This collection features articles and book reviews written by the Fairfield University Nursing and Health Studies Faculty.

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Submissions from 2007

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Watchful waiting versus prostatectomy for prostate cancer. (Protocol), Josephine Hegarty, Paul Beirne, Harry Comber, and Meredith Wallace Kazer

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A profile of Irish and US nursing homes: evidence for change, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Kathy Murphy, Adeline Cooney, and Eamon O'Shea

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Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care among Older Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life, Meredith Wallace Kazer and Eileen R. O'Shea

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The needs of men with prostate cancer: results of a focus group study, Meredith Wallace Kazer and Sherri Storms

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Promoting Spiritual Knowledge and Attitudes: A Student Nurse Education Project, Kathleen Lovanio and Meredith Wallace Kazer

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Goodbye my friend, Diana Mager

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Medication errors and the home care patient, Diana Mager

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The effect of genetic polymorphisms in the vinyl chloride metabolic pathway on mutagenic risk, Jennifer M. Schindler-Ruwisch, Yongliang Li, Marie-Jeanne Marion, Arianne Paroly, and Paul W. Brandt-Rauf

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NIDCAP Profile: Kathleen A. VandenBerg, Dorothy Vittner

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NIDCAP Profile: Laurie Mauridian, Dorothy Vittner

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Psychotherapeutic strategies for healing trauma, Kathleen Wheeler

Submissions from 2006

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Understanding Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practices of Mothers in the Dominican Republic Related to Feeding Infants and Young Children, Lynn M. Babington

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An Adult with Childhood Medical Trauma Treated with Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and EMDR: A Case Study, Robert D. Broad and Kathleen Wheeler

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Consultant’s Corner: Recurrent Plugged Ducts, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell

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Challenges of breastfeeding preterm infants: A case study. What goes right, what goes wrong, and what can nurses do?, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell and C. Guttman

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Theories of aging as basis for assessment, Sheila Grossman and Jean W. Lange

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Hospice Care in Nursing Homes: Does It Contribute to Higher Quality Pain Management?, Jeanie S. Kayser-Jones, Alison E. Kris, Christine A. Miaskowski, William A. Lyons, and Steven M. Paul

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Development, Implementation & Evaluation of a Geriatric Nurse Certificate Program, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Philip Greiner, Sheila Grossman, Jean Lange, and Doris T. Lippman

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Length of hospice enrollment and subsequent depression in family caregivers: 13-month follow-up study, Alison E. Kris, Emily J. Cherlin, Holly Prigerson, Melissa DA Carlson, Rosemary Johnson-Hurzeler, Stanislav V. . Kasl, and Elizabeth H. Bradley

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The journey toward geriatric excellence in a non-research intensive university, Jean W. Lange, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Sheila Grossman, Doris T. Lippman, and Jeanne Novonty

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The Playroom Is Clean, Diana Mager

Submissions from 2005

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Pathophysiology of cystic fibrosis implications for critical care nurses, Sheila Grossman and Lisa C. Grossman

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A model long-term care hospice unit: care, community, and compassion, Jeanie Kayser-Jones, Joyce Chan, and Alison E. Kris

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Finding more meaning: The antecedents of uncertainty revisited, Meredith Wallace Kazer

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Isolation followed by integration: A model for the development of a separate geriatric course, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Jean Lange, and Sheila Grossman

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Hyperlactation - How left-brained 'rules' for breastfeeding wreak havoc with a natural process, C. M. Smillie, Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, and S. Iwinski

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Clinical lactation practice: 20 years of evidence, Karen Wambach, Suzanne H. Campbell, Sara Gill, Joan Dodgson, Titi Abiona, and M. Jane Heinig

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Guest Editorial: The Primacy of Psychotherapy, Kathleen Wheeler

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Exploring Alexithymia, depression, and binge eating in self‐reported eating disorders in women, Kathleen Wheeler, Philip Greiner, and Martha Boulton

Submissions from 2004

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Prostate cancer update: when to screen, how to treat, Meredith Wallace Kazer

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Watchful waiting: The state of the science, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Donald E. Bailey, Maureen O'Rourke, and Michael Galbraith

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Development of psychiatric–mental health nurse practitioner competencies: Opportunities for the 21st century, Kathleen Wheeler and Judith Haber

Submissions from 2003

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Factors that influence end-of-life care in nursing homes: the physical environment, inadequate staffing, and lack of supervision, Jeanie Kayser-Jones, Ellen Schell, William A. Lyons, Alison E. Kris, Joyce Chan, and Renee L. Beard

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Is there a nurse in the house? The role of nurses in assisted living: past, present, and future, Meredith Wallace Kazer

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Sexuality and Aging in Long-Term Care, Meredith Wallace Kazer

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Uncertainty and quality of life of older men who undergo watchful waiting for prostate cancer, Meredith Wallace Kazer

Submissions from 2002

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Collaboration Yields Cost‐effective, Evidence‐based Nursing Protocols, Sheila Grossman and Cynthia Bautista

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Using evidence-based practice to develop a protocol for postoperative surgical intensive care unit patients, Sheila Grossman, Cynthia Bautista, and Lisa Sullivan

Submissions from 2001

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Computer addiction: When monitor becomes control center, M. H. Christensen, M. H. Orzack, Lynn M. Babington, and C. A. Patsdaughter

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Health care providers' experiences with problem gamblers, M. H. Christensen, C. A. Patsdaughter, and Lynn M. Babington

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A transitional feeding protocol for critically ill patients, Sheila Grossman and Cynthia Bautista

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Pain in Older Adults, Meredith Wallace Kazer

Submissions from 1999

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From recipes to recetas: health beliefs and health care encounters in the rural Dominican Republic, Lynn M. Babington, Barbara R. Kelley, Carol A. Patsdaughter, Ruth M. Soderberg, and James E. Kelley

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Assessment and management update: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease., Meredith Wallace Kazer

Submissions from 1998

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Pressure ulcers among terminally ill nursing home residents., Jeanie Kayser-Jones, Alison E. Kris, Kyung-Choon Lim, Ronald J. Walent, Elizabeth Halifax, and Steven M. Paul

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Health teaching needs of clients with serious and persistent mental illness: Client and provider perspectives, Amy A. Payson, Kathleen Wheeler, and Thomas A. Wellington

Submissions from 1997

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Predicting patients' deterioration and recovery, Sheila Grossman and Kathleen Wheeler

Submissions from 1995

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Strategies for teaching research: A survey of baccalaureate programs, Kathleen Wheeler, Nancy Fasano, and Laura Burr

Submissions from 1994

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Assessment and management of pain in the elderly, Meredith Wallace Kazer

Submissions from 1993

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CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE: Assessment and Management, Meredith Wallace Kazer