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Full-Text Articles in Nursing
Nurses Alumni Association Bulletin, Fall 2000, Betty Piersol, Elizabeth K. Prisnock, Marian E. Smith, Margaret Summers, Sally H. Wagner, John W. Wagner
Nurses Alumni Association Bulletin, Fall 2000, Betty Piersol, Elizabeth K. Prisnock, Marian E. Smith, Margaret Summers, Sally H. Wagner, John W. Wagner
Nursing Alumni Bulletins
2000 - 2001 Meeting Date Calendar
2001 Annual Luncheon & Meeting Notice
2000 Fall Social
Officers and Committee Chairs
Bulletin Publication Committee
The President's Message
Treasurer's Report
Resume of Minutes
Alumni Office News
Committee Reports
- Nurses Relief Trust Fund
- Clara Melville - Adele Lewis Scholarship Fund
- Satellite Report - Harrisburg Satellite
- The Fall Luncheon
- Nominating
- Alumni Bulletin
- Development
News about our Graduates
Presentation on Leadership -Tribute to Janet C. Hindson
Thank You Patient Assimilators
Third Janet C. Hindson Award
Janet C. Hindson Award Qualifications
Pinning Ceremony
Jeff HOPE
Keepsakes
Memoirs
Happy Birthday
50th Anniversary Class
Luncheon Photos
Kodak Moment
In …
Global Connections In A Changing World: Romanian And U.S. Nurses Unite, Mary G. Schaal, Molly A. Rose, Ann Doherty, Adriana Vilan
Global Connections In A Changing World: Romanian And U.S. Nurses Unite, Mary G. Schaal, Molly A. Rose, Ann Doherty, Adriana Vilan
College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations
This article describes an international, interdisciplinary, university partnership project to collaborate with health professionals in the city of Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania, to improve the health status of Romanian workers. Academic and service-based public health nurses from the United States used the model of community competence in outlining the nursing aspect of the project. This model guided the assessment, objectives, collaborative activities, and the outcome evaluation of the project. The dimensions of the model (e.g., commitment, self-other awareness, articulateness, conflict accommodation, management of relations with larger society, and leadership) were used within the context of the political and social environment of …
Community-Based Nursing Education At The Campsite, M. Susan Jones, Donna Bussey, Carrie Morgan
Community-Based Nursing Education At The Campsite, M. Susan Jones, Donna Bussey, Carrie Morgan
Nursing Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Characteristics Of Nursing Doctoral Programs In The United States, Melanie Mcewen, Gregory A. Bechtel
Characteristics Of Nursing Doctoral Programs In The United States, Melanie Mcewen, Gregory A. Bechtel
Nursing Faculty Publications
The expansive growth of doctoral programs in the United States has necessitated a need to determine demographic attributes of the academic program, characteristics of the students, admission criteria, and curriculum patterns. Seventy-eight doctoral programs were sent a researcher-designed survey and 48 (62 per cent) responded. Results show an increasing shift away from clinical doctorates to the research doctorate, although few differences exist within the research focus of doctoral nursing programs. Consistent with previous reports in the literature, curricula are fairly standard and few differences were noted based on a number of criteria including geographic location, type of degree granted, Carnegie …
A Phenomenological Perspective Of The Lived Experiences Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Seeking Health Care In The United States Today, Marsha Berger
A Phenomenological Perspective Of The Lived Experiences Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Seeking Health Care In The United States Today, Marsha Berger
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Seven Jewish Holocaust survivors were interviewed using a phenomenological method to determine the essence of the Jewish Holocaust survivor's experience with health care in the United States today. The transcriptions were analyzed using Colaizzi's approach to phenomenological research. This approach includes extraction of significant statements, from the transcriptions, that described the participant's health care behaviors and needs. Formulated meanings of the significant statements were then organized into six themes: Hiding and Avoidance, Self care, Fear/Trust Dichotomy, Security, Luck, and Need for Understanding. These six themes were forms of protection for the participants, which ultimately led to continued survival, the essence …
