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Showing 1 to 20 of 451 for “"Registered nurses"”.
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Best Practices: Retaining Registered Nurses
… commitment for the recruitment and retention of nurses in health care organizations. Furthermore, strategic recommendations to improve overall work environments for nurses vary throughout the literature. In order to recommend strategies for increasing organizational commitment of hospital staff …
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Registered Nurses Intent to Leave
… has had cycles of excesses and shortages of registered nurses since the early 1980's. Many studies have addressed these issues, however few studies focus on turnover and intent to leave in small, non-profit facilities. This study addressed variables associated with registered nurses intent to …
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Registered Nurses' Attitudes Towards Orientation Program
The purpose of this survey was to describe registered nurses' attitude toward an orientation program. The framework was based on a review of the literature. A 94- item questionnaire was personally delivered, or mailed with a follow up phone call, to 41 registered nurses completing an orientation …
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Fitness and Stress Levels in Registered Nurses
… fitness on the stress levels of female staff nurses. A convenience sample of 122 nurses participated. Procedure: Stress was measured with the Health Problems Inventory developed by Jones. Fitness was determined by the use of an exercise history questionnaire. Criteria suggested by Cooper was …
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Dimensions of professional cohesiveness among registered nurses
… of professional cohesiveness (PC) among registered nurses. This was accomplished through an examination of the structural characteristics, types, levels, and actualization of PC. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional survey design elicited 1,622 respondents who met the criteria for inclusion …
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Participation of registered nurses in continuing education
… continuing education participation data of 154 registered nurses at two different Southern Ontario hospitals. One hospital was a large tertiary care university-affiliated teaching centre (Cityview) and the other was a smaller secondary care community hospital (Waterview). The instruments used in …
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Registered nurses' attitudes towards substance use and abuse
… research study was to explore the attitudes of registered nurses toward substance use and abuse. The variables of age, gender, ethnicity/race, years of nursing experience, highest degree of education, and nursing specialty were explored through the administration of the Substance Abuse Attitude …
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Formalized Mentorship Program for Newly Licensed Registered Nurses
… experiencing a shortage. Despite the need for nurses, there is a high percentage of new nurses who leave their first place of employment before reaching the first year of hire. Mentorship is a tool that has been highly written about, but not widely utilized. Mentorship was found to be helpful …
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Political Participation of Registered Nurses: A Correlational Study
… description of the political participation of nurses practicing in hospitals. The study explores the relationships between political participation and the variables: self-esteem, personal control, political efficacy and critical thinking. The theoretical framework for designing the …
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Workplace violence against registered nurses: an interpretive description
Health personnel, especially nurses, are often victims of workplace violence. Unfortunately, little is known about the nurses' experience of violence. A research study was initiated to further explore the nurses' accounts of workplace violence so as to make dimensions of the nurses' experience …
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Registered Nurses Perspectives Regarding Interventions for Workplace Incivility
… frequency and degree of workplace incivility on Registered Nurses in the acute care setting. The aim of the study was to understand the meaning and effect of workplace incivility experienced or witnessed by Registered Nurses as well as what their perceptions of positive interventions to stop or …
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Knowledge and attitudes of Registered Nurses toward pain /
… to support pain research literature that finds nurses do not have the knowledge base that they require to sufficiently provide effective pain management. The data demonstrated that nurses have mixed attitudes toward pain. These two findings have been observed in the literature for more than 20 …
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Orientations of Registered Nurses Toward Their Professional Association
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Relationship between Horizontal Violence among Registered Nurses and Falls
… self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness among nurses. Horizontal violence leads to the creation of a hostile, unsafe work environment preventing nurses from performing at their highest potentials. A hostile work environment leads to a culture of unsafe patient care which may result in increased …
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What influences Registered Nurses to have the influenza vaccine?
… of this research was to explore what influences Registered Nurses to have the annual influenza vaccine. The research design for this thesis was a quantitative, cross-sectional survey, utilizing a questionnaire as the data collection tool. The sample group for this study was randomly selected from …
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Structural equation modeling: Predictors of verbal abuse of registered nurses
Nurses experience verbal abuse as a nearly daily occurrence in the workplace. Sources of this abuse include patients and their families, visitors, physicians, managers and peers. A non-experimental, correlational study was undertaken to examine the contribution of latent constructs, individual …
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