The purpose of the study was to explore barriers hospital nurses perceive in the care of AIDS or HIV positive patients. According to the Center for Disease Control, the total number of AIDS cases reported in the United States as of December 1991 was 206,392. The Center for Disease Control reported of the known AIDS cases in the United States 59% have resulted in death.A grounded theory approach was used in the study of sixteen nurses working with AIDS patients in a medical surgical area of the hospital. Results of the study showed nurses had a need to maintain self integrity. All barriers found as a result of the study related to the nurses need to maintain self integrity. Barriers found as a result of the study include the following: fear of contagion, family concerns, fear of the unknown, issues in confidentiality, issues in universal precautions, and emotional and spiritual aspects. / School of Nursing

The purpose of the study was to investigate the perceived anxiety experienced by coronary care nurses working eight- and 12-hour work shifts. It was hypothesized that length of shift work affects the before- and after-shift anxiety for nurses working eight- or 12-hour work shifts. Anxiety differences between the eight- and 12-hour work shifts were examined as well as differences between the before- and after-shift anxiety for each length of shift.Thirty-two (32) coronary care nurses from a general medical and surgical hospital in the Midwest volunteered to participate in the research. The sample consisted of all females (18 Registered Nurses, nine Licensed Practical Nurses, three charge nurses, a supervisory nurse, and a rehabilitation nurse). The nurses had voluntarily selected the eight- or 12-hour length of shift work and understood that they would be committed towork that shift for one year. Twelve nurses worked the eight-hour shift; 20 nurses chose the new 12-hour shift.The State Anxiety Inventory (SAI) was used to measure the nurses' before- and after-shift anxiety. Baseline data were collected from the nurses prior to the initiation of the 12-hour shift. The Box-Jenkins Time Series Analysis was used to analyze the daily before- and after-shift anxiety scores and to establish a forecasted trend for both the eight- and 12-hour shifts.The first finding was that the before-shift anxiety scores for the eight-hour workers declined, while the anxiety scores for the 12-hour workers increased, following the implementation of the 12-hour shift. The same trend was forecast for the after-shift anxiety scores. The eight-hour nurses' after-shift anxiety scores declined while the 12-hour nurses' anxiety scores increased. A transfer function was conducted for both the eight-hour and 12-hour before- and after-shift anxiety scores. No predictive trend could be established for the eight-hour anxiety scores; however, the 12-hour after-shift anxiety scores were found to be consistently higher than before-shift anxiety scores. / Department of Counseling Psychology and Guidance Services

Typescript. / Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1984. / Bibliography: leaves 200-211. / Photocopy. / xxi, 211 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

M.Cur. (Nursing Management) / In this study two decentralised organisation designs in nursing management are investigated. The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of two different designs (the territorial matrix) on the attitudes and perceptions of nurses towards their work. A descriptive multiphase investigation was done. In the first phase the attitudes and perceptions of nurses in the territorial design were investigated by using the Michigan Organisational Assessment Scale. In the second phase the territorial design was changed to a nursing matrix design. In the third phase the attitudes and perceptions of nurses were retested by again using the Michigan Organisational Assessment Scale. The fourth phase was used to compare the results gathered in the first and third phases. Phase five was used to describe the two designs by means of a systems analysis. An analysis of the data showed that the operational hypothesis can be accepted, because nurses' attitudes and perceptions were more positive in the matrix design than those in the territorial design. This study was not meant for generalisation purposes, but is a descriptive research method to record the effects of nursing service design on the attitudes and perceptions of nurses.This study is also an effort to describe and document a modern organisational design in nursing management.

Nurses in neonatal special care nurseries with a philosophy of family centered care involve parents in the care of preterm infants. There is little research describing nurses' perspectives of parental participation in care. Using interview data obtained from one secondary level neonatal special care nursery, this study attempts to understand the meaning parental participation in care has for neonatal nurses and the way that meaning is expressed in various nursing activities. Twelve nurses were interviewed about their reaction to parental participation in various activities such as feeding and bathing their babies. These nurses are all full time staff members in the nursery. Findings of the research are that there are two main nursing perspectives of parental participation in the care of preterm infants in a special care nursery. These two perspectives are labelled the 'our baby' and 'their baby' perspective. The 'our baby' group of subjects maintain a traditional role of control of care. The 'their baby' group are committed to the philosophy of family centered care within certain boundaries. An example of the difference., in the two perspectives was discovered in the area of infant feeding. The 'our baby' nurses thought that parents engaged in this activity increased the workload while the 'their baby' nurses thought that parents decreased workload. The 'our baby' nurses treated most parents in a similar way but the 'their baby' nurses individualized their approach to parents. The 'their baby' nurses' enjoyed spending time with parents but the other group said that there were less parents to deal with when they were working at night. Both groups work side by side with little conflict. Implications for the selection and training of nurses are noted as well as implications for further research. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

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Nursing faculty are charged with the responsibility of being stewards of the profession by ensuring that today’s nursing graduates are cultivated to practice as competent, safe, and caring nurses of tomorrow, as well as to foster future nurse scientists, researchers, and educators. The profession of nursing is facing an ever-increasing shortage of nursing faculty as well as a registered nurse shortage, which in turn reinforces the urgency for increasing the number of qualified nursing faculty and faculty retention. An investigation of professional generosity among nursing faculty in academia may help to understand workplace nursing relationships within academia and offer insight into healthy nursing faculty relationships and promote faculty retention. Understanding the experience of professional generosity can add much value to the profession of nursing, particularly among nursing faculty within academia. The researcher of this qualitative study used a phenomenological method designed to illuminate the lived experience of professional generosity among nursing faculty in academia. Van Manen’s phenomenological research method of the six activities was used to examine the participants’ experiences, describe each experience as it appeared, and attempted to understand its interpreted meaning. Eight full-time, tenured nursing faculty members with an earned PhD, EdD, or nursing research doctorate were interviewed about their experiences of giving or receiving professional generosity or kindness while working in academia. The researcher analyzed the transcripts of the study participants’ interviews and found four essential themes that shed light on these nursing faculty’s experiences of professional generosity in academia: (1) I Feel Valued, (2) Core Relationships, (3) Reciprocity, and (4) Growing our Profession through Connectedness.

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The purpose of this study was to describe the attitudes of a group of nurses towards the use of computers in a Southern California Veterans Affairs hospital.

Thesis (MPH.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016 / The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes and experiences of nurses when implementing the 24-hour on call strategy in clinics. A quantitative descriptive research was conducted. A stratified random sampling approach was used to divide the nurse’s population into homogeneous strata from which elements were selected randomly. Three groups of respondents participated in the study, namely, professional nurses (n=99), enrolled nurses (n=32) and enrolled nursing assistants (n=35). The study highlighted the areas that the respondents felt needed to be strengthened in order to provide quality care when implementing the strategy. The findings revealed that there were some personal and management factors that needed to be addressed and improved in order to ensure continuity of services to the communities in rural areas. The study also identified positive areas which the respondents felt supported the implementation of the strategy. KEY CONCEPTS 24-hour on call strategy, Integrated Primary Health care approach, experience, attitudes.