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Personal And Organizational Variables Related To The Strength Of Mentoring Relationships In Nursing, Willa Fields Dnsc Jan 1990

Personal And Organizational Variables Related To The Strength Of Mentoring Relationships In Nursing, Willa Fields Dnsc

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Mentoring is viewed as a viable developmental process for nurses that promotes professional maturation, career satisfaction, and strong, competent leaders. Personal and organizational variables related to mentoring, such as mentoring potential, professional success, immediate organizational climate, general organizational climate, and experience as a mentee, have been described in the theoretical and research literature. A conceptual model for this investigation was developed which related these variables to the mentors' perceptions of the strength of their strongest mentoring relationship. The purpose of this study was to establish the strength of the relationships delineated in the model. The model was tested on 125 …


Impact Of Stress And Coping On Adherence And Health Status In Patients With Hypertension, Diane Darby Goldberger Dnsc, Mn, Rn Jan 1990

Impact Of Stress And Coping On Adherence And Health Status In Patients With Hypertension, Diane Darby Goldberger Dnsc, Mn, Rn

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The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the impact of demographic variables (age, educational level, time since diagnosis) and subsequent psychosocial variables (perceived stress, ways of coping, professional support, and social support) on adherence and, ultimately, on health status (blood pressure, psychological symptoms, and subjective health) in patients with essential hypertension whose health care was managed by a nurse. Because nurses manage the therapeutic regimens of these patients, it is necessary to identify those factors that influence adherence and thus the health of hypertensive individuals. The transactional framework of stress, appraisal, and coping of Lazarus and Folkman …


Case Studies Of First-Year Elementary Teachers On St. Croix To Develop A Model For Teacher Leadership, Ruth Harrigan Beagles Edd Jan 1990

Case Studies Of First-Year Elementary Teachers On St. Croix To Develop A Model For Teacher Leadership, Ruth Harrigan Beagles Edd

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First-year teachers in the St. Croix School District represent an infusion of new blood into the profession whose retention, personal and professional growth are of paramount importance to the future of the profession. The purposes of this research were: (1) to examine the assumptions, concerns, beliefs, and perceptions of first-year teachers about their entry into the teaching profession; (2) to investigate the beliefs, concerns, perception, and assumptions of central office administrators, a teacher educators, a member of the Board of Education, experienced teachers, principals, assistant principals, coordinators, secretaries, parents, and paraprofessionals have about support needs for first-year teachers; (3) to …


Faith And Leadership: The Spiritual Journeys Of Transformational Leaders, Rita M. Marinoble Edd Jan 1990

Faith And Leadership: The Spiritual Journeys Of Transformational Leaders, Rita M. Marinoble Edd

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Transformational leadership, as it has come to be understood in the study of leadership, is a relationship among people that is characterized by mutual purposes that transcend daily concerns--purposes directed is some way toward the common good. Transformational leaders hold and articulate vision, shape values, and engage themselves and others in efforts that somehow benefit the human community. Faith development and the spiritual journey can be viewed as providing a context for transformational leadership because they involve an individual's search for self-transcendence and ultimate meaning in life. This search is a process that includes movement towards wholeness and integration by …


Clark H. Pinnock's Shift In His Doctrine Of Biblical Authority And Reliability, An Analysis And Critique, Ray C. Roennfeldt Jan 1990

Clark H. Pinnock's Shift In His Doctrine Of Biblical Authority And Reliability, An Analysis And Critique, Ray C. Roennfeldt

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This study investigates Clark H. Pinnock's shift in his doctrine of biblical authority and reliability.

A brief introduction, delineating the objectives, method, and delimitations of the study, is followed by an historical survey of developments inregard to biblical authority and reliability from the sixteenth century onwards. There were few doubts regarding scriptural authority and veracity until the rise of English Deism, biblical criticism, and religious liberalism. The resulting demolition of the traditional view of Scripture was protested by Fundamentalism, then by evangelicalism. Contemporary evangelicals, however, reveal little uniformity in regard to the doctrine of Scripture. Pinnock's own role in the …


Educational Attitudes Of Black, White And Hispanic Mothers, Antonio Ramon Acuna Jan 1990

Educational Attitudes Of Black, White And Hispanic Mothers, Antonio Ramon Acuna

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Identification Of The Participants And Selection Methods Utilized In The Employment Of Elementary Principals, Cean Kimball Cartwright Jan 1990

Identification Of The Participants And Selection Methods Utilized In The Employment Of Elementary Principals, Cean Kimball Cartwright

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Lessons In Leadership: An Analysis Of Five Shakespearean Characters, Richard Ii, Henry V, Coriolanus, Mark Antony, And Lear, James C. Lalley Jan 1990

Lessons In Leadership: An Analysis Of Five Shakespearean Characters, Richard Ii, Henry V, Coriolanus, Mark Antony, And Lear, James C. Lalley

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Child Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Teachers In Iowa Schools: Implications For School Principals, Virgil W. Murray Jan 1990

Child Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Teachers In Iowa Schools: Implications For School Principals, Virgil W. Murray

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A Cost Analysis Of Special Education Delivery Models: Resource, Instructional, Special Day School, Freda Stevenson Jan 1990

A Cost Analysis Of Special Education Delivery Models: Resource, Instructional, Special Day School, Freda Stevenson

