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Nurse Manager Role Stress, Rosemarie Mohn

Nursing Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of decision-making style, and right and left brain function on nurse manager role stress. Data were collected from 48 nurse managers employed at four acute care facilities along the Atlantic seaboard. A nonexperimental correlation descriptive design was utilized to determine if any positive or negative correlation existed between study variables and levels of stress. Findings suggested that nurse managers experienced moderate amounts of role stress, including role conflict and role ambiguity. One significant statistical correlation existed between role ambiguity and the decision making dimension of intuition. Recommendations for future research …

Nurses Alumni Association Bulletin, Fall 1991, Alice C. Boehret, Dorothy A. Cloud, Betty Piersol, Mabel C. Prevost, Margaret Summers, Frances B. Crossan, Adolph Walkling, June Dupnock, Nancy Powell, Doris E. Bowman, Dorothy Ranck Long, Lorraine Mccall, Esther Kahn, Ruth Thorp West, Patricia A. Dunn

Nursing Alumni Bulletins

Annual Meeting Calendar

Annual Luncheon - Meeting Notice

Meeting Notice Dates

Officers and Committee Chairmen

President's Message

Treasurer's Report

Proposed Budget- 1991

News About Our Graduates

History of the School of Nursing

The Future of Nursing

School Health - 20 Years Ago - Today

Happy Birthday

Resume of Minutes of Alumni Association Meetings

Alumni Office News

Committee Reports By-Laws

Bulletin

Nominating

Relief Fund

Satellite

Scholarship

Social

Finance

Nursing Education at Jefferson - "A Century of Excellence"

The Decade Fund

Fiftieth Anniversary

In Memoriam, Names of Deceased Graduates

Luncheon Photos

My Dear Son

Weather Lore

Class News

Scholarship Application

Non-Graduate Scholarship …

A Comparative Analysis Of Nurse Leaders' Degree Of Transformational Leadership And Staff Nurse Job Satisfaction, Kathie Sawyer Weatherly

Nursing Theses & Dissertations

The intensified pressure for change in nursing organizations has presented nurse leaders with opportunities to transform bureaucratic settings into professional practice environments. Transformational leadership has been identified as supporting the changing values of staff nurses and promoting job satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to explore nurse leaders' degree of transformational leadership and the relationship between transformational leadership and staff nurse job satisfaction. Quantitative analysis, using an independent t-test, indicated a significant difference between nurse leaders' and staff nurses' perception of the nurse leaders' degree of transformational leadership. Pearson correlation analysis indicated a significant relationship between transformational leadership and …

Formal And Informal Educational Activities Of Transformational Nurse Leaders In Urban Hospitals, Sue Waltrip Young

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

Absence of educational programs designed to develop a specific leadership style has prompted educators in nursing administration to consider designing such programs. As the cost of hospital care escalates and the recruitment and retention of individuals into hospital nursing remains problematic, it is essential that methods be developed to address these issues. This study described the educational processes experienced by transformational nurse leaders employed in urban hospitals. By discovering the relative importance and amount of these activities for nurses identified as transformational leaders, data are provided for the design and testing of educational programs created to enhance a transformational leadership …

Identification And Ranking Of Stressors Specific To The Acute Head Care Nurse, Joan A. Breen

Community & Environmental Health Theses & Dissertations

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Nurses' Attitudes To The Nursing Process, Glenda M. Prideaux

Theses : Honours

The nursing process was 'introduced in Australia in the mid 1970s, as a teaching tool, however, with the advent of tertiary based education in the late 1970s, it was used as a problem solving approach to the practice of nursing. Acceptance of the nursing process has required changes' in attitudes and practice. The objectives of the study were firstly, to describe nurses' attitudes to the nursing process, and. secondly, to relate these attitudes to education and experience. The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' attitudes to the nursing process because they are reported to influence the standards or …