Browsing by Research Approach "Mixed/Multi Method Research"
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Access: Effects of a State-funded Policy in One Community
America is in the midst of a health care crisis, and access to health care is a significant problem. As this crisis has escalated with little response from the federal government, state governments have begun to respond. ... -
Adolescent resilience following parental death in childhood and its relationship to parental attachment and coping
Adolescent resilience following loss has been linked with supportive social relationships and coping. Retrospective studies have found that parental death during childhood has been a risk factor for serious mental health ... -
African-American Baccalaureate Nursing Students' Perceptions of Nursing Programs and Factors That Support or Restrict Academic Success
The nursing literature is limited in reporting African-American nursing students' perceptions of nursing programs and factors that are viewed as supportive of or restrictive to academic success in this selected population. ... -
The Art of Clinical Supervision Program for Registered Nurses
(2017-08-25)Nursing students’ clinical placements should provide an environment in which they can apply their nursing education in the fast-paced world of health care and develop a framework for practice. Students rely on effective ... -
Assessing Facilitating Factors and Barriers to Body Mass Index Screening Among School Nurses
Child obesity among school age children is epidemic in the United States (U.S.). A critical review of literature was completed that concluded that Body Mass Index (BMI) screening for early identification and growth ... -
Automated medication dispensing cabinet and medication errors
The number of deaths due to medical errors in hospitals ranges from 44,000 to 98,000 yearly. More than 7,000 of these deaths have taken place due to medication errors. This project evaluated the implementation of an automated ... -
Baby Doll Therapy in Dementia Patients
(2014-05-09)Executive Summary Dementia is a condition exhibited by emotional and physical states such as anxiety, agitation, sleeplessness, inability to care for oneself, wandering, defiant and sometimes violent behavior, and other ... -
Barriers to and facilitators of initiation and retention in behavioral health services in Cape May County, New Jersey
(2018-06-05)Mental illness is shown to increase healthcare costs and decrease quality and length of life. Barriers to access care must be removed in order to help increase access to vital behavioral health services. This project is a ... -
Barriers to Prenatal Care in Low-income Women
The purposes of this study were to: investigate barriers to prenatal care, both structural and psychosocial; test the Pender Health Promotion Model and the Triandis Model of Social Behavior to determine their effectiveness ... -
Basic Knowledge in Critical Care: A Comparison of Experienced and Newly Graduated Nurses Augmented with an Examination of Newly Graduated Nurses? Experience Making Clinical Judgments
Newly graduated nurses (NGNs) are thrust into roles that some purport they are inadequately prepared to handle. Studies found that 4% of NGNs were comfortable with their skills, it took up to one year to feel competent and ... -
Building self-care competencies for stress management in nursing students
The health and wellness of college students continues to be a growing concern. In 2018, the American College Health Association found 59% of college students report feeling high levels of stress in the past 12 months. ... -
Can a patient-centred pressure injury prevention care bundle increase patient participation and reduce pressure injuries; An implementation study
Preventing hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPI) in patients is a key quality of care and safety goal for healthcare organisations and clinicians. Nurses implement numerous pressure injury prevention (PIP) strategies ... -
Caring and Transformation in Oncology Nursing Administration: Paradigms of Leadership
Caring has a history of being central to nursing and has long been held to be an essential component of the clinical practice of nurses involved in direct patient care activities. While nurse administrators have been ... -
Carving a Niche for Australian Practice Nurses in Chronic Heart Failure Management
Chronic and complex conditions are a significant concern within contemporary health care systems. The ageing population and improvements in survival from acute cardiac illness have seen an increasing incidence of heart ... -
Challenges of Customizing ECG Alarm Settings in Intensive Care Units: A Mixed Methods Study
(2018-03-22)Background: Alarm fatigue is a well-established patient safety concern in acute care settings. One mechanism for reducing this phenomenon and improving patient care is customization of alarm settings to reflect individual ... -
Chronicling resident and staff outcomes throughout the implementation of a professional nursing practice model in one Midwest continuing care retirement community: A longitudinal analysis
This research used a case study approach to chronicle the process of seeking the American Nurse Credentialing Center's Pathway to Excellence in Long-Term Care designation in one Midwest community. The PTE-LTC practice ... -
Collaborative Practice by Nurse Practitioners and Physicians in Long-term Care Homes: A Mixed Methods Study
Purpose. To understand how nurse practitioners (NPs) and physicians (MDs) collaborate with one another to provide resident care in Ontario long-term care homes (LTCHs). Methods. A sequential two-phase, mixed methods ... -
College smoking and psychosocial correlates among college students
While the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adolescents and adults declined in the 1990's, smoking among college students rose nearly 30%. Relatively little research has explored smoking determinants among this at-risk ... -
Combating Compassion Fatigue and Burnout through Wellness Activities
(2016-06-22)Health care workers have one of the most demanding professions. They are expected to work long hours while demonstrating compassion and care for the patients that they serve (Greshon, 2014). These expectations create ... -
Comparison of nursing student academic achievement and satisfaction based on face-to-face interaction versus distance education in teaching therapeutic crisis management techniques
Nursing education today is very different with advances in science and technology. Nurse educators are using distance education in an effort to offer students the ability to practice varying skills in a safe non-threatening ...
