efficacy and family stress theory during the hospitalization period and for 3 months thereafter. The effectiveness of the in ... Full text Cite

Social and sexual activity after cardiac surgery. A report of the first 6 months.

Journal Article Progress in cardiovascular nursing · July 1988 Cite

Measurement of psychosocial concerns of adolescents with cancer.

Journal Article Cancer nursing · June 1988 Cite

Family care in the coronary care unit: an analysis of clinical nurse specialist intervention.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · March 1988 A sudden and life-threatening illness requiring hospitalization and admission to the coronary care unit (CCU) can result in serious disorganization for the patient's family. This disorganization can become obvious to staff when family members are too anxio ... Cite

Psychosomatic symptoms in parents 2 years after the death of a child with cancer.

Journal Article Nursing research · March 1988 Forty-five mothers and 30 fathers, representing 58 families, completed the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised, a measure of current psychological and somatic symptoms, 24 months after the death of a child with cancer. The mean scores from six symptom dimensions ... Cite

Thoughts on the whats, hows and whys of faculty practice

Journal Article Journal of Professional Nursing · November 1985 Cite

Thoughts on the whats, hows, and whys of faculty practice.

Journal Article Journal of professional nursing : official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing · September 1985 Full text Cite

Events leading to the treatment of coronary artery disease: implications for nursing care.

Journal Article Heart & lung : the journal of critical care · July 1985 The selection of a particular treatment for CAD was found to be related to the severity of illness, patients who were more severely disabled by angina elected surgical treatment after vessel blockage was documented by angiography. Differential access to tr ... Cite

Reducing family stress during and after coronary artery bypass surgery.

Journal Article The Nursing clinics of North America · March 1984 Based on the findings of this study of couples after coronary artery bypass surgery, there are numerous stresses and unmet needs that might be addressed by hospital-based nurses. The study demonstrated that, as a group, the spouses of the bypass patients r ... Cite

The family as a unit of analysis: strategies for the nurse researcher.

Journal Article ANS. Advances in nursing science · April 1983 Full text Cite

Family and Illness

Journal Article Western Journal of Nursing Research · January 1, 1983 Full text Cite

Collaborative practice in the hospital: what's in it for nursing?

Journal Article Nursing administration quarterly · January 1983 Full text Cite

Teaching group skills to nurse managers.

Journal Article Journal of continuing education in nursing · May 1979 Full text Cite