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An Assessment Of Elderly Health Care Needs And Access In Three Urban San Bernardino Communities, De Anna Le Sabin Jan 2002

An Assessment Of Elderly Health Care Needs And Access In Three Urban San Bernardino Communities, De Anna Le Sabin

Theses Digitization Project

This project was an assessment of elderly health care needs and access. Three urban San Bernardino communities in zip codes 92405, 92410, and 92411 were targeted. The assessment was structured according to King's theoretical construction of community as a multilevel interaction between personal, interpersonal and social systems. The components of the assessment included digital photographs, web-based internet assessments, key informant interviews, and community business visits.

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Continuing Competence In Selected Health Care Professions, Burden S. Lundgren, Clare A. Houseman Jan 2002

Continuing Competence In Selected Health Care Professions, Burden S. Lundgren, Clare A. Houseman

Ellmer School of Nursing Faculty Publications

Health services professionals are confronting the challenge of maintaining and improving competence over the course of lengthy careers in diverse practice specialties. This article reviews the efforts of a selection of health care professions to ensure lifetime competence and reviews some of the challenges encountered in these efforts. Although each profession has its own issues, significant generic questions are common to all.

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Community-Based Nursing Education At The Campsite, M. Susan Jones, Donna Bussey, Carrie Morgan Sep 2000

Community-Based Nursing Education At The Campsite, M. Susan Jones, Donna Bussey, Carrie Morgan

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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The Relationship Between Companion Animals And Health Status Among Older Adults Living In The Community, Agnes M. Eytchison May 2000

The Relationship Between Companion Animals And Health Status Among Older Adults Living In The Community, Agnes M. Eytchison

Master's Projects

A study was conducted on 18 older adult pet owners and non-pet owners residing in a mobile home park to determine self-perception of health status and the level of attachment to pets. Self-reported health status was high and equal for both pet owners and non-pet owners. The level of attachment to the pets was also high. Studies have demonstrated human-animal interactions being beneficial to both individuals and families; but for many residents of mobile home parks and common interest developments, such as condominiums and townhouses, rules prevent companion animal ownership. Family Nurse Practitioners (FNPs) aware of the benefits of animal …

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Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The "Youth Leadership" Class In The Prevention Of Adolescent Depression, Jacqueline Oria May 2000

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of The "Youth Leadership" Class In The Prevention Of Adolescent Depression, Jacqueline Oria

Master's Projects

Depression in adolescence is a common and potentially life-threatening health problem. Depending upon the severity of symptoms, anywhere from 2% to 40% of teenagers are affected with depression (Sadler, 1993). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of prevention strategies on decreasing the rate of depression in adolescents. It is hoped that a class addressing specific skills identified as having an impact on adolescent depression will affect the youth participating in the program.

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Self-Esteem: The Impact Of A Course In Growth And Development On Fifth Grade Students, Mary Jang Dec 1999

Self-Esteem: The Impact Of A Course In Growth And Development On Fifth Grade Students, Mary Jang

Master's Projects

Teens in the United States have the highest pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted disease rates among the developed countries. The social and financial costs of teen births are staggering. Research shows that high self-esteem is significantly related to resistance to group pressures, willingness to express unpopular opinions, family adjustment, creativity, and effective communication between parents and youth. The research question is: Will a 5-hour course in growth and development increase the level of self-esteem in fifth grade students? A convenience sample of 20 students (13 girls and 7 boys) who attend a public elementary school in San Jose, California, comprised …

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Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Health Education Program For Classroom Assistants, Patricia A. Robinson Dec 1999

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Health Education Program For Classroom Assistants, Patricia A. Robinson

Master's Projects

Classroom Instructional Assistants are being used more frequently to provide care for medically fragile children who are mainstreamed into the regular education setting. The purpose of this evaluative study was to develop a beginning health curriculum that could be provided as an inservice program for classroom Instructional Assistants. Content for the inservice consisted of handwashing, medication administration, asthma, and seizures. This study used a pretest and posttest design to look at the effectiveness of the educational inservice. There were 17 participants, 16 of whom completed the pretest and posttest. A pretest was administered prior to the inservice followed by a …

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Community-Based Education: Health Promotion For Farmers At The Country Market, M. Susan Jones, Beverly Siegrist Sep 1999

Community-Based Education: Health Promotion For Farmers At The Country Market, M. Susan Jones, Beverly Siegrist

Nursing Faculty Publications

This article describes a unique approach used by baccalaureate nursing students, enrolled in a two-semester community health course, to address the priority of health concerns of agricultural workers in their own rural communities.

