Biomedical subjects
R Davidhizar
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Collaborating without caving in.
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Building a nursing career.
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It's been 16 months. When the nurse is the patient.
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Health care reform what every LPN should know.
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Hidden scars: posttraumatic stress disorder.
Memories of traumatic incidents or experiences can cause deep but invisible scars. Without intervention, the emotional pain associated with the incident can continue unabated. For the most part, painful memories are likely to be suppressed. However, when a memory is "triggered" for some reason, a variety of symptoms may occur which may be termed "posttraumatic stress disorder" (PTSD). A nurse can use an understanding of unhealed psychological scars to gain awareness of unresolved personal stress. In addition to personal reflection, as nurses assess and care for patients, it is important to be alert to indications of unresolved emotional pain.
The manipulative manager: interventions for the nurse executive--Part 2.
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Having confidence in work relationships.
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Recruitment and orientation of older volunteers in extended care.
Older volunteers can make miracles happen as they have more time than younger persons and staff to listen and to give patients and residents personal attention. Recruitment and orientation of older volunteers is the first step and must be ongoing, as turnover may be high. Orientation that focuses on the goals of the volunteer program and a few important concepts in relating to patients and residents may be all that is needed to get an older volunteer started.
The art of working with number two.
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When your patient is silent.
In the process of caring for patients, nurses encounter patients who are silent. A number of problems may arise when silence occurs in an interpersonal situation. Among these problems is the different meanings that silence may have from culture to culture. This paper describes the meaning that silence may have across cultures and delineates guidelines for the nurse in responding to the patient who is silent.
Changing nursing students' attitudes--an exploratory study.
Stereotypes, competition, and limited contact can contribute to nursing students from different programs developing negative attitudes about one another. This study applies an attitude change model to a small sample of nursing students in different programs to determine if this negative attitude can be changed.
Understanding monochronic and polychronic individuals in the workplace.
Patterning of time is a frequently ignored aspect of human behavior. Individuals handle time durations differently. Responses to time durations were first outlined in the classic work of Hall (in 1959) and include urgency, activity, variety, and whether multiple or isolated tasks are attempted in the same time duration. When patients or other staff vary from the nurse in the way in which time or time perception is handled, difficulty can occur. Understanding the way individuals handle time can assist in dealing with patients and colleagues and is of particular significance in interacting with people from other cultures and races.
The ministry of nursing.
Historically, the nursing profession has roots in the Christian concept of ministry. A caring ministry called for persons to serve their neighbours who were in need physically or spiritually. Persons were seen as wholes. As caring professions developed into separate and distinct entities, many continued to share a holistic view of people and to address similar needs. Nursing and pastoral care workers especially share concern for meeting common client patient needs; for example, providing concern and comfort, assisting persons to find meaning in their situation, responding to spiritual distress, and helping persons to experience hope. Many of the caring qualities of today's nurses are pastoral in nature, and contribute richly to healing. Examining nursing as ministry provides an opportunity to consider the nature of nursing as it moves into the 21st century.
Knowledge and attitudes of chronic mentally ill patients before and after medication education.
This study compares the knowledge and attitudes of 60 patients in a state hospital about medication, before and after structured and unstructured medication education. The purpose was to determine which type of education has more positive effects. A pre- and post-test two-group experimental design was used. The results of this study were not statistically significant in supporting the literature that education has some effect on knowledge or on attitude about taking medication. The study showed similar effects of the method (structured versus unstructured) on increasing knowledge and attitude toward medication. Demographic data from the study suggest a variety of other factors may relate to attitudes and knowledge about medication in the hospital. This study suggests medication education should address demographic factors, incorporate multi-dimensional approaches, include more active patient participation, and utilize one-to-one teaching whenever possible.
Powerlessness of caregivers in home care.
Patients are not the only ones who suffer when they have a chronic illness; significant others and family members can also suffer. Reaction to chronically ill family members and the problems in their care varies among significant others. As the number of elderly individuals is increasing the number of chronically ill people needing care is also increasing. Not only do patients feel powerless but personal factors, factors in the environment, and factors related to the illness itself can also provide a conceptual framework for organizing factors that affect feelings of powerlessness among family members and significant others.