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Nursing Chronotherapeutics: A Conceptual Framework
Author(s) -
Westfall Una E.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00738.x
Subject(s) - nursing , medicine , psychology
Nurses frequently make decisions about when treatments and actions are performed. The nursing concern driving this review is the timing of nursing activities to optimize desired and minimize untoward effects. A nursing conceptual framework is proposed that highlights individual andenvironmental factors, as they relate to rhythmic responses, as well as places within the framework for nursing actions based on customary and usual temporal patterns.