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Using The Blackboard Platform: More Than A Course Site, Deborah A. Raines Apr 2007

Using The Blackboard Platform: More Than A Course Site, Deborah A. Raines

Deborah A. Raines, PhD, EdS, RN, ANEF, FAAN

No abstract provided.

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A Fun Way To Learn Terminology: The Crossword Puzzle, Deborah A. Raines Jan 2007

A Fun Way To Learn Terminology: The Crossword Puzzle, Deborah A. Raines

Deborah A. Raines, PhD, EdS, RN, ANEF, FAAN

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Paradoxes Of Labor Process Control: Adverse Occupational Health, Linda A. Treiber Dec 2006

Paradoxes Of Labor Process Control: Adverse Occupational Health, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

Does having control over your work make you less likely to get injured on the job? Or is workplace safety climate more important to your health? What are the effects of using your skills on the job? What are the positive and negative effects of having friendly co-workers? What are the most important factors in determining exhaustion and persistent pain? How does workplace organization contribute to overall health? Most of the existing literature on worker health and safety fails to appreciate the ways in which workers are embedded in a social context with complex relationships. Often, epidemiologic models lack a …

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Using The Webquest To Engage Learners In The Online Classroom, Julie Sanford, M. Jacobs, J. Townsend-Rocchiccioli Dec 2006

Using The Webquest To Engage Learners In The Online Classroom, Julie Sanford, M. Jacobs, J. Townsend-Rocchiccioli

Julie Sanford

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Caring Abilities Of Students In An Accelerated Program Of Study: A Program Evaluation Study, Deborah A. Raines Dec 2006

Caring Abilities Of Students In An Accelerated Program Of Study: A Program Evaluation Study, Deborah A. Raines

Deborah A. Raines, PhD, EdS, RN, ANEF, FAAN

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Internet Chat Rooms: Connecting With A New Generation Of Young Men Of Color At Risk For Hiv Infection Who Have Sex With Other Men., Sheldon Fields Oct 2006

Internet Chat Rooms: Connecting With A New Generation Of Young Men Of Color At Risk For Hiv Infection Who Have Sex With Other Men., Sheldon Fields

Sheldon D. Fields

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of gay-related Internet chat rooms by young men who have sex with other men of color (YMSMC) in a specific catchment area. Participants were 104 YMSMC age 18 to 24 (M = 21.56) who were encountered in two gay-related Internet chat rooms during April 2005. Participants were mainly African American (53.7%, n = 56), HIV-negative (57.6%, n = 60), and online looking for some type of sexual encounter (80.7%, n = 84). The results of this study support the need to develop specific culturally appropriate HIV prevention Internet outreach protocols …

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Psychosocial And Spiritual Factors Associated With Smoking And Substance Use During Pregnancy In African-American And Caucasian Low-Income Women, Darlene Elizabeth Jesse Sep 2006

Psychosocial And Spiritual Factors Associated With Smoking And Substance Use During Pregnancy In African-American And Caucasian Low-Income Women, Darlene Elizabeth Jesse

D. Elizabeth Jesse

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Amsn Board Votes To Support The Coalition For Patient's Rights, Noel M. Kerr Phd, Rn, Cmsrn Jun 2006

Amsn Board Votes To Support The Coalition For Patient's Rights, Noel M. Kerr Phd, Rn, Cmsrn

Noël M Kerr PhD, RN, CMSRN

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Relationship Between Mechanisms And Activities At The Time Of Pedestrian Injury And Activity Limitation Among School Adolescents In Kathmandu, Nepal, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Shinji Nakahara, Masao Ichikawa, Krishna Poudel, Susumu Wakai May 2006

Relationship Between Mechanisms And Activities At The Time Of Pedestrian Injury And Activity Limitation Among School Adolescents In Kathmandu, Nepal, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Shinji Nakahara, Masao Ichikawa, Krishna Poudel, Susumu Wakai

Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar

This study assessed the relationship between pedestrian activity at the time of injury, the type of vehicle involved and resulting activity limitation among school adolescents in the Kathmandu and Lalitpur districts of Nepal. A cross-sectional study of 1557 students in grades 6–8 across 14 schools was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire from August to September 2003. Twenty-three percent of adolescents reported pedestrian injuries, 38% were from urban and 21% from semi-urban areas. Adolescents were commonly injured by motorcycles and motor vehicles while crossing the road; however, while walking and playing, they were commonly injured by bicycles and motorcycles. Bicycles and …

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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Migrants By Letters: An Hiv/Aids Awareness Programme In Nepal, Krishna C. Poudel, Masamine Jimba, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Susume Wakai Jan 2006

Reaching Hard-To-Reach Migrants By Letters: An Hiv/Aids Awareness Programme In Nepal, Krishna C. Poudel, Masamine Jimba, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Susume Wakai

Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar

We assessed the impact of an HIV/AIDS programme for Nepalese migrants to India that involved writing letters. The programme created opportunities for sending HIV/AIDS-related messages to the migrants in India, and encouraging them practicing safer sex. Initially, they received the messages only from the programme, but later from their colleagues, spouses or other family members. They discussed the messages in groups, disseminated them, and sought more knowledge in their destinations. These findings indicated that using letters could be an effective way to reach inaccessible migrants at their destinations, and help them to improve their HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, and safer sex practices.

