ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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The information quality of nursing news is a critical factor in gaining public support for the acquisition of scarce resources necessary to undergird clinical nursing practice. A content analysis of 3,098 newspaper articles about nursing in 1978 was employed to examine the treatment of clinical nursing news. Among the variables studied were practice settings, educational levels, role clarity, professional activities, nurse-physician relationships, and degree of favorable image. Results revealed that the quality of news about clinical nursing varied by specialties, with maternity nursing and pediatric nursing news shown to be more progressive and community health nursing and medical-surgical nursing revealed as quite traditional. Psychiatric nursing received an inordinately low level of news coverage. Recommendations are offered to assist improvement in the amount and quality of news treatment of clinical nursing.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

A national sample of 79 masters- and certificate-prepared family and adult nurse practitioners completed six instruments designed to validate one type of clinical simulation, patient management problems (PMPs). The instruments were: a self-chart audit, self-evaluation rating scale, colleague evaluation rating scale, multiple-choice examination, PMP simulation, and demographic questionnaire. Use of a multitrait-multimethod correlation matrix, a multivariate analysis of covariance, and a stepwise multiple regression analysis provided modest evidence to support the claim that the PMP simulation is a valid measure of the construct clinical problem solving. In fact, a multiple-choice examination appeared to be an equal, if not superior, instrument.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Development of an instrument for assessing and classifying patients who are chronically ill and require long-term care is described. Selected aspects of reliability and validity are discussed.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

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A quasi-experimental study was conducted to extend: 1) Johnson's findings by using a measure of anxiety proneness to control for individual variations in responding to stressful situations and 2) the applicability of Johnson's work to another procedure, barium enema. The subjects, 24 hospitalized patients, were assigned to one of three information conditions: sensation, procedure, or no information. Prior to the barium enema all subjects took the trait portion of Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to measure relatively stable individual differences in anxiety proneness. Two groups heard a taped measure of sensation or procedural information; the third group heard no information. After the barium enema, all subjects took the state portion of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory to measure emotional responses during the barium enema. Subjects who received sensation information reported less anxiety than subjects who received no information or procedural information. However, the hypothesized relationships between the mean state anxiety scores for the three information groups were not found.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

This study investigated concentrations of halothane anesthetic vapors in the operating rooms of two hospitals in the Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, area. Air samples, taken by active charcoal tubes and dosimeter badges, were analyzed by a gas chromatographic technique. Readings of 71 samples taken from hospital A and 65 samples from hospital B ranged from 1.0 to 29.4 parts per billion (ppb)for the active period and 0.1 to 3.8 ppb for the inactive period. All samples showed trace concentrations of halothane, but were well below the recommended maximal level.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

This study explored the relationship between sex-role identity (M/F) among female nursing students and their description of self; explored whether differences in self-description resulted from the students' M/F role identity or from the type of program in which they obtained education, and compared and contrasted the measured M/F of graduating female nurses to female American college students in general and to a range of personality constructs which might be salient to the profession of nursing. The sample consisted of 163 female graduating nurses in six nursing programs: diploma (45), associate degree (23), and baccalaureate degree (91). Utilizing several data-collection instruments (the Student Biographical Inventory, the Omnibus Personality Inventory, and the Nurse's Self-Description Form (NSDF)), findings demonstrated that: 1) There was no significant relationship between M/F and age, birth order, number of brothers and sisters, education level of either parent, educational aspirations, and number of years in college. 2) Differences existed between female nursing students and a normative sample of college females on only four scales: autonomy, religious orientation, personal integration, and practical outlook. 3) Nursing students' M/F scores were positively correlated with a normative sample in thinking introversion, aestheticism, impulse expression, and anxiety level; M/F scores did not correlate with theoretical orientation, complexity, altruism, practical outlook, religious orientation, or social extroversion. 4) No significant differences were manifested in M/F scores between the two samples. 5) There was no difference in sex-role identity as measured by mean M/F scores for female nursing students in the three program levels. 6) The NSDF did not differentiate according to sex-role identification but did differentiate according to program level. The study dispels the popular myth that nursing students manifest more feminine characteristics than other women in college and points to the need to differentiate the outcomes expected from education in nursing at the technical and the professional levels.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

This experiment focused on how reactions to a rape victim would be affected by a perceived act of carelessness. The subjects were 116 graduating baccalaureate nursing students, 31 percent of whom were registered nurses. All subjects read a vignette of a rape in which the victim was described as having driven to a drugstore on a legitimate errand-. Subjects were randomly assigned to read one of four versions, in which the victim either locked or failed to lock her car door (carelessness manipulation) and in which the rape occurred at 10:00 P.M. or midnight. All subjects evaluated the victim on a series of 11-point rating scales, and the data were analyzed by means of 2 × 2 analyses of variance. As hypothesized, subjects in the unlocked condition (compared to those in the locked condition) liked and identified with the victim significantly less, and attributed significantly more carelessness and responsibility for the rape to her. There was no significant main effect for the time the rape occurred. Use of vignettes as an unobtrusive measure of attitude toward rape, and implications for nursing education and practice are discussed.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1981

数据来源: OVID