ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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In a comparative study of the effect of individual and group preoperative teaching on a postoperative ventilatory function, length of hospitalization, postoperative need for analgesia, and length of learning time, group teaching was found to be as effective as and more efficient than individual teaching. When age, smoking history, and site of incision were included as classification variables, age and smoking history were found to not alter the effectiveness of either method of preoperative teaching, but site of incision did interact in a significant way with the teaching method; subjects who received group instruction and who had, previous incisions had a shorter hospitalization than the same group receiving individual instruction. Age and smoking history did not affect postoperative ventilatory function and need for analgesia, but site of incision did. Age was found to affect length of hospital stay and postoperative need for analgesics; older subjects had, a longer stay and received fewer analgesics. Subjects of the study—all adult surgical patients who met certain criteria during a 15-week period in one general hospital (N = 351)—were randomly assigned by weeks to group or individual teaching. Thirty-one registered nurses from the surgical unit did the preoperative teaching.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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Forty-seven infants four to 40 weeks of age in Dumaguete City, the Philippines, were given a cycling motion exercise of the upper and lower limbs for Jour five-minute periods a day, six days a week, for two months. They were measured, against a control group of 17 infants of the same age and sex. Pretest, mid test, and pastiest measurements were taken for weight gain, length gain, and development of motor, language, adaptive, and personal-social behaviors. Significant differences were found between the two groups of infants to substantiate the hypothesis that increases in growth and development of infants who receive physical care and emotional support plus planned physical-physiological activity in the form of passive cycling exercises would be greater than those of infants who receive only physical care and, emotional support.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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In this review of the literature, reports of case, actuarial, correlational, and natural process studies of the psychological responses to open heart surgery are presented, their findings are compared, and directions for future research are suggested.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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A coronary care training project was established by the Western Pennsylvania Regional Medical Program at the University of Pittsburgh to extend the knowledge, skills, and confidence of nurses caring for cardiac patients. To assess the effectiveness of the four-week course a 120-item multiple-choice examination was developed, which measured the nurse's knowledge as well as her confidence in that knowledge. Nurses were required to give the correct answer to each item as well as to designate whether that answer was certain, a partial guess, or a guess. Posttest results showed that nurses who completed this specialized course performed better and with greater confidence than on the pretest. Whereas only 27.4 per cent of the answers were both correct and given with a high degree of certainty before the course, this figure rose to 66.3 per cent following the course. A six-month follow-up examination of participants showed that knowledge retention of coronary care principles remained high and that 77 per cent of the nurses tested were working in intensive coronary care areas. The ultimate goal of the project was to improve the care of patients in intensive coronary care areas. An ongoing method to assess morbidity and mortality in regional coronary care units was established as a result of this project.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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A method for examining the relationship between pressure and temperature for the purpose of preventing and treating decubitus ulcers is described in this preliminary report. Measurement of body temperature in normal subjects by high resolution medical thermography is reported, and investigations under way for determining pressure-sore susceptibility of patients are discussed.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

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In a study to identify factors that cause decubitus ulcers and to describe characteristics of patients who develop them, 26 nonambulatory patients in two health care facilities were evaluated two times a week for four weeks or until a decubitus ulcer formed. A point-biserial correlation for age and skin breakdown, a phi correlation for 20 other variables, and a stepwise regression, using information from the correlations, produced a profile of a patient likely to develop these ulcers: a thin, febrile male with an infection, who may be receiving corticosteroid therapy. Use of the 21 variables, the study findings revealed, could predict decubitus ulcer formation with 98.26 per cent accuracy.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

摘要:

Sixty-six fourth-year nursing students at the University of California at San Francisco were assigned randomly to an interpersonal small group experience under three different leadership formats: 1) with the leader always present; 2) with the leader in attendance at alternate sessions; 3) with Encounter tapes used and a resource leader available on call. The groups met twice weekly for eight weeks, and all sessions were taped. During the last week of class Gough's Adjective Check List was administered, and from the scales three nurse profiles were derived: Humanistic, Achievement-Assertion-Control, and High Self-Actualizing-Low Bureaucratic. No differences were found on the first two factors, but the programmed tape group showed significantly higher scores on the third factor. When differences in characteristic group behavior were analyzed from audiotapes, the use of leaderless groups in conjunction with structured taped direction proved to be an economical and productive strategy in the education of nursing students for whom a small group experience is indicated.

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID

ISSN:0029-6562    

出版商:OVID    

年代:1972

数据来源: OVID