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Assessing Undergraduate Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes And Cultural Competence In Caring For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Patients, Victoria Folse, Kristy Strong, '13 Apr 2013

Assessing Undergraduate Nursing Students' Knowledge, Attitudes And Cultural Competence In Caring For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Patients, Victoria Folse, Kristy Strong, '13

Victoria N. Folse

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Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness: Educational Techniques, Victoria Folse, Katherine Racanelli, '12 Apr 2012

Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness: Educational Techniques, Victoria Folse, Katherine Racanelli, '12

Victoria N. Folse

No abstract provided.


Suicide Risk Screening In An Emergency Department: Engaging Staff Nurses In Continued Testing Of A Brief Instrument, Victoria Folse, Rebecca Hahn Dec 2008

Suicide Risk Screening In An Emergency Department: Engaging Staff Nurses In Continued Testing Of A Brief Instrument, Victoria Folse, Rebecca Hahn

Victoria N. Folse

A study was conducted to detect suicide risk in adolescents and adults seeking treatment in an emergency department (ED) in the Midwest as well as to continue testing reliability and validity of the 4-item Risk of Suicide Questionnaire (RSQ) developed by Horowitz et al. This study included ED staff nurses in a Level II Trauma Center who administered the RSQ to adolescent, adult, and geriatric patients, regardless of chief complaint or psychiatric history. Participants consisted of a convenience sample of 202 patients composed of 59 adolescents and 143 adults, including 36 geriatric patients. Psychometric analysis demonstrated a lower-than-expected degree of …


Self-Concept, Victoria Folse Dec 2008

Self-Concept, Victoria Folse

Victoria N. Folse

This new edition addresses the increased focus on evidence-based practice and new guidelines for safe patient handling. Plus, a new, cutting-edge chapter on Surviving Cancer helps prepare you to address the unique health care needs of patients who have survived cancer, but still face the physical and emotional after-effects of the illness and its therapy.

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Managing Quality And Risk, Victoria Folse Dec 2008

Managing Quality And Risk, Victoria Folse

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Self-Concept And Sexuality, Victoria Folse Dec 2008

Self-Concept And Sexuality, Victoria Folse

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Conflict: The Cutting Edge Of Change, Victoria Folse Dec 2008

Conflict: The Cutting Edge Of Change, Victoria Folse

Victoria N. Folse

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The Family Experience With Eating Disorders Scale: Psychometric Analysis, Victoria N. Folse Aug 2007

The Family Experience With Eating Disorders Scale: Psychometric Analysis, Victoria N. Folse

Victoria N. Folse

The role of the family in the development and maintenance of eating disorders is frequently cited in the literature; however, common methodological issues, including the use of diverse family assessment instruments with inadequate psychometric properties, exist. Further, variables specific to families with eating disorder are not being captured in available instruments. The modeling and role-modeling theory (Erickson, H., Kinney, C. (Eds). 1990. Modeling and role-modeling: Theory, practice, and research. Austin, TX: Society for Advancement of Modeling and Role-Modeling; Erickson, H. Tomlin, E., Swain, M. A.1983. Modeling and role-modeling: A theory and paradigm for nursing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.) was employed …


Detecting Suicide Risk In Adolescents And Adults In An Emergency Department: A Pilot Study, Victoria Folse, Katie Eich, Amy Hall, Joan Rupperman Dec 2005

Detecting Suicide Risk In Adolescents And Adults In An Emergency Department: A Pilot Study, Victoria Folse, Katie Eich, Amy Hall, Joan Rupperman

Victoria N. Folse

The investigators conducted a pilot study to detect suicide risk in adolescents and adults seeking treatment in an emergency department, as well as to test the reliability and validity of the 4-item Risk of Suicide Questionnaire (RSQ). This study expanded the implementation of the RSQ beyond its initial use with children and adolescents with psychiatric symptoms who were seeking treatment in a pediatric emergency department to include adolescent and adult patients in a Level I trauma center. An advanced practice psychiatric nurse verbally administered the RSQ to a convenience sample of 104 emergency department patients ages 12 to 82. Psychometric …


Using Clinical Journaling To Capture Critical Thinking Across The Curriculum, Jacklyn Ruthman, Janet Jackson, Maureen Cluskey, Peggy Flannigan, Victoria Folse, Jo Bunten Dec 2003

Using Clinical Journaling To Capture Critical Thinking Across The Curriculum, Jacklyn Ruthman, Janet Jackson, Maureen Cluskey, Peggy Flannigan, Victoria Folse, Jo Bunten

Victoria N. Folse

Describes the use of clinical journaling as an integrated teaching methodology throughout the practicum component of a baccalaureate nursing program at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. Nursing students complete a weekly log for each clinical rotation; Students identify learning goals, analyze events and relate them to nursing practice, use critical thinking to connect theory and practice, and reflect on the experience.