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Talking about patients: nurses' language use during hand-offs
(2017-12-21)
Miscommunication during end of shift hand-offs between hospital nurses has been implicated as a source of errors in patient care, yet little research evaluates the structure of language during communication in an attempt ...
"Hinabing Ugnayan": Nature of caring among Filipino nurses working with children
(2017-12-04)
This study, rooted on the phenomenological philosophy, explored the nature of caring among Filipino nurses working with children. Seven (7) participants were gathered as co-researchers and were carefully chosen based on ...
Examining constructs of the health belief model as predictors of Haitian men's intention regarding prostate cancer screening
(2017-01-27)
Background: The most recent report of Global Burden of Cancer (GLOBOCAN) indicated the incidence rate of prostate cancer in Haiti as 38.6 and the mortality rate as 32.3 per 100,000. The literature supports a high ...
Exploring nurses' perceptions of dignity during end-of-life care
(2017-12-22)
The purpose of this qualitative grounded theory study was to understand nurses’ perceptions of care that supports patients’ dignity during hospitalization at the end of life, ...
Being-with dying: Tacit wisdom embedded in the experiences of nurses who attend to dying
(2017-11-27)
Dying persons and their family members have needs that are notably unidentified and unmet in the United States today. This is in large part due to health professionals' being unprepared to provide end of life care that ...
A grounded theory study of nurses who care for patients who are victims of sexual violence
(2017-12-21)
Background: Sexual violence is a widespread traumatic event that has physical, psychological, financial, and spiritual implications for victims, their friends and family, and the community. The negative and long-term effects ...
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 ...
Socialization, Black school-age children and the Color Caste Hierarchy
(2017-01-10)
The purpose of the descriptive research was to investigate the relationship between an adherence to the Black community's belief and value system about Black skin tones and Black school-age children's skin tone preferences ...
Medication dosage calculation: A mathematical intervention for nursing students
(2017-02-17)
Nurse educators continue to express concern over the struggle that nursing students have with mathematical calculations necessary to compute medication dosage. This applied dissertation designed, implemented, and evaluated ...
Exploring determinants of registered nurses' trust in their managers
(2017-07-12)
A nurse-manager relationship plays a key role in a nurse’s practice environment. A nurse’s trust in one’s manager is the foundation for a supportive nurse-manager relationship and has crucial bearing ...