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Reaching Hard-To-Reach Migrants By Letters: An Hiv/Aids Awareness Programme In Nepal, Krishna C. Poudel, Masamine Jimba, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Susume Wakai Jan 2006

Reaching Hard-To-Reach Migrants By Letters: An Hiv/Aids Awareness Programme In Nepal, Krishna C. Poudel, Masamine Jimba, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Susume Wakai

Krishna C. Poudel

We assessed the impact of an HIV/AIDS programme for Nepalese migrants to India that involved writing letters. The programme created opportunities for sending HIV/AIDS-related messages to the migrants in India, and encouraging them practicing safer sex. Initially, they received the messages only from the programme, but later from their colleagues, spouses or other family members. They discussed the messages in groups, disseminated them, and sought more knowledge in their destinations. These findings indicated that using letters could be an effective way to reach inaccessible migrants at their destinations, and help them to improve their HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, and safer sex practices.

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Availability Of Childcare Support And Nutritional Status Of Children Of Non-Working And Working Mothers In Urban Nepal, Shinji Nakahara, Krishna C. Poudel, Milan Lopchan, Masao Ichikawa, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Masamine Jimba, Susumu Wakai Dec 2005

Availability Of Childcare Support And Nutritional Status Of Children Of Non-Working And Working Mothers In Urban Nepal, Shinji Nakahara, Krishna C. Poudel, Milan Lopchan, Masao Ichikawa, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Masamine Jimba, Susumu Wakai

Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar

In many developing countries, poor women have multiple roles, and often their time constraints are so severe that their participation in income-generating activities results in reduced childcare time, which in turn affects child health. Previous studies have tended to
investigate how childcare support influences nutrition of children with working mothers’ based on comparisons with non-working mothers. However, non-working mothers are not a homogeneous group, and we therefore need to distinguish between those who need not work and those who wish to but cannot, for example, due to a lack of substitute caregivers. We examined the association between availability of childcare …

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“She Took The Time To Make Sure She Understood:” Mental Health Patients’ Experiences Of Being Understood, Mona Shattell, Sara Mcallister, Beverly Hogan, Sandra Thomas Dec 2005

“She Took The Time To Make Sure She Understood:” Mental Health Patients’ Experiences Of Being Understood, Mona Shattell, Sara Mcallister, Beverly Hogan, Sandra Thomas

Mona Shattell

The foundation of psychiatric/mental health nursing is the relationship between nurse and patient. Caring for persons with mental illness within the context of this relationship requires knowledge of the individual. To gain this knowledge, understanding the patient’s perceptions and concerns is essential. Research suggests that this understanding does not always occur. The study reported here examined what it means to individuals with mental illness to be understood. In-depth phenomenological interviews revealed three predominant themes: “I was important,” “It really made us connect,” and “They got on my level.” Nurses can use these findings to improve the care of those with …

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The Changing Treatment Paradigm In Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma: Implications For Nursing, Joseph Tariman Oct 2005

The Changing Treatment Paradigm In Patients With Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma: Implications For Nursing, Joseph Tariman

Joseph D Tariman PhD

No abstract provided.

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Arrhythmia Knowledge: A Qualitative Study, Kathryn B. Keller, Deborah A. Raines Aug 2005

Arrhythmia Knowledge: A Qualitative Study, Kathryn B. Keller, Deborah A. Raines

Deborah A. Raines, PhD, EdS, RN, ANEF, FAAN

No abstract provided.

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Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control And Occupational Health. Ph. D. Dissertation, Linda A. Treiber Jul 2005

Workplace Organization, Labor Process Control And Occupational Health. Ph. D. Dissertation, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

The purpose of this research is to understand the complex relationships between working conditions and occupational health. The research draws from labor process theory that generally views worker control over the labor process as essential to non-alienated labor and from epidemiologic models of host, agent/exposure, and environment. Using General Social Survey 2002 cross sectional data, I investigate the effects of standard epidemiologic factors and worker labor process control factors in multivariate models to predict the dependent variables of workplace injury, persistent pain, exhaustion, and general health status. I suggest that labor process autonomy, social cohesion and skill utilization generally have …

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Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw Apr 2005

