Browsing by Department "Nursing"
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A Comparison Of Traditional Face-To-Face And Hybrid Pediatrics and Obstetrical Nursing Courses
Distance learning is rapidly spreading across various institutions as a main methodology in the delivery of curriculum. As schools of nursing are faced with mandates to increase enrollment to meet the demands of the nursing ... -
A Correlational Study of the Relationship between Human Caring and Nursing Home Administrator Turnover
Many nursing homes in the United States are experiencing a significant state of fluctuation in nursing home staff which is believed to have contributed to a “dysfunctional” crisis. There are reports of substantial nursing ... -
A Naturalistic Inquiry into the Experiences of Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics Who Become Registered Nurses
The United States has been faced with a nursing shortage for many decades (ANA, 2017). The increasing age of nursing faculty, the aging population, and retirement of bedside nurses further diminish the nursing workforce ... -
A Naturalistic Inquiry Into the Lived Experience of Nurse Practitioners Who Have Full Practice Authority
(2023-05-01)Full Practice Authority (FPA) is one of three types of practice authority that a nurse practitioner (NP) can obtain through state licensure, depending on the state where the NP plans to practice. The American Academy of ... -
A Naturalistic Inquiry of Nigerian Immigrant Nursing Students’ Experiences in United States (U.S.) Baccalaureate Nursing Programs
(2020-05-01)Nigerian immigrant nursing students have been identified in the literature as having difficulty in making a transition to the teaching methods used in nursing programs in the U.S. Among the problems they experience are ... -
An Ethnographic Study of Women Using HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Methodg
The purpose of this ethnography was to explore the values, beliefs and perinatal practices of women, who utilized HypnoBirthing. The aim was to explain the culture of HypnoBirthing through women’s perceptions of their ... -
An Exploration of School Nurses' Perspectives in Caring for Homeless Children
(2020-05-01)Naturalistic inquiry methodology was incorporated into a qualitative study designed to explore the experiences and perceptions of school nurses working with homeless, elementary school-aged children. The researcher employed ... -
An Exploratory Study of Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Perceptions of and Advocacy Responses to Ethical Issues in Securing Informed Consent in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients
The purpose of the study was to explore pediatric oncology nurses’ perceptions of ethical issues that may arise in the process of obtaining informed consent in adolescent and young adult patients (aged 16-24 years) who ... -
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of the Baby and Mother Bonding Initiative (BAMBI) in Previously Incarcerated Mothers
There has been a dramatic increase in the number of women who have been incarcerated in prisons across the United States during the past decade and the fastest growing segment are women of childbearing age (Zust, Busiahn, ... -
Associations in Nurses’ Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture Within the Hospital Setting: A Secondary Analysis of the 2018 HSOPS Database
Within the hospital setting there continues to be concerns around a lack of effective leadership that cultivates a patient safety culture, which includes leaders’ insufficient support of patient safety event reporting, ... -
Behaving Collaboratively and Getting Along: A Classical Grounded Theory of Certified Nurse Midwives Collaborating With Physicians in U.S. Hospitals
(2013-06-03)This dissertation is a classical grounded theory study that examines how certified nurse midwives perceive their collaborative role as they work with physicians in U.S. hospitals. The most common reason for hospitalization ... -
Being Heard: A Classical Grounded Theory Exploring the Experiences of Bedside Nurses Working in Children's Hospitals with Established Shared Governance Models
This Classical Grounded Theory (CGT) study explored the experiences of bedside nurses working in children’s hospitals where shared governance (SG) has been in place for at least four years. Shared governance is a professional ... -
Belief systems and patient care: An examination of the relationship between nurse religiosity and end-of-life care
(2007-07-23)Much has been written about nurses’ responsibility to support patients’ spiritual needs. A plethora of literature explores patient religiosity and its effect on their approach and/or response to health care issues. ... -
Certified Nurse Midwives' Barriers Toward Sexual Health Screening Practices
Sexuality and sexual heath are important components of general health screenings. Reports of sexual health screening practices are limited to physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners. No research exists to describe ... -
Characteristics of a healing environment as described by expert nurses who practice within the conceptual framework of Rogers’ Science of Unitary Human Beings: A qualitative study\r\n
(2008-02-14)The purpose of this study was to identify and describe characteristics of a healing environment from a nursing perspective. This qualitative study was conducted using an interpretive descriptive method consistent with a ... -
\"Coming To terms\": A grounded theory of dementia caregivers' journeys and expectations of care
(2008-02-26)“Coming to Terms” presents the subjective narratives of family members about what constitutes quality long-term care (LTC) for loved-ones with dementia. It uses those narratives to develop a grounded theory of shared ... -
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and School Nursing: A Non-Experimental Quantitative Study
(2023-05-01)Underlying the healthy learning environments of our nation’s schools are students who are unwillingly entangled in the darkness of a form of human trafficking known as commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). ... -
Comparing diabetes self-care activities and health promotion lifestyles among South Asian women with new and established Type 2 Diabetes diagnoses
Abstract The South Asian population is one of the fastest growing minority groups in the US, has a high prevalence of diabetes mellitus and the highest rate of cardiovascular disease in the world. Although men and women ... -
Comparison of perceived stress, allostatic load and racial discrimination in different cultural groups of pregnant black women
(2008-07-07)Over 26 billion healthcare dollars are spent annually in the United States on the management of pre-term labor and the care of infants born prematurely. Studies have found that elevated levels of stress and anxiety during ... -
Constructing the Cornerstones for C.A.T.E.S.
Constructing the Cornerstones for C.A.T.E.S. Publication No._____________ Leigh Ann Cates, PhD The University of Texas Medical Branch, 2014 Supervisor: Sheryl L. Bishop The objective of this study was to establish ...