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Selected factors affecting nurse-perceived reciprocity in nurse-patient relationships
This exploratory study examined factors affecting nurse-perceived reciprocity in nurse-patient relationships of practicing public health nurses. The hypothesis was that there is a positive relationship between selected ...
Patient-consumer perceptions and responses to professional nursing care: Instrument development
The purpose of the research was to develop instruments to assist nurse researchers and nurse managers in the measurement of patient satisfaction with nursing care. The final instrument differs from existing instruments in ...
The meaning, process, and consequences of nurse caring as perceived by spinal cord injured individuals during rehabilitation
The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe the meaning, process, and consequences of nurse caring from the perspective of spinal cord injured (SCI) individuals while in rehabilitation. This study addressed the ...
Adolescent resilience following parental death in childhood and its relationship to parental attachment and coping
Adolescent resilience following loss has been linked with supportive social relationships and coping. Retrospective studies have found that parental death during childhood has been a risk factor for serious mental health ...
Factors related to self-care agency and self-care practices of obese adolescents
Identification of factors that influence obese adolescents' health behaviors is necessary if obese adolescents are to benefit from therapeutic interventions. The purpose of this descriptive-correlational study was to ...
Southern, rural African American women's hypertension perceptions
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of adult deaths in the United States, and hypertension is a major contributing factor to the development of cardiovascular disease. Epidemiologic research reveals that cardiovascular ...
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 ...
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 ...
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ...
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 ...