Implementing Infant Hearing Screening At Maternal And Child Health Clinics: Context And Interactional Processes, De Wet Swanepoel, René Hugo, Brenda Louw

Brenda Louw

Infant hearing screening has become increasingly widespread as research evidence a dramatic benefit when early
identification of hearing loss occurs before six-months of age. The Health Professions Council of South Africa
(HPCSA) has recently published a hearing screening position statement recommending infant hearing screening in three contexts: the well-baby nursery, at discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and at Maternal and Child Health (MCH) clinics. The well-baby nursery and NICUs are established and internationally recognised screening contexts abundantly reported on whilst MCH clinics have not been investigated as screening contexts previously. The objective of this study was therefore …

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Toward Semantic Interoperability In Home Health Care: Formally Representing Oasis Items For Integration Into A Concept-Oriented Terminology, Jeungok Choi, Melinda Jenkins, James Cimino, Thomas White Dec 2004

Toward Semantic Interoperability In Home Health Care: Formally Representing Oasis Items For Integration Into A Concept-Oriented Terminology, Jeungok Choi, Melinda Jenkins, James Cimino, Thomas White

Jeungok Choi

Objective: The authors aimed to (1) formally represent OASIS-B1 concepts using the Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes (LOINC) semantic structure; (2) demonstrate integration of OASIS-B1 concepts into a concept-oriented terminology, the Medical Entities Dictionary (MED); (3) examine potential hierarchical structures within LOINC among OASIS-B1 and other nursing terms; and (4) illustrate a Web-based implementation for OASIS-B1 data entry using Dialogix, a software tool with a set of functions that supports complex data entry. Design and Measurements: Two hundred nine OASIS-B1 items were dissected into the six elements of the LOINC semantic structure and then integrated into the MED hierarchy. …

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Problematic Interviewee Behaviors In Qualitative Research, Melinda Collins, Mona Shattell, Sandra Thomas Dec 2004

Problematic Interviewee Behaviors In Qualitative Research, Melinda Collins, Mona Shattell, Sandra Thomas

Mona Shattell

The interview is a staple of many qualitative approaches. Although textbooks offer extensive guidance to researchers about conducting interviews, less guidance is available about problematic interviewee behaviors, such as flattery or statements indicative of social desirability response bias. In this study, a secondary analysis of 22 phenomenological interview transcripts, we sought to examine problematic interviewee behaviors. More than 300 pages of typed text were subjected to line-by-line scrutiny, yielding only six potential instances of the phenomenon. Each could be interpreted several ways. What appeared to be flattery could also be perceived as simple gratitude or appreciation. We concluded that problematic …

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Screening For Diabetes In An African American Community: The Project Direct Experience Sep 2004

Screening For Diabetes In An African American Community: The Project Direct Experience

Linda A. Treiber

AIM: To report the results of a community-based screening program associated with Project DIRECT, a multi-year diabetes mellitus prevention and control project targeting African-American residents of southeast Raleigh, NC. METHODS: Between December 1996 and June 1999, 183 screening events took place in community settings.Screening was by capillary glucose concentration. Participants with a positive screen were referred for confirmatory testing and physician follow-up. MAIN RESULTS: Risk factors for diabetes were prevalent, including ethnic minority race (88.2%), obesity (45.6%), and family history of diabetes (41.7%). In all, 197 persons had an elevated screening result; the prevalence of diabetes in the screened population …

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Using An Interpretive Research Group To Teach Communication And Understanding In Undergraduate Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Students, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan Dec 2003

Using An Interpretive Research Group To Teach Communication And Understanding In Undergraduate Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Students, Mona Shattell, Beverly Hogan

Mona Shattell

No abstract provided.

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Fall Prevention Programs For The Elderly: A Bayesian Secondary Meta-Analysis, Joseph F. Lucke Dec 2003

Fall Prevention Programs For The Elderly: A Bayesian Secondary Meta-Analysis, Joseph F. Lucke

Joseph Lucke

A secondary meta-analysis of programs to reduce falls in the elderly is undertaken to demonstrate a Bayesian analysis. The Bayesian statistical tradition is carefully distinguished from the standard Neyman-Pearson-Wald (NPW) statistical tradition. In the 12 studies, the logit effect size is used to compare treatment groups using a prevention program to control groups without a program. To contrast the Bayesian analysis, independent-effects and fixed-effect meta-analyses are first conducted in the NPW tradition. This is followed by Bayesian independent-effects and fixed-effect meta-analyses that numerically replicate the NPW results but have conceptually different interpretations. The final analyses comprise Bayesian random-effects and predictive …

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Understanding Novel Therapeutic Agents For Multiple Myeloma, Joseph D. Tariman Phd Aug 2003

Understanding Novel Therapeutic Agents For Multiple Myeloma, Joseph D. Tariman Phd

Joseph D Tariman PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN

No abstract provided.

