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M R Lynn

Publications and source records attributed to M R Lynn.

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PubMed1991

Team research: development of "we" in nursing research.

Team (tem) n. 1. a. Two or more draft animals harnessed to a vehicle or farm implement, b. A vehicle along with the animal or animals harnessed to it. 2. A group of animals exhibited or performing together. 3. A group of players on the same side in a game. 4. Any group organized to work together.

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PubMed1989

Socialization of R.N. to B.S.N.

The Nurse's Professional Orientation Scale and Schwirian's Six-Dimension Scale of Nursing Performance (Six-D Scale) were used in a five-year, longitudinal study of the professional socialization of the Registered Nurse/Bachelor of Nursing Science (RN/BSN) (n = 30) and generic baccalaureate students (n = 193) in a nursing program in the Southeast United States. Program exit socialization scores between RN/BSN and generic graduates were not significantly different. Using an ANCOVA, significantly higher socialization scores were found for the generic graduates. The scores for the RN/BSN graduates were significantly higher than the generic students at graduation on the teaching/collaboration, planning/evaluation and interpersonal communication subscales of the Six-D scale. When program entry Six-D subscales score were controlled, only the professional development subscale differentiated between RN/BSN and generic graduates. The program impact on the RN/BSN student/graduate as well as the means by which this process can be studied are questioned.

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PubMed1989

Instrument reliability and validity: how much needs to be published?

Although the 20 studies reviewed from Heart & Lung are methodologically sound and quite sophisticated, just as in less well-designed research, the results of these studies are not able to rise above the quality of the instrumentation used and reported. Regardless of the actual quality of instrumentation used in a study, unless it is supported by at least minimum descriptive, reliability, and validity information, the data and results should not be assumed to have any merit. Only when the instrumentation is described in such a way that the consumer of the research knows what type(s) of instrumentation was used, how accurate it has been and was in this study, and the extent to which it measured the intended variables, should the results of research be given credence. A careful researcher would offer such instrumentation information and a wise consumer should accept no less.

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