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Home Apnea Monitoring: Family Functioning, Concerns, and Coping
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death in infants between one week and one year of age. The mainstay of therapy to reduce SIDS mortality is evaluation and subsequent home monitoring of infants ...
An Investigation of the Relationship of Nurses’ Perceptions of Human Resource Practices and Autonomy in Practice and Patients’ Perceptions of Satisfaction with Nursing Care and Organizational Climate for Service
This study developed and tested theory to better understand the marketing construct of service quality, in a hospital setting. Marketing theory proposed that positive relationships exist between patients' perceptions of ...
The Relationship Between Just Culture, Trust, and Patient Safety
(2018-03-22)
OBJECTIVES: This study explored the difference in the perception of trust between nurse leaders and direct care nurses in a Just Culture, and the impact this may have on patient safety related to voluntary reporting of ...
Family Health in the Families of the Young Chronically Mentally Ill
Although the family plays a major role in the care of young adults with serious and persistent mental illness, there has been limited research on the impact of these ongoing caregiving responsibilities on the health of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Parental Perceptions of Family Social Supports in Families with Children with Epilepsy
The current study utilizes initial baseline data from a National Institutes of Health-funded pilot study titled, “Creating Avenues for Parent Advocacy: An Intervention for Parents of Children with Epilepsy and Significant ...
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 ...