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การส่งเสริมสุขภาพด้วยภูมิปัญญาไทย : อีกทางเลือกในการดูแลตนเอง, ภารดี นานาศิลป์

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

No abstract provided.

ผลของการใช้มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาล ผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวานต่อความพึงพอใจของผู้ป่วย และจํานวนวันนอนในโรงพยาบาล : โรงพยาบาลสมุทรสาคร (Effects Of Using The Standard Of Nursing Care For Diabetes Mellitus Patients' Satisfaction And Length Of Stay, Samut Sakhon Hospital), จุฬามณี คุณวุฒิ, ยุพิน อังสุโรจน์

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

การวิจัยครั้งนี้มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อเปรียบเทียบความพึงพอใจของผู้ป่วยต่อบริการพยาบาลที่ ได้รับและจำนวนวันนอนในโรงพยาบาลก่อนและหลังการใช้มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาลผู้ป่วย โรคเบาหวาน \nประชากร คือ ผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวานที่รับไว้รักษา ณ หอผู้ป่วยใน โรงพยาบาลสมุทรสาคร กลุ่มตัวอย่าง คือ ผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวานที่รับไว้รักษาในหอผู้ป่วยอายุรกรรมหญิง และหอผู้ป่วยอายุรกรรมชาย โรงพยาบาลสมุทรสาคร จำนวนทั้งสิ้น 75 คน (ก่อนการใช้มาตรฐานการพยาบาล 50 คน และหลังการใช้ มาตรฐานการพยาบาล 25 คน) การเลือกกลุ่มตัวอย่างเป็นแบบเฉพาะเจาะจง \nเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวิจัยมี 4 ชุด ได้แก่ มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาลผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวาน แบบสังเกตกิจกรรมการพยาบาล แบบสอบถามความพึงพอใจของผู้ป่วยต่อบริการพยาบาล และแบบบันทึก จํานวนวันนอนในโรงพยาบาล ซึ่งผ่านการตรวจสอบความตรงและความเที่ยงแล้ว \nผลการวิจัยพบว่า \n1. ความพึงพอใจของผู้ป่วยต่อบริการพยาบาล หลังการใช้มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาล ผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวานสูงกว่าก่อนการใช้มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาลผู้ป่วยโรคเบาหวาน อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ \nทางสถิติที่ระดับ .05 \n2. จํานวนวันนอนในโรงพยาบาลลดลง หลังการใช้มาตรฐานการปฏิบัติการพยาบาลผู้ป่วย โรคเบาหวาน แต่ไม่มีนัยสําคัญทางสถิติ

ศึกษามโนทัศน์ ทฤษฎี และเครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการประเมินความผูกพัน ระหว่างมารดาและทารกในวิทยานิพนธ์สาขาวิชาทางการพยาบาล (A Study Of Concepts, Theories, And Instruments Using In Assessment Of Maternal-Infant Attachment Of Master Thesis In Nursing), สุกัญญา แสงมุกข์

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

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ปกิณกะ : การประชุมพยาบาลนานาชาติ The New Nursing: Converging Conversation Of Education, Research And Practice ณ Madison, Wisconsin ประเทศสหรัฐอเมริกา, พวงเพ็ญ ชุณหปราณ

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

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Application Of Research To Practice Settings: Music Therapy, Desiree Gagner-Tjellesen

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical use of music therapy as an independent therapeutic nursing intervention in acute care settings. This study identified its frequency, rationale, and perceived effectiveness as an independent nursing intervention. This research also identified barriers and facilitators to nurses’ utilization of music therapy. Frequency and reasons for use of other independent nursing interventions was also investigated.

