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End of Life Care
 

Maria Ruland
RN,Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics,
Columbia University, New York

Director, Center for Shared Decision Making and Nursing Research,
Rikshospitalet National Hospital Oslo, Norway

 

Shirley M. Moore
RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Associate Dean for Research
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, Ohio

Nurses alter the environment so that a significant other would have the privacy to share the bed with the loved one or so that various religious or cultural customs could be enacted. Although not necessarily preferable, it is possible to have a good death in the ICU.
 
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Selected Publications:
  • Ruland, C. M. & Bakken, S. (2002) Representing Patient Preference-Related Concepts for Inclusion in Electronic Health Records. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 34(6), 415-22

  • Ruland, C. M. (2002). Hand-Held Technology to Improve Patient Care: Evaluating a Support System for Preference- Based Care Planning at the Bedside. J Am Med Inform Ass, 9, 192-200

  • Ruland, C. M. (2001). Developing a Decision Support System (DSS) to Meet Nurse Managers' Information Needs for Effective Resource Management. Computers in Nursing, 19 (5), 187-193.

  • Hellesų, R., Ruland, C.M. (2001). Developing a module for nursing documentation integrated in the electronic patient Record. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 10, 799-805.

  • Ruland, C. M. & Moore S.M. (2001). Eliciting exercise preferences in cardiac rehabilitation: Initial evaluation of a new strategy. Patient Education and Counseling 44(1), 283-291.. Patient Education and Counseling.

  • Ruland, C. M. (2000). Evaluating the beta- version of the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) for domain completeness, applicability of its axial structure and utility for clinical practice. A Norwegian project. International Nursing Review, 48 (1), 9-16. International Nursing Review

  • Delaney, C. Thoroddsen, A., Ruland, C.M. & Ehnfors, M. (2000). Linking hands online: The Scandinavian connection. Reflections on Nursing Leadership 26(4), 20-23.

  • Ruland, C.M. (1999). Decision Support for Patient Preference-Based Care Planning: Effects on Nursing Care and Patient Outcomes. J Am Med Inform Ass, 6 (4), 304-12.

  • Moore, S.M., Ruland, C. M., Pashkow, F. & Blackburn, G. (1998). Women's patterns of exercise following cardiac rehabilitation. Nursing Research, 47 (6), 318-325.

  • Ruland C. M., & Moore, S.M. (1998). Theory construction based on standards of care: A proposed theory of the peaceful end of life. Nursing Outlook, 46 (4), 169-75.
    Ruland, C. M., Kresevic, D., & Lorensen, M. (1997). Including patient preferences in nurses' assessment of elderly patients. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 6, 495-504.

Books

  • Ruland, C.M. (2000). Introduction to Nursing and Medical Informatics
    [Helse- og sykepleieinformatikk: Hvordan IKT kan bidra til utvikling av en bedre helsetjeneste]. Gyldendal Akademisk, Oslo, Norway. ISBN: 82-417-1222-7, (216 p).
    Currently translated into Swedish.

   

 

 

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