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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Leininger"”.
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Opening the Black Box: Understanding Adult Inpatient Falls
… of Culture Care Diversity and Universality (Leininger 2001, 2006). Data collection took place in a large academic medical center, over a five month period and included 24 participants: eight adult inpatients experiencing a fall event and sixteen registered nurses with direct knowledge about …
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Low dilatation pseudo-anosovs on punctured surfaces and volume
… the order 1/g (the lowest possible order), Farb-Leininger-Margalit showed that the volume of the mapping torus is bounded, independent of g. We show that the analogous result fails for a surface of fixed genus g with n punctures, by constructing pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism with entropy of the …
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Free products of abelian groups in mapping class groups
… to Farb-Mosher. In recent work, Dowdall-Durham-Leininger-Sisto have proposed a definition of “parabolic” geometric finiteness for mapping class groups. In this thesis, we construct a new family of examples of parabolically geometrically finite mapping class subgroups and prove that they are …
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The essence of nurse caring during labor and delivery
… labor and delivery. The works of Mayeroff, Leininger, and Paterson and Zderad were examined in order to focus the study specifically toward nurse caring. Mayeroff explored the general concept of caring. Leininger emphasized the importance of the study and practice of caring to the nursing …
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Rigidity of length functions over strata of flat metrics
… enough complexity, extending a result of Duchin-Leininger-Rafi. Specifically, for any stratum with more unmarked zeroes than the genus, the Sigma-length-spectrum of a set of simple closed curves Sigma determines the flat metric in the stratum if and only if Sigma is dense in the projective …
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Discovering the Culture Care Meanings and Care Expressions of Men with a Spinal Cord Injury from the Appalachian Region of West Virginia: An Ethnonursing Study
… and plan for data analysis were developed by Leininger (1991). The setting for the study was the Appalachian region of West Virginia. Approval from the Institutional Review Board was received and data collection commenced. The Four Phases of Qualitative Data Analysis developed by Leininger …
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Cultural Competence and the Residents of the Homeward Bound Residential Homeless Program
… the mini-ethnonursing approach as described by Leininger, nurse anthropologist and creator of the Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality. Twelve interviews were conducted with 10 emic and 2 etic participants. The domain of inquiry centered on the concept of home, strengths and …
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Effects of an educational intervention on breast cancer screening and early detection in Vietnamese American women
… used as the conceptual framework. Components of Leininger' s transcultural nursing theory were incorporated into the design of the educational intervention. Two components of the HBM (perceived seriousness [F (1,91) 11,p < 0.01] and perceived benefit [F (1,91) 11,p < 0.01)] were found to be …
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Discovering the Healthcare Beliefs and Practices of Rural Mestizo Ecuadorians: An Ethnonursing Study
… An ethnonursing method developed by Leininger was used to guide this study which took place in Tosagua, Ecuador.</p><p> Conclusions and Implications</p><p> The findings are consistent with the cultural life ways of rural mestizo Ecuadorians. The rural Ecuadorians live in community …
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Interior design in the realm of social services: Housing the homeless
<p>The present study plans to investigate the social issues of homelessness and the strategies for creating positive living environments that aim to enable inhabitants to re-enter society. Supported by statistical evidence, homelessness has been recognized as a growing issue in the United States …
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Chemical interactions between rainfall and northern red oak (Quercus rubra l.) foliage
Nutrient ion exchange was examined between simulated acid rain solutions and northern red oak (Ouercus rubra L.) leaves of trees growing in fertile, limestone-derived soil and less fertile, sandstone/shale-derived soil. Leaves harvested from trees growing on the fertile site had greater …
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Escherichia coli Mastitis in the Dairy Bovine
Diagnosis techniques and treatments for Escherichia coli mastitis in the dairy bovine were evaluated in two experiments. The first experiment evaluated eosin methylene blue agar as a method of distinguishing E.coli from other gram-negative mastitis pathogens. Escherichia coli will usually produce a …
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Adolescente promotor da saúde na perspectiva do cuidado de enfermagem transcultural
… observação-participação-reflexão proposto por Leininger e por meio de entrevista com uma questão norteadora. A análise dos dados foi realizada a partir da Teoria, que utiliza quatro fases: 1. Relação dos dados coletados, descritos e documentados; 2. Identificação e classificação dos descritores …
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Coping and help seeking behaviour in women with Pelvic Floor Dysfunction : the emic perspective
… to an East London Hospital for treatment. Leininger?s Culture Care theory and ethno-nursing methods were used to facilitate knowledge generation. The study took place in three consecutive phases, each informing the next phase. Phase 1 - One Life Health Care History. This was an instrumental …
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The Meaning and Experiences of Healthy Eating in Mexican American Children: A Focused Ethnography
… Design</p><p> A focused ethnography method using Leininger's four phases of data analysis was utilized. </p><p> Informants</p><p> The researcher interviewed twenty-one children aged eleven to thirteen for the study. Fifteen individual interviews and two group interviews were completed. </p><p> …
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The Struggle for Balance: Culture Care Worldview of Mexican Americans About Diabetes Mellitus
… Mellitus (DM) for Mexican American participants. Leininger's Culture Care Diversity and Universality Theory served as an organizing framework Interviews were conducted with thirty Mexican American key participants without DM. Four phases of analysis of ethnonursing method revealed thirteen …