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Combating childhood obesity with provider education: A quantitative study
(2017-01-23)The study included an educational program to providers and nurse practitioner students in order to evaluate whether an increase in knowledge and accuracy occurred based on knowledge of evidenced-based responses ... -
Examining constructs of the health belief model as predictors of Haitian men's intention regarding prostate cancer screening
(2017-01-27)Background: The most recent report of Global Burden of Cancer (GLOBOCAN) indicated the incidence rate of prostate cancer in Haiti as 38.6 and the mortality rate as 32.3 per 100,000. The literature supports a high ... -
The hidden morbidity of cancer: An exploratory study of burden in caregivers of cancer patients with brain metastases
(2017-01-27)Caregiving is a highly individualized experience. While numerous papers have been published on caregiver burden in the context of a variety of diagnoses and conditions, this paper presents the unique features of ... -
Medication dosage calculation: A mathematical intervention for nursing students
(2017-02-17)Nurse educators continue to express concern over the struggle that nursing students have with mathematical calculations necessary to compute medication dosage. This applied dissertation designed, implemented, and evaluated ... -
Patients' perceptions regarding nursing care in the general surgical wards at Kenyatta National Hospital
(2017-02-17)Background: Nursing care is a major component of the health services because it is one of the determinants of quality health services. The anecdotal patients’ care evaluation and media reports have portrayed negative ... -
Nurses' perceptions of the image of the profession of nursing
(2017-02-22)The purpose of this study was to understand the evolution of nurses’ perceived image of nursing from the time nurses begin their career and through various phases of nursing experience. The image of nursing as perceived ... -
Sense of belonging and registered nurse job satisfaction
(2017-02-23)Increased registered nurse turnover may be a significant contributor to the nursing shortage; therefore factors must be acknowledged that lead to poor nurse retention. Tourangeau, Cummings, Cranley, Ferron, and Harvey ... -
The effect of a promotora-guided educational intervention and partner presence in improving condom use self-efficacy amongst partnered Latino adults
(2017-03-01)This study examined the effect of a promotora guided educational intervention in order to improve condom use within the Latino community. Effective and culturally appropriate strategies for promoting condom use within the ... -
Information literacy competencies of registered nurses at magnet hospitals
(2017-03-01)More patients are turning to the Internet as as source of health information. Nurses occupy the frontline of healthcare and must have information literacy (IL) competencies to ... -
A comparative study of pain intensity, information seeking, and adjustment to prostate cancer in Japanese American and European American men
(2017-03-01)Adjustment to illness is a multi-dimensional and difficult process for many patients facing a life-threatening illness, such as prostate cancer. Adjustment encompasses changes in social interactions, physical limitations ... -
Patients' perception of the use of motivational interviewing for childhood obesity treatment: A qualitative study
(2017-03-03)The purpose of this qualitative interpretive descriptive study was to better understand children’s perceptions of the use of motivational interviewing (MI) as a communication style for childhood obesity ... -
RN perceptions of coworker incivility and collective efficacy as influential to hospital structures and outcomes
(2017-03-29)Background: An aging population and retiring workforce might affect United States health delivery care and could threaten the quality of care in hospitals. Nurses, as the largest profession in healthcare, can buffer these ... -
Increasing resilience in adolescent nursing students
(2017-04-13)Nursing students not only face the same developmental challenges as other college students, but also experience unique stressors that contribute to increased risk for negative outcomes. The intimate nature of patient care, ... -
How well do providers screen for depression and suicide in adolescents?
(2017-04-13)Suicide is the third leading cause of death among 15-24 year olds. Research indicates that suicide can be prevented with early screening and treatment. More than 50% of patients suffering from some form of mental ... -
Student engagement in nursing school: A secondary analysis of the National Survey of Student Engagement data
(2017-04-13)Student engagement has received considerable attention in higher education research because of the link between increased student knowledge, greater student satisfaction with educational experience, and increased student ... -
Exploring nurse's feelings on floating: A phenomenological study
(2017-04-13)The purpose of the current study was to explore nurses’ lived experiences floating in an acute health care facility within a large southern city of the United States. Husserl’s transcendental approach assisted ... -
Towards an informatics competent nursing profession: Validation of the Self-Assessment of Nursing Informatics Competency Scale (SANICS) before and after online informatics training
(2017-04-13)Nurses should be involved in healthcare initiatives that incorporate informatics as an essential tool for improving health outcomes (IOM, 2010). However, nurses frequently report lack of competency to perform the most basic ... -
Nurse resilience: Implications on critical care nurse shortage and proposed intervention
(2017-05-19)Critical care nursing is experiencing a high turnover and a global shortage crisis. The number of critical care nurses (CCNs) leaving the critical care environment is at an unprecedented high rate, negatively impacting the ... -
The lived experience of registered nurses caring for patient living with HIV/AIDS in Broward County, Florida: A phenomenological inquiry
(2017-05-19)Vulnerability, opportunistic infections, and infection-related illnesses, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIF), progressively overwhelms the human immune system resulting in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ... -
Exploring determinants of registered nurses' trust in their managers
(2017-07-12)A nurse-manager relationship plays a key role in a nurse’s practice environment. A nurse’s trust in one’s manager is the foundation for a supportive nurse-manager relationship and has crucial bearing ...