Donald Etheridge Bailey Jr.

Journal article Journal of clinical nursing · April 2007 Featured Publication AimThis study explores the problems and uncertainties of older men, with prostate cancer, who have undergone watchful waiting and the strategies they use to manage their concerns.BackgroundWith life expectancy rising, the number of older ... Full text Cite

Exit interview-consultation for research validation and dissemination.

Journal article West J Nurs Res · December 2006 Featured Publication Dissemination of research findings to practice and maintenance of rigor and validity in qualitative research are continuing challenges for nurse researchers. Using three nursing home case studies as examples, this article describes how exit interview-consu ... Full text Link to item Cite

MDS coordinator relationships and nursing home care processes.

Journal article West J Nurs Res · April 2006 Featured Publication This study describes how Minimum Data Set (MDS) coordinators' relationship patterns influence nursing home care processes. MDS coordinators interact with nursing home staff to coordinate resident assessment and care planning, but little is known about how ... Full text Link to item Cite

Patterns of medical and nursing staff communication in nursing homes: implications and insights from complexity science.

Journal article Qual Health Res · February 2006 Featured Publication Complexity science teaches that relationships among health care providers are key to our understanding of how quality care emerges. The authors sought to compare the effects of differing patterns of medicine-nursing communication on the quality of informat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Connection, regulation, and care plan innovation: a case study of four nursing homes.

Journal article Health Care Manage Rev · 2006 Featured Publication We describe how connections among nursing home staff impact the care planning process using a complexity science framework. We completed six-month case studies of four nursing homes. Field observations (n = 274), shadowing encounters (n = 69), and in-depth ... Full text Link to item Cite

Nurse assistant mental models, sensemaking, care actions, and consequences for nursing home residents.

Journal article Qual Health Res · October 2005 Featured Publication In a nursing home case study using observation and interview data, the authors described two mental models that guided certified nurse assistants (CNAs) in resident care. The Golden Rule guided CNAs to respond to residents as they would want someone to do ... Full text Link to item Cite

The power of relationship for high-quality long-term care.

Journal article J Nurs Care Qual · 2005 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

"The Golden Rule": Only a starting point for quality care.

Journal article Director · 2005 Featured Publication The Golden Rule guides people to choose for others what they would choose for themselves. The Golden Rule is often described as 'putting yourself in someone else's shoes', or 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you'(Baumrin 2004). The viewpoint ... Link to item Cite

Uncertainty intervention for watchful waiting in prostate cancer.

Journal article Cancer Nursing · December 2004 Featured Publication Watchful waiting is a reasonable alternative to treatment for some older men with localized prostate cancer, but it inevitably brings uncertainty. This study tested the effectiveness of the watchful waiting intervention (WWI) in helping men cognitively ref ... Cite

The watchful waiting management option for older men with prostate cancer: state of the science.

Journal article Oncology nursing forum · November 2004 Featured Publication Purpose/objectivesTo summarize the recent literature and report the issues and controversies surrounding watchful waiting as a management option for prostate cancer.Data sourcesAll recent, published articles describing the experience, out ... Full text Cite

Moderators of an uncertainty management intervention: for men with localized prostate cancer.

Journal article Nurs Res · 2003 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of psycho-educational interventions for cancer patients is well documented, but less is known about moderating characteristics that determine which subgroups of patients are most likely to benefit. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this ... Full text Link to item Cite

Helping patients with localized prostate carcinoma manage uncertainty and treatment side effects: nurse-delivered psychoeducational intervention over the telephone.

Journal article Cancer · March 15, 2002 Featured Publication BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to test the efficacy of an individualized uncertainty management intervention delivered by telephone to Caucasian and African-American men with localized prostate carcinoma and directed at managing the uncertaint ... Full text Link to item Cite

The assessment of acute confusion as part of nursing care.

Journal article Applied nursing research : ANR · August 1997 Featured Publication Older adults who become acutely confused when hospitalized present challenges to nurses because of their increased care needs and risk for injury. This study evaluated the feasibility of introducing the NEECHAM Confusion Scale as part of usual nursing care ... Full text Cite

The assessment of discomfort in elderly confused patients: a preliminary study.

Journal article The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses · June 1996 Featured Publication With the increasing numbers of older adults in our population, nurses are reexamining all aspects of nursing care in order to best meet the needs of these individuals. Normal age changes, the impact of decades of environmental challenges, successful adapta ... Full text Cite