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The unborn one: The human experience of miscarriage
This dissertation's purpose was to describe the human experience of miscarriage and the caring needs of the women who miscarried. Using a qualitative (modified grounded theory) research design, a convenience sample of 20 ... -
Uncovering racial bias in fundamental nursing textbooks: A critical hermeneutic analysis of the portrayal of African Americans
Racial bias reinforces White Americans as normative, thereby contributing to limiting, slanting, or controlling information to students. Although racial bias has been documented in non-nursing textbooks, racial bias has ... -
Uncovering the lifeworlds of college students who are food insecure: An interpretive phenomenological inquiry
Food insecurity (FI) is a concern for many college students, and contributes to significant physical, mental, and academic stressors. Experts have described the need for qualitative research. A better understanding of the ... -
Undergraduate nurse educator perceptions of preparation to teach interprofessional collaboration
If nurse educators do not teach students to function in interprofessional teams, students may lack communication and teamwork skills, which can result in patient harm; however, nurse educators do not always understand the ... -
Undergraduate nursing faculty's lived experience of authentic leadership in nursing education
Current nursing practice is encountering challenges with retention, burnout, and staff satisfaction. Nurses are caring for patients who are more critically ill; expected to do more with less; and experiencing increased ... -
Undergraduate nursing student experiences with faculty bullying
Incivility and bullying in nursing education has become an area of increased interest. Incivility literature has focused primarily on student-to-faculty incivility. Less focus has been placed on faculty-to-student bullying. ... -
Undergraduate nursing students' perceptions of clinical readiness increase with integration of simulation using ATI-supported resources
The purpose of this study was to increase first semester Historically Black College and University (HBCU) nursing student’s simulation exposure by 50% using the ATI education platform and measure student perceptions ... -
Understanding advanced practice nurses in anesthesiology
Purpose: Determine the practice authority and professional legitimacy of safe and competent anesthesia administration, particularly the necessity of physician anesthesiologist oversight of certified registered nurse ... -
Understanding engendered trust: Facilitating school-nurse trustworthiness behaviors
School nurses are involved in a complex framework of interactions with students, other professionals, parents and administrators. Trust between nurse and student is critical for interaction effectiveness. Little extant ... -
Understanding exposure to pharmacogenetically actionable opioids in primary care
Pharmacogenetic testing has the potential to improve pain management through addressing wide interindividual variations in responses to pharmacogenetically actionable opioids, ultimately decreasing costly adverse drug ... -
Understanding families'/surrogate decision makers' experience of decision making for critically ill patients in Saudi Arabia
Critical illness not only affects patients, but also may negatively impact the families and people who are responsible to make decisions for those patients. Making decision can be challenging for people when it is for ... -
Understanding interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel
The negative impact of medical errors on patient safety poses a major problem for health care providers. Since physicians, nurses, and unlicensed assistive personnel (UAPs) each provide a portion of patient care, coordination ... -
Understanding quality of life in adolescents living with advanced cancer
The purpose of this study is to advance theoretical understanding of how an adolescent with incurable cancer prepares for end-of-life (EOL). A theoretical model was developed to link awareness, acceptance, and willingness ... -
Understanding reflection from the perspective of baccalaureate nursing students
Across the nation, nurse educators are seeking to meet the needs of students with diverse learning characteristics within increasingly complex academic and clinical environments. One teaching-learning strategy that has ... -
Understanding social determinants of healthcare access from the perspective of Hispanic Latino immigrants in Louisville, KY
In the last decade, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. has grown exponentially, with the Hispanic Latino immigrants (HLI) experiencing the greatest growth. The literature clearly identifies that HLI experience ... -
Understanding the meaning of the lived experience of adolescents in treatment for cancer
The increased intensity and complexity of cancer treatment has an impact on the lives of the adolescents undergoing such treatments. Living with cancer is a distinct experience for them which include physical, psychological, ... -
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 ... -
Understanding the unique needs, experiences and strategies used by ICU nurses to be resilient during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented numerous challenges for nurses working in intensive care units (ICUs), leading to a significant impact on their mental and psychological well-being. Despite these challenges, ... -
Underutilization of palliative care related to the associated stigmatism: Time to change the service name within the Veterans Affairs healthcare setting
Advances in medicine and technology have transformed cancer into a chronic disease state: enabling earlier, treatable, diagnoses and longer lives. However, the focus in medicine remains in quantity of life: failing to ... -
Unintentional injuries and violence in schools
Approximately two thirds of all deaths among children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years result from injury related causes. Unintentional injuries and violence at schools is one of the main categories of injury related ...
