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Four Distinct Generations Of Workers Makes Leadership Challenging, Joyce K. Kutin
Four Distinct Generations Of Workers Makes Leadership Challenging, Joyce K. Kutin
Joyce K Kutin RN, MSN, MOL
The Bureau of Labor Statistics for the year 2000 stated that Baby Boomers (age thirty-six through fifty-four) represented fifty percent of the United States labor force while Generation X (age twenty to thirty-five) represented some thirty-three percent, a significant decline in workforce. This demographic, time bomb indicates the urgency for many organizations in developed countries to prepare for and cope with the imminent retirement of their aging workforce.
Shu Nursing Faculty Awarded Diamond Jubilee Awards For The Second Consecutive Year, Anne M. Barker
Shu Nursing Faculty Awarded Diamond Jubilee Awards For The Second Consecutive Year, Anne M. Barker
Anne M. Barker
No abstract provided.
Características Demográficas E Ocupacionais Do Estudante-Trabalhador De Enfermagem E O Risco De Acidentes De Trabalho / Demographical And Occupational Characteristics Of The Student-Worker Of Nursing And The Risk Of Accidents At Work, Everton Fernando Alves
Everton Fernando Alves
Os estudantes-trabalhadores da enfermagem estão expostos a inúmeros acidentes de trabalho devido à dupla jornada, trabalho e estudo, que afeta o estilo de vida e o estado biopsicoemocional. Objetivou-se neste estudo realizar uma discussão de caráter introdutório sobre a análise de algumas características demográficas e ocupacionais de estudantes-trabalhadores de enfermagem e suas relações com o riscode acidentes de trabalho. Realizou-se um estudo exploratório, descritivo e com abordagem quantitativa de dados. Fizeram parte da amostra 88 estudantes-trabalhadores do curso de enfermagem regularmente matriculados do1º ao 4º ano. Observou-se que a maioria dos entrevistados eram mulheres (65,9%), com idades acima de 25 …
Leaders Of Today Are Challenged By Generation X Workforce Retention, Joyce K. Kutin
Leaders Of Today Are Challenged By Generation X Workforce Retention, Joyce K. Kutin
Joyce K Kutin RN, MSN, MOL
Many organizations today are comprised of a culturally diverse workforce. In addition to organizational diversity related to gender, ethnicity, race, or religious beliefs, there are also four different generations working side by side. Today’s workforce includes the Silent Generation, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. The Silent Generation is known for their lifestyle approach of consistency, uniformity, conformity, law and order, hard work and playing by the rules. Baby Boomers were the first generation to grow up with television; they were the first to have broad access to news, issues, advertising, and a variety of programming. Generation X …
Cruising For Truckers On Highways And The Internet: Sexual Networks And Infection Risk, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Jennie Kronenfeld, Donna Smith, Sarah Stanton
Cruising For Truckers On Highways And The Internet: Sexual Networks And Infection Risk, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Jennie Kronenfeld, Donna Smith, Sarah Stanton
Mona Shattell
Empirical evidence on the heterosexual partnerships of long-haul truckers suggests connections among occupational stressors, substance misuse, structural factors, and risk for sexually transmitted infections and HIV. Yet the potential risks associated with same-sex partnerships of truckers and truckchasers (men who specifically cruise for truckers) remain largely unknown. Drawing from diverse sources as well as primary and secondary data from 173 truckers and “truckchasers,” we discuss how trucking and cruising contexts, in conjunction with Internet fora, jointly create a risk-enabling environment for truckers and their sex contacts. Findings point toward an elusive but extensive sexual network that spans across the Internet …
The Lisbeth Hockey Community Nursing Research Training Fellowship 2008. Final Report, Maggie Lawrence, Susan Kerr, Caroline Mcvey, Dorothy Ferguson
The Lisbeth Hockey Community Nursing Research Training Fellowship 2008. Final Report, Maggie Lawrence, Susan Kerr, Caroline Mcvey, Dorothy Ferguson
Dr. Maggie Lawrence
Background Stroke is the most common cause of adult disability in the UK; the incidence is particularly high in Scotland, with more than 12,000 new cases per year. Stroke recurs in approximately 25% of patients and may result in death or an increased risk of disability or institutionalisation. Stroke is associated with a disadvantaged socio-economic profile and lifestyle behaviours which include smoking, unhealthy diet, excessive alcohol consumption and lack of exercise. Crucially, these factors are amenable to change by means of pharmacotherapy and/or the delivery of lifestyle interventions. While the provision of lifestyle interventions has the potential to improve health …
