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Review of "Bearing Illness and Injury"
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A 6 page review of an article appearing in the December 2000 issue of Western Journal of Nursing Research. The authors describe a qualitative study seeking to gain information about patients' views of catastrophic illness and injury. The paper analyzes problem statement, study purpose, sample selection, data collection, data analysis and the conclusions that the researchers draw. The study is good as a preliminary one, but the authors fail to address the issue of bias at any point. They still arrive at conclusions valuable to nursing, however. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSnursArtRevCat.rtf

Review of "Developing a Caregiving Tradition in Opposition to One's Past: Lessons from a Longitudinal Study of Teenage Mothers"
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A 10 page paper providing a negative review of this article as any attempt at serious research, but praising the article for the author's obvious depth of caring. SmithBattle (2000) provides a touching narrative of the experiences of three teen mothers, but the effort should not be called a study. It lacks too many critical components of valid, reliable research to be included in that category of academic literature. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KSnursQualArtRev.rtf

Review of "Don't Call Me Sweetie!"
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A 6 page paper reviewing the report of an Australian study examining nurses' and patients' concept of nursing care. The researchers employed Q methodology, which combines qualitative and quantitative components to bring the study to conclusion. Much of the medical community still sees qualitative research as not being quite as "real" as quantitative study, and adding the quantitative component opens the study to being received by a wider range of individuals within the medical community. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSnursArtRevCare.rtf

Review of "Gender and Short-Term Recovery from Cardiac Surgery"
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A 9 page paper critiquing a 2000 study of gender differences in recovery from cardiac surgery. The article is highly useful to nursing practice. It is methodologically strong and provides practicing nurses with sound and practical advice for their women patients undergoing cardiac surgery. The findings of this study provide information that nurses can directly communicate to women patients in the form of warning that any delay in feelings of wellbeing is only temporary; that with time (less than three months) they will be experiencing full benefits of their surgeries; and that those benefits will not only be physical but will include a stronger sense of wellbeing as well. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSnursQuanRes.rtf

Review of "Outcomes of Therapeutic Massage for Hospitalized Cancer Patients"
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A 5 page paper critiquing a study of nurses' use of therapeutic massage. The subject matter of the study is not as important to this paper as is the analysis of procedures and tools. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: KSresQuanAna.rtf

Review of "Power and Spirituality in Polio Survivor
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A Study Based on Rogers' Science": An 8 page paper evaluating this article. This is a qualitative study that could be used as a model for any in the medical community that might be apprehensive at the very mention of the word qualitative. It is sound, well done, valid, replicatable to a high degree and arrives at conclusions based on data collected and observed. There is a place for qualitative research in nursing, and Smith's article illustrates its usefulness as well as its respectability when done properly. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSnursRogers.rtf

Review of a Nursing Article
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This 5 page paper provides a review of an article on nursing and health and relates the specific elements of the article, incuding the methods used and the validity of the study. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: MHNurAr5.rtf

Review of Qualitative Research on Childhood Obesity
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This 8 page paper reviews a qualitative research article on childhood obesity. The paper looks at the research by Lynn Kelly and Barbra Patterson reported in the article “Childhood Nutrition: perceptions of carers in a Low Income Urban Setting” and assesses the research, considering what was being studied, if it was undertaken in an effective way and the appropriateness of the methodology, along with the strengths and weaknesses of the research. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
Filename: TEchobese.rtf

Review of WOMAC Study
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A 5 page paper that summarizes study results concerned with the reliability and validity of the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), which is a tool that was originally developed in order to evaluate "symptoms and physical disability...for people with osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip and/or knee" (McConnell, Kolopack and Davis 453). The study that is discussed is basically an extensive literature review on this topic. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khwomac.rtf

Risk Assessment/Elderly Surgical Patient
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A 7 page research paper that discusses risk assessment for elderly surgical patients. This topic is discussed in general and specifically in regard to such as risks as cardiac and respiratory complications. Also, various forms of risk assessment are mentioned. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
Filename: khriskep.rtf