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Activities Of The Head Nurse In A Selected Medical Unit Of The Loma Linda Sanitarium And Hospital, Bessie Wat

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Assuming that the performance of duties not specifically on the head nurse level detract from her effectiveness as a head nurse, the problem of this study was to determine what proportion of time the head nurse spent in different activities, on what level of skill these activities were, where she performed them, with whom, and the duration of each activity.

This study was conducted on a selected medical unit of the Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital. The normative survey method as recommended by the Division of Nursing Resources was used. The morning and afternoon head nurses or their reliefs were …

A Selected Bibliography Suitable For Use In Overseas Missionary Nursing Preparation, Anna May Vaughan

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Missionary nursing, as one form of nursing and as a method of endeavor, has been neglected in both nursing and mission literature.

It was the purpose of this study to identify, classify, and list bibliographical material which is applicable and would serve as a source of information to those preparing for, and directing others towards, overseas mission nursing.

The material for the bibliography was obtained through three sources (1) twenty-five institutions of religious education which offered courses in missions, (2) personal interviews, and (3) personal library research. The volumes included in this bibliography were selected on the basis of the …

A Follow-Up Study Of Paradise Valley School Of Nursing Graduates From 1950-1957, Charlotte D. Ross

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

This study was conducted to find out if Paradise Valley School of Nursing is meeting certain specified objectives and to gather information which could help in future curriculum planning to better meet the needs of the students.

The normative-survey was the method used to gather data from graduates of the 1950-1957 classes. This group comprised those graduating from the three-year diploma program. A questionnaire was mailed to 149 graduates of which 124 responded.

The study shows that:

The graduates are residing in 22 states and 4 foreign countries.

Sixty-six per cent are married with over half being married within 3 …

Pharmacological Studies Of Antidiabetic Chinese Herbs, Mun Fa Lee

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Rehmannia glutinosa, Atractylus ovata, and Polygonatum chinense have all been employed by the Chinese as oral antidiabetic agents and reported by Min (1928), Kin (1931), and Li et al. (1936) to possess hypoglycemic activity. This prompted the pharmacological studies of these herbs.

Materials and methods. Their pharmacognosy was condensed from all available Chinese and scientific literature. Preliminary chemical and physical analyses included determinations for moisture, ash, crude fat, carbohydrates, protein, phosphorus, pH, alkaloids, melting point, and spectroscopy. Employing the Somogyi-Nelson method, their glycemic activity was studied in rats, rabbits, and dogs. Stress reactions were minimized. The effect …

An Investigation Regarding Faculty-Student Ratio In The Medical-Surgical Area In Accredited Collegiate Schools Of Nursing, Frances Louise Fickess

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Statement of the Problem: the purpose of this study was to find out the current faculty-student ratio in the medical-surgical area in collegiate school of nursing which were fully accredited by the National League for Nursing and the number of students with which instructors felt comfortable in their clinical instructions.

Method: the descriptive survey method with a questionnaire was used to collect data from the study. Eighty-six instructors returned the questionnaire.

Summary of Findings: most instructors were responsible for teaching more than one class level of students and were teaching in a hospital without segregated service. Forty-eight …

An Evaluation Form For Professional Staff Nurses, Barbara Jean Brauer

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The problem of this study was to develop an evaluation form to measure the differentiation in quality of nursing care given by professional staff nurses. It was hoped that the evaluation form could be used by administrators of nursing service as a basis for giving pay increases based on nursing performance.

A review of nursing literature did not reveal the existence of an evaluation form based on verifiable data of performance upon which an objective evaluation could be made.

The critical incident technique was used to gather the data for the study. The respondents were nursing supervisory personnel employed in …

Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College - 1959 - Ninety-Eighth Annual Commencement, Office Of The Registrar, Lsu Health Sciences Center-No

Graduation & Commencement Programs

The program for the 98th Annual Commencement of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College held May 30th, 1959.

Graduation Exercises, School Of Nursing (1959), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathy

Commencements

Philadelphia College of Osteopathy School of Nursing Commencement Program, 1959.

Commencement Speaker: Sherwood R. Mercer, A.B., M.A., LL.D., Dean, Philadelphia College of Osteopathy

Ada News Letter - 05/15/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

Ada News Letter - 05/01/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

Current Literature: Titles And Abstracts, Catholic Physicians' Guilds

The Linacre Quarterly

The purpose of this department in The Linacre Quarterly is to make available by titular listing such current articles as are thought to be of particular interest to the Catholic physician by virtue of their medical literature although, of necessity, this source is the most fruitful. When abstracts appear, they are intended to reflect the content of the original article. Parenthetical editorial comment may follow the abstract if considered desirable. Contributions from readers are invited.

An Analysis Of The Articulation Errors In Spontaneous Speech Of One Hundred Children With Lisps, Paula C. Downs

Masters Theses

The Problem

This study is an attempt to determine the nature and relative frequency of the articulation errors shown by one hundred school children with lisps.

The Importance of Investigating the Phenomenon of Defective Articulation

The incidence of speech defects in the child population has been found to range from five percent (5%) to ten percent (10%) of the total child population. A child's speech is considered defective when the listener gives as much or more attention to the manner in which the child speaks as he does to the idea being communicated.

