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Keeping nurses in nursing: Service-learning as a means to enhance grit
Retention of nurses is a major concern for the profession, especially in light of the nursing shortage; specifically, new graduate nurses are particularly susceptible to this phenomenon. While there are many causes for ... -
Knowing nursing error: Understanding nursing error through nurses' error experiences
Although it is recognized that significant under-reporting of nursing error exists, little is known about how nurses learn to recognize and manage nursing error in the clinical setting. Knowledge of this process is a ... -
Knowing the patient as a person: Social media listening and Gadamerian analysis of nurses' expressions shared during the COVID-19 Global Health Pandemic
Background: COVID-19 has dramatically changed human-to-human interactions from in-person to the nonhuman domain of virtual space. In January 2021, every 28 seconds one person died of COVID-19 in the United States. An ... -
Knowledge and health beliefs about breast cancer screening among rural Palestinian women: Pilot study
Breast cancer is the most frequent type of cancer among women and the risk increases with age, with an estimated 1.67 million new cases in 2012 and a 25% incidence of all cancers in women in both developed and developing ... -
Knowledge of stroke warning symptoms and risk factors: Variations by rural and urban categories
Stroke continues to have a devastating disabling effect on Americans while remaining the third leading cause of death in the United States. Most Americans do not recognize the symptoms of stroke causing delay in receiving ... -
The knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported behaviors of psychiatric nurses towards obese psychiatric patients on atypical anti-psychotropic medications
Background/Purpose: Obesity has continued to increase over the years with increase in morbidity and mortality. The advancement of psychiatric treatment has resulted in a higher prevalence of obesity among the psychiatric ... -
Latinas in the pipeline to baccalaureate-prepared nursing: Challenges and supports in persistence to degree and professional licensure
The United States is rapidly becoming a more racially diverse nation. Racial minority groups are projected to make up 47% of the total population in 2050 and if current population trends continue, they are projected to ... -
Leadership and political skill preparedness of the doctoral prepared nurse
The Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing report recommended the development of more nurse leaders at every level and across all settings. The Accountable Care Act has led to a reformed healthcare system, placing a growing ... -
Leadership of the pioneers of nursing informatics: A multiple care study analysis
This multiple case study analysis examines the leadership of an elite group of nurses known as The Pioneers of Nursing Informatics. Leadership was examined using a lens of Complex Adaptive Systems theory as developed by ... -
Leading change: Generating cultural responsiveness and competence in nursing
Culturally responsive teachings prepare students to support social justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in and beyond the classroom. Rising reports of culturally insensitive care and the reported challenges that ... -
Learned resourcefulness, cognitive processes, and adaptive functioning in depressed adults
Approximately 19 million American adults suffer from depressive illness in given 1-year period. Research has shown that depressed persons have difficulty with performing daily tasks, meeting their own personal care needs, ... -
Learning science: Physical and life sciences in curricula across U.S. schools of nursing
Nursing educators are being challenged to provide curriculum that meets the changing healthcare environment and demand for creative, innovative nurses to assist in transforming healthcare into the future (Benner, Sutphen, ... -
Learning to educate: A basic qualitative study of the experiences of training from professional nurses
The basic qualitative research design allowed for the discovery of how professional nurse participants interpret their experiences about learning how to educate students in the clinical setting. The population studied were ... -
Learning transfer evidence in baccalaureate senior nursing students using a disaster emergency preparedness tabletop exercise
Little is known about learning transfer in senior baccalaureate nursing students, therefore, the primary purpose of this research was to describe senior nursing students’ learning transfer evidence for basic disaster ... -
Let the circle be unbroken: Health of elderly southern Appalachian widows
The purpose of this study was to facilitate discovery and description of the health experience from the perspective of elderly Appalachian widows. The concepts of health, health beliefs, and health practices were explored ... -
Letting go: How newly-graduated registered nurses in western Canada decide to exit the nursing profession
The Canadian Nurses Association predicts the nursing shortage will rise to an estimated 60,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) by the year 2022. Further compounding this issue is the approximate 14-61% of nursing graduates who ... -
Level 2 and level 3 patients in a 5-level triage system: Factors related to acuity assignment and trajectory of the emergency department experience
Clinical decision making in the emergency department (ED) can have a significant impact on patient safety and health care outcomes. One type of clinical decision making is the process of emergency department triage. Within ... -
Licensed nurse/certified nurse aide collaboration in the nursing home
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore how collaboration is perceived and experienced by the licensed nurse (LN) and the certified nurse aide (CNA) in the nursing home (NH) setting. Understanding perspectives and ... -
Life after prematurity: Special health care needs, working memory, and health-related quality of life among 9- to 11-year-old children born prematurely
Premature birth, defined as birth before the completion of 37 weeks of gestation, places children at risk for medical, physical, psychosocial and neurodevelopmental impairments. These impairments may vary in severity. ... -
Life balance in nurse educators: A mixed methods study
The topic of nurse educator life balance is significant to the nurse educator community, which is facing a national nurse faculty shortage, challenges in producing enough new nurses, and a continuing shortage of nurses. ...