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R Davidhizar

Publications and source records attributed to R Davidhizar.

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Empowerment: a tool for black nursing faculty.

This article explores the concept of power and applies it to Black nursing faculty members. Recognizing that although the number of Black Americans teaching in schools of nursing is not proportional to the number in the general population, the authors state that the number entering the teaching field is increasing. With so few in nursing and subsequently in teaching, problems are inherent in the teaching role. The authors address some of these problems and offer suggestions for how Black nursing faculty members can empower themselves.

Black or African American↗
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Caring for elderly patients who have paranoia.

Caring for patients with paranoia presents unique challenges. As increasing numbers of potentially paranoid patients are treated, radiologic technologists must understand techniques that increase patient trust and decrease suspiciousness. Understanding the perceived vulnerability of patients with paranoia and implementing appropriate strategies facilitate trust and are key to providing quality care.

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Opening up to the Katz Index.

As assessment of functional ability becomes more and more important to nurses as well as other members of the interdisciplinary team, the Katz index is a useful instrument to have available. The Katz Index is a simple instrument. This is both a strength and a deficit. The IADLs are not evaluated with the index. It has some deficits that make it less useful in rehabilitation and of more value in nursing and interdisciplinary research. In any case, it is a useful tool with which nurses should be familiar when seeking a way to measure functional ability of older adults EC.

Activities of Daily Living↗
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Transcultural patient assessment: a method of advancing dental care.

It is essential for persons who work in a dental office to understand the differences in individuals from culture to culture. It is also important to appreciate that each patient and family is culturally unique and brings this uniqueness to the dental office. Since the caregivers also bring their own unique cultural heritage, the dental office setting is rich with possible variations and differences. It is important to refrain from imposing personal values and beliefs on the patient and to respect the uniqueness and differences each brings to the care environment.

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Writing for publication in an RN to Baccalaureate program: an exercise in critical thinking.

More than 35,700 registered nurses are currently enrolled in an RN to Baccalaureate completion program (I). The demand for these graduates is expected to continue, along with an increased demand for community-based educational programs. Many of these students have significant clinical experience and expertise. Nursing faculty are challenged to develop learning experiences and program outcomes that enhance their professional skills and add to their expertise.

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Helping your patients control their pain.

In this article, the authors discuss pain as a disease, obstacles to the treatment of pain, e.g., addiction, dependency, tolerance and strategies for helping patients cope with pain.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Community assessment: an RN-BSN partnership with community.

Conducting a community assessment can be a vital aspect of a community health course for a baccalaureate nursing student. This experience can enable the student to use the nursing process in a basic community assessment as well as provide community decision makers with significant data and analysis about community health related needs and potential solutions. This paper describes use of the Community-as-Partner model by Anderson and McFarlane to do a class project to assess a local community.

Community Health Nursing↗
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Are you sure you want to be a manager?

Management has a substantial effect on organizational outcome and is critical for the organization in terms of obtaining long-term goals. Therefore, the selection of successful managers is crucial to attaining organizational objectives. However, a staff technologist who functions very successfully in his or her present role may not have the characteristics needed for successful management. Unfortunately, success in one's current, nonsupervisory position is usually the very attribute that is considered when a management position is offered. Because of this, there are many who fail miserably in the management role. These managers are ill-suited for the duties they must perform, unhappy in the position, disliked and seen as ineffectual by their subordinates and colleagues. It is essential that any individual who is offered a management position critically evaluate his or her abilities and personality before accepting the offer. For a candidate who is unsure of his or her abilities, tests are available that can assist in measuring attributes such as leadership behavior, power management, power orientation, conflict management, perceptions of organizational climate and the individual's "organizational fit" with the organization offering the position. These instruments should be used with caution because their reliability and validity in predicting management success depend on a wide variety of factors. Ultimately, it is the prospective manager's personal judgment that must be the final determinant of whether a management position is the best choice.

Career Choice↗
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Are managers wasting words on praise?

Praise can be a powerful form of affirmation and a motivator. However, praise also can be given in a way that negates its benefits. To avoid wasting words and maximize the benefits of praise, it must be offered in the right manner and at the right time.

Employee Incentive Plans↗
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The employee who seeks to benefit from being ill.

The presence of physical symptoms that do not correlate with a disease process are often frustrating to healthcare professionals, are difficult to diagnose and may consume an inordinate proportion of healthcare resources. However, proper and complete physical and psychological assessment and treatment is becoming increasingly possible and essential. Physical illness may occur concomitantly and sometimes as a result of psychological distress, which has displayed itself in a diagnosed mental illness. In other cases physical symptoms may be caused by unconscious dynamics, and the process becomes the primary presenting mental concern. In other cases the physical illness is part of a conscious process and motivated by the hope of gain. Differentiation between physical symptoms of unconscious and conscious origin is important in selecting the correct response. A manager must first of all be alert for physical symptoms that appear to be consciously motivated, as in a disorder called "malingering." The essential feature of malingering is the intentional production of false or grossly exaggerated physical or psychological symptoms, motivated by external incentives such as avoiding work or obtaining financial compensation. Managers may inadvertently encourage malingering in the workplace by inappropriate responses to employees who present a physical complaint that is consciously motivated for gain. When the manager can recognize this phenomenon as malingering, appropriate managerial intervention can cause this behavior to be controlled and even eliminated and thus enhance productivity.

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Assessing culturally diverse pediatric clients.

For many pediatric nurses, providing culturally sensitive care among children of diverse backgrounds is frustrating and time-consuming because elements of cultural care theory were not assimilated into their educational programs. Using a transcultural model developed by Giger and Davidhizar (1995), pediatric nurses can now integrate a holistic and efficient assessment into the child's treatment plan. Essential health beliefs and practices are synthesized into the model's six components to assist the pediatric nurse in providing culturally appropriate care.

Attitude to Health↗
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When the nurse faces separation and loss.

This article discusses the types of separations and losses nurses may experience, factors which affect the reaction to separation and loss. It provides guidelines for the nurse in dealing with separation involving loss in the workplace whether it is personal or is the experience of others.

Bereavement↗