Measurement reliability and validity.
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Humans↗
Biomedical subjects
K B Gaberson
Publications and source records attributed to K B Gaberson.
What's the answer? What's the question?
Study results are only as meaningful as the research questions they answer. Good research ideas often emerge from clinical practice situations, but they need to undergo development and refinement to become researchable nursing research questions.
Anxiety↗
Nursing Research Committee replicates 1988 staffing study in the summer of 1995, finds little change at that time.
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Allied Health Personnel↗
Continuing education.
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Education, Nursing, Continuing↗
The effect of humorous and musical distraction on preoperative anxiety.
This study investigated the effect of humorous and musical distraction on preoperative anxiety among 46 patients scheduled for same day, elective, nondiagnostic surgery. Preoperative anxiety was measured with a horizontal visual analog scale after treatment group subjects listened to either a humorous audiotape or a tranquil music audiotape for 20 minutes and control group subjects received no intervention. Results show no significant difference between the group anxiety means. This study provides no evidence that humor or music decreases preoperative anxiety, but it also shows no evidence that perioperative nurses should avoid using humor or music as nursing interventions.
Adult↗
Triple treat. One chapter's Project Alpha activities.
The concept of Project Alpha, a chapter-level program to promote the implementation of perioperative nursing content in nursing education programs, was introduced at the 27th annual AORN Congress in 1980. Project Alpha activities were designated as basic (ie, Project Alpha awareness, education), intermediate (ie, Project Alpha promotion, clinical preceptoring), and advanced (ie, extern program, integrated perioperative module). This article reports one chapter's success in implementing Project Alpha.
Anniversaries and Special Events↗
Surgical glove study questioned.
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Data Interpretation, Statistical↗
The effect of humorous distraction on preoperative anxiety. A pilot study.
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Adaptation, Psychological↗
Test design: putting all the pieces together.
Preparing a nursing examination involves more than writing test items. The design of a test can contribute to measurement error and affect the validity and reliability of students' test scores. Nursing faculty should strive to minimize measurement error by following certain design rules when preparing a test. The author offers guidelines to help teachers design tests that will enable students to demonstrate their best performance.
Bias↗
Academic dishonesty among nursing students.
Student cheating on college campuses is believed to be a common occurrence, but academic dishonesty among nursing students is a source of legitimate concern to nursing faculty members because of its potential effect on present and future professional practice. Strategies are outlined that can promote academic honesty in the nursing program through moral and character development of nursing students, teaching moral decision-making skills, role-modeling of honest academic behavior, and developing and enforcing an appropriate academic integrity policy.
Character↗