Nursing

This study is an analysis of human needs satisfaction of frail, fairly independent elderly in an adult day care center. Human needs were selected from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and data were gathered by questionnaire from primary caregivers of these elderly persons. Maslow's motivational theory provided the basis for the conceptual framework of this research study. The researcher's concept of aging stems from a humanistic belief in the unlimited growth potential inherent in mankind., Copyrights are retained by the author.

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The purpose of this research study was to ascertain if there was a difference between the amount of analgesic patients used postoperatively with Patient-Controlled Analgesic and with what the patients received intramuscularly from the nursing staff., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Sandra Johnson for further use of this material.

Patient care has become increasingly more complex. As a result, the need for accurate communication among all members of the health care team has become even more critical. The nurse can be considered the focal point of the communication network among the healthcare team. The nurse is the member of the team who has the most frequent contact, and in some cases, the first contact with the patient. The nurse is the person who implements the physician's orders, plans the patient's care and coordinates all the activities relating to the health care services required by the patient during hospitalization., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Kathleen Crane for further use of this material.

Although nursing is the largest occupational group in the health care industry, it is always facing reports of local manpower shortages. The prospective payment plans, diagnostic related groupings, and other trends toward declining profit margins in the health care industry today have made it necessary to take a more in depth look at nurse retention in terms of dollars and cents as well as job satisfaction. Nurses currently have a three to five year average work life in a hospital setting before moving on to another setting or out of nursing. Recent investigations have shown that although large numbers of new nurses are not being recruited, the shortage could be remedied by retaining nurses that have already been educated., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Nancy Carr for further use of this material.

Nursing has been striving for years to improve its status within the health care delivery system. In trying to achieve professional status nursing must define its particular contribution to health care that is unique and valued by the consumer. The opinions of consumers and nurses are important and can provide valuable input regarding nursing practice. Over the past twenty-five to thirty years a wide variety of studies have been implemented in order to determine exactly what consititutes nursing practice—what it is as well as what it should be. Physicians, nurses, patients and the public have offered opinions regarding nursing activities and how these activities should be organized and implemented. Different research methods and statistical analyses have been used and the findings have been conflicting. One consistent research finding has been that, especially in hospital settings, patients, physicians, and nurses agree that the most important nursing activities are related to physicians* orders. This is understandable in light of the fact that people come to hospitals under a physician’s care seeking a medical service and traditionally, nurses have been held most accountable for efficient and accurate execution of physicians* orders., Copyrights are retained by the author.

The decade of the 1980s has been the era for health protection and health promotion. Health professionals believe that individuals can do a great deal to promote, maintain, or regain their health. Health protection is directed toward decreasing the probability of experiencing illness by active protection of the body against pathological stressors or detection of illness in the asymptomatic stage. Health promotion is directed toward increasing the level of well-being and self-actualization of an individual, and it focuses on movement toward a state of health and well-being. Illness and disease appear to have little motivational significance for health-promoting behavior. Desire for growth, expression of human potential, and quality of life provide the motivation for health-promotive behaviors., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Marilyn Brody for further use of this material.

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The widespread and continuing implementation of primary nursing in acute care hospitals reflects a momentum for change in response to nurses' dissatisfaction with lack of patient contact and fragmented patient care. The nursing literature throughout the last decade contains numerous articles discussing primary nursing. A review and critique of this literature in 1980 found that most of what was published on primary nursing, a delivery system or organizational mode for inpatient units, focused on implementation, patient satisfaction, nurse satisfaction, quality of care, and cost effectiveness. Most articles implied that primary nursing is superior to other modes or delivery systems, however, the authors pointed out that no systematic, controlled research into the differences between team and primary nursing has been conducted. Definitions of primary nursing are not uniform throughout the literature, but almost all reports and articles on the subject stress that the basic requirements are autonomy, authority, and accountability in the primary nurse*s role. The more recent books and articles on primary nursing have related implementation strategies and processes to a variety of other health care issues, especially professionalization of nursing and need for leadership development in this field., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Elizabeth Beidler for further use of this material.

Since 1965 the nation's population as a whole has increased by 19 percent. In comparison, the sixty-five and over age group has expanded by 35 percent. More and more of these elderly are maintaining a healthy, independent existence in our society and are capable of continued growth and development. One specific area of concern for health care professionals working with this growing segment is the development and maintenance of a healthy mental attitude by the aged. However, there has been limited research conducted to determine the characteristics of mental health, and the term remains ambiguous. Humanistic psychology emphasizes the positive aspect of man developing to his optimum human potential., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Janice Giltinan for further use of this material

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In today's society, it having become commonplace for dying persons to be institutionalized, the responsibility of providing emotional support to a patient and his family has been delegated to the health care worker. The nurse is often the first person approached by a dying patient with a need to talk about this predicament., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Carole Welch for further use of this material.

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This non-experimental, descriptive study was designed to investigate the learning style preferences of professional nurses for two different teaching methodologies using Knowle's adult learning theory. The purpose of the study was to give nurse educators direction in choosing an instructional method. Two separate groups of professional nurses from an acute health care facility in Northwestern Pennsylvania formed the sample for the study. The professional nurses' preferences about the method of teaching after a one hour course were compared. Group A (n=16) was given the lecture teaching method. Group B (n=14) was given the self-study packet teaching method. The Affective Measure Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The data was analyzed by using the t-test. The results revealed a t-value of 6.75 which was significant at the .05 level. The findings indicated that the lecture teaching method was preferred over the self-study packet teaching method by the professional nurses., Copyrights are retained by the author.

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The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a performance evaluation tool for use by the preceptors in a particular orientation program. The tool was devised by an ad hoc committee of five preceptors appointed by the Staff Development Coordinator. It was expected that an easy to use but consistent tool to evaluate the preceptees would increase the effectiveness of a preceptor program., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Teri Swartzbeck for further use of this material.

The nursing staff on an inpatient psychiatric unit were seeking ways to improve quality of nursing care in order to meet the standards mandated by the American Nurses' Association and Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. Problems arising from use of the team nursing model on the unit included fragmentation of client care, complex and ineffective channels of communication, and lack of accountability due to shared responsibility for client care. Continuity of care was lacking, and task-oriented care prevented individualized treatment of clients. The professional nurse spent most of her time directing and supervising the care given by others rather than delivering direct client care., Copyrights are retained by the author.

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The purpose of this study was to determine if nurses and families agree regarding the most important needs of families with head injured members in the acute rehabilitation hospital. Furthermore, it was hoped that an understanding of these needs would assist rehabilitation nurses in developing appropriate nursing interventions to assist families in fulfilling their perceived needs.