Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri--Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 80-89). Also available on the Internet.

Family members of people with cancer are vulnerable to illness from cancer which requires attention for programs that promote and protect their health. In this sense the research presented aims to apply the Theory Health Promotion Model Nola Pender in oncology and evaluate the results from its application in person familiar with cancer. Transversal and descriptive qualitative approach, the study was conducted from 10 interviews with these families in center of High Complexity in Oncology at the University Hospital Professor Alberto Antunes, in Maceió, AL, Brazil, using six forms prepared according to the theoretical model of Pender. Information was produced in the period from April to July 2015 and selected participants from nursing appointments and five workshops that worked the theme of health behaviors related to risk factors for cancer: diet, physical activity, alcohol, smoking, sleep / rest, spirituality, interpersonal relationships and stress management. The results reported to a profile which most participants were women; married; with incomplete primary education; occupancy of the home; family income 3-4 times the minimum wage; BMI above 24.99. The application of the theoretical model was in eight individual meetings. The first evaluated the characteristics, experiences, feelings and knowledge related to the adoption of healthy behaviors. In the second meeting participants they learned of what would need to be modified and nine agreed and jointly drawn up a plan of action. Among the attitudes related to the risk of neoplasia physical inactivity and incorrect eating habits predominated. As for the main benefits mentioned by the participants to adopt healthy behaviors stands out to have more health, prevent cancer and weight loss. The barriers were declared time and willingness. The third to the seventh meeting occurring every ten to fifteen days were accomplished partial reviews of monitoring the behavior change of the progress which the nine attended. There were adjustments in the plans almost always to adjust the capacity of accomplishment of each. The final evaluation took place in the last meeting showing that by this method people, if accompanied and supported can adhere to healthy behaviors. This shows that the theory Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model is applicable in oncology as a tool for promotion and protection of vulnerable individuals neoplasms. / Os familiares de pessoas com câncer são grupos vulneráveis ao adoecimento por neoplasias o que justifica programas de atenção que promovam e proteja sua saúde. Nesse sentido a investigação apresentada tem por objetivo aplicar a Teoria Modelo de Promoção da Saúde de Nola Pender na oncologia e avaliar os resultados provenientes de sua aplicação em familiares de pessoa com câncer. De caráter qualitativo transversal e descritivo, o estudo foi desenvolvido a partir de 10 entrevistas com esses familiares num Centro de Alta Complexidade em Oncologia do Hospital Universitário Professor Alberto Antunes, em Maceió, AL, Brasil, utilizando seis formulários elaborados segundo o modelo teórico de Pender. As informações foram produzidas no período de abril a julho de 2015 e os participantes selecionados a partir de consultas de enfermagem e de cinco oficinas que trabalharam a temática dos comportamentos de saúde correspondentes aos fatores de risco para neoplasias: alimentação, atividade física, alcoolismo, tabagismo, sono/repouso, espiritualidade, relações interpessoais e manejo do estresse. Os resultados referiram-se a um perfil de participantes cuja maior parte foi de mulheres; casadas; com ensino fundamental incompleto; ocupação do lar; renda familiar de 3 a 4 salários mínimos; IMC acima de 24,99. A aplicação do modelo teórico se deu em oito encontros individuais. O primeiro avaliou as características, experiências, sentimentos e o conhecimento relacionados a adoção de comportamentos saudáveis. No segundo encontro os participantes inteiraram-se