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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Nursing management"”.
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Postoperative pain : nursing management and organisational commitment
Postoperative pain management has been the subject of several national reports (Royal College of Surgeons of England and College of Anaesthetists, 1990; Audit Commission, 1997; Clinical Standards Advisory Group, 2000) that have each made recommendations for practice at ward level and Trust-wide …
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Systematic Nursing Management of University Students with Infectious Mononucleosis
… to explore the possible effects of systematic nursing management on Infectious Mononucleosis patients, in order to evaluate those things that significantly influence the patient’s course of illness and recovery, in a university outpatient health service.</p> <p>The hypothesis formulated was: a …
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Computer-assisted versus traditional classroom instruction to promote change in the nursing management of the second stage of labor
The purpose of this study was to compare knowledge acquisition and retention, modification in clinical practice and learner satisfaction when using computer-assisted (CAI) and traditional classroom instruction to teach positioning and pushing guidelines during the second stage of labor. A …
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Exploring the Decision-Making Process Behind the Loss of a Clinical Placement: Second-Year Nursing Students in the Special Care Nursery
… hospital decided to stop taking second-year nursing students for clinical placement. A qualitative intrinsic case study approach was utilized to guide and analyze twelve participant interviews. Participants were recruited using both purposeful and snowball sampling. Sharan Merriam (1998) was …
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Nurse Perspectives on the Work Impacts of Decentralized Nursing Unit Design
… conducted focus group discussions with staff and nursing management at both facilities with a total of 28 participants. In addition, the participants completed a 12-item questionnaire using a five-point Likert scale for responding. Focus group discussion and questionnaire were designed to …
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Transforming Self and Systems through Implementation of a Caring Coach Leader Program
… of the inpatient hospital units. Instability of nursing management oversight negatively effects staff job satisfaction and delivery of high quality safe patient care. In reviewing the organizations initial orientation program for transitioning middle managers into their new role, it was missing …
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Perioperative Nurses Perceptions of Moral Courage
… Threats to patient safety exist in perioperative nursing. Nurse appraisal of these threats and the likelihood to act with moral courage have not been documented. Design: This descriptive correlational study examined moral courage in response to threat to patient safety. The moral courage model is …
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Nursing personnel administration within a hospital
… the profession and society. The task of senior nursing management is a matter of balancing and reconciling the values and aims of the organization with the values, aims, and professional aspirations of the nursing staff, and of related and interdependent groups of health professionals, while …
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Carinus Nursing College : an historical study of nursing education and management using the general systems approach, 1947-1987
… aspects of the historical development of Nursing Education and Nursing Management at the Carinus Nursing College from 1949 to 1987; to determine and explain how the College has adapted and coped with historical change and to determine whether proposals for the future can be made. Research …
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The Effects of Entry Level Education and Length of Employment on Staff Nurse Need Satisfaction
… in their curriculum. Implications for nursing management include promoting strategies that may improve the esteem, autonomy, and actualization of practicing nurses. Because satisfaction has been closely linked to productivity, these changes may improve the quality of nursing care and …
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Perceptions on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on quality of health care in KwaZulu-Natal Province
… on the impact of nurses' strikes on nurses, the nursing profession and on the quality of health care. Other aspects of the strike phenomenon that were investigated included the issues of job satisfaction, causes of the strikes, activities and feelings in relation to the strikes and suggestions …
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The HESI exit examination as a predictor of employment success
… nurses. Further study is needed to clarify nursing management issues related to the adoption of policies that require the use of nursing competency indicators to assist managers with employment decisions.
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The management of elderly patients with pain.
… Patients generally valued supportive aspects of nursing care, particularly the provision of encouragement and confidence. Nurses systematically underestimated patients' worst pain and overestimated anxiety. There was a significant association between patients' pain complaints and perceived pain …
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Co-producing healthcare guidance for children and young people with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) including the exploration and design of a home-based complex intervention
… guidance to improve therapeutic care, self-management, and quality of life for children and young people (CYP) living with ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), a rare and complex neurodegenerative condition. Addressing significant gaps in non-medical care provision, the project was structured into …
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Profiles, functions, and career experiences of selected hospital nurse executives in the United States (1988)
… of nurse executives have a master's degree in nursing and/or related fields. Nurse executives are in a transitional role from middle to top-level hospital management with title changes, additional responsibilities and increased compensation. 2. The functions of the nurse executive position …
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The Nurse Manager: An Ethnography of Hospital-Based First-Line Nurse Managers Practicing in an Expanded Role
… analyze the complexity of change, alter their management strategies accordingly and create a working culture that is maximally adaptable to an unstable health care environment. They identified ways to enhance success and avoid or respond to failure, using knowledge acquired primarily through …
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Advanced practitioners’ experience of interprofessional collaboration when implementing evidence-based practice into routine care: an Interpretative phenomenological analysis
… verbatim. NVivo version 12 was used for data management purposes. Data were analysed using IPA. Findings: Six superordinate themes emerged from the interpretative analysis. Advanced practitioners perceived that at times “Understanding of Advanced Practice” was limited. Advanced practitioners …
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Competence of midwives regarding prevention of low Apgar score among neonates
The practice of obstetric nursing requires a midwife practitioner who is competent and practises independently in providing antenatal services during pregnancy, the progress of labour and conducts delivery on her own for a normal healthy baby with an Apgar score of 10/10 at one minute after birth. …
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Investigating the challenges of delivering basic quality patient care in selected Gauteng government hospitals
The South African Nursing profession is experiencing a crisis - this is the opinion of various academics as well as politicians. Addressing the crisis is not necessarily always within the ability of nursing personnel, but rather various stakeholders on provincial and national level. Guided by the …
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