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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Creating Shared Meaning between Nurses and Physicians in the Nursing Home
(2017-01-27)Summary of project aims The aims of this pilot study were as follows: (a) to examine the design and utility of an intervention based on the Sensemaking model, and (b) to examine communication between nurses and physicians ... -
Developing a Global Education Program to Increase Empowerment for Frontline Nurse Leaders
Frontline Leaders (FLs) or charge nurses (CNs) are pivotal in managing patient throughput, staffing ratios, responding to patient and family concerns, collaborating with staff or interdepartmental colleagues, and coaching ... -
Effectiveness and Cost Efficiency of Interventions in Health Promotion
There is a general lack of evidence of the efficacy and cost efficiency of interventions in the area of health promotion. The lack of evidence is frequently cited as a reason programs are not adopted. Resources are limited, ... -
The Effects of Pattern Recognition Based Simulation Scenarios on Symptom Recognition of Myocardial Infarction, Critical Thinking, Clinical Decision-making, and Clinical Judgment in Nursing Students
In the United States nearly 1 million annual new and recurrent myocardial infarctions (MI) occur with 10% of patients hospitalized with MI having unrecognized ischemic symptoms. Inexperienced nurses are expected to accurately ... -
Effects of Virtual Reality on Symptom Distress in Children Receiving Cancer Chemotherapy
The objective of this study was to test the premise that virtual reality, as a developmentally appropriate distraction intervention, mitigates chemotherapy related symptom distress in older children with cancer aged ... -
Emergency and SANE Nurses' Acceptance of Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault Myths
(2017-03-24)Sexual assault is a pervasive problem in our society. Acceptance of rape myths, such as a believe that rape victims who are intoxicated deserve to be assaulted, adversely affect victims and discourage reporting for ... -
Evaluation of a School Nurse-Led Obesity Program for Severely Obese New York City Public School Students
(2016-10-07)The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to evaluate the Healthy Options and Physical Activity Program (HOP), a school nurse-led childhood obesity initiative for severely obese New York City Public School students. Aims ... -
Evaluation of COMFORT in Strengthening Family Communication Skills
(2016-06-02)The purpose of this project was to evaluate the effectiveness of a COMFORT communication strategy that combines a didactic and simulated experience to strengthen perceived confidence and competence of advance practice ... -
Examining Bolivian Nurses Readiness to Engage in Evidence-based Practice
Evidence-based nursing practice can promote sustainable health care and contribute to reducing health inequities in underprivileged countries such as Bolivia. Bolivia’s health care service utilization among the poorest is ... -
Examining the Impact of Sociocultural Influences, Psychosocial Stressors, and Cognitive Vulnerabilities on Development of Depressive Symptoms in Hispanic Adolescents
(2015-02-04)The purpose of this study was to examine individual- and contextual- level factors associated with the development of depressive symptoms in Hispanic adolescents in order to identify salient risk factors to target in the ... -
The Experience of Recurrent Breast Cancer: A Case Study
The purposes of this study were to describe, in-depth, the experience of recurrent breast cancer and to explore methodologies consistent with a conceptual orientation based in the Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ... -
Experiences of Caregivers of Dementia Patients with an Integrated Primary Care Model
Few U.S. dementia care programs are led by advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), including a dementia patient-centered medical home, the Integrated Memory Care Clinic (IMCC) at Emory Healthcare. To our best knowledge, ...