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Fashioning The Future: The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1948, Meghann Lanae Landry
Fashioning The Future: The U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, 1943-1948, Meghann Lanae Landry
LSU Master's Theses
The United States Cadet Nurse Corps, a student-nurse recruitment program administered by the United States Public Health Service, provided federal funding for nursing education during World War II. The subject of nursing on the American home front has largely been ignored, though nursing scholarship has focused, on occasion, on the more exciting battlefield experiences of the Army Nurse Corps. World War II launched a social revolution and set America on its path to a postwar consensus. Although a few historians have briefly mentioned the Corps’ successful media recruitment campaign, its role in the social revolution remains unacknowledged. This thesis examines …
The Impact Of Participation In Oncology Nursing Society Leadership Development Institute On Sustainable Leadership, Christine Guidry Gatlin
The Impact Of Participation In Oncology Nursing Society Leadership Development Institute On Sustainable Leadership, Christine Guidry Gatlin
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) realized many years ago that it would take skilled, qualified leaders in oncology nursing to sustain the specialty of oncology care for years to come. With the nursing shortage and shortage in leadership, it is imperative to examine the impact of attending a leadership program on the future of oncology nursing. The control group and study group of identified oncology nurses were sent the Oncology Nurses Sustainable Leadership Survey Instrument via email from the Oncology Nursing Society. The control group of oncology registered nurses had not yet started the ONS Leadership Development Institute fellowship program. …
Retention Of Students In A Diploma Nursing Program In The Southern United States, Carol Ann Tingle
Retention Of Students In A Diploma Nursing Program In The Southern United States, Carol Ann Tingle
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Registered Nurses comprise the largest group of healthcare professionals in the United States, and forecasts predict a nursing shortage of epic proportions on the horizon. Significant factors include approaching retirement of Baby Boomer RNs, increased demand for care for aging Baby Boomers in the population, approaching retirement of nurse educators, and rejection of qualified applicants secondary to enrollment restrictions in nursing programs. Nursing student attrition further contributes to the pending shortage. Successful retention programs promote best-practice utilization of scarce resources. Understanding student characteristics serves as a basis for effective selection and retention programs. This study described characteristics of nursing students …
The Meaning Of Masculinity For Male Baccalaureate Nursing Program Graduates, Kenneth Tillman
The Meaning Of Masculinity For Male Baccalaureate Nursing Program Graduates, Kenneth Tillman
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Previous researchers have reported that societal definitions of masculinity may act as a barrier to men entering the nursing profession, and that men who do enter nursing may hold a different view of masculinity. The purpose of this study was to describe the meaning of masculinity for recent male baccalaureate nursing program graduates. In addition, the study explored how the participants’ perceived meaning of masculinity shaped or influenced their nursing education experiences, and in turn how their nursing education experiences may have shaped or influenced their perceived meaning of masculinity. A phenomenological research design was used to study eight male …
Factors Influencing The Importance Of Incorporating Competencies Regarding Mass Casualty Incidents Into Baccalaureate-Degree Nursing Programs As Perceived By Currently Employed Faculty, Kristin Whitty
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Whether they are naturally occurring, caused by environmental forces, or generated by humans, disasters have placed extraordinary stresses on society. Following September 11, 2001, the Department of Homeland Security was created to protect the nation and coordinate responses to future emergencies at the federal, state, and local levels. However, Governmental agencies can’t handle all aspects of mass casualty events. Healthcare professionals, such as nurses, who are knowledgeable and trained in mass casualty incidents (MCIs) are needed to provide competent care to the victims. Although others expect a knowledgeable nursing response, the majority of nurse educators have not received mass casualty …
Prenursing Students' Perceptions Of The Nursing Profession, Essie Dee Scott Cockrell
Prenursing Students' Perceptions Of The Nursing Profession, Essie Dee Scott Cockrell
LSU Master's Theses
The primary purpose of this study is to determine the nursing perceptions among prenursing students enrolled in a baccalaureate prenursing program. Objectives in the study included describing undergraduate baccalaureate prenursing student on selected demographic characteristics such as age, gender, ethnic background, etc., determining the perceptions of students about the nursing profession, and determining if a relationship existed between students' perceptions of nursing and selected personal characteristics such as classification, reason for choosing nursing, area of nursing practice most interested, etc. A total of 207 (66.35%) prenursing students enrolled in prerequisite courses for a baccalaureate nursing program participated in the study. …