An author designed structured questionnaire was utilized in this descriptive study. The census sample (N=321) consisted of registered nurses at a Midwestern acute care facility of greater than fifty beds. Forty-two percent (n=135) participated in the …

Hardware Support For Data Dependence Speculation In Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors Via Cache-Block Reconciliation, Renato J. 0. Figueiredo, Jose A.. B. Fortes

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Data dependence speculation allows a compiler to relax the constraint of data-independence to issue tasks in parallel, increasing the potential for automatic extraction of parallelism from sequential programs. This paper proposes hardware mechanisms to support a data-dependence speculative distributed shared-memory (DDSM) architecture that enable speculative parallelization of programs with irregular data structures and inherent coarse-grain parallelism. Efficient support for coarse-grain tasks requires large buffers for speculative data; DDSM leverages cache and directory structures to provide large buffers that are managed transparently from applications. The proposed cache and directory extensions provide support for distributed speculative versions of cache blocks, run-time detection …

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’S First Decade, Bert Chapman

Libraries Research Publications

Concern over the safety of the United States’ defense nuclear reactors in the late 1980s led to congressional creation of an independent oversight board. The Defense Nuclear Facility Safeties Board (DNFSB) is responsible for overseeing safety issues at the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear facilities and issuing recommendations on operations and safety at these facilities, which include South Carolina’s Savannah River Site, Texas’ Pantex facility, Colorado’s Rocky Flats Depot, and others. This article provides an historical overview of the DNFSB’s first decade and discusses its relationship and interaction with the Department of Energy and congressional oversight committees as well as …

Equine Laminitis Reviewed, Jocelyn Nelson

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

Laminitis, also known as founder, is one of the most devastating and crippling conditions affecting horses throughout the world today. Traditionally defined as the inflammation of the laminae within the hoof, laminitis actually presents itself as a complicated, multi-system disease, that, through a series of interrelated events, leads to a characteristic lameness. This lameness has serious economic and humane consequences because affected horses are often seen in pain, and frequently must be destroyed due to permanent damages within the hoof.

Large-Scale Synthesis And Functional Elements For The Antimicrobial Activity Of Defensins, Periathamby A. Raj, K. J. Antonyraj, T. Karunakaran

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Human neutrophil defensins, and their analogues incorporating anionic, hydrophobic or cationic residues at the N- and C-termini, were synthesized by solid-phase procedures. The synthetic defensins were examined for their microbicidal activity against Candida albicans, two Gram-negative bacteria (Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Porphyromonas gingivalis) and two Gram-positive bacteria (Streptococcus gordonii and Streptococcus mutans). The human neutrophil peptide 1 (HNP1) and HNP2 were found to be potent candidacidal agents. HNP3, which differs by one amino acid at the N-terminus of its sequence, was totally inactive. The Gram-negative bacteria A. actinomycetemcomitans and P. gingivalis and the Gram-positive bacteria S. gordonii and S. mutans were …

Understanding The Strengths And Needs Of Children With Autism, Pat Bartz

Digitized Theses and Dissertations (prior to 2008)

A portfolio submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Special Education in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education in the Bagwell College of Education of Kennesaw State University

The Relationship Between Health Attitudes, Beliefs, Health Locus Of Control And Use Of Breast Cancer Screening Modalities In Elderly Hispanic Women, Debra Kay Gillett, Rosamaria Ortiz

Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA

A non-experimental design was used to examine the relationship between health attitudes, beliefs, locus of control and the use of breast cancer screening modalities in elderly Hispanic women in this pilot study. Leininger's Theory of Culture Care Diversity and Universality and the Health Belief Model were the supporting theoretical frameworks. Research was conducted at the Amigos del Valle senior centers in Hidalgo County and included 52 English-speaking elderly Hispanic volunteer participants. Instruments used for data collection were the Health Care Attitudes and Beliefs Scale and the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale. Results of this study revealed that there appears …

Table Of Cases (V. 41)

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Law Enforcement Professionalization: The Accreditation Of Law Enforcement, Angel D. Geoghagan

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Rapid social change has led many law enforcement agencies to explore various options that would serve to enhance service delivery, department credibility within communities, and overall professionalism. From a historical perspective, professionalism has been an elusive state for law enforcement agencies ever since the inception of the first police department. A search for such professionalism has taken a turn toward accreditation. Accreditation for law enforcement was studied to determine if the process enhanced the perceived level of credibility and professionalism enjoyed by police departments in the southeastern states of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Three hundred …

