Much has been written about the importance of decision-making in nursing ethics, but few research studies have been completed which examine nurses' ethical decision-making. In order to address this absence of research, two ...

Workplace mistreatment (bullying, horizontal violence, and incivility) has been shown to impact nurses’ work satisfaction, job turnover, and physical and mental health. However, there are limited studies that examine its ...

The purpose of this descriptive, cross-sectional study was to examine burnout in direct care personnel in an Intermediate Care Facility for the Mentally Retarded (ICF/MR). Burnout exacts high personal costs from direct ...

Automated patient classification systems (PCS) are widely used throughout the United States. Their intended purpose is to generate information to be used in decision making by and for nurses and nursing services. Expenditures ...

This qualitative study was successful in utilization of grounded theory methodology to ascertain nurses’ decision-making processes following their awareness of having made a medical error, as well as how and/or if they ...

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 ...

The purpose of this study was to illuminate the lived experience of nursing students in caring for individuals who were suffering. A phenomenological approach was utilized consisting of four iterative steps: purposive ...

The objective of this study was to test the premise that virtual reality, as a developmentally appropriate distraction intervention, mitigates chemotherapy related symptom distress in older children with cancer aged ...

Background: Lesbians are a vulnerable population that has experienced discrimination in health care. Evidence-based strategies for supporting lesbian self-disclosure of sexual orientation have been developed for primary ...

The term empathy has long been of interest in nursing, since empathy is one way in which nurses move from generalized knowledge to particular knowledge of another. Empathy enables the nurse to comprehend the situation of ...