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R Davidhizar

Publications and source records attributed to R Davidhizar.

At least 127 records · Page 7Linked to original sources
PubMed1997

Motivating the paraprofessional in long-term care.

Motivating the paraprofessional employee in the long-term care setting is one of the biggest challenges facing health care supervisors. Unlike their counterparts in industry, whose work may produce tangible results and rewards, long-term care professionals often must face patients who show little or no change over time. Supervisors must have understanding and knowledge of motivational techniques that will involve and challenge paraprofessionals.

Aged↗
PubMed1997

Irritability in work relationships.

Irritability is a word that is not commonly found in management textbooks. However, it is a phenomenon that the manager may frequently encounter and should be understood if correct intervention is to occur. This paper explores the phenomenon of irritability as it relates to emotions, behavior, and physiology, in order to provide information for the manager to use in recognizing, understanding, and detecting irritability in one's self, peers, boss, or employees.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

Rumors and gossip: a guide for the health care supervisor.

Rumor and gossip are long-standing means of communication among humans and are prevalent in health care settings in part due to the nature of the organization. Rumor and gossip may be negative or positive, and health care supervisors should monitor the grapevine and consider themselves personally responsible for transmitting accurate information whenever possible to ensure that rumor and gossip do not have a negative effect on the department or institution.

Communication↗
PubMed1997

When your employee forgets who the boss is.

Managers confront many types of behavior in the workplace. One interpersonal problem that presents an unusual challenge to the manager is the employee who appears to "forget who the boss is." This article addresses this unusual employee-manager problem by first describing the characteristics and dynamics of the behavior and then providing guidelines for responding to this problematic behavior.

Behavior Therapy↗
PubMed1997

Adjusting to not being "on top": making effective use of transitions.

In today's health care environment, it is possible even for the successful health care manager to be fired or demoted. To ensure continued success, the manager must view a termination or demotion as a normal transition of life and find ways to "move on". Given today's volatile environment, anticipatory planning for job loss or job change, which includes attention to continued professional training, visioning changes in health care, and maintaining strong professional contacts, is an imperative.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

When change is a must.

Change is a significant concept in health care. It is critical that health care professionals understand change dynamics and implement strategies to adapt to the changes in the modern workplace.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

When a co-worker complains.

"I'm not the only one working here! Why do I have to do everything nobody else wants to do? I get all the skut work around here. I'm really sick of it." What do you do when a co-worker complains? Complainers always seek out people who will listen. The listener must either agree, which makes the listener a complainer, or disagree, which often leads to an argument.

Agonistic Behavior↗
PubMed1997

When touch is not the best approach.

Health care professionals have long believed in the value of nonverbal components of communication and the highly significant roles such factors as distance, space, and touch can play in therapeutic relationships. The value of touch is not appreciated by all health care professionals or considered appropriate or desirable by some patients. While touch has been described as the most important of all the senses, the astute professional must be cognizant of the times when touch should not be used.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1997

Five mind traps for new grads to avoid.

Self-defeating feelings are costly not only to the graduate but to the nursing profession. To be a successful nurse the graduate must develop skills in reacting to stressful situations and in coping with self-defeating feelings that may result if the stress is not resolved.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

Life in migrant camps for children-a hazard to health.

Migrant workers are a national resource as they plant, maintain, harvest, and process America's food. However, migrant workers and their children encounter many health hazards in the course of providing this service to the nation. This article describes life among migrants, and the health hazards to which they are constantly exposed.

Adult↗
PubMed1997

Canadian transcultural nursing: applying the Giger and Davidhizar model.

Giger and Davidhizar (1995) provide a model for assessing clients from differing cultures in order to be aware of differences and to plan appropriate strategies. This model is appropriate for use with groups of individuals regardless of culture and is particularly useful and appropriate in Canada where society is a mixture of people from different ethnic backgrounds, different political and religious persuasions, and different aspirations. This paper presents an overview of the cultural diversity among Canadians and then applies the model as an assessment tool that can be used by Canadian nurses.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1997

Reflections on the elderly African American in health care.

This article discusses the demographics of the elderly in America and how these demographics relate to the minority elderly with specific focus on the African American elderly. The special health risks of this group are discussed. The Giger and Davidhizar Model is used to assess health risks among the African American Elderly.

Black or African American↗
PubMed1997

Cultural implications for nursing care of the Amish.

The Amish are a conservative Protestant religious sect with a unique set of culture and traditions. In order to provide culturally appropriate and sensitive health care, it is imperative for nurses and other health care providers to have a basic understanding of variations of Amish lifestyle from other cultural groups. Application of Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model provides information and nursing implications to assist nurses and other health care personnel when caring for Amish clients.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1996

The dynamics of rumours in the clinical setting.

In this article the social and psychological aspects of rumours are considered. The authors place rumours in a wider social context using definitions of different types of rumour before focusing on the nature of rumours in the healthcare environment. Some of the positive and negative consequences of rumours are examined and strategies which can help to minimise the spread of the misinformation characteristically contained in hospital rumours are highlighted.

Deception↗