Relationship Between Personality Hardiness And Critical Care Nurses' Perception Of Stress And Coping In The Critical Care Environment, Catherina Ivette Chang
Relationship Between Personality Hardiness And Critical Care Nurses' Perception Of Stress And Coping In The Critical Care Environment, Catherina Ivette Chang
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between critical care nurses' perception of stress, their ability to cope with stress, and the hardiness personality they possess while working in the critical care environment. A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational survey design was applied to a convenience sample of 50 registered nurses employed in the critical care units of a South Florida health care facility. The data collection methods included a demographic survey, the Perceived Stress Scale, the Health-Related Hardiness Scale, and the COPE inventory. The results of this study demonstrated that critical care nurses are able to cope effectively …
Evaluation Of Online Course Discussions: Faculty Facilitation Of Active Student Learning, Leona Vandevusse, Lisa Hanson
Evaluation Of Online Course Discussions: Faculty Facilitation Of Active Student Learning, Leona Vandevusse, Lisa Hanson
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Graduate nursing faculty evaluated their initial experiences with online course discussions after making the transition from traditional use of weekly face-to-face classroom discussions to primarily computer-based interactions with students at distant sites. The online discussion data were analyzed qualitatively. The ways the faculty member communicated to facilitate active student involvement in the online discussions were coded. Six categories were identified that describe the ways the faculty member communicated to facilitate active student involvement in online discussions: assist with navigation, explain expectations, clarify faculty role, stimulate critical thinking, share expertise, and provide encouragement. Examples of each were provided to demonstrate ways …
Evaluations Of The Effectiveness Of A Web-Based Graduate Epidemiology Course, Molly A. Rose, Anthony J. Frisby, Michael D. Hamlin, Susan S. Jones
Evaluations Of The Effectiveness Of A Web-Based Graduate Epidemiology Course, Molly A. Rose, Anthony J. Frisby, Michael D. Hamlin, Susan S. Jones
College of Nursing Faculty Papers & Presentations
An online epidemiology course was developed, implemented, and evaluated for graduate nursing students through the collaborative efforts of nursing faculty and information, education, and instructional design staff of the library at a health sciences university. This epidemiology course is a core curriculum course for graduate nursing students. The course was piloted with 14 students (one student in Romania); the initial online offering ran concurrently with a traditional classroom section. Extensive evaluation data were collected and analyzed to compare the effectiveness of the classroom and distance-learning formats. Areas of evaluation included objective measures, such as midterm and final examination scores and …
Neonatal Skin Disorders: A Review Of Selected Dermatologic Abnormalities, Juliana Campbell, Sandra Banta-Wright
Neonatal Skin Disorders: A Review Of Selected Dermatologic Abnormalities, Juliana Campbell, Sandra Banta-Wright
Faculty Publications - College of Nursing
The skin serves many purposes, acting as a barrier to infection, protecting internal organs, contributing to temperature regulation, storing insulating fats, excreting electrolytes and water, and providing tactile sensory input. This article focuses on a review of normal skin structure and function and selected neonatal skin disorders. The disorders reviewed are Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome, epidermolysis bullosa, and the ichthyoses. The basis for each skin disorder is presented. Nursing management and skin care are incorporated into the review of each selected disorder.
Becoming Advocates For Battered Women, Julie G. Stewart
Becoming Advocates For Battered Women, Julie G. Stewart
Nursing Faculty Publications
Through her research, an advanced practice nurse has identified five stages through which abused women proceed on their way to freedom. The author calls on all clinicians to become advocates for battered women by recognizing them in clinical practice and helping them find the road to a life of safety, peace, and restored self-esteem.
2000 Commencement For College Of Health Professions
2000 Commencement For College Of Health Professions
Jefferson College of Nursing Commencements
No abstract provided.
