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Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
Children's Perceptions Of The Nurse, Nancy Adams Coulter
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study is to assess children's perceptions of the nurse as they are related to children's age, the amount of contact children have had with nurses and children's sex.
An oral picture test, consisting of 10 photographs, was administered to 45 children in the Edith Bowen Elementary School at Utah State University. The children were interviewed about their perceptions of the nurses in each photograph and their responses were rated as being positive, negative or neutral.
The findings of this study indicate that although significant differences exist in children's perceptions of the nurse in terms of positive, …