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Caring in Nursing Education
… explore personal beliefs and assumptions about caring in one's personal and professional life. This dissertation recognizes the process of caring is interpretative and evolves from personal experience. I address issues of caring within the practice of nursing and nursing education from a …
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Gender, caring and learning disability
The thesis explores the meaning of caring in the lives of a group of people who are labelled as dependants, adults with learning difficulties. Through biographical interviews and documentary research the author examines how care for people with learning difficulties has developed over time in one …
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Caring: The Essence of Nursing a Study of Patients' Perceptions of Caring Behaviors of the Nurse
… hospitalized patients identify manifestations of caring by the nurse.<br> 2. To analyze data from patient interviews for patterns and themes of caring behaviors of the nurse.<br> 3. To determine patients’ feelings generated by the nurse’s caring behavior.<br> 4. To organize patients’ descriptions …
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Climate control: Does caring really matter?
… an education in nursing. Perceptions of faculty caring behaviors may heighten nursing students’ academic self-efficacy. This heightened academic self-efficacy may increase the likelihood of persistence consequently increasing the probability of success. Using relational-cultural theory (RCT) as a …
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Nel Noddings' Caring : a critical analysis
… and limitations of Nel Noddings' ethics of caring. My thesis is that although the ethics of caring approach has an important contribution to make in ethics, in Noddings' version it is limited by its inability to account for the possibility of moral relations with strangers. Noddings' ethics …
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Grandchildren's Perceptions of Caring for Grandparents
Throughout the life course, all family members can expect to find themselves in some type of caregiving role. Individuals may find themselves providing care for a child or for an older family member who needs assistance. With the increase in life expectancy and the shrinking family size, …
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The Long-Term Costs of Caring: How Caring for an Aging Parent Impacts Wealth Trajectories of Caregivers
… Retirement Study: 1998-2008) to evaluate whether caring for aging parents impacts caregivers' assets over time. Latent trajectory analysis was used to identify groups for whom caregiving had a negative impact on wealth trajectories. A four-group model fit best and revealed one group, with 4.3% of …
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Middle School Teachers' Beliefs About How They Communicate Caring and Students' Perceptions of Their Teachers' Caring Behaviors
… school teachers use and believe communicate caring and students' perceptions of their caring behaviors; to determine if a discrepancy exists between the two; and to identify the nature of any discrepancies. Participants included 16 eighth grade teachers and 184 eighth grade students. Data …
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Actively Caring About the Actively Caring Survey: Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of a Measure of Dispositional Altruism
<p>Geller’s Actively Caring Survey (ACS) was theorized to measure person states deemed necessary to “Actively Care” or act altruistically toward others. Empirical research of the ACS has been limited, and this researcher sought to evaluate its reliability, validity, and factorial consistency. …
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Shared Presence: Caring for a Dying Spouse
… pieces emerge into a theory of Shared Presence: Caring for a Dying Spouse at the end-of-life. It was in this time and in this place for this, to occur, the transition to the end-of-life for the wife and husband. One implication for further research is to explore the value of the wife's human …
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Students' Perceptions of Physical Education Teachers' Caring
The concept of caring is reported to be an important factor in the teacher-student relationship. However, this concept has not been widely explored in the context of the teacher-student relationship in physical education. The purpose of this study was to gain insights into students' perceptions of …
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Staff nurse perceptions' of nurse manager caring behaviors: psychometric testing of the Caring Assessment Tool-Administration (CAT-adm©)
Caring relationships established between nurse managers and staff nurses promote positive work environments. However, research about staff nurses' perceptions of nurse manager caring behaviors is limited. A 94-item Caring Assessment Tool-Administration (CAT-adm©) was developed to measure staff …
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Student nurses' experiences of caring for dying patients
… to look into the student nurses' experiences of caring for the dying patients. The aim of this small scale explorative qualitative study was to explore the experiences of student nurses whilst caring for the dying patients in Malta. Ten student nurses, from the Institute of Health care in Malta, …
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The meaning of caring interpersonal relationships in nursing
… explores nurses' and patients' perceptions of caring relationships in a hospital context. An attempt is made to discover the meaning these caring relationships have for the nurses who provide care and for the patients who participate in this process. The nurses enter into the caring …
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Watson's caring theory and instrument development
Caring has been identified as a construct critical to contemporary nursing practice. However, the limited number of existing measurement instruments has limited research . regarding caring. The purpose of this study was to further determine the reliability and validity of the Caring Behaviors …
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What Nursing Students Perceive as the Caring Ethic
… of what nursing students perceive as the caring ethic in their nursing curricula.
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The Caring Beliefs and Practices of Effective Teachers
… it neglects the personal component of teacher caring, which is necessary to reach all students, especially disaffected underachievers. The purpose of the present multi-case study was to determine the caring beliefs and practices of six effective teachers in two Title I Elementary schools in a …
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Middle school students’ perceptions of caring teacher behaviors
… (ELL). A school climate characterized by a caring student/teacher relationship is one approach that could mitigate the negative outcomes and help to close these gaps. However, as the student population becomes increasingly non-White and ELL, but teachers remain predominantly White, there are …
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The Relationships Between Patients’ Perceptions of Nurse Caring Behaviors, Nurses’ Perceptions of Nurse Caring Behaviors and Patient Satisfaction in the Emergency Department
… for many Emergency Department (ED) nurses. Thus, caring for these patients and meeting their needs is challenging for ED nurses. It is the patients’ perceptions of the first caring encounters in the ED that can have a significant impact on patient satisfaction.</p> <p><strong>Objective</strong>: …
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