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Postpartum hemorrhage evidence-based registered nurse staff education project
Despite medical technology and research advances postpartum hemorrhages (PPH) continue to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for pregnant women, even in developed countries. One possible explanation for PPHs ...
Compensation of Staff Nurses Employed in United States Hospitals from 1960 to 1990
Compensation for registered nurses employed as staff nurses in nonfederal hospitals from 1960 to 1990 was studied. Significant events of hospital financing, professional efforts to improve wages and working conditions, and ...
Effects of Anxiety Reducing Interventions on Performance Anxiety in Graduate Nurses
Every new nursing graduate is challenged to successfully transition from student to professional nurse. The stress involved in that transition can manifest itself as performance anxiety, a type of anxiety occurring when ...
Testing a Decision Making Model for Nursing
The purpose of this study was to test a decision making model for nursing developed in a previous qualitative study. Concepts in the decision making model were creativity, experience, leadership, education, risk taking, ...
Relationship among subjective mental workload, experience, and education of cardiovascular critical care registered nurses
Subjective mental workload was introduced for study in nursing emanating from a concern among nurses that current measures of nursing workload fail to capture the cognitive demands of patient care. Subjective mental workload ...
An investigation of pattern manifestations in substance abuse-impaired nurses
Substance abuse impairment in nursing is a problem affecting both the profession and society. Many impaired nurses are not identified until symptoms are very apparent and patients are at risk. The purposes of this study ...
Development and Testing of an Explanatory Model of Registered Nurse Empowerment
Recent innovations in patient care delivery and nursing governance require an empowered workforce. However, little is known about what combination of organizational, leadership, and personal characteristics maximize the ...
Transformational Learning Experiences of Perioperative Registered Nurses Who Have Completed a Perioperative Training Program
(2017-08-25)
The purpose of this case study was to determine which activities factor intotransformational learning that may occur as a result of completing a perioperative preparation program for registered nurses. Through the process ...
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 ...
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 ...