Parenting A Second Time Around: An Ethnography Of African American Grandmothers Parenting Grandchildren Due To Parental Cocaine Abuse, Kristin Haglund
Parenting A Second Time Around: An Ethnography Of African American Grandmothers Parenting Grandchildren Due To Parental Cocaine Abuse, Kristin Haglund
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
This study describes a group of six African American grandmothers parenting their grandchildren secondary to cocaine abuse on the part of the parents. It explores the manner in which such parenting affected the grandmothers’ health. Data for this ethnography design were collected through participant observation, field notes, taped interviews, and supplementary data sources. The identification of cultural themes evolved from domain and taxonomic analyses. The themes—parenting a second time around, sacrifice, and God’s presence in daily life—expressed aspects of the grandmothers’ culture. The effects on health varied from none to exacerbation of chronic illnesses. The study results, and its picture …
Relationship Between Scholastic And Health Behaviors And Reading Level In Adolescent Females, Steven C. Matson, Kristin Haglund
Relationship Between Scholastic And Health Behaviors And Reading Level In Adolescent Females, Steven C. Matson, Kristin Haglund
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
This was a study of 102 adolescent females, 12-20 years of age, presenting to a central city clinic for medical care. Participants completed an oral questionnaire that included demographics, and questions regarding scholastic history, sexual behavior, and substance use. Each subject completed the Accuracy Level Test (ALT), a reading test. The subject's reading test grade level was subtracted from her appropriate grade in school to give a reading delay level (RDL). The mean reading grade level for all subjects was 6.7 ±2.6 and the average reading delay was 4.5 ±2.5 grades. Poor school attenders had greater reading delays (5.8 ±3.4 …
Ua66/14/1 Advisory Board Meeting, Wku Nursing
Ua66/14/1 Advisory Board Meeting, Wku Nursing
WKU Archives Records
Meeting minutes of the WKU Nursing Advisory Board/
A Descriptive Correlation Of Medication And Dietary Compliance Beliefs With Functional Limitations In Heart Failure Patients, Dorothy B. Diener
A Descriptive Correlation Of Medication And Dietary Compliance Beliefs With Functional Limitations In Heart Failure Patients, Dorothy B. Diener
FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
In order to determine the existence of a relationship between heart failure patients' compliance beliefs and functional limitations, using a convenience sample of 61 adults attending a specialized outpatient heart failure clinic, responses to scale items measuring perceptions of benefits and barriers to compliance with medication and diet were collected and functional limitations were self ranked by symptoms experienced with activities of daily living. A positive correlation (Spearman's rho=0.345, p=.007, level of significance =.0l) between patients' functional limitations and perceived benefits to medication compliance scores was found while a negative correlation (Spearman's rho= -0.310, p=.015, level of significance =.05) between …
The Community Awareness Rape Education (Care) Program For High School Students, Virginia Wright, Shanna Akers, Suzanne Rita
The Community Awareness Rape Education (Care) Program For High School Students, Virginia Wright, Shanna Akers, Suzanne Rita
Faculty Publications and Presentations
According to national statistics, 17% of rape victims are between the ages of 13 and 17 years; however, this age group has limited access to information about sexual assault. In light of this fact and the widely held belief that sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) have a responsibility to educate others about sexual assault, we developed an educational program for adolescents.
Cytokines And The Anorexia Of Infection: Potential Mechanisms And Treatments, Donna O. Mccarthy
Cytokines And The Anorexia Of Infection: Potential Mechanisms And Treatments, Donna O. Mccarthy
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Anorexia during infection is thought to be mediated by immunoregulatory cytokines such as interleukins 1 and 6 and tumor necrosis factor. This article reviews the potential mechanisms of action by which these cytokines are thought to suppress food intake during infection and examines the proposition that blocking of cytokine activity might be one approach to improving food intake of the infected host.
Managing Phantom Pain With Drugs, Shelly Jensen Reed
Managing Phantom Pain With Drugs, Shelly Jensen Reed
Faculty Publications
Reed offers advice on how to manage and prevent pain that exists in a limb that doesn't. More than 70 percent of amputees suffer from stump and phantom limb pain years after amputation.
Ua66/14/1 Advisory Committee Purpose, Wku Nursing
Ua66/14/1 Advisory Committee Purpose, Wku Nursing
WKU Archives Records
Charge for WKU Nursing Advisory Committee.
Service-Learning In Nursing: A Bibliography With Published Abstracts, Sarena D. Seifer, Rachel L. Vaughn
Service-Learning In Nursing: A Bibliography With Published Abstracts, Sarena D. Seifer, Rachel L. Vaughn
Bibliographies
The following list of books and peer-reviewed publications will provide direction and useful information for developing service-learning programs in nursing. The list is not intended to be exhaustive, but reflects a compilation of materials recommended by the Partners in Caring and CommW1ity Program, Community-Campus Partnerships for Health. Resources authored by PCC team members, mentors or advisors are denoted with a *. The PCC program is funded by the Helene Fuld Trust, HSBC, Trustee. Resources authored by participants in the Health Professions Schools in Service to the Nation Program (HPSISN), a national demonstration program of service-learning in the health professions that …
Taking A Triage Approach To Nurses' Anger, Sandra Thomas
Taking A Triage Approach To Nurses' Anger, Sandra Thomas
Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Nursing
No abstract provided.