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Photonovels: Educational Resources To Prevent Agricultural Illnesses And Injuries, M. Susan Jones, Carol A. Koetke Jun 1999

Photonovels: Educational Resources To Prevent Agricultural Illnesses And Injuries, M. Susan Jones, Carol A. Koetke

Nursing Faculty Publications

Photonovels use photographs and a story featuring people from the community, familiar settings, and a simple text to deliver an educational message. This unique educational tool lends itself to a wide variety of topics and targets audiences including farmers, farm workers and their families. Information on how to design, create and use photonovels to prevent agricultural injuries and illnesses will be presented.

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Southeastern Appalachian Community's Acceptance Of The Family Nurse Practitioner In The Emergency Department, Tami Rowland-Khashman May 1999

Southeastern Appalachian Community's Acceptance Of The Family Nurse Practitioner In The Emergency Department, Tami Rowland-Khashman

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study was to examine the acceptance of an Appalachian community's acceptance of a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department.A conceptual framework of leek Ajzen(1988) was used to predict the acceptance of a family nurse practitioner in the emergency department from a sample of participants in a community.Subjects (n=109) from a sample in Maryville, Tennessee who were shopping at Wal-Mart® were used in this study.A tool in which acceptance was acknowledged was used, and yes and no answers were seen as acceptance or nonacceptance.Descriptive statistics suggest that the sample overall was accepting of the …

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Women's Perception Of Provider, Social, And Program Support In An Outpatient Drug Treatment Program, Melaine Marie Salmon May 1999

Women's Perception Of Provider, Social, And Program Support In An Outpatient Drug Treatment Program, Melaine Marie Salmon

Master's Projects

The purpose was to explore perceptions of pregnant and parenting substance abusing women in an outpatient drug treatment program regarding provider and social support. Also identified were aspects of the rehabilitation program perceived by the women as assisting them to maintain abstinence from substance use. Data were collected through a demographic questionnaire and a tool designed by the authors based on the Social Stress Model of Substance Abuse (Lindenberg, Gendrop, & Reiskin, 1993) and the literature of social support. The majority of the women were satisfied with their social support from family and friends. Sixty-seven percent of the women felt …

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Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Coloring Book, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1999

Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Coloring Book, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Evaluating The Program Of A Community Grassroots Organization, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1999

Evaluating The Program Of A Community Grassroots Organization, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Developing Local Action Plans, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1999

Developing Local Action Plans, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Mobilizing The Community To Form And Sustain A Grassroots Organization, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1999

Mobilizing The Community To Form And Sustain A Grassroots Organization, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Factors That Malawian Adolescents From Co-Educational Secondary Schools Of Lilongwe And Mchinji Identity As Affecting Their Ability To Discuss Sexual Issues, Susan K. Geloo Jan 1999

Factors That Malawian Adolescents From Co-Educational Secondary Schools Of Lilongwe And Mchinji Identity As Affecting Their Ability To Discuss Sexual Issues, Susan K. Geloo

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

The purpose of this study was to explore the factors Malawian adolescents from co-educational secondary schools identified as affecting their ability to discuss sexual issues. A sample of 149 adolescent students from the coeducational secondary schools of Lilongwe and Mchinji districts was surveyed. Their ages ranged from 14-18 years of age. The schools and participants were chosen using cluster-sampling and data were obtained via a questionnaire. The questionnaire comprised of demographic variables, sources of sexual information, participant's sexual life, the sexual issues participants consider important and their ability to communicate sexual issues comfortably with different community members. Data were analysed …

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Marijuana Photonovel, A Year Up In Smoke, M. Susan Jones Dec 1998

