Browsing by Subjects (CINAHL) "Perception"
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The admission and discharge nurse role: A quality initiative to optimize unit utilization, patient satisfaction, and nurse perceptions of collaboration
(2016-06-15)Registered nurses are at the frontline of the hospital admission and discharge process. Efficiency and collaboration during these processes are critical to the patient care experience and the promotion of safe, high quality ... -
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 ... -
Adolescents' responses to single mothers' chronic physical illness
The purpose of this study was to describe selected concepts of adolescents living with a single, chronically physically ill mother and to examine the self-concept of these adolescents and the relationship of the self-concept ... -
An analysis of a governance model in nursing service
The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of governance type on culture, nurse work satisfaction, nurse retention, and patient satisfaction with care in acute care hospitals. A theoretically derived path ... -
Breast cancer risk perception, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and screening behaviors of Chamorro women in Guam
Background: Breast cancer is a serious public health issue in Guam and in the world. Chamorro women in Guam have the highest incidence and mortality rates of breast cancer among other ethnic groups of women living in Guam. ... -
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 ... -
Coping with appraised threat of breast cancer: Primary prevention coping behaviors utilized by women at increased risk
Breast cancer affects nearly one in nine women and is a leading cause of cancer related deaths among this group. Yet, little is known about how high risk women deal with this health threat. Conceptualized within the Neuman ... -
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ... -
Culture, sex & perceptions of HIV risk among ethnic groups from the African Diaspora
(2016-03-17)Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015: Purpose: Much of the epidemiological data of HIV infection trends among black men and women in the United States is reported using historical racial classifications only. There ... -
Differences in the frequency of use of breast cancer control methods in Black and white women: An application of the Health Belief Model
The purposes of this study were to describe differences in the frequency of use of breast cancer control methods (mammogram (MAM), clinical breast examination (CBE), and breast self-examination (BSE)) and health beliefs ... -
The effect of social support on women's perception of perimenstrual changes
The unidimensional approach that has dominated research on premenstrual syndrome (PMS) has been remiss in visualizing the diversity of factors that may be involved in women's menstrual cycle experiences. Traditional menstrual ... -
Exploring student perceptions of retention issues in a 3-year baccalaureate-level nursing program
The nursing shortage, a major concern for the United States, has a multitude of causative factors. Nursing education has been tasked with helping to decrease the shortage of qualified registered nurses. Poor retention of ... -
Factors related to self-care agency and self-care practices of obese adolescents
Identification of factors that influence obese adolescents' health behaviors is necessary if obese adolescents are to benefit from therapeutic interventions. The purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to ... -
Families' perceptions on immunodeficiency virus HIV/AIDS phenomenon and its impact on family functioning of Puerto Rican families with children: A grounded approach
The purpose of this study was to generate a detailed description of Puerto Rican families' perceptions of their experiences and processes of functioning when the HIV/AIDS phenomenon is present in the family unit. The sample ... -
Family experiences with long-term childhood technology dependence: An interpretive interactionist approach
Increased numbers of children who are technology-dependent are now being cared for at home by parents and other caregivers. However, there is inadequate understanding of the daily lives of families who care for ... -
Family health in the families of the young chronically mentally ill
Although the family plays a major role in the care of young adults with serious and persistent mental illness, there has been limited research on the impact of these ongoing caregiving responsibilities on the health of the ... -
Gaining a voice: A study of the breastfeeding experiences of a select group of educated, low-income, minority women supported by peer counselors
This grounded theory study describes the experiences of a small select group of educated, low-income, culturally diverse women who were supported by peer counselors/breastfeeding advocates in their communities as they ... -
Home apnea monitoring: Family functioning, concerns, and coping
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death in infants between one week and one year of age. The mainstay of therapy to reduce SIDS mortality is evaluation and subsequent home monitoring of infants ... -
The impact of stress, coping, constructive thinking and hardiness on health and academic performance of female registered nurse students pursuing a baccalaureate degree in nursing
The purpose of this study was to test a theoretically-derived model of hardiness, constructive thinking, coping complexity and perceived stress level in predicting academic performance and perceived health status among ... -
An investigation of the relationship of nurses’ perceptions of human resource practices and autonomy in practice and patients’ perceptions of satisfaction with nursing care and organizational climate for service
This study developed and tested theory to better understand the marketing construct of service quality, in a hospital setting. Marketing theory proposed that positive relationships exist between patients' perceptions of ...