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Expanding The Practice Of Caring In The Peri-Anesthesia Unit, Jacqueline J. Meyer-Rostad
Expanding The Practice Of Caring In The Peri-Anesthesia Unit, Jacqueline J. Meyer-Rostad
Theses and Graduate Projects
Caring is a central theme of the nursing profession; the essence of nursing. The preoperative and postoperative surgical settings at a large Midwestern Hospital are extremely busy and very demanding, which can affect patient care. It is essential for Patient Care Assistants (PCAs) to identify caring actions and to provide authentic caring for patients and families. Themes of witnessed uncaring behavior include: rough handling, loud and inappropriate conversations, ignoring the patient or family, abrupt answers to questions, and negative non-verbal body language. Conversations with several patient care assistants (PCAs) revealed they feel 'too busy' during their work day or are …
Advance Directives Educational Program For Nurses, Rose R. Pappas
Advance Directives Educational Program For Nurses, Rose R. Pappas
Theses and Graduate Projects
Advance directives (AD) are legal documents outlining a patient's preferences for treatment at the end of life. AD allow people to communicate their end-of-life (EOL) decisions about medical care to family, friends, and health care professionals in the event that they are unable to make those decisions themselves. Many nurses observe patients and their families waiting until the patient is at the end of their life before they initiate an AD. With the current rate of aging baby boomers in the United States, AD would appear to be a phenomeron that should be encouraged. Assisting patients with completion of AD …
A Study Of The Caring Relationship Between Nurses And Culturally Diverse Clients, Carol Phillips
A Study Of The Caring Relationship Between Nurses And Culturally Diverse Clients, Carol Phillips
Theses and Graduate Projects
This is a qualitative study that examines the caring relationship between the nurse and the culturally diverse client. The purpose was to gain insight into the process of the delivery of culturally congruent care. A method of Hermeneutic Phenomenological analysis was used to discover the meaning within the stories told by the nurse participants.
Hospice Care: Physician Assistants' Ratings Of Their Knowledge And Attitudes, Karen Farrington
Hospice Care: Physician Assistants' Ratings Of Their Knowledge And Attitudes, Karen Farrington
Theses and Graduate Projects
To date there is little, if any, published data regarding hospice patients and physician assistants; there is a substantial amount of data available regarding physicians and hospice care. The purpose of this study was to determine if physician assistant attitudes and knowledge regarding hospice influenced their referral practices and compared those findings to physicians. Physician assistants who were current members of the Minnesota Academy of Physician Assistants were surveyed regarding knowledge and attitude towards hospice services. A total of 55 subjects (response rate of 55%) responded to the mailed survey, 60% of which were female. Respondents ages 40 years or …