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Factors leading to the resignation of nurse educators at a Johannesburg nursing college
The purpose of the study was to explore and describe the factors that led to the resignation of nurse educators at a Johannesburg nursing college and to describe strategies to retain them. A qualitative, exploratory, ... -
Letting go: How newly-graduated registered nurses in western Canada decide to exit the nursing profession
The Canadian Nurses Association predicts the nursing shortage will rise to an estimated 60,000 Registered Nurses (RNs) by the year 2022. Further compounding this issue is the approximate 14-61% of nursing graduates who ... -
The impact of short papers on clinical decision making skills of nursing students
Clinical decision making and critical thinking are fundamental skills to ensuring the success of undergraduate nursing students. Nursing faculty, and specifically clinical nursing faculty, are responsible for encouraging ... -
Meaningful use of the EHR-Evaluating the internal and external factors affecting the timeliness of patient referrals
With increasing numbers of patients seeking healthcare in the ambulatory setting it is necessary to evaluate processes for improving efficiency and access, while controlling costs. Timely access to specialty care is vital ... -
Paid time off and work-life balance in an ambulatory surgical center
To investigate what was considered important to the staff regarding the current paid time off method used in an ambulatory surgical center with the purpose of discovering what works well for an acceptable work-life balance. ... -
Tuberculosis screening and education in the urban public school district
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest curable communicable infectious disease. The eradication of TB is a significantly important intractable global public health challenge for health agencies at all levels. Global ... -
An ethnographic study of pre-graduate precepted nursing student clinical placements in long-term care homes
Long-Term Care (LTC) home recruitment challenges and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty ... -
The impact of readmission on family caregivers of children following ventricular peritoneal shunt surgery
Objectives: Family caregivers work tirelessly to ensure their loved ones don’t need to return to the hospital after discharge. This study will examine the impact of readmission on family caregivers of children who have had ... -
Subgroups of patients undergoing chemotherapy with distinct cognitive fatigue and evening physical fatigue profiles
Purpose: Purpose was to model cognitive fatigue and evening physical fatigue together to determine subgroups of patients with distinct cognitive fatigue AND evening physical fatigue profiles. Once these profiles were ... -
Barriers to using certified interpreters in the hospital setting: The Hispanic bilingual nurse experience
Introduction: The law requires that certified interpreters are available to translate information to patients regarding their healthcare. Due to perceived barrier of time, Hispanic bilingual nurses are regularly called ... -
Postpartum depression screening: Educating the bedside nurse
Purposes/Aims: The purpose of this applied project is to develop a learning module based on best practices to educate nurses about postpartum depression and postpartum depression screening in inpatient postpartum maternity ... -
How nurse-led clinics improve health care access
The project will seek to address how nurse-led clinics enhance access to health care services, lead to patient satisfaction, and offer inexpensive and quality health care services. To evaluate these variables, the project ... -
Do novice nurses utilize reflection for clinical reasoning?
Statement of the Issue: Once practicing on their own, novice nurses experience a gap between practice and theory. These nurses are expected to care for increasingly sicker patients and must be able to bridge that gap in ... -
Family planning methods among couples of a selected Barangay in Tacloban City: Basis for healthcare program enhancement
The increase of population affects many aspects of society, including living conditions, basic needs, employment status and most importantly the health system. It is thus imperative to adequately plan family size in order ... -
The relationship between death depression and death anxiety among cancer patients in Saudi Arabia
Cancer is one of the main public health problems in the world. People diagnosed with cancer may become depressed and fearful of dying. This causes them to question treatments and sometimes avoid treatment altogether. Cancer ... -
Nurse staffing and quality care in long-term care nursing facilities: Differences in rural and urban settings
Public and congressional concern induced the Institute of Medicine (1996) to recommend increasing registered nurse (RN) staffing levels in nursing homes (NHs) to improve quality of care. The purpose of this study was to ... -
The relationship between parental recall of acceptance experienced in childhood, marital quality and current parent-infant interactions
Warm, sensitive parenting has been related to optimal child development. An important contributor believed to influence parenting style is the parent's own childrearing history in the family of origin. Most past research ... -
Global health education in Chinese universities: Potential for collaboration with schools of nursing
Background The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) and the Chinese Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CCUGH) were established within public health schools in North America in 2009 and in China ... -
Impact of nursing interventions on perioperative throughput: A review of the patient undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the ambulatory surgery setting versus acute care setting
Opportunities for increased efficiencies can be evaluated by assessing current processes and examining the components of each step to identify adjustments for improvements within a hospital's perioperative department. ... -
Empowering young adults: The adolescent insight development model
Quality of life and ease of reintegration into the family and the community are particularly important for the adolescent or young adult with mental illness. Such rehabilitation has long been focused on empowerment, partly ...
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