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Caring and Transformation in Oncology Nursing Administration: Paradigms of Leadership
Caring has a history of being central to nursing and has long been held to be an essential component of the clinical practice of nurses involved in direct patient care activities. While nurse administrators have been ...
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 ...
The Impact of Stress, Coping, Constructive Thinking and Hardiness on Health and Academic Performance of Female Registered Nurse Students Pursuing a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing
The purpose of this study was to test a theoretically-derived model of hardiness, constructive thinking, coping complexity and perceived stress level in predicting academic performance and perceived health status among ...
Family Experiences with Long-term Childhood Technology Dependence: An Interpretive Interactionist Approach
Increased numbers of children who are technology-dependent are now being cared for at home by parents and other caregivers. However, there is inadequate understanding of the daily lives of families who care for ...
Nursing Faculty Perceptions on Teaching Critical Thinking
(2017-11-30)
The perceptions of nursing faculty teaching critical thinking (CT) affective attributes and cognitive skills are described in this quantitative, descriptive study. The study sample consisted of nurse educators from the ...
Mothers' Interpretations of Their Children's Behavior During Mother-Child Interaction
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding about mothers' motivations, intentions, and the meaning they ascribe to their children's behavior by exploring and describing mothers' interpretations of their children's ...
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 ...
Nurses' Perceptions of Collaborative Nurse-Physician Transfer Decision-making as a Predictor of Patient Outcomes in a Medical Intensive Care Unit
This prospective correlational study examined nurses' perceptions of collaborative nurse-physician transfer decision making as a predictor of patient outcomes in a medical intensive care unit (MICU), adjusting for risk. ...
Seeking Life Balance: The Perceptions of Health of Cambodian Women in Resettlement
This grounded theory study was an inquiry into the perceptions of health of Cambodian women in resettlement and the conditions that influenced their perceptions. Few studies of Cambodian women who escaped political conflict ...
Coping with Appraised Threat of Breast Cancer: Primary Prevention Coping Behaviors Utilized by Women at Increased Risk
Breast cancer affects nearly one in nine women and is a leading cause of cancer related deaths among this group. Yet, little is known about how high risk women deal with this health threat. Conceptualized within the Neuman ...