Henderson Repository: Recent submissions
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Cultural Characteristics of a Nursing Education Center of Excellence: A Naturalistic Inquiry Case Study
Nursing education is at a crossroad today. Stressors in nursing programs include expanding enrollments to meet growing workforce demands for more registered nurses, demanding workloads with low average nursing faculty ... -
Enduring: The Experience of Hospitalized Elderly Patients
The number of elderly hospitalized patients is increasing dramatically. Yet, the hospitalization experience of the elderly is not well understood. The purpose of this study was to explore the hospitalization process as ... -
Effects of Virtual Reality on Symptom Distress in Children Receiving Cancer Chemotherapy
The objective of this study was to test the premise that virtual reality, as a developmentally appropriate distraction intervention, mitigates chemotherapy related symptom distress in older children with cancer aged ... -
A Collaborative Case Management Model in an End Stage Renal Disease Patient Population
The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effectiveness of a collaborative case management (CCM) model on an end stage renal disease (ESRD) patient population. The study attempted to confront some of the conceptual ... -
Exploring the School Nurse’s Perception of Caring for Students with Severe Allergies
The role of the school nurse continually evolves, with an increase in students who are medically fragile, have disabilities and those diagnosed with both acute and chronic illnesses. A major challenge for the school nurse ... -
Discussion questions and poster for Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education 2E
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2017)This item record pertains to excerpts from Creating & Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education, 2nd Edition, which is provided free of charge by the publisher. To purchase the entire book from the publisher click here. To ... -
Instructor's Guide for Johns Hopkins Nursing EBP: Model and Guidelines, 3rd Edition
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2019)This item record pertains to the Instructor's Guide for Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice: Model and Guidelines, Third Edition, which is provided free of charge by the publisher. To purchase the entire book ... -
Sigma's Henderson Repository: Innovation and Impact Through Open Dissemination
This presentation slide deck provides an overview of Sigma Theta Tau International's e-Repository. -
Chapter 1 from Evidence-Informed Health Policy
(Sigma Theta Tau International, 2019)This is Ch. 1, "Extending the Use of Evidence-Based Practice to Health Policymaking," from Evidence-Informed Health Policy. More about the book: What happens in health policy at local, state, and federal levels directly ... -
The Experience of Recurrent Breast Cancer: A Case Study
The purposes of this study were to describe, in-depth, the experience of recurrent breast cancer and to explore methodologies consistent with a conceptual orientation based in the Complex Nonlinear Dynamical Systems ... -
The Unborn One: The Human Experience of Miscarriage
This dissertation's purpose was to describe the human experience of miscarriage and the caring needs of the women who miscarried. Using a qualitative (modified grounded theory) research design, a convenience sample of 20 ... -
Outcomes of Minnesota Nursing Home Residents and Their Relationship to Facility Structural and Process-related Attributes
The purpose of this research was to observe outcomes of Minnesota nursing home residents admitted from 1988 through 1990 and identify the relationship these outcomes had to selected facility structural and process-related ... -
The Relationship Between Patient Satisfaction with Nursing Care and Nurse Staffing
Nurse researchers and patient care administrators have long been concerned with understanding patient satisfaction with nursing care and its relationship to nurse staffing. This study focused on two major aspects of the ... -
An Exploration of Nurses' Knowledge of Right Hemisphere Stroke Associated Communication Impairments
In the U. S. approximately 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke yearly. Stroke survival has increased with advances in medical technology. The impact of stroke on a patient’s neurological status poses critical ... -
Retrospective Analysis of a Breast Health Program on Routine Annual Mammography in Low-income, Uninsured Women
Problem. Detection of breast cancer in women of low socioeconomic status, lacking health insurance, can be improved by increasing annual mammography rates, yet little is known about their screening behavior. Purpose. A ... -
Issues Influencing Medication Adherence in Black Women with Hypertension
The purposes of this study were to: (a) describe the differences in adherent and nonadherent Black women who have hypertension (HTN), (b) examine issues that influence medication adherence, and (c) explore the relationship ... -
Impact of Marital Quality and Psychological Well-being on Parental Sensitivity for First-time Mothers and Fathers: A Nursing Study
Parents' sensitivity in reading infants' often-subtle cues is an essential part of parent-infant interactions that contributes to child development. Empirical evidence links marital quality to quality of parent-infant ... -
Caring and Transformation in Oncology Nursing Administration: Paradigms of Leadership
Caring has a history of being central to nursing and has long been held to be an essential component of the clinical practice of nurses involved in direct patient care activities. While nurse administrators have been ... -
The Spiritual Health of Oncology Patients: A Comparison of Nurse and Patient Perceptions
Nurses who are committed to care of the whole person must be knowledgeable about patients' spiritual needs. This descriptive, cross-sectional survey was designed to investigate the spiritual health of oncology patients. ... -
Development of an Instrument to Measure Hope
The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure hope in adults and to evaluate its psychometric properties. A forty item Miller Hope Scale was developed based on the critical elements of hope gleaned from ...