This correlational study was done to determine if there is a relationship between a nurse educator's spiritual well-being and the emphasis he/she places on teaching about spiritual care. The design involved the development of a six point Likert scale questionnaire which assessed specific educational activities pertaining to spiritual care. Another six point Likert scale, The Spiritual Well-Being Scale (SWB) by Ellison and Paloutzian (1982), was utilized to assess spiritual well-being. These two questionnaires were sent to 136 nurse educators from five universities in New York and Pennsylvania. The hypothesis was that there is a significant relationship between nurse educator's scores on the SWB Scale and their scores on the Educational Activities Assessment Tool. Pearson's correlation was used to assess the relationship between the scores from the two questionnaires. The correlation coefficient was 0.585 which was significant (t76=1.98, pc.05). The hypothesis was supported. The results of this study have implications for nurse educators and schools of nursing. It is important for educators to be aware of how their own personal biases and convictions might relate to their teaching behavior., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Nathan Everhart for further use of this material.
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Nursing Pastoral medicine Holistic nursing Pastoral care Medicine
Problem solving as the basis for all nursing intervention is a recent development in professional nursing. Historically nursing has been a "hands on" occupation where the nurse provided care on the intuitive level. However as health care has increased technologically, nursing has been forced to develop a theoretical knowledgebase and become more sophisticated in its practice, the change in nursing from a practicing occupation to a practice discipline has placed the burden of accountability upon each practitioner. The image of the practice of nursing began to change in the 1950*s when the Brown Report was published. It focused attention on the appropriateness of the term professional when referring to nursing. Since then there has been an ongoing discussion about whether nursing exhibits the characteristics of a profession. Attempts have been made to define nursing functions in relation to professional activities with minimal success, and thus the debate about nursing as a profession continues., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Linda Benson for further use of this material.
The purpose of this study is to further understand social support as one of the psychosocial factors affecting diabetes adherence, and to look at this factor in relation to diabetes education programs. The other purpose of this study is to
assist in the search for a meaningful, practical psychosocial assessment tool for diabetes programs., Copyright is retained by the author. Please contact Catherine Gutowski for further use of this material.
In nursing, two major socialization/resocialization processes have been described by researchers: first, the initial adult socialization period in which lay people are socialized into the nursing profession through a formal education process, and, secondly, the resocialization process that occurs as graduate nurses leave their formal educational programs and enter the work setting for the first time., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Mary Ann Lubiejewski for further use of this material.
This descriptive, non-experimental study was designed to examine the differences in the degree of professional socialization among nursing students at two academic levels. The object of this study was to
measure the socialization to the professional nursing role amongst students in ADN and BSN nursing programs and provide nurse educators with pertinent information on which to build and advance nursing professionalism. The two groups of senior nursing students from two universities in Northwestern Pennsylvania and Southwestern New York formed the sample for the study. Stone's Health Care Professional Attitude Inventory as modified by Lawler was used to ascertain degree and differences of professional socialization in the two groups. The two groups of students, ADN (n = 19) and BSN (n = 44), were compared on the dimension of "professionalization." The data was analyzed by using an analysis of variance (F-test) for each of the six subscales of the tool. The results revealed an f-value of 5.68 which was significant at the .05 level for the 6th subscale which measures compassion. The data as analyzed revealed f-values which were not significant for any of the other subscales or the total score. The finding indicate that the level of professionalism exhibited by the BSN students was not significantly different from that of ADN students., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Marie Langdon for further use of this material.
There have been many changes in American society over the past decade which have greatly influenced traditional education in this country. Brown has identified the women’s liberation movement, unemployment, equal rights, equal opportunities for the handicapped, a decrease in the birth rate, and students' rights as the significant influences on traditional education. These factors have
influenced individuals to cross barriers into nontraditional occupational fields and institutions of higher learning to recruit and enroll nontraditional students. Statistics show 500,000 women over the age of thirty-five were enrolled in college courses in 1970. Statistics for 1976 show 55 million men and women over the age of twenty-five come from nontraditional sources: the minorities, the
older students, and students who are considered academic risks., Copyright is retained by the author. Please contact Sharon Shipton for further use of this material.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the preparation of faculty in baccalaureate nursing programs to work with adult learners, evaluate their knowledge of the characteristics of adult learners and andragogical approaches to education, and assess whether these nurse educators use andragogical teaching strategies when working with adult learners in nursing education., Copyrights are retained by the author. Please contact Linda Elizabeth Wiley Gilbert for further use of this material.
