Psychiatric nurses have a level of responsibility for everyone residing on the unit, which contributes to the need to nurse the population on the unit as a whole. Because the knowledge base regarding psychiatric nursing interventions in acute care settings is limited, this hermeneutic phenomenological study explored psychiatric nurses' experiences in providing nursing interventions to adult clients in acute care settings. Six expert psychiatric nurses were recruited through purposive, snowball sampling and were interviewed individually to gain a rich understanding of the psychiatric nursing interventions they provided to adult clients in acute care mental health settings. Analysis of the data revealed themes of awareness and person-centered care. This article focuses on the theme of Awareness , with subthemes of self-awareness , awareness of the client , and situational awareness . Situational awareness in psychiatric nursing has remained generally unexplored, and this research adds to the current knowledge base. Implications for practice, research, and education are discussed. [ Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 57 (9), 17–23.]

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This article reports on a workshop in which participants identified sources of data on rural aging. Such sources are typically part of larger data collection efforts or special aging studies with large rural components. Finding and using data on rural aging are not only two different processes but they also face somewhat different obstacles and the solutions are likewise different. The workshop addressed both of these issues. Participants shared many innovative and creative means for collecting, finding and adapting more general data sources, and analyzing and using these data, to further our understanding of rural aging phenomena.

RÉSUMÉL'objet de Community Resources for Older Adults: Programs and Services in an Era of Change est d'offrir un aperçu des ressources communautaires dont les aînés américains peuvent se prévaloir à l'heure actuelle. L'ouvrage décrit le continuum des services et fournit d'excellents exemples de pratiques exemplaires en vigueur en Amérique. Chaque chapitre étudie les enjeux que présente le maintien des programmes et propose des orientations pour l'avenir. Les activités d'apprentissage génériques et les études de cas facilitent le passage de la théorie à la pratique. On regrette toutefois que l'ouvrage ne parle pas des contextes et programmes d'autres pays, cela aurait permis de faire des comparaisons internationales et aurait intéressé un public plus nombreux.