Background: As one of the most underserved segments of the U.S. labor force, truck drivers have been associated with a series of morbid conditions intimately linked to th[...]

New graduates are often discouraged from working in psychiatric/mental health settings by "well-meaning" nurses and nursing faculty (especially non-psychiatric/mental hea[...]

It seems like a day does not go by in the United States without hearing about immigration on televised news broadcasts, print news stories, radio talk shows, or Internet [...]

This article presents an assessment of 25 trucking work settings designed to examine whether the environmental attributes of these settings influence eating patterns of t[...]

Patients hospitalized in acute care psychiatric settings often complain of boredom. Neither historical context nor geographical settings seem to make a difference. Boredo[...]

Shattell and Keltner present a case for atypical antipsychotics in bipolar disorder. Moreover, they review current research that supports the effectiveness of several ant[...]

This article reports feasibility issues with the implementation of an intervention study for depression in Latina women from Mexico living in an emerging immigrant commun[...]

Garcia, Duckett, Saewyc, and Bearinger's (2007) study of perceptions of health by Latino adolescents from Mexico employs a method of data collection not often used—photog[...]

Drs. Hemsley and Glass conducted a study of the experiences of nurse healers and disseminated their research in a two-part article. The journal is credited for allowing a[...]

Jesse, Schoneboom, and Blanchard's (2007) study of the effect of faith or spirituality in pregnancy was part of a larger study consisting of 130 pregnant women. Of the 13[...]

Drs. Kao, Reeder, Hsu, and Cheng fused three convergent world views—Taoism, Confucianism, and Rogers' Unitary View of Human Beings—in an unambiguous review of the nursing[...]

Do you remember "one-to-ones" in acute care? A "one-to-one" (not to be confused with "one-on-one," an individual staff member who closely monitors a patient at all times)[...]

Empirical evidence on the heterosexual partnerships of long-haul truckers suggests connections among occupational stressors, substance misuse, structural factors, and ris[...]

This study examined the ways in which depression affects immigrant Latina women residing in an emerging Latino immigrant community in the United States. Three Spanish-lan[...]

Traditional nursing education that is perceived as autocratic and conformist produces feelings of isolation and desperation in many prelicensure nursing students. This ar[...]

Although much of the emphasis in treating Bipolar Disorder patients is on pharmacotherapy, sleep loss is an important trigger for mania and plays an important role in the[...]

Specific efforts by hospital accreditation organizations encourage renovation of nursing stations, so nurses can better see, attend, and care for their patients. The purp[...]

This article is about a teaching strategy that operationalizes an aspect of the National League for Nurses' position statement "Transforming Nursing Education" and the In[...]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the transportation environment triggers, exacerbates and sustains truckers' risks for obesity and associated morbidi[...]

Spatial human experiences such as confinement and freedom are important to acute psychiatric care. The physical space that inpatient psychiatric/mental health nurses and [...]

The nurse-patient relationship will always remain pivotal to effective management of illness. Peplau (1952/1991) maintained that understanding was an essential component [...]

BACKGROUND: Latinas experience more depression and are less likely to receive mental health support than White women or African American women. OBJECTIVE: This article sy[...]

In the biological, disease-oriented model of psychiatric illness, psychotropic medications are the frontline treatment. These medications have enabled many consumers of p[...]

The articles in this issue explore a wide range of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues. Dr. Peggy Chinn discusses the stigma of being lesbian or gay in [...]

Mental illness in older adults is an important issue: It is estimated that 20% of older adults in the general U.S. population have a mental illness (Bartels, Blow, Van Ci[...]