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Self-Care Actions Of Chronic Schizophrenics Associated With Meeting Solitude And Social Interaction Self-Care Requisites., James L. Harris

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The Effects Of Two Methods Of Dangling On Heart Rate And Blood Pressure In Postoperative Abdominal Hysterectomy Patients., Gretchen Montaree Schaefer Mcdaniel

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Job Satisfaction Among Nurse Educators., Janet Sue Brookman

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Keep On Going: Caregiving By Spouses Of Cva Patients In The Home., Sandra Kay Hutto Faria

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A Q-Analysis Of The Stressors Of Adult Female Nursing Students Enrolled In Baccalaureate Schools Of Nursing., Phillis Diann O'Mary Harbin

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The Relationship Between Selected Variables And The Self-Esteem In Adolescent Females., Portia Lanette Foster

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Physiologic Response To Exercise In Clients With Mitral Valve Prolapse Syndrome., Elizabeth Wright Norris

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Connecting: Meeting The Needs Of Family Caregivers., Shirley Rogers Rawlins

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The Lived Experience Of Staying Healthy In Rural Black Families., Carol Thompson Smith

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The Meaning Of Chronic Low Back Pain: A Phenomenological Study., Josie Allen Martin

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Self-Esteem In Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder., Anne Horlock Shealy

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An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Learning Style Perceptual Preferences And Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Instruction, Mary Brambilla Mcfarland

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to identify the perceptual learning style preferences of nursing students and to examine the relationship, if any, among students whose learning style perceptual preferences were identified as being auditory, tactile or visual and their attitudes toward the use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in the areas of comfort, creativity and function. The relationships between nursing students' perceptual learning style preferences and the following were also examined: (a) the amount of time they spent using the computer program, Cardiac Exam Bingo; (b) whether the use of the computer program added to their learning the content about …

Diffusion Of A Management Innovation In The Nursing Division Of A Veterans Administration Hospital, Tammy F. Lio

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Conflict Resolution Among Terminally Ill Cancer Patients And Their Families: How Nurses Intervene, Mary Ann Wolfenson

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All interpersonal relationships have conflict as well as peace and harmony. An otherwise healthy family who has a member with terminal cancer of the breast or prostate will experience increased conflict because of all the changes that occur with this prognosis. The problem explored in this study was how nurses facilitated conflict resolution among terminally ill patients and their families. The research design consisted of presenting nurses with two scenarios demonstrative of a family conflict with pain control and anorexia as the foci. Each scenario had five responses which each nurse was asked to rank order in terms of nursing …

Efficiency Of The Thermal Jacket On The Delivered Temperature Of Prewarmed Crystalloid Intravenous Fluid, Danny R. Bowen

Theses and Dissertations

A quasi-experimental research design was used to determine the relationship between the flow rate and the delivered temperature of prewarmed crystalloid intravenous solutions when using the Thermal Jacket™, an insulation device designed for intravenous fluid bags, as compared to a conventional blood warming apparatus. One control and three experimental groups were used.

Fluids in Group 1 (control group), Group 2, and Group 4 were prewarmed in a microwave oven to 41.45 ± 1.05 ° C. Fluids in Group 3 were left near ambient room temperature and measured at 22.05 ± 0.45 ° C. Fluids in the control group were infused …