Marijuana Photonovel, A Year Up In Smoke, M. Susan Jones

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Investigation Of A Southeastern Community's Knowledge And Intent To Use A Nurse Practitioner, Elizabeth Ann Park Dec 1998

Investigation Of A Southeastern Community's Knowledge And Intent To Use A Nurse Practitioner, Elizabeth Ann Park

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The concept of the advanced practice nurse was first conceived in the 1960s in an effort to provide patients with adequate primary health care. Changes in the health care delivery system since that time have facilitated this role. The past ten years has seen an increasing number of physicians utilizing nurse practitioners (NPs) in their practices.As physicians consider this alternative, they are interested in knowing how their patients will accept this change.Review of the literature regarding the health care consumer's acceptance of the NP as a health care provider revealed that the majority of the research, thus far, has been …

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Adolescent Perceptions Of Risk-Taking Behaviors, Susan Matthews Jul 1998

Adolescent Perceptions Of Risk-Taking Behaviors, Susan Matthews

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Adolescents often make adult decisions regarding their lifestyle and behavior with little support from their family and community. In this study the researcher examined the difference in risk-taking behaviors between genders and the role that families and communities play in reducing risk-taking behaviors. In the study I further analyzed self-reports of numbers of development assets those students reporting participation in high-risk behaviors. Method: Data were obtained from a sample of convenience of (N=82) 12th grade students. Behaviors and attitudes were examined using the Search Institute’s Profiles of Student Life survey. Results: Chi square was used to test for significant …

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Political Psychology And Critiques Of The Scientific Method: Azt, Asia, Africa, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Political Psychology And Critiques Of The Scientific Method: Azt, Asia, Africa, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques critiques of clinical outcome studies carried out in Third World countries of Asia and Africa for new methods of AZT treatment that might affect the transmission of HIV from pregnant women to their infants. Some of these studies have been supported by the United States' Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health and opposed by several articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Integrating Christian Caring In Nursing Curriculum: One School’S Experience, Charlotte Stephenson, Charlotte Ann Thayer Wood, Mary Ann Henriques, Tina L. Magers, Kaye Wilson-Anderson Jan 1998

Integrating Christian Caring In Nursing Curriculum: One School’S Experience, Charlotte Stephenson, Charlotte Ann Thayer Wood, Mary Ann Henriques, Tina L. Magers, Kaye Wilson-Anderson

Faculty Publications - College of Nursing

The link between caring and nursing has been evident since the days of Florence Nightingale. She referred to nursing as an act of charity or "God's work." Nursing within the Judea-Christian tradition was viewed as a mission, ministry or call from God to serve others. Those entering nursing fulfilled a commitment to God through service and care for others. Over time the focus in nursing shifted from the Christian perspective of being "called to be a nurse" to technical and physio­logical reasons for helping people. Virginia Henderson defined nursing as "that service to an individual that helps him to attain …

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Farming & Hearing Loss: A Photonovel, M. Susan Jones, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1998

Farming & Hearing Loss: A Photonovel, M. Susan Jones, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Photonovels: Tools For Community Learning, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety Jan 1998

Photonovels: Tools For Community Learning, The Kentucky Partnership For Farm Family Health And Safety

Nursing Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Does The Congestive Heart Failure Program Improve Patient's Functional Health Status?, Lily Lu Jan 1998

Does The Congestive Heart Failure Program Improve Patient's Functional Health Status?, Lily Lu

Master's Projects

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a significant health problem in the U.S. There are over 2 million Americans diagnosed with CHF, with 200,000 CHF related deaths every year. A CHF Comprehensive Care Program in a Northern California medical center began in August, 1997 to case manage and educate CHF patients and their family members. The program educated CHF patients to self-manage the chronic condition by daily weight, low sodium diet, medication adherence, activity and rest balance, and daily exercise. This study used a one group. Pre and post test study design to evaluate the effectiveness of the CHF program. The …

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Wheels At Camp, Judith A. Medlin Dec 1997