Newsletters, Volume 04, Number 01, May 1959

Newsletter: A Report to Physicians of Texas Archives

• Shope Given Bertner Award
• Appointment Announced
• Genetics and Cancer 13th Annual Symposium
• Monographs Published
• Symposium Review
• Staff Activities
• Research Confirmed
• Staff Appointments
• New Oxygen Gauge
• Frozen Sections
• New Library Hours

A Study Of The Effects Of Delayed Side-Tone Upon Voiced And Whispered Reading Time, Bruce Presten Ryan

Masters Theses

Definition of Delayed Side-Tone

The term delayed side-tone feedback refers to the delaying of one's hearing of himself by a fraction of a second, so that instead of hearing himself as he normally does, he hears himself or his own speech a fraction of a second later.

...in order to produce delayed speech feedback it is necessary to return the speaker's speech to his own ears approximately one-means of a magnetic tape recording and reproducing machine which has used to experience the effect prominently since they deliver delayed speech and exclude the normal air-borne undelayed speech sound which provides the …

Incidents Which Threaten Patient Safety Classified For Use In Teaching Operating Room Nursing, Elsie Dorothy Vivian Wendth

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The study was conducted in an attempt to identify incidents threatening the safety of patients in the care of operating room personnel and to classify them for use in teaching safety in operating room nursing.

Literature was reviewed to find concepts of safety and to aid in classification of safety hazards which are applicable to hospital patient safety. Need was shown for safe working conditions and for personnel with attitudes of safety as well as skills and knowledge. Safety included freedom from mechanical, thermal, chemical, bacteriological, and psychological injury.

The descriptive method of research using the critical incident technique was …

A Comparison Of The Members Of A Children's Health Club With Non-Members By Use Of A Standardized Health Test And Behavior Inventory, Barbara Mcdonald

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Many methods of health education are being used today to help children and young people grow into healthy useful citizens. A health club is one such method which may be used to provide activities and health knowledge which may influence attitude and behavior.

The purpose of this study was to compare children who had been members of a health club with other children who were not members to see if there was any difference between the two groups in health knowledge, attitudes, and behavior as measured by a Health Achievement Test and a Health Behavior Inventory.

Twenty-two members of the …

A Comparative Study Of Graduates Of The Four And The Three Year Programs Of A Selected School Of Nursing, Valrie I. Rudge

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The purposes of this study were (1) to ascertain if the three year program in nursing at the Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nursing was preparing students for professional activities as well as did the four year program, and (2) to obtain information for use in curriculum planning.

The descriptive-survey method of research was used. Comparisons were made between the responses to the questionnaire received from 85 per cent of the graduates of the four year program from 1953-1955, or Group A, and 78 per cent of the graduates from the three year program from 1955-1957, or Group B. …

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume Xi, Number 2 May 1959

The Bulletin (formerly the Jefferson Medical College Alumni Bulletin)

Jefferson Alumni Bulletin – Volume XI, Number 2 May 1959

Publication Committee, page 1

Our president retires, page 7

William W. Bodine, JR., page 9

Promotions and new appointments, page 11

29th Black and blue ball, page 12

Hospital appointments received by the senior class of 1959, page 13

Shaffrey award given to DR. J. Parsons Schaeffer, page 16

Division of oral surgery, page 18

Annual giving fund at 85% of goal, John H. Gibbon, JR., M.D., page 22

Class standings – Alumni annual giving fund, June 14, 1958 to April 15, 1959, page 23

Jefferson alumnus averts disaster from …

Ada News Letter - 04/15/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

Nurses' Alumnae Association Bulletin, April 1959, Vivian I. Moyer, Lenore Brady Strigari, Dolores Heckenberger, Patricia Zarella, Elinore Satterfield, Elsie Svir, Janet Hindson, Betty Piersol, Margaret Summers, Emma Smeck, Mabel C. Prevost, Evelyn Wilson Frazier, Julia Tyler Gaskill, Agatha Rapp, Dorothy J. Edgar, Robert L. Connors

Nursing Alumni Bulletins

Alumnae News

Anniversary Class of /34

Article from Pennsylvania Nurse

Committee Reports

Current Events at Jefferson

Greetings from the President

Jefferson Story

Lost Members

Letter - Past President

Marriages

Necrology

New Arrivals

Notices

Pictured - Student Nurses' Residence

Report of the School of Nursing and Nursing Services

Staff Nurses Social Functions

Student Activities

Voluntary Service

Year of Great Activity and Expansion

Psychology, Mental Illness, And The Law--A Postscript On Epilepsy, Lee Silverstein

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Chironian Vol. 21 No. 1, New York Medical College

The Chironian

No abstract provided.

Studies Of Trans-N-Glycosidase Of Thermobacter Acidophilus And Its Inhibition By 6-Azathymidine, John C. Marsh

Yale Medicine Thesis Digital Library

[From the Introduction] The purpose of this investigation was to purify the enzyme trans-N-glycosidase from T. acidophilus and to study its specificity, optimum pH, and the effect of various other compounds, particularly azathymine and azathymidine, upon its activity.

Ada News Letter - 04/01/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

Ada News Letter - 03/16/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

Ada News Letter - 03/02/1959, American Dental Association

ADA News Letter

A newsletter published monthly to provide current information to officers of state and local dental societies on American Dental Association activities, 1948-1971

The Particulate Absorption Of Fat: Its Direct Demonstration In A Normal Human, William O'Driscoll, Joseph Sieracki, William S. Haubrich

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Abstracts Of Recent Publications Of The Professional Staff Of The Henry Ford Hospital And The Edsel B. Ford Institute For Medical Research

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Current Status Of Chlorpropamide In Management Of Diabetes Mellitus, Fred W. Whitehouse

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.