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Barriers To Nurses’ Promoting Mobility In Hospitalized Older Adults, Gordana Dermody

Theses and Dissertations

Objectives: To examine the association between nurses’ knowledge, attitude and external barriers and the nurse’s mobility-promoting behavior. Nurse perception of the priority organizations place on mobility, and the relationship of nurses’ level of experience to nurse prioritization for promoting mobility was also investigated.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive, correlation study with convenience sampling.

Setting: Two community-based hospitals in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S.

Participants: Eighty-five nurses caring for 98 inpatients 65 and older.

Measurement: Nurses’ knowledge, attitude and external barriers were examined with a validated 5-point Likert Scale. Patient-related and other clinical barriers and the nurses mobility-promoting behavior was obtained with …

Rn Perceptions Of Coworker Incivility And Collective Efficacy As Influential To Hospital Structures And Outcomes, Jessica Grace Smith

Theses and Dissertations

Background: An aging population and retiring workforce might affect United States health delivery care and could threaten the quality of care in hospitals. Nurses, as the largest profession in healthcare, can buffer these effects if supported in a safe nurse work environment. The purpose of this dissertation was to understand how peer-to-peer registered nurse workplace incivility as a mediator, and collective efficacy as a moderator, influence relationships among hospital structures (i.e. nurse manager leadership and staffing) and hospital outcomes (i.e. missed nursing care and patient safety cultures).

Methods: Donabedian’s (1980) structure-process-outcomes conceptual framework was the theoretical basis for this study. …