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Nursing Care Given To Hemiplegic Patients, Margaret Eugenia Messer

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Statement of the Problem: The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether nursing care currently being given to hemiplegic patients in the area of body mechanics was adequate; to develop a standard from current literature in the field of medicine, physical therapy, and nursing by which nursing care given to hemiplegic patients could be evaluated; and to learn if better prepared nursing personnel were giving better nursing care.

Method: The descriptive survey was the method used in this study. The data were gathered by making actual observations of nursing care given to hemiplegic patients in the area of body …

Incidents Which Threaten Patient Safety Classified For Use In Teaching Operating Room Nursing, Elsie Dorothy Vivian Wendth

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

The study was conducted in an attempt to identify incidents threatening the safety of patients in the care of operating room personnel and to classify them for use in teaching safety in operating room nursing.

Literature was reviewed to find concepts of safety and to aid in classification of safety hazards which are applicable to hospital patient safety. Need was shown for safe working conditions and for personnel with attitudes of safety as well as skills and knowledge. Safety included freedom from mechanical, thermal, chemical, bacteriological, and psychological injury.

The descriptive method of research using the critical incident technique was …

An Investigation Into Nursing Students' Awareness Of Emotional Needs Of Patients In A General Hospital, Sadie Sinclair

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Nursing educators consider that awareness of the emotional needs of a patient is a prerequisite to the formulation of a nursing problem. The problem of this study was to discover if the senior student in a specific college program in nursing is aware of the emotional needs of patients. A collection of senior research papers written over a period of sic [sic] years in a specific course assignment was studied. The attention was focused on the portion of the paper which dealt with the personality description of the patient. The direction given by the instructor did not emphasize any particular …