Approximately 19 million American adults suffer from depressive illness in given 1-year period. Research has shown that depressed persons have difficulty with performing daily tasks, meeting their own personal care needs, ...

The purpose of this research was to identify recurring themes in the lives of pregnant women with self-efficacy for childbirth, and to propose relationships between these recurring themes and the development of self-efficacy ...

1. Patients experience multiple transitions in care between nursing providers (handoffs) during hospitalization. Handoffs are opportunities for communication errors to occur. 2. Patient handoffs between the post-anesthesia ...

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the effect of gratitude on cardiovascular health outcomes using mediators, medication adherence, and psychometrics. The specific aims were to (1) establish the state of the ...

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 ...

Leaders in nursing education have been challenged to make curricula changes to prepare students to provide culturally competent nursing care. The need to prepare culturally competent nurses has become even more critical ...

Information literacy (IL) is a vital component in evidenced-based practice (EBP) due to its role in research utilization. The literature review indicated that undergraduate college students could harbor negative perceptions ...

African American children in the United States are disproportionately affected by childhood asthma. Despite the enormous effort that has gone into developing educational interventions to teach patients and families ...

Background: Low levels of compassion satisfaction (CS) and high levels of compassion fatigue (CF), comprised of burnout (BO) and secondary traumatic stress (STS), have been identified as a serious concern among students within health science disciplines. Purpose: To conduct a cross-sectional survey to determine what factors are related to the development of BO and STS within a pre-licensure health studies student population of undergraduate nursing and psychiatric nursing disciplines, groups that have seldom been studied. Methods: Data was collected through an anonymous online survey to determine the presence of compassion satisfaction and fatigue among participants. The survey was comprised of demographic questions and four validated measures that included the Professional Quality of Life Scale (version 5), the Core Self-Evaluations Scale, the Perceived Stress Scale, and the Life Events Checklist (version 5). Results: Findings revealed 31% of students reported low levels of CS, 27% had high levels of BO, and 28% had high levels of STS. Students in long-term care/palliative care rotations reported significantly higher levels of BO in comparison to students placed on in-patient units such as medical-surgical areas and episodic care areas that include out-patient and emergency departments. Regression analysis revealed that students with low self-efficacy and high perceived stress were predictive of BO. Students with increased exposures to prior traumatizing life events were predictive of STS. Despite having less sleep, students with high levels of selfefficacy and commitment to their program with less intent-to-leave were predictive of having CS. Significance: To date, this is the only study that has explored compassion fatigue within undergraduate nursing and psychiatric nursing students in Canada. Findings of the study assist educators, clinicians, and policy makers to better understand at-risk clinical settings and predictors of compassion satisfaction and fatigue in undergraduate nursing and psychiatric nursing students prior to entering the workforce as newly-licensed professionals....

The Sex Related Health Promotion Behaviors Model (SRHPBM), suggesting a positive relationship between self-efficacy, social support, self esteem, hope, and sex related health promotion behaviors, was used in this descriptive ...