Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Nurses"
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Being-With Dying: Tacit Wisdom Embedded in the Experiences of Nurses Who Attend to Dying
(2017-11-27)Dying persons and their family members have needs that are notably unidentified and unmet in the United States today. This is in large part due to health professionals' being unprepared to provide end of life care that ... -
Character and Ethical Behavior of Nurses
The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among personal normative characteristics, personal descriptive characteristics, and ethical behavior of nurses in practice. Little is known about the place of virtue ... -
Development and evaluation of an instrument to measure parental trust in nurses
The purpose of this study was to develop and test an instrument to measure parents' trust in nurses. The conceptual framework for the Parental Trust in Nurses Scale (P-TINS) included four dimensions of parental trust--generalized ... -
Effect of patient handoff methods on nurse self-efficacy
1. Patients experience multiple transitions in care between nursing providers (handoffs) during hospitalization. Handoffs are opportunities for communication errors to occur. 2. Patient handoffs between the post-anesthesia ... -
Examining Nurse Satisfaction with a Bedside Handover Report Process
(2018-05-09)Nurses’ job satisfaction affects work performance at the point of care in hospitals. The incoming nurses who are able to receive a comprehensive patient report at shift change are more prepared in comparison to incoming ... -
"Hinabing Ugnayan": Nature of caring among Filipino nurses working with children
(2017-12-04)This study, rooted on the phenomenological philosophy, explored the nature of caring among Filipino nurses working with children. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were carefully chosen based on ... -
Missionary nurse Dorothy Davis Cook, 1940-1972: "Mother of Swazi nurses"
Dramatically absent from nursing's historical knowledge and professional recognition are the lives, roles, contributions, and legacies of Christian faith-based nurses. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ... -
Nurses' experience of compassion
The phenomenon of interest in this study was the nurse's experience of compassion. Nurses derive their professional purpose in serving society. Society expects a nurse to possess the attribute of compassion, but it is ... -
Nurses' negotiation processes in facilitating ethical decision-making in patient care
The literature on ethical decision-making by nurses presents both prescriptive and descriptive decision-making models. The processes nurses use to move through the step-wise models has not been described. An atheoretical ... -
Predictors of Glove Use by Health Care Workers
The primary aim of this study was to identify predictors of health care workers' glove use related to protective behavior. The self-protection model, an adaptation of Ajzen's theory of planned behavior, investigated the ... -
Predictors of nurse adoption of a computerized information system as an innovation
Computerized information systems are viewed as innovations in the health care delivery system and are used by nurses to support the management of clinical and administrative information. The development, implementation and ... -
Public Policy Regarding Infant Mortality: Rhetorical Criticism of the Mass Media
Nurses interested in impacting the formation of policy must understand the multiple factors which influence the process. Mass communication is one important factor because it influences the creation and transmission of ... -
Relationships among nurses' professional identity, career satisfaction, occupational commitment, and intent to stay
The shortage of registered nurses (RNs) in the United States continues to be of major concern in the healthcare industry. This shortage is expected to intensify as the current workforce ages, the general population ages, ... -
Women as subjects, consumers, and thought leaders of media
(2018-05-09)Parallel event presentation from the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women that took place at the United Nations headquarters in New York, NY, United States from 12 to 23 March 2018. This presentation references Sigma's ... -
The Woodhull study on nursing and the media: Health care's invisible partner: Final report
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 1997)This important study analyzes 20,000 articles (2,600 health articles) published in 16 US newspapers, magazines and health trade publications in September 1997. Less than 1% of the articles in the magazines US News & ...
