{"title":"The Future of Nursing Report: Policy Implications for Nursing","authors":"Bobby Lowery","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2011.9980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2011.9980","url":null,"abstract":"October 5, 2010, heralded the release of the Institute of Medicine's report, The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, a seminal report of evidence calling for a transformation of the U. S. healthcare delivery system in which nursing is posited as an equal and vital actor at every step of the policy and point-of-care process. Four key recommendations are offered for an action-oriented transformation of the nursing profession to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the American public, including nursing scope of practice, education levels, full partners in healthcare redesign, and workforce planning and policy. The evidence calls for nurses to serve as visionary leaders and participants in broad clinical and policy arenas along with executives, researchers, regulators, academia, and philanthropic and governmental organizations. Study recommendations have implications for all stakeholders in healthcare, including nurses caring for patients with obesity.","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"6 1","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2011.9980","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60818271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From the Bedside to the Bed and Back Again: A Bariatric Journey","authors":"Michelle M. Jones","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2011.9986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2011.9986","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"6 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2011.9986","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60818340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interagency Collaboration: A Strategy for Obesity Policy Success","authors":"Bobby Lowery","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9989","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The obesity epidemic has moved obesity policy to the forefront of the national healthcare agenda. Broad-based stakeholder and interagency involvement can lead to confusion regarding the role of nursing, and the focus and process of sound policies in obesity management. While nursing is one of the most trusted and ethical of all professions, public perception is that nurses are largely absent in the policy arena. Nurses have a professional responsibility to advocate for clients in the policy process as well as in the clinical care of obese clients, including the removal of barriers to effective obesity management. Societal norms policy focuses on secondary and tertiary interventions while devaluing primary interventions through nonsustainable reimbursement levels, and a lack of integration of evidence-based obesity management in interdisciplinary healthcare educational curricula serves as a barrier to effective obesity policy. Empowered with knowledge of the policy process and interagency collabor...","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"331-334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9989","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical Considerations in Cancer Care: Size and Weight as a Threat to Access","authors":"S. Gallagher","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9993","url":null,"abstract":"Access as an ethical term is derived from the ethical principle of justice and discussed within the framework of just distribution healthcare goods and services. Access to healthcare is thought to hold special moral importance, and the threat to access among certain special patient populations is of concern. Further, the link between obesity and certain cancers is presented along with specific strategies to overcome access barriers to prevention, early detection, treatment, and follow-up care, acknowledging weight and size as realistic barriers. A case study is included herein.","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"285-287"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9993","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of an Integrated Model to Predict Behavior in the Bariatric Surgery Population","authors":"Kristen G. Barbee","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9997","url":null,"abstract":"Obesity is a complex chronic condition that affects over half of adult Americans. One weight loss option is weight loss surgery; however, surgery does not guarantee that the weight loss is permanent. The patient must adhere to the post-operative treatment regimen in order to maintain the weight loss. Adherence to the post-operative diet and exercise prescriptions is multifactorial; there is no one variable that can predict post-operative behavior. Discovering the salient beliefs and attitudes of these patients is necessary in order to design pre-operative and post-operative programs aimed at increasing adherence; however, this can be daunting unless guided by a theory or model. Using an integrated behavioral model to help determine the patient's salient attitudes and beliefs can assist bariatric nurses in tailoring pre-operative and post-operative interventions aimed at maximizing long-term weight loss and preventing weight regain. This integrated model is described and evaluated for use in the bariatric ...","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"289-292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9997","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is Overweight or Obese Status an Independent Prognostic Factor in Various Solid Organ Cancers","authors":"Michelle Bedor-Turner, A. Choflet","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9990","url":null,"abstract":"While obesity has been found to be a risk factor for several types of cancer, its use as a prognostic tool is unclear. The authors have reviewed literature interrogating the link between overweight status and obesity and cancer prognosis for five distinct solid organ malignancies: colon, breast, ovarian, lung, and renal. There appears to be a positive correlation between overnutrition and poor prognosis in breast and colon cancer. Similarly, there may well be a survival advantage for overweight or obese patients with newly diagnosed renal cell carcinoma and smoking-associated lung cancer. The relationship between ovarian cancer and obesity is less clear, as is the relationship between lung cancer in never/scant-smokers and obesity.","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"293-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9990","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Passing the Torch","authors":"L. Rowen, Renay Tyler, L. Gould","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9999","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"269-269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient Characteristics Associated with a Successful Weight Loss after Bariatric Surgery","authors":"B. Nelbom, L. Navér, S. Ladelund, N. Hornnes","doi":"10.1089/BAR.2010.9994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1089/BAR.2010.9994","url":null,"abstract":"Purpose: We aimed at identifying patient characteristics associated with successful outcomes of bariatric surgery. Methods: From January 25, 2007, to January 30, 2008, we consecutively enrolled patients referred to a Copenhagen hospital for bariatric surgery. We used the Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaire of the Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) and the Moorehead-Ardelt Quality of Life Questionnaire II (M-A QolQII). A successful outcome was defined as ≥50% excess weight loss (EWL) at 12 months after surgery. Data were collected at baseline and 6 and 12 months after surgery. Results: We enrolled 100 of 101 eligible patients, of which 89 had a gastric bypass operation. As only 11 patients had a gastric banding, we refrained from analysis of characteristics associated with weight loss in these patients. One year after surgery, 76 patients (87%) had achieved a successful weight loss. The mean EWL was 64%, ranging from 30% to 113%. Lower baseline values of Body Mass Index (BMI), percentage of exces...","PeriodicalId":55589,"journal":{"name":"Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care","volume":"5 1","pages":"313-319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1089/BAR.2010.9994","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60815305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}