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Facilitating student learning in the acute care setting: Nursing faculty perspectives
Nursing education programs are experiencing many trends impacting the preparation of students including a nursing faculty shortage and a lack of quality clinical sites. In addition, literature is finding new nurse graduates ... -
Facilitators and barriers to evidence-based cancer pain management
Evidence-based pain management (EBPM) is essential in relieving cancer pain. This dissertation explores nurse-level and organization-level factors for adopting, implementing, and sustaining EBPM practices. A descriptive ... -
Factors affecting health promotion behaviors among Korean immigrant women at midlife
There are many areas of women's health at midlife in which little is known, such as their health promotion practices and the subsequent effects on their health and longevity. The purpose of this study was to describe the ... -
Factors affecting nurses' intention to leave their primary nursing position
The United States is facing an imminent nurse staffing crisis. An aging workforce, an increasing elder population, and new staffing legislation have added to existing difficulties in retaining nurses. Retaining nurses is ... -
Factors affecting self-efficacy in caregivers of Latina breast cancer survivors
Introduction: Informal caregivers provide the bulk of care to individuals with chronic diseases, including cancer. There were 2.8 million informal caregivers of cancer survivors in the United States in 2015. Informal ... -
Factors affecting self-reported physical activity in children ages 10-12
This study examined the relationship between the current level of physical activity in older school-age children and their self-perception of what promotes and hinders their participation in physical activity. The study ... -
Factors affecting the outcome of the National Council Licensure Examination among nontraditional learners from associate degree nursing programs
Background: The composition of student population in higher education is a reflection of a globalized society and current socioeconomic conditions. Characteristics of nontraditional adult learners have a significant impact ... -
Factors affecting the relocation and transition of internationally educated nurses migrating to the United States of America
A paucity of research studies and systematic reviews have been conducted on IEN nurse migration experiences in the US. The number of IENs in the US RN workforce is projected to continue growing. Therefore, studies on nurse ... -
Factors affecting the success and persistence of pre-nursing students
This article-based dissertation consists of two manuscripts related to factors affecting the success and persistence of pre-nursing students. The first manuscript was a matched cohort study that compared selected academic ... -
Factors affecting the symptom burden in chronic heart failure
Background. Heart failure (HF) is a health problem of epidemic proportions and a clinical syndrome that leads to progressively severe symptoms, which contribute significantly to the burden of the disease. Several factors ... -
Factors and processes that influence e-professionalism among pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing students when utilizing social media
There is limited research related to nursing students’ social media use. Because of this, there was a need to further explore how they were using social media and their ability to maintain eprofessionalism. This study ... -
Factors associated with behavioral symptoms in persons with dementia residing in assisted living
Factors associated with behavioral symptoms among persons with dementia residing in assisted living were investigated in this study using a descriptive, correlational design with a cross-sectional methodology. The purposes ... -
Factors associated with degree of adoption by hospitals in the central states of the agency for health care policy and research clinical practice guideline for management of cancer pain
Using contingency theory (Damanpour, 1991) and Rogers' (1995) diffusion of innovations theory, this study: (1) determined the degree of adoption of AHCPR management of cancer pain clinical practice guideline (CPG) by ... -
Factors associated with health care personnel intentions to respond to a public health event
Background. Health care personnel (HCP) are an important link in emergency response. Yet, researchers have reported that not all HCP intend to respond when a public health event (PHE) occurs. Ajzen’s theory of planned ... -
Factors associated with household contacts' tuberculosis testing and evaluation
Contact investigation (CI) is one of the core elements of tuberculosis (TB) control. It is intended to achieve early identification of contacts who may have been exposed to a patient with infectious active TB and contacts ... -
Factors associated with new hospital nurses' self-efficacy in providing palliative end-of-life care
Introduction: Self-efficacy is defined as confidence in one’s competence; the ability to successfully accomplish tasks and achieve favorable outcomes (Bandura, 1997). Many nurses today say they feel their undergraduate ... -
Factors associated with newly graduated nurses' intent to leave current position in U.S. acute care hospitals: A descriptive research study using secondary data analysis
This study aimed to identify the individual, unit-based, and hospital-based characteristics correlated with new nurse intent to leave their current positions (ITLcp) in U.S. acute care hospitals. For more than forty years, ... -
Factors associated with nurses' perceptions of patient safety culture in one university hospital in China
Patient safety is an important issue in healthcare organizations. The impact of medical errors has been widely reported and discussed. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report, one out of every 10 hospital ... -
Factors associated with peer violence among elementary, middle and high school students
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among perceived school climate, self-reported psychosomatic symptoms, visits to the school nurse for reported psychosomatic symptoms and reports of bullying behaviors ... -
Factors associated with reduced depression and suicide risk among Mäori high school students in New Zealand
Background: Mäori adolescents, indigenous to New Zealand (NZ), have among the highest rates of depression and suicide in the industrialized world. Fortunately, resilience research demonstrates that promotive factors, ...