Depression Status Predicts False Memory On Recognition Tasks, Jamie Lynn L. Shapiro

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

It has long been assumed that depression leads to memory impairment. However, previous research findings have been plagued with inconsistencies in methodology and overall findings. Specifically, there has been some debate over whether or not depressed people are capable of spontaneous strategy use, such as utilizing an associative network/categorical structure. In this study, categorical structure was manipulated using the lists constructed by Deese (1959) and Roediger and McDermott (1995) to examine the false memory paradigm as a function of depression. No differences were found for overall recall or the recall of critical target items as a function of depression. However, …

Wetland Mitigation Banking As A Tool For Conservation, Reid Beauregard Sisson

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

This comment proposes that wetland mitigation banking under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act be employed by land trusts and conservation groups to generate revenue for funding land acquisitions and on-going stewardship for both wetland and wetland-related upland habitats threatened or impacted by development. Conservation groups and land trusts can use mitigation banking to generate revenue to fund their conservation goals. General background on the Clean Water Act - Section 404 and regulations affecting wetlands, compensatory mitigation and mitigation banking is provided. Included are general problems with monitoring and enforcement of mitigation, pros and cons of preservation as compensatory …

Solute Transport As Related To Soil Structure In Unsaturated Intact Soil Blocks, L. Bejat, E. Perfect, V. L. Quisenberry, Mark S. Coyne, G. R. Haszler

Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications

Concern about soil and groundwater pollution has resulted in numerous studies focused on solute transport. The objectives of our study were to investigate the effect of soil type and land-use management on solute movement. Transport of water and Cl⁻ were measured through intact blocks of Maury (fine, mixed, semiactive, mesic Typic Paleudalf) and Cecil (fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludult) soils, under steady-state, unsaturated flow conditions. Three replicate blocks for the Maury soil and two replicate blocks for the Cecil soil were studied per land-use treatment. The land-use treatments were conventional-till corn (Zea mays L.) production and long-term grass …

Management Of An Accounting Practice Handbook, Volume 3. Personnel, Volume 4. Partnerships, Volume 5. Management Data, May 2000, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

Management Of An Accounting Practice Handbook, Volume 2. Administration, May 2000, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

Management Of An Accounting Practice Handbook, Volume 1. Developing An Accounting Practice, May 2000, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

No abstract provided.

35th International Congress On Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University

International Congress on Medieval Studies Archive

The printed program of the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 4-7, 2000).

Clemson Commencement Program, May 2000, Clemson University

Clemson Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Racial Awareness Of Majority Group Member Students At East Tennessee State University And The Factors Related To Racial Awareness, Lavern Terrell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the racial awareness of majority group member students at East Tennessee State University (ETSU) and factors related to racial awareness. Seven research questions and five hypotheses were examined. The Oklahoma Racial Attitudes Survey-Preliminary Form (ORAS-P) was used to identify the racial awareness of White students enrolled at ETSU during the fall of 1999. Forty-six classes were surveyed obtaining a sample totaling 395 students. In addition to completing the ORAS-P, students in the sample were asked the following demographic questions: gender, age, city and state of birth, name and location of high school …

Perceived Barriers To The Teaching Of Critical Thinking Skills By Nursing Faculty In Generic Bsn Programs In Tennessee, Renee C. Shell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Teaching critical thinking is a national education goal. The ability to think critically is considered an essential skill of nursing graduates and is a necessary component of competent nursing practice. Therefore, nursing programs must address critical thinking for accreditation. The literature reports that teachers in all areas of education are having difficulties infusing critical thinking teaching strategies into their current teaching practices and critical thinking is lacking in new nursing graduates. This research study sought to identify barriers to the implementation of critical thinking teaching strategies as perceived by nursing faculty in generic, BSN programs in Tennessee. Data were collected …

Ion-Kill Dosimetry, Robert Katz, F. A. Cucinotta, M. Fromm, A. Chambaudet

Robert Katz Publications

Unanticipated late effects in neutron and heavy ion therapy, not attributable to overdose, imply a qualitative difference between low and high LET therapy. We identify that difference as ‘ion kill’, associated with the spectrum of z/β in the radiation field, whose measurement we label ‘ion-kill dosimetry’.

