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Taking responsibility: Toward an understanding of morality in practice. An ethnographic investigation of the social construction of responsibility in the dialectical behavior therapy
Although the nursing literature overflows with references to the myriad things for which nurses and patients are de facto responsible, nurses have never explicitly examined the social construction of responsibility ... -
Talk and backtalk: Negotiating cervical cancer screening among Appalachian women in West Virginia
Cervical cancer, once a major killer of women, still remains a quiet threat to the lives of discreet populations within the United States. Women living in Appalachia are among those most vulnerable to this disease primarily ... -
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 ... -
Taxonomy of nursing clinical credibility as described by nurses and physicians
Introduction: Nursing clinical credibility, a complex, abstract concept is rarely mentioned in the clinical setting, but is implicitly understood by nurses and physicians. The concept has neither been defined nor explored, ... -
Teacher perspectives and the psychosocial climate of the classroom in a traditional BSN program
An outstanding educator can be defined as one who "helps their students learn in ways that make a sustained, substantial, and positive influence on how those students think, act, and feel" (Bain, 2004, p. 5). The goal of ... -
Teaching professional accountability in nursing: A phenomenological investigation of faculty experiences
Professional nursing organizations and nursing education credentialing agencies describe accountability as an essential attribute underpinning professional practice. Although accountability is foundational to nursing ... -
Teaching the ESL nursing student: The relationship between nurse educator background attributes, beliefs concerning the ESL nursing student and instructional strategies used by nurse educators
As the U.S. population quickly moves toward linguistic diversity, it is essential that sufficient numbers of linguistically diverse nurses be available to provide care, and nurse educators play a significant role in the ... -
Teaching the spiritual dimension of nursing care: A survey of associate degree nursing programs in the Southeast United States
Spirituality is a subject which is often neglected in nursing education. The purpose of this study was to determine associate degree nursing faculty’s perception of their ability to teach the spiritual dimension in ... -
Team dynamics and learning behavior in hospitals: A study of error reporting by nurses
Error reporting is the primary way that hospitals identify errors and near misses, and it is essential for organizational learning and improvement to occur. However, it is widely recognized that errors in hospitals are ... -
Team learning within nurse teams in a home care organization
The purpose of this interpretive case study was to determine whether the team learning model (Dechant, Marsick, & Kasl, 1991), which served as a framework, aptly described team learning as it took place among professional ... -
Technology in nursing classrooms: A qualitative phenomenological interpretative study
Nursing students have to learn how to critically think and pass a licensure examination to practice their profession. Current students seem to be bored by lecture strategies most commonly applied by seasoned nurse educators. ... -
Telehealth implementation at a spinal cord injury clinic within one veteran affairs medical center in Pennsylvania
Patients with a spinal cord injury (SCI) often require follow-up care from a specialized provider to help reduce complications. The project sited noted that poor follow-up attendance was due to the distance the patients ... -
Temperature instability over time and respiratory morbidity in the very premature infant
Very premature infants are at risk for thermal instability due to thermoregulatory immaturity. Thermal instability upon neonatal intensive care unit admission has been associated with mortality and morbidity in these ... -
Temporal perspective, professional identity, and perceived wellbeing
Theory development efforts directed toward both the discipline and profession of nursing are critically important. To address a number of issues and questions relevant to the profession of nursing, a synthesized conceptual ... -
Temporal sequence and relationships between sleep disorders, mental disorders and traumatic brain injury in deployed military members
U.S. military members are often forward deployed to austere environments where they are exposed to environmental, mental, and physiological stressors that can negatively affect their wellbeing and readiness for service. ... -
The Tenderness Process in Mother-Infant Couples: The Relationship of Maternal Perception and Anxiety to Infant Satiety and Anxiety
The purpose of the study was to identify what impact, if any, maternal perception and anxiety had on an infant at the time of feeding. The framework for testing the relationship was Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal ... -
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, ... -
Testing a model of communication, uncertainty, and emotional well-being in older breast cancer survivors
The uncertainty and disruption caused by ongoing physical symptoms contributes to emotional distress and thoughts of recurrence for older breast cancer survivors. Uncertainty may be due to a lack of information about whether ... -
Testing a reflection education intervention on baccalaureate nursing students' level of reflection during online clinical post conference
Background: The majority of faculty–student interactions are at low cognitive levels during nursing clinical post conference (CPC), a time often utilized for reflective thinking. Strategies have been implemented to ... -
Testing an intervention to decrease catastrophizing in persons with fibromyalgia
Problem statement. The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness of a brief psychoeducational nursing intervention to alter catastrophizing and improve coping with fibromyalgia, a syndrome of chronic, widespread ...