Barriers To Truck Drivers’ Healthy Eating: Environmental Influences And Health Promotion Strategies, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Robert Strack, Laura Haldeman, Victoria Jones
Barriers To Truck Drivers’ Healthy Eating: Environmental Influences And Health Promotion Strategies, Yorghos Apostolopoulos, Sevil Sönmez, Mona Shattell, Robert Strack, Laura Haldeman, Victoria Jones
Mona Shattell
This article presents an assessment of 25 trucking work settings designed to examine whether the environmental attributes of these settings influence eating patterns of truckers who are at risk for excess weight gain. Findings corroborate evidence that these work settings represent healthy food deserts. From restaurants and vending machines to the social-information environments and their surrounding communities, only meager opportunities exist for healthful eating practices. This article aims to place underserved truckers and warehousing-sector employees firmly within the discourse of workplace health promotion and calls for multistakeholder wellness strategies that encompass the intertwined risk factors linked with the transportation work …
Do Nurse Educators Feel Competent To Teach Cultural Competency Concepts?, Sharon Starr, Mona Shattell, Clifford Gonzales
Do Nurse Educators Feel Competent To Teach Cultural Competency Concepts?, Sharon Starr, Mona Shattell, Clifford Gonzales
Mona Shattell
Cultural competence has been proposed as one way to reduce health disparities in racial and ethnic minority populations. Nursing program accreditation standards mandate the inclusion of cultural competence concepts in the nursing curricula; however, are nursing educators prepared to teach culturally competency concepts and do nurse educators feel competent? The purposes of this article are to examine the literature about nurse educators' comfort with cultural competency concepts and to provide some suggestions for improvement.
Working Hard To Relax: Improving Engagement In Leisure Time Activities For A Healthier Work-Life Balance, Linda Buettner, Mona Shattell, Madeleine Reber
Working Hard To Relax: Improving Engagement In Leisure Time Activities For A Healthier Work-Life Balance, Linda Buettner, Mona Shattell, Madeleine Reber
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness And Substance Use Disorders In Medical Emergency Departments In The United States, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes
Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness And Substance Use Disorders In Medical Emergency Departments In The United States, Mona Shattell, Melanie Andes
Mona Shattell
No abstract provided.
Estilo De Vida De Estudantes De Graduação Em Enfermagem De Uma Instituição Do Sul Do Brasil / Lifestyle Of Undergraduate Nursing Students Of An Institution From Southern Brazil, Everton Fernando Alves
Estilo De Vida De Estudantes De Graduação Em Enfermagem De Uma Instituição Do Sul Do Brasil / Lifestyle Of Undergraduate Nursing Students Of An Institution From Southern Brazil, Everton Fernando Alves
Everton Fernando Alves
Objetivou-se analisar o estilo de vida de estudantes de enfermagem por meio de um estudo exploratório, descritivo e com abordagem quantitativa. Verificou-se que os estudantes ingeriam apenas dois grupos de alimentos (“verduras e frutas” ou “verduras e grãos”); 54,2% não praticava atividade física; 57,8% deles dormiam menos de sete horas/ dia; havia grande proporção de estudantes-trabalhadores; 9,9% de fumantes e a frequência do uso de tabaco foi de 52,6% fumando de 2 a 5 cigarros/ dia, e 26,3% fumando de 1 a 3 maços de cigarros/ semana; 27,1% de estudantes etilistas e destes, 42,3% desses fazem o uso de álcool …
Medicines Management In Mental Health, Austyn Snowden, Derek T. Barron
Medicines Management In Mental Health, Austyn Snowden, Derek T. Barron
Derek T Barron
This article provides evidence to suggest that mental health nurses may not be as competent in medicines management as they believe themselves to be. A psychological model of skills awareness is used throughout the article to offer a theoretical explanation of this putative deficit and provide discussion of the possible causes. Training directed towards improving medicines management skills will be introduced. Training such as this is essential if mental health nurses are to offer the best care to those in receipt of their services and make best use of the opportunities provided by prescribing legislation
