The Western Journal of Nursing Research is a peer-reviewed nursing journal that covers clinical research in the field of nursing. The journal s editor-in-chief is Vicki Conn. It was established in 1979 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. The Western Journal of Nursing Research is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2010 impact factor is 1.138, ranking it 29th out of 89 journals in the category "Nursing" (science edition) and 26th out of 87 journals in the category "Nursing" (social science edition).
The rate of opioid use among pregnant women in the United States quadrupled between 1999 and 2014 and continues to rise—an alarming trend that researchers from the University of Missouri and University of Iowa say has exposed ...
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A UBC Okanagan researcher is urging people to learn and then heed the symptoms of atrial fibrillation (AF). Especially women.
May 5, 2021
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Touching patients while providing care is an important and unavoidable aspect of the nursing profession. Nurses can also transform touch into a useful therapeutic tool to improve patients'— and their own—wellbeing.
Apr 26, 2021
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Approximately 90% of children diagnosed with a chronic disease now live into adulthood, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. However, many adolescents who age out of the often nurturing and supportive pediatric ...
Aug 19, 2020
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Elderly, chronically ill people experience frequent changes in health status that require transitions among health care providers and settings. Significant attention has been focused on coordinated transitional care models ...
Sep 26, 2017
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Each year, millions of people—especially those 65 and older—fall. Such falls can be serious, leading to broken bones, head injuries, hospitalizations or even death. Now, researchers from the Sinclair School of Nursing ...
Aug 26, 2016
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African-American mothers breast-feed their children at lower rates than Caucasian, Latina and Asian mothers. This difference often has been attributed to socio-demographic factors such as age, income, education and personal ...
Dec 4, 2013
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A multidisciplinary team of researchers from UCLA and India has found that a new type of intervention program, in which lay women in the rural Indian province of Andra Pradesh were trained as social health activists to assist ...
Jun 21, 2013
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Negative thinking is a red flag for clinical depression. Stopping such thoughts early on can save millions of people from mental illness, according research study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western ...
Apr 3, 2012
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Exposure to light appears to have therapeutic effects on Alzheimer's disease patients, a Wayne State University researcher has found.
Jan 11, 2012
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