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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The purpose of this investigation was to generate a substantive theory of cultural discovery among nurses who work with Vietnamese. A grounded theory approach involving dimensional analysis was employed. A purposive sample ...

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if registered nurses (RNs) who attended a workplace-based educational program would have decreased intensity, frequency, and total moral distress, compared to nurses who ...

Since 1985, health care has undergone tremendous changes. Today's patients are more acutely ill and have shorter lengths of stay in the hospital than patients in the past. In addition, the health care industry has shifted ...

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 ...

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 ...

To be an effective registered nurse, one must be able to integrate clinical decision-making skills into the medication calculation process in order to provide safe and effective care. Medication errors have been associated ...

In the United States, only 12% of adults possess proficient health literacy skills. Individuals with low health literacy skills experience poorer health outcomes. Failure of registered nurses to consider health literacy ...