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(NOC), and the Nursing Interventions Classification Adult children with the following:
(NIC) (Johnson, Moorhead, Bulechek, et al., 2012) • Cerebral palsy (Masterson, 2010; Wee, 2010)
provide educational applications for undergraduate
nursing students and educators—for nursing students Continuing Education
learning clinical decision processes and for nurse Several authors used the consortium’s work on
educators designing curricula and teaching clinical chronic sorrow in articles, offered for continuing
decision processes. Moreover, the linkages focus care education credit at the time of publishing for clini-
planning on outcomes, an essential step in teaching cians who work with families with chronically ill
evidence-based practice (Pesut & Herman, 1998). members (Doornbos, 1997; Hobdell, Grant, Valencia,
et al., 2007; Mallow & Bechtel, 1999; Meleski, 2002;
Graduate Research Education: Nursing Melnyk, Feinstein, Moldenhouer, et al., 2001).
The use of the NCRCS’s theoretical work in unpub- Drench’s (2003) course for physical therapists and
lished master’s theses and doctoral dissertations and in physical therapy assistants presented content on loss
dissertation-related articles is evidence of graduate and grief that included the NCRCS’s work.
nursing education use. Studies are listed as follows and
are categorized according to graduate level and topic.
• Master’s theses Research
• Chronic sorrow in mothers of chronically ill A review of published research that used the
children (Golden, 1994; Shumaker, 1995) NCRCS’s work reveals that researchers have
• Doctoral dissertations extended the work through studies conducted with
• Parental caregivers of children with special representative populations studied previously and
health care needs (Kelly, 2010) with new populations.
• Women who are treated for cancer and experi- Extensions of NCRCS populations are listed as follows:
enced fertility problems and/or premature • Multiple sclerosis—individuals and caregivers
menopause (Hunter, 2010) (Isaksson, Gunnarsson, & Ahlstrom, 2007; Isaks-
• Development of the Kendall Chronic Sorrow son & Ahlström, 2008; Liedstrom, Isaksson, &
Instrument to screen for and measure the expe- Ahlstrom, 2008)
rience of chronic sorrow (Kendall, 2005) • Neural tube defects—parental caregivers (Hobdell,
2004)
Graduate Research Education: Other • Bereavement—parents following stillbirth (Erland-
Disciplines sson, Saflund, Wredling, et al., 2011)
Graduate students in other professional disciplines, Extensions of NCRCS work to new populations are
including education, social work, psychology, educa- listed as follows:
tion, and family life have conducted dissertational Individuals:
studies using the NCRCS’s work. These unpublished • Who have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
studies, listed as follows according to topic, hold (Lichtenstein, Laska, & Clair, 2002; Ingram &
interdisciplinary relevance for nursing practice. Hutchinson, 1999)
• Individuals with the following: • Who are female victims of child abuse (Smith,
• Chronic back pain (Blair, 2010) 2007; 2009)
• Infertility (Casale, 2009) Family caregivers of children with the following:
• Bipolar disorder (Freedberg, 2011) • Asthma (Maltby, Kristjanson, & Coleman, 2003)
• Family caregivers of the following: • Diabetes (Bowes, Lowes, Warner, et al., 2009;
Young and adolescent children with: Lowes & Lyne, 2000)
• Multiple disabilities (Parrish, 2010); a signifi- • Disabilities (Mallow & Bechtel, 1999; Patrick-Ott
cant disability (Patrick-Ott & Ladd, 2010); & Ladd, 2010)
special health care needs (Kelly, 2010) • Epilepsy (Hobdell, Grant, Valencia, et al., 2007)
• Chronic mental illness (Davis, 2006) • HIV (Mawn, 2012)
• Autism (Collins, 2008; Monsson, 2010) • Sickle cell disease (Northington, 2000)