Wheels At Camp, Judith A. Medlin

Master's Projects

Students with special needs are being included into regular education classrooms in increasing numbers. Teachers in these classrooms are often reluctant to include students with special needs on overnight field trips. This reluctance stems from the teacher's concern for the associated responsibilities. The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the process developed and used to successfully send a fully included student with disabilities to camp with his non-disabled peers. Dorthea Orem' s theory of nursing provided the conceptual framework for this case example. Overnight field trips (e.g., science camp) that are fun and safe learning experiences for the student …

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From Welfare To What?: The Limitations Of Low-Income Work, Lande Ajose Sep 1997

From Welfare To What?: The Limitations Of Low-Income Work, Lande Ajose

New England Journal of Public Policy

The premise of the welfare law enacted by Congress is that people living in poverty could vastly improve their economic status if only they were employed. The author argues that economic security for welfare recipients will not be realized simply by increasing the labor-force attachment. Home health aides comprise an occupation that could absorb many of the large pool of workers expected to join the labor market because demand for their services is high and barriers to entry are low. However, as this survey shows, the home health field offers limited promise to welfare recipients because, significantly for women rolling …

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Nursing: A New Day, A New Way, Lin Zhan, Jane Cloutterback Sep 1997

Nursing: A New Day, A New Way, Lin Zhan, Jane Cloutterback

New England Journal of Public Policy

The U.S. health care environment is changing rapidly. Its structure, financing, and delivery are being reconfigured toward an integrated system based on managed care. Increasingly, national interest in health promotion and disease prevention is moving care away from a disease-oriented, institutionally based model to a population-focused, wellness-oriented, and community-based system. Health care consumers are diversifying in age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The approach emerging from these changes and others requires nursing to rethink, redesign, and retool its workforce to meet new challenges. This article analyzes nursing education, practice, and operations. The authors discuss the dilemmas and complexity of developing an …

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An Hiv/Aids Educational Workshop For Adolescents, Sharron Anne Daggett May 1997

An Hiv/Aids Educational Workshop For Adolescents, Sharron Anne Daggett

Master's Projects

Adolescents are threatened with infection by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (IIlV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Data reveal that the number of adolescents infected with HIV is increasing. Adolescent risk taking behaviors and lack of preventive education are major factors associated with this rise. Family nurse practitioners (FNPs) who care for adolescents have a duty to offer their patients preventive health care. Adolescents can participate by attending HN and AIDS prevention workshops that will present them with facts. Adolescents who attend these workshops will gain the knowledge to protect themselves against mv and AIDS. The workshop in this study was …

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A Southeastern Community's Knowledge, Attitudes, Intentions, And Beliefs Regarding The Role Of The Nurse Practitioner, Susan Robinson May 1997

A Southeastern Community's Knowledge, Attitudes, Intentions, And Beliefs Regarding The Role Of The Nurse Practitioner, Susan Robinson

Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative descriptive study was to examine consumer knowledge,attitudes, intention, and beliefs about nurse practitioners(NPs ),to determine whether a relationship existed between knowledge,attitudes, intentions, and beliefs, and demographic variables of age, gender, ethnicity,education,degree, profession, type of insurance, :frequency of visits to a primary care provider in the past 12 months, and consumer exposure to nurse practitioners.A conceptual :framework combining Orem's self care deficit theory and Ajzen and Fishbein's theory of reasoned action.This framework was used to explain the relationship between knowledge,attitudes,intention, beliefs, and behavior and the nurse practitioner's role in intervening to affect change in that relationship.Subjects(n=202)from …

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Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Direct Observed Therapy Program With Vietnamese Tuberculosis Patients, Jacqueline T. Mac Jan 1997

Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Direct Observed Therapy Program With Vietnamese Tuberculosis Patients, Jacqueline T. Mac

Master's Projects

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been recognized as a major public health problem. The rate of TB is high in immigrants and the frequency of drug resistance is increasing. A major reason for the development of resistant infections as well as relapse is poor adherence to TB treatment. In response to this problem, direct observed therapy (DOT) was introduced to the TB program in Santa Clara County in 1993. The purpose of this study is to compare the completion rates, relapse rates, and sputum conversion rates between a DOT group and a non-DOT group of Vietnamese TB patients. A chart review …

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