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M E Megel

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PubMed1996

Evaluation of the effectiveness of Project Trust: an elementary school-based victimization prevention strategy.

This study employed a Posttest-Only Control Group Design to assess the effects of a victimization prevention program, Project TRUST, on elementary school students' knowledge of general prevention concepts, knowledge of difficult-to-acquire prevention concepts, anxiety, and reporting of abuse. A selected subgroup of experimental subjects was also assessed for retention of acquired concepts over time. Students exposed to Project TRUST demonstrated significantly greater knowledge of maltreatment prevention information, as well as difficult-to-acquire concepts, than control group students. A 3-month delayed reassessment of the experimental subgroup showed no loss in acquired prevention information. No differences in anxiety scores existed between experimental and control groups. First-time student abuse disclosures were greater in the experimental than in the control group. These findings support the effectiveness of Project TRUST as a strategy to increase prevention knowledge and generate abuse disclosures without creating student anxiety.

Analysis of Variance↗
PubMed1996

Conflicts experienced by quality assurance/improvement professionals: A Delphi study.

A Delphi survey was conducted to investigate the frequency and importance of conflicts identified by quality assurance/improvement professionals as well as the actions taken and resources used to deal with the conflicts. Responses to three rounds of the Delphi survey from 86 participants indicated that the predominant conflicts involved intrapersonal concerns, such as worry about the future, interpersonal and political barriers to change in quality work, and, rarely, ethical conflicts. A variety of collaborative and educational strategies were used to deal with conflicts. Results may be useful to examine from the perspective of health care professionals currently involved in quality work.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1995

Caring experiences of nurse educators.

Central to nursing practice today is the theme of caring. Yet nursing faculty are themselves experiencing a lack of caring. Faculty frequently voice the complaint that no one in the school of nursing work environment cares about them as they struggle to balance the demands of work with the demands of a personal life. A descriptive phenomenological approach was used to facilitate understanding of the caring experiences of nurses who teach. The question guiding this study was, "How do nurse educators experience caring in their work situations?" Nomination and purposive sampling techniques were used to select seven nurse faculty as participants. Unstructured interviews, lasting approximately one hour, were audiotaped and transcribed. Colaizzi's (1978) methodology was used to analyze the resulting data. Resulting themes included: 1) Caring is Connection and 2) Caring is a Pattern of Establishing and Maintaining Relationships. The use of narrative, journaling, and dialogue are suggested as techniques that will help nurse educators experience caring in schools of nursing.

Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
PubMed1994

Data analysis.

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Data Interpretation, Statistical↗
PubMed1993

Research design.

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Humans↗
PubMed1987

Nursing students' performance: administering injections in laboratory and clinical area.

Little research has been done regarding the teaching of psychomotor nursing skills in order to achieve an appropriate level of proficiency. This study examined the skill of parenteral medication administration, comparing laboratory proficiency to clinical proficiency over time. Subjects included 35 associate degree nursing students. The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory was used as well as an injection performance skill check list. There was no significant change in the number of errors between the laboratory "check-out" and the first clinical performance, nor was anxiety related to skill performance. Further study related to psychomotor skill acquisition is needed.

Adolescent↗