Nursing As Social Responsibility: Implications For Democracy From The Life Perspective Of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956), Soledad Mujica Smith
Nursing As Social Responsibility: Implications For Democracy From The Life Perspective Of Lavinia Lloyd Dock (1858-1956), Soledad Mujica Smith
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation focuses on Lavinia Lloyd Dock's (1858-1956) re-envisioning of nursing and caring as social responsibility and the implications of this conceptualization for democracy. Dock was an American nurse, educator, settlement worker, suffragist, pacifist, social activist, writer, and historian. Her conception of holistic welfare embodied a 'new ideal' of society (Dock 1907, p. 899), a new understanding of democracy, and an expression of citizenship based on social responsibility for the welfare of others. Dock's idea of democracy embraced women's values and ways of being in the world; disputed universal, individual rights; and privileged communal values, collaboration, inclusion, and diversity. Moreover, …
Development And Construct Validation Of An Instrument To Measure Caring In The Helping Professions., Barbara Spruill Moffett
Development And Construct Validation Of An Instrument To Measure Caring In The Helping Professions., Barbara Spruill Moffett
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the construct of caring in the helping professions and to develop an instrument to measure the affective component of caring in the specific context of professional nursing. The study involved development of a conceptual framework for the construct of caring, instrument development, and examination of validity evidence using multiple criteria. The sample for this study included 421 registered nurses employed in randomly selected acute care settings. Each participant completed the Caring Inventory for Nurses (CI-N) which included 40 items representing four hypothesized dimensions: receptivity, responsivity, moral/ethical consciousness and professional commitment. Seven …
The Role Of Dietary Compliance In Survival Of Hemodialysis Patients., Laurie Ruggiero
The Role Of Dietary Compliance In Survival Of Hemodialysis Patients., Laurie Ruggiero
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The goal of the current study was to gain knowledge of the role that dietary compliance plays in the survival of end-stage renal failure patients receiving chronic in-center hemodialysis. As a result of this type of research, health care professionals may better understand the individual and collective influence that various aspects of dietary compliance have on survival. This knowledge would also be helpful in the identification and intervention of dietary noncompliance in hemodialysis patients. The present study investigated the relation of three commonly employed physiological parameters of dietary compliance to survival on hemodialysis and how well these dietary variables independently …
Breast-Feeding Survey In Louisiana, 1982: Physicians' Recommendations And Hospital Practices., Elizabeth Ann Snider Reames
Breast-Feeding Survey In Louisiana, 1982: Physicians' Recommendations And Hospital Practices., Elizabeth Ann Snider Reames
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Medical recommendations and hospital practices have been reported to play major roles in determining how a woman chooses to feed her infant. Studies have shown that physicians often do not provide encouragement to women to breast-feed or information to manage breast-feeding successfully. Hospitals have been shown to have routines which are not conducive to lactation. A mail questionnaire was sent to randomly selected Louisiana family practitioners, general practitioners, obstetricians and pediatricians to determine their breast-feeding recommendations. A different questionnaire was mailed to Louisiana hospitals providing maternity services to determine the breast-feeding practices in these hospitals. Although most Louisiana physicians considered …
Cognitive Predictors Of Success Of Graduate Nurses On State Board Test Pool Examinations And After Two Years Employment., Mary Brown Neiheisel
Cognitive Predictors Of Success Of Graduate Nurses On State Board Test Pool Examinations And After Two Years Employment., Mary Brown Neiheisel
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
The main purposes of this study were to determine the relationships between cognitive predictors and the success of graduate nurses on the State Board Test Pool Examinations and between cognitive predictors and the success of the nurse after two of years employment. Data were obtained and recorded on appropriate sheets for the first hypothesis and from a mailed questionnaire for the second hypothesis. The population for the first group was the members of five graduating classes of a state university, and data for the second group was from 37.7 percent of the members of one graduating class. Statistical analyses of …