Comparison Of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners' And Pediatric Residents' Care Of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants, M. Gary Karlowicz, Jennifer L. Mcmurray
Comparison Of Neonatal Nurse Practitioners' And Pediatric Residents' Care Of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants, M. Gary Karlowicz, Jennifer L. Mcmurray
Nursing Faculty Publications
Objective: To compare outcomes and charges of health care delivery to extremely low-birth-weight infants by neonatal nurse practitioners (NNP) and pediatric residents.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: A 56-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a university teaching hospital.
Methods: Study population included all infants with birth weights less than 1000 g who were admitted to the NICU during the 2-year period between September 1, 1994, and August 31, 1996. Infants who died earlier than 12 hours of age, or who were admitted after 1 week of age or with major malformations, chromosomal abnormalities, or congenital infections were excluded. There …
Personal Values And Work Satisfaction Of Registered Nurses Working In Hospitals, Marie M. Prothero, Elaine S. Marshall, Donna M. Fosbinder, Leland J. Hendrix
Personal Values And Work Satisfaction Of Registered Nurses Working In Hospitals, Marie M. Prothero, Elaine S. Marshall, Donna M. Fosbinder, Leland J. Hendrix
Faculty Publications
Personal values are increasingly recognized as important factors in work environments, including health care systems (Cameron & Whetten, 1995; Covey, Merrill, & Merrill, 1995; Fagermoen, 1997). The personal values of nursing students have been explored (Eddy, Elfrink, Weis, & Schank, 1994; Sivberg & Petersson, 1997) as have those of nurses, in the context of work design (Koerner, 1993 ). Factors of nurses' work satisfaction have also been studied extensively (Avallone & Gibbon, 1998; Brown, Naughton, & Nolan, 1998; Johnston,1997; Kangas, Kee, & McKee-Waddle,1999; Seymour & Buscherhof,1990). However, little is known about the personal values of nurses as they relate to …
Through The Eye Of The Beholder: Multiple Perspectives On Quality In Women's Health Care, Jaynelle F. Stichler, Marianne E. Weiss
Through The Eye Of The Beholder: Multiple Perspectives On Quality In Women's Health Care, Jaynelle F. Stichler, Marianne E. Weiss
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Quality is an illusive concept with different meanings to different people. Providers often define quality in terms of patient outcomes, professional standards of practice, predetermined criteria used to measure quality, and even subjective opinion. Patients describe quality in terms of the interpersonal aspects of care, how well they were treated, and the responsiveness of the provider to their needs. This qualitative study using a semi-structured interview defined quality from the perspectives of patients, physicians, nurses, and payers associated with a hospital-based women's service line, and how the attributes of quality varied among the multiple groups. The study also described how …
Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2000, Wku Nursing
Ua61/1 Wku Nursing Class 2000, Wku Nursing
WKU Archives Records
Members of the 2000 nursing class: Ruth Ayaram, Samantha Bailey, Leigh Bakken, Teia Burchett, Oleva Burks, Misty Cable, Zohn Centimole, Kelly Cooper, Jennifer Daniel, Jennifer Dinkins, Lori Doolin, Ashley Eadens, Amy Easley, Amy Edwards, Shelly Geary, Kelley Hill, Sonya House, Sherry Kingery, Amelia Knopf, Vanessa Lopp, Kristin Mitchell, Heather Parsley, Rodney Rice, Brooke Riley, Daniel Samek, Denise Sanborn, Benjamin Sells, Lori Sells, Sandy Stahl, Jason Turner, Allison Wells, Stephanie West, Sonya Wilson, Brianah Woodcock and Carrie Yuda.
Anthropological Differences Between Contraception And Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring, William Kurz
Anthropological Differences Between Contraception And Natural Family Planning, Richard Fehring, William Kurz
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Almost twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II in his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio called on scholars to study the anthropological and moral differences between the recourse to the natural rhythms of a woman’s menstrual cycle (i.e., natural family planning) and contraception (1). Although natural family planning (NFP) and contraception can both be used to prevent pregnancy, there are conspicuous differences between use of natural methods and contraception. Most people, however, have difficulty in distinguishing what the differences are and in understanding why some religious groups, health professionals, and other members of society consider contraception (but not natural family planning) …