Sharron Lee Docherty

Journal article Journal of palliative medicine · August 2007 Featured Work ObjectivesDespite 56% of child deaths occurring in inpatient hospital settings, who these children are and how they die has not been fully described. The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of those infants and children who d ... Full text Cite

Searching for "the dying point:" providers' experiences with palliative care in pediatric acute care.

Journal article Pediatric nursing · July 2007 Featured Work To improve care of children who die in acute care settings there is a need to develop a clearer understanding of the barriers to provision of palliative care. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences and views of health care providers in g ... Cite

Three months in the symptom life of a teenage girl undergoing treatment for cancer.

Journal article Research in nursing & health · August 2006 Featured Work The purpose of this case study was to examine the daily symptom experience of a teenage girl, Abby, undergoing treatment for cancer. Quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques were used to ascertain patterns in daily experiences o ... Full text Cite

Symptom experiences of children and adolescents with cancer.

Journal article Annual review of nursing research · January 2003 Featured Work This paper examines nursing research focused on the symptom experiences of children and adolescents with cancer, and the extent to which the perspective and methods of developmental science have been used in this research. CINALH, MEDLINE, and PSYCHLIT wer ... Full text Cite

Worry about child health in mothers of hospitalized medically fragile infants.

Journal article Advances in neonatal care : official journal of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses · April 2002 Featured Work PurposeThis study examined child health worry among mothers of medically fragile infants with differing health problems and identified factors associated with maternal worry.SubjectsMedically fragile infants were term (38%) and preterm (6 ... Full text Cite

African American mothers' responses to hospitalization of an infant with serious health problems.

Journal article Neonatal network : NN · December 1999 Featured Work PurposeTo describe African American mothers' experiences related to the hospitalization of an infant with serious health problems.DesignRetrospective descriptive.Sample19 African American mothers with premature and term infants w ... Full text Cite