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The evaluation of service-learning as an innovative strategy to enhance BSN students' transcultural self-efficacy
Leaders in nursing education have been challenged to make curricula changes to prepare students to provide culturally competent nursing care. The need to prepare culturally competent nurses has become even more critical ... -
Growing a professional identity: A grounded theory of the educational experience of baccalaureate nursing students
Nursing students experience high levels of stress while enrolled in baccalaureate nursing programs. Research has focused on the contributors of stress such as the responsibilities of patient care, the overwhelming amount ... -
Information literacy: Correlation of self-efficacy and proficiency
Information literacy (IL) is a vital component in evidenced-based practice (EBP) due to its role in research utilization. The literature review indicated that undergraduate college students could harbor negative perceptions ... -
Approaches to studying and study tactics of baccalaureate nursing students
This research was designed to describe study approaches and study tactics used by baccalaureate nursing students. Previous inquiry indicates that students will take a Deep, Strategic, or Surface approach to studying and ... -
Understanding the undergraduate experience of the baccalaureate nursing student with English as an additional language
Disparities exist in healthcare related to language barriers and lack of cultural understanding between caregivers and recipients. Increasing the linguistic and cultural diversity of caregivers may decrease the healthcare ... -
The significance of continuing education on the intention of advanced practice registered nurses to report child maltreatment
The Centers for Disease Control have recognized child maltreatment as a national epidemic that calls for healthcare providers to focus on early identification and prevention of violence against children. Even though society ... -
Sex, drugs, and religion: A multi-ethnic analysis of health behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions of childbearing women
Maternal health behaviors such as substance use and sexual promiscuity can put the health of mothers and their offspring at risk. Sociodemographic factors such as low socioeconomic status are also found to correlate with ... -
Experiencing narrative pedagogy
The role of the nurse has changed dramatically in the past twenty years with increasing complexity of patient care and a rapidly changing health care environment. In addition to the challenges noted regarding patient care, ... -
BE RESILIENT: Examining the relationship between staff nurse incivility and undergraduate nursing students' sense of belonging to the nursing profession
Background: Sense of belonging is essential for nursing students to develop and grow within the nursing profession. Unfortunately, incivility threatens the sense of belonging in nursing students. Purpose: The purpose of ... -
A grounded theory study of nurse advocacy in health policy
The purpose of this study is to explore how effectively nurses function as advocates in the federal health policy process, understanding their perspectives, their strategies, and tactics. This study examined how nurses in ... -
Self-care agency and self-care practice of adult African Americans with type 2 diabetes
The purpose of the study was to identify and examine the concepts of self-care agency and self-care practice of African American adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, living in the local community. The research questions ... -
Reducing violence in the emergency department, improving perception of safety: An aggression prevention team approach
Problem Statement and Purpose: Acts of aggression towards nurses has reached never-before-seen levels in Emergency Departments (ED) across the United States (US), and it increases by 15% or more every year. Nurses and ED ... -
The experience of nursing care for female Medicaid recipients
This phenomenological study is guided by a feminist-informed critical theory for the purpose of exploring the experiences of nursing care for female Medicaid recipients. The goals of this research were to understand how ... -
National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN®) success: Perceptions of accelerated second-degree Bachelor of Science in nursing students
Most of the 50 states in the United States (U.S.) will experience a significant nursing shortage by the year 2030. Research finds that a bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) workforce is associated with better outcomes, ... -
The impact of cancer caregiving on cancer caregivers: Stories of lives in transition
The purpose of the study was to examine the impact of cancer caregiving on primary caregivers, exploring their personal narratives looking back on the entire experience from diagnosis, through treatment, and beyond. ... -
The lived experience of giving spiritual care
Health care researchers have suggested a correlation between better mental and physical health and a person's spirituality or religious practices (Koenig, 2002). Indeed, using spiritual and religious resources gives patients ... -
The influence of selected societal, institutional, and individual characteristics on nurses' and physicians' pain management knowledge
Most pain can be relieved safely and effectively, yet undertreatment of acute and cancer pain persists. This gap between knowledge and practice is due, in part, to clinicians' lack of pain management knowledge, the absence ... -
Phenomenological study of nurses' perceptions and lived experiences of quality and safety
Maintaining quality and safety has become one of the major problems of healthcare organizations affecting patient satisfaction scores. Nurses are essential in promoting quality and safety. To achieve quality and safety, ... -
Experiences of African American students in pre-licensure schools of nursing: A qualitative descriptive study
Despite more than 40 years of research and governmental support, African Americans continue to be underrepresented in the nursing profession compared to the population it serves. Though some progress has been made over the ... -
Complementary and alternative modalities used by women with female-specific cancers
In this cross-sectional, retrospective, explanatory secondary analysis of the 2002 National Health Interview Survey, complementary and alternative modality (CAM) use and high-risk CAM use by women with female-specific ...
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