The Ethics Of Sin Taxes, Rebecca D. Green
The Ethics Of Sin Taxes, Rebecca D. Green
Rebecca D. Green
The current global economic crisis is forcing governments to consider a variety of methods to generate funds for infrastructure. In the United States, smoking-related illness and an obesity epidemic are forcing public health institutions to consider a variety of methods to influence health behaviors of entire target groups. In this paper, the author uses a public health nursing model, the Public Health Code of Ethics (Public Health Leadership Society, 2002), the American Nurses' Association (ANA) Code of Ethics (2001), and other relevant ethical theory to weigh and balance the arguments for and against the use of sin taxes. A position …
Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Assertive Community Treatment And The Physical Health Needs Of Persons With Severe Mental Illness: Issues Around Integration Of Mental Health And Physical Health, Mona Shattell, Natasha Donnelly, Anna Sheyett, Gary Cuddeback
Mona Shattell
BACKGROUND: Assertive community treatment (ACT) is characterized as a service delivery platform and represents an ideal setting in which mental health and physical health care can be integrated. OBJECTIVE: Little is known about the extent to which ACT integrates physical health care with mental health care or the challenges ACT teams experience. To address this gap, focus groups were conducted with five ACT teams in a Midwestern US state to explore how ACT teams address the physical health care needs of persons with severe mental illness. DESIGN: A qualitative study design was used. RESULTS: Three major themes emerged: ACT teams …
Gender Discrimination And Nursing: Α Literature Review, Christiana Kouta, Charis P. Kaite
Gender Discrimination And Nursing: Α Literature Review, Christiana Kouta, Charis P. Kaite
Charis P. Kaite
This article aims to examine gender stereotypes in relation to men in nursing, discuss gender discrimination cases in nursing, and explore methods used for promoting equal educational opportunities during nursing studies. The literature review was based on related databases, such as CINAHL, Science Direct, MEDLINE, and EBSCO. Legal case studies are included in order to provide a more practical example of those barriers existing for men pursuing nursing, as well as statistical data concerning gender discrimination and male attrition to nursing schools in relation to those barriers. These strengthen the validity of the manuscript. Literature review showed that gender discrimination …
Becoming An Older Volunteer: A Grounded Theory Study., J. W. Brown, S. L. Chen, Linda C. Mefford, A. Brown, B. Callen, P. Mcarthur
Becoming An Older Volunteer: A Grounded Theory Study., J. W. Brown, S. L. Chen, Linda C. Mefford, A. Brown, B. Callen, P. Mcarthur
Linda C. Mefford, PhD, RN, NNP-BC
This Grounded Theory study describes the process by which older persons “become” volunteers. Forty interviews of older persons who volunteered for Habitat for Humanity were subjected to secondary content analysis to uncover the process of “becoming” a volunteer. “Helping out” (core category) for older volunteers occurs within the context of “continuity”, “commitment” and “connection” which providemotivation for volunteering.When a need arises, older volunteers “help out” physically and financially as health and resources permit. Benefits described as “blessings” of volunteering become motivators for future volunteering. Findings suggest that older volunteering is a developmental process and learned behavior which should be fostered …
Alzheimer’S Care At Home: A Focus On Caregivers’ Strain, G. Valera, L. M. Varona, Kathryn H. Anderson, J Sansoni
Alzheimer’S Care At Home: A Focus On Caregivers’ Strain, G. Valera, L. M. Varona, Kathryn H. Anderson, J Sansoni
Kathryn H. Anderson
The aging population is increasing worldwide. According to Italian authors, Italy is one of the leading and increasing aging populations in the world. Placing more numbers on the elderly increases the number of people who will live with dementia in the future and in our case of study, in an increase of people with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers have demonstrated that Alzheimer's disease comes with aging and it eventually affects the person's cognitive, emotional, and physical well being. Those who become diagnosed with Alzheimer's will eventually need assistance in their daily living, especially when it begins to progress to a higher …