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Patterns Of Emotion In Child Behavior Checklist Profile Types Among Older Children And Young Adolescents, Michael T. Klinger Jan 1990

Patterns Of Emotion In Child Behavior Checklist Profile Types Among Older Children And Young Adolescents, Michael T. Klinger

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Locus Of Control And Academic Achievement Of First-Term Medical Students, Barbara J. Krupps Downing Jan 1990

Locus Of Control And Academic Achievement Of First-Term Medical Students, Barbara J. Krupps Downing

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Process Instruction Of Inductive Reasoning Skills To Secondary Educable Mentally Handicapped Students, Lynda Wait Jan 1990

Process Instruction Of Inductive Reasoning Skills To Secondary Educable Mentally Handicapped Students, Lynda Wait

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An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Child Rearing Practices And Behavior Problems Across Cultures, Lillian Gonzalez Jan 1990

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Child Rearing Practices And Behavior Problems Across Cultures, Lillian Gonzalez

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The Developmental Impact Of A Competency-Based Liberal Arts Bachelors Degree Program On Selected Personality Constructs Of Adult Learners, Allen Vincent Lentino Jan 1990

The Developmental Impact Of A Competency-Based Liberal Arts Bachelors Degree Program On Selected Personality Constructs Of Adult Learners, Allen Vincent Lentino

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The Evolution Of Equality In Educational Thought: An Historical Biography Of The Ethnological Ideology That Supported A System Of Dual Education In America From 1865 To 1954, Cheryl Renee Gholar Jan 1990

The Evolution Of Equality In Educational Thought: An Historical Biography Of The Ethnological Ideology That Supported A System Of Dual Education In America From 1865 To 1954, Cheryl Renee Gholar

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The Development Of Speech Pathology In America, 1890-1940, Ann O'Connell Jan 1990

The Development Of Speech Pathology In America, 1890-1940, Ann O'Connell

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An Investigation Of The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Growth Explored Within The Context Of A Reciprocal Teaching Instructional Environment, Miriam Alfassi Jan 1990

An Investigation Of The Role Of Individual Differences In Cognitive Growth Explored Within The Context Of A Reciprocal Teaching Instructional Environment, Miriam Alfassi

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No abstract provided.


The Self In-Relation Model And Sex Differences In Reaction To Marital Termination, Alice C. Chatillon Jan 1990

The Self In-Relation Model And Sex Differences In Reaction To Marital Termination, Alice C. Chatillon

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No abstract provided.


Anatomical And Neurochemical Organization Of Medullary And Parabrachial Efferents To The Amygdala In The Rat, Andrea M. Zardetto-Smith Jan 1990

Anatomical And Neurochemical Organization Of Medullary And Parabrachial Efferents To The Amygdala In The Rat, Andrea M. Zardetto-Smith

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No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Motivational Strategies Employed By Veteran Principals In Selected Elementary Schools In Suburban Cook County, Patricia M. Brown Jan 1990

An Analysis Of Motivational Strategies Employed By Veteran Principals In Selected Elementary Schools In Suburban Cook County, Patricia M. Brown

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No abstract provided.


A Historical Perspective Of The Elementary Reading Program In The Chicago Public Schools: 1945-1980, Ernestine Gates Riggs Jan 1990

A Historical Perspective Of The Elementary Reading Program In The Chicago Public Schools: 1945-1980, Ernestine Gates Riggs

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No abstract provided.


A Dual Perspective Approach To Time In Descartes, Kathleen Kerrott Madden Jan 1990

A Dual Perspective Approach To Time In Descartes, Kathleen Kerrott Madden

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No abstract provided.


Ethical Internalism And Externalism, Sharon E. Sytsma Jan 1990

Ethical Internalism And Externalism, Sharon E. Sytsma

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Expanding Psychometric Assessment Of Male Impotence Using The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Nancy Wendel Cummane Jan 1990

Expanding Psychometric Assessment Of Male Impotence Using The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, Nancy Wendel Cummane

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Empirical Analyses Of The Structure And Content Of Spontaneous Causal Thinking After Marital Separation, Karen D. Multon Jan 1990

Empirical Analyses Of The Structure And Content Of Spontaneous Causal Thinking After Marital Separation, Karen D. Multon

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A Longitudinal Investigation Of The Relationship Among Social Support, Locus Of Control And The Difficulty Of The Transition To Parenthood As Experienced By Primiparae, Kathleen Occhipinti Jan 1990

A Longitudinal Investigation Of The Relationship Among Social Support, Locus Of Control And The Difficulty Of The Transition To Parenthood As Experienced By Primiparae, Kathleen Occhipinti

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Relationship Of Self-Efficacy Expectations To Academic Performance Of Law Students, Lily W. Adams Jan 1990

Relationship Of Self-Efficacy Expectations To Academic Performance Of Law Students, Lily W. Adams

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Teacher Observation In Selected Secondary Schools Of The Archdiocese Of Chicago, Catherine A. Karl Jan 1990

Teacher Observation In Selected Secondary Schools Of The Archdiocese Of Chicago, Catherine A. Karl

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The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan Jan 1990

The Irish-American Experience In The Novels Of William Kennedy: Ethnicity And Narrative Method, James B. Denigan

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No abstract provided.