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Adult Suicide Attempts In Relationship To Life Experiences And Familial Tendencies, Laura S. Ford
Adult Suicide Attempts In Relationship To Life Experiences And Familial Tendencies, Laura S. Ford
Graduate Research Projects
The purpose of this project was to describe the variables age, gender, child or adult abuse, educational level, family history of suicide, depression, economic level as factors related to adult attempted suicides. The Lazarus framework was used to examine factors contributing to adult attempted suicide. A suicide prevention community education project was developed with Lazarus’s theory of cognition and unconscious processes in mind. Lazarus’s theory focuses on the relationship between development of coping skills learned during childhood and how a person will respond using those skills as an adult. This project explored links between child and adult abuse, education or …
Comparison Of The Faces And Numeric Pain Scales For Use In Long-Term Ventilator Patients With Chronic Pain, Diana Miller-Harvey
Comparison Of The Faces And Numeric Pain Scales For Use In Long-Term Ventilator Patients With Chronic Pain, Diana Miller-Harvey
Graduate Research Projects
Chronic pain is a major cause of illness, disability, and is poorly understood and undertreated by health care professionals. Numerous misconceptions regarding chronic pain in older individuals has led certain health care agencies to require the use of pain scales for pain evaluation in all health care patients. yet, there is research lacking as to which pain scales are appropriate for use with chronic pain, ventilator-dependent, older individuals. The Wong-Baker Faces Scale and Numeric Pain Scale was administered to a convenience sample of male/female patients in a Southeastern, 44-bed, long-term care ventilator hospital. The purpose of this study was to …
Hospital Epidemiological Surveillance During A Major Construction Project, Sherry Sexton
Hospital Epidemiological Surveillance During A Major Construction Project, Sherry Sexton
Graduate Research Projects
The purposes ofthis study were: a) to detennine if organism migration occurred from a construction area into other areas of the hospital-especially adjacent operating suites, b) to monitor and evaluate the incidence of construction-related surgical site infections, and c) to monitor the incidence of employee illnesses that could be construction-related. This was a descriptive correlational study and provided epidemiological data to evaluate the effectiveness of infection control measures in preventing employee or patient infections related to construction. The framework for this study was Florence Nightingale's Environmental Adaptation theory which focused on the environment and changes which could affect patient outcomes. …
Disparity Of Breast Cancer Survival In African American Women Vs. Caucasians: Examination Of Potential Origins, Mary Collier
Disparity Of Breast Cancer Survival In African American Women Vs. Caucasians: Examination Of Potential Origins, Mary Collier
Graduate Research Projects
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