Update On Diagnosis Of Congenital Infection, Sami H. Al-Hajjar

Saudi Medical Journal

Congenial infection is one of the greatest diagnostic challenges facing clinicians. The list pathogens related to intrauterine infections continues to grow with the identification of new etiologies and resurgence of others. Identification of a congenital infection as early as possible has both diagnostic and therapeutic advantages. This article will give an overview on common clinical findings in infants with congenital infection and a recommended clinical investigational approach for suspected congenital infection.

New Trends In Prenatal Screening For Chromosomal Abnormalities, Mohd H. Addar

Saudi Medical Journal

In the recent years, the scope of prenatal genetic diagnosis has expanded greatly with the development of a number of new methods, such as maternal serum screening and ultrasound screening for detection of fetal abnormalities. These methods have the advantage of providing earlier diagnosis in addition to being non-invasive and of less psychological traumas. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis is another new growing field offering the genetic diagnosis prior to implantation. The most promising of all is the first trimester biochemical screening in conjunction with ultrasound nuchal translucency screening.

Subclinical Diabetic Neuropathy. A Common Complication In Saudi Diabetics, Daad H. Akbar, Sirag A. Mira, Tareef H. Zawawi, Hussein M. Malibary

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of sub clinical diabetic neuropathy in Saudi diabetics and the risk factors associated with symptomatic diabetic neuropathy. METHODS: A prospective study of Saudi diabetics attending King Abdulaziz University Hospital out patient clinic from January 1998 until April 1999. Detailed information of each patients9 age, sex, body mass index, type and duration of diabetes mellitus, mode of treatment, degree of blood glucose control, presence of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, smoking, family history of diabetes mellitus and hypertension were recorded. Patients were assessed for diabetic neuropathy using the Michigan Neuropathy Program. Patients who were asymptomatic and scored less than …

Consumers' Satisfaction With Primary Health Services In The City Of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Abdullah H. Doghaither, Abdalla A. Saeed

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To study consumers9 satisfaction and socio-demographic correlates of satisfaction with services provided by Primary Health Care Centres in the city of Jeddah. METHODS: Study subjects included the consumers visiting the Primary Health Care Centres during the study period. Four Primary Health Care Centres were randomly selected from Jeddah according to the geographical location. Seventy five subjects were selected systematically where every tenth Saudi aged 15 years or above was chosen. Data was collected via a self administered pilot tested questionnaire which included socio-demographic characteristics, as well as the overall and differential satisfaction with the different services and facilities in …

Children's Risk Perception And Parents' Views On Levels Of Risk That Children Attach To Outdoor Activities, Hamid Soori

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Higher rates of outdoor injuries are found in older children, boys and children from more deprived areas. Some of the causes of these variations have been studied in some age groups and in different situations. To study children9s perception of safety and danger and parents9 views on the level of risk that their children attach to outdoor activities comparing age groups, boys and girls, and the less economically well off with the better off in order to understand outdoor accidental injuries. METHODS: A cross-sectional study, obtained information from children aged 7 and 9 (n=471) and their parents (n=416) were …

Reinfestation In Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. A New Look At Predisposing Conditions, Khalifa E. Sharquie, Rafid A. Najim, Azad K. Hussein

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: A prospective study of cases of reinfestation with cutaneous leishmaniasis is carried out to try to identify if there is any associated condition which might predispose to reinfestation. METHODS: Over a 2 year period, cases of reinfestation with cutaneous leishmaniasis presenting in the Department of Dermatology, were collected. RESULTS: Thirteen cases showing a typical scar with a parasitologically proven new infection were included. The mean age of patients was 54.69+/-2.65 years. The time lapse between the two infections was 52.38+/-2.60 years. The scar of the primary infection was mainly on the face while the lesion was mostly on the …