Group: King International Nursing Grouphttp://hdl.handle.net/10755/6225622024-02-07T05:22:10Z2024-02-07T05:22:10ZInteractions in the patient room system – A spatial sociological analysisMeßner, Alexanderhttp://hdl.handle.net/10755/235792023-11-28T00:00:22Z<p><span lang="EN-US">This thesis aimed to identify and analyze the formation and characteristics of spaces within patient clinic rooms. Space was defined sociologically as arrangements of objects and living beings (Löw, 2001, p 271) and as a physical territory essential for interactions in King's theory of goal attainment (King, 1981, p. 149).</span></p>
Professional Role Identity Formation Theory: Implications for professional role clarity and nurse work engagement in the current public health crisisO'Rourke, Maria W.http://hdl.handle.net/10755/223572022-01-19T18:00:59Z<p>This presentation describes Professional Role Identity Formation Theory as a theoretical explanation of professional role identity formation. It advances knowledge about the process by which individuals become attracted to professional work and the discipline of nursing. It provides structure and process for exploring the source of one’s professional role clarity and for developing a professional practice based on a well-grounded understanding of professional role expectations and obligations. The professional role clarity lens addresses the internal and external influences that can impact career decisions.</p>
An educational approach to improve student nurses' breastfeeding knowledge, level of confidence, and role modelingPress, Estellehttp://hdl.handle.net/10755/223432023-09-18T19:44:53Z<p>Breastfeeding is the method of infant feeding recommended by many professional medical and nursing organizations. Despite these recommendations, we are not meeting our national breastfeeding goals. Recommending exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and continued breastfeeding for at least the first year is recognized as a national health priority. A key contributing factor leading to low breastfeeding rates is the lack of adequate breastfeeding training in nursing education. Nursing graduates entering the workforce are not prepared to support breastfeeding mothers due to ineffective breastfeeding education. This may result in major obstacles to achieving national breastfeeding goals. The purpose of this pilot study was to describe the effects of an evidence-based breastfeeding education program on the breastfeeding knowledge, level of confidence, and role modeling of undergraduate nursing students. </p>
Applying a nursing theory to a theory of resilience to foster healing and recovery post-pandemicZahourek, Rothlyn P.http://hdl.handle.net/10755/222302022-11-10T19:48:39Z<p>How can nursing theories be used in the real world to address and combat the sequelae of the pandemic? Nurses have particularly suffered being continuously on the front line of exhausting and often heart breaking care of those with COVID-19. Resilience is understood as the psychological, physical, and spiritual capacity to cope with and integrate experiences of trauma and loss over time. The work of J.L. Griffith, The Hope Module (2017) can be compared and integrated with the nursing theory, Intentionality: the Matrix for Healing (IMH) (Zahourek, R.P. 2020) to foster interventions for recovery and healing from trauma. Intentionality is defined as the capacity for intention, actions and healing. Healing and change are dependent on intentionality. All individuals possess intentionality which is a dynamically differentiating matrix and capacity. It differentiates as the individual is in mutual process with the environment which includes others, events and the self. This differentiation includes meeting basic needs, practicing solutions and developing skills and finally an evolved self. Both the dynamic differentiation of intentionality and developing resilience are processes that depend on an evolving self-awareness, an appreciation for and integration of experiences, making meaning of experiences and sometimes a transformative spiritual awakening. Both processes imply that relationships with others as well as the self are crucial. Using these theoretical frameworks may help nurses, students, faculty and others suffering from the stressors of the pandemic to understand the nature and impact of trauma and to devise interventions that foster integration, making meaning of life experiences and subsequently counter post-traumatic stress and/or depression. How can we use our nursing theories in practice and education? Is there a value in comparing our theories with others in enhancing our understanding of phenomena and creating interventions?</p>
Health insurance, pediatric asthma and emergency department usage: A review of theory informed literatureMarye, Staceyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10755/222282021-11-11T20:03:22Z<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> The aim of this paper is to explore how type of insurance coverage affects emergency department usage for children in peer reviewed articles that utilized a theoretical framework.</p>
<p><strong>Methods:</strong> Search terms for this literature review reflected the age group significantly impacting asthma-related healthcare costs, a high-cost preventable health outcome, and third-party payment that implies socioeconomic status. To capture the ongoing effects of healthcare policy reform, inclusion criteria limited search results to peer reviewed research from the United States.</p>
<p><strong>Results:</strong> Previous literature suggests an association between type of insurance coverage, and actual or perceived barriers to care and health outcomes. However, no previous studies have demonstrated a direct link between client-provider interactions and the healthcare system as influenced by type of insurance. This paper reveals a gap in knowledge that may limit the development and expansion of efficient public health programs for asthmatic children.</p>
<p><strong>Discussion:</strong> Efficient public health nursing interventions may be enhanced by understanding the ecological interactions between the family of the asthmatic child and the healthcare system. Measuring personal, interpersonal and social systems variables described by King’s theory of goal attainment may reveal how type of health insurance affects interactions between the family and the healthcare system in the provision of care for children with asthma.</p>