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Hospital Resources Used As Guides In Unfamiliar Nursing Procedures, Marie Ethel Greene
Hospital Resources Used As Guides In Unfamiliar Nursing Procedures, Marie Ethel Greene
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
Hospital nursing procedures are rapidly increasing in number and in complexity, keeping pace with the continuous advances being made in medical science. This, coupled with the fact that many nurses are resuming their careers after a period of professional inactivity, make it imperative that hospitals provide facilities for assisting nursing personnel in becoming acquainted with unfamiliar procedures. This study was done to learn what resources hospital nursing personnel use most as a guide in performing unfamiliar procedures, and by internal analysis, to identify some of the factors influencing the choice of resources used by different levels of nursing personnel. Following …
Knowledge Pediatric Nurses Have On The Medications They Are Giving, Opaljean Whiteaker
Knowledge Pediatric Nurses Have On The Medications They Are Giving, Opaljean Whiteaker
Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects
The purpose of this survey was twofold (1) to find out what knowledge the pediatric nurse has regarding selected medications which she is administering, and (2) to make recommendations relative to drug knowledge for in-service education programs in hospitals.
The data regarding abdication knowledge as collected by using a checklist form developed for this study and administered to seventeen graduate nurses in three selected hospitals each supervising a pediatric unit.
A checklist included categories, the route, the action time of a drug, and the side effects that could he commonly expected.
From the fifteen categories listed, the hematological and anticonvulsant …