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The Love And Belonging Healthcare Needs Of Hiv Infected African-American Men Upon Admission To An Aids Dedicated Nursing Home., Sheldon Fields May 2003

The Love And Belonging Healthcare Needs Of Hiv Infected African-American Men Upon Admission To An Aids Dedicated Nursing Home., Sheldon Fields

Sheldon D. Fields

The purpose of this study was to describe the love and belonging healthcare needs of HIV infected African-American men upon admission to an AIDS dedicated nursing home. Subjects were 73 (N=73) African-American men 26 to 60 years of age that were admitted to an AIDS dedicated nursing home in the Southern New England area between 1995 and 1999. Most of the men were single (n = 39) and estranged from their immediate families. Many of these men did not have a family member supportive of discharge (n = 60) and did not desire discharge back out into the community (n …

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Thalidomide: Current Therapeutic Uses And Management Of Its Toxicities, Joseph D. Tariman Phd Feb 2003

Thalidomide: Current Therapeutic Uses And Management Of Its Toxicities, Joseph D. Tariman Phd

Joseph D Tariman PhD, RN, ANP-BC, FAAN

No abstract provided.

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Factors Influencing Women’S Use Of Health Services For Sexually Transmitted Infections In Eastern Nepal, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Krishna Poudel, Colin Macdougall Dec 2002

Factors Influencing Women’S Use Of Health Services For Sexually Transmitted Infections In Eastern Nepal, Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar, Krishna Poudel, Colin Macdougall

Kalpana Poudel-Tandukar

This paper explores low levels of women’s health service utilization for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Nepal.
We interviewed 120 women individually and 53 in focus groups. Predictors of lower utilisation were self-medication, consultation with faith healers, inadequate knowledge of STIs, beliefs about causes, fear, social taboos and stigmatisation, women’s secondary status, and presence of male health professionals. Results indicate the importance of people’s beliefs in their decisions about health care. Strategies to improve access to health services in Nepal should
systematically investigate the role of all these factors to improve access to and utilisation of health services for STIs.

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The Physiologic Health Care Needs Of Hiv-Infected Black Men On Admission To An Aids-Dedicated Nursing Home., Sheldon Fields Dec 2002

The Physiologic Health Care Needs Of Hiv-Infected Black Men On Admission To An Aids-Dedicated Nursing Home., Sheldon Fields

Sheldon D. Fields

The purpose of this study is to describe the physiologic health care needs of HIV-infected Black men on admission to an AIDS-dedicated nursing home. Participants were 68 Black men aged 26 to 60 years who were admitted to an AIDS-dedicated nursing home in the southern New England area between 1995 and 1999. The participants were very ill and weak on their admission to the nursing home, with most having diagnoses of AIDS (n = 65), an average Karnofsky Performance Scale score of 44 (SD = 14.90), and some degree of mental impairment. The late-stage of disease of the participants was …

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Race, Gender, And Status: A Content Analysis Of Print Advertisements In Four Popular Magazines, Melvin E. Thomas, Linda A. Treiber Jun 2000

Race, Gender, And Status: A Content Analysis Of Print Advertisements In Four Popular Magazines, Melvin E. Thomas, Linda A. Treiber

Linda A. Treiber

In this article, we consider the continuation of race gender stereotypes in advertising images by way of the product's suggestive messages, specifically, connotations of higher or lower social status and promises of intangible social rewards (e.g., friendship, appearance, romance). We examined 1, 709 advertisements in magazines whose primary reading audiences differ by race and/or gender: Life, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, and Essence (1988-1990). For the analysis, we created and then compared three dimensions of status (affluent, trendy, and everyday) and five product promises (celebrity identification, sex romance, appearance, marriage family, and good times) as they are modeled by and presented to male, …

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Verpleegkundiges Se Kommunikasie-Stimulasie Van Hoë-Risiko Babas In Die Neonatale Sorgeenheid : Oorsig, Elmien Kraamwinkel, Brenda Louw Mar 2000

Verpleegkundiges Se Kommunikasie-Stimulasie Van Hoë-Risiko Babas In Die Neonatale Sorgeenheid : Oorsig, Elmien Kraamwinkel, Brenda Louw

Brenda Louw

Early communication intervention services begin in the neonatal intensive care unit, where growing numbers of high-risk infections survive every day.

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Attitudes And Perceptions Of Nurses Regarding Early Communication Intervention, Brenda Louw, Ingrid Weber Feb 1997

Attitudes And Perceptions Of Nurses Regarding Early Communication Intervention, Brenda Louw, Ingrid Weber

Brenda Louw

Although nurses play a vital role during Early Communication Intervention with infants and toddlers 0-2 years, limited research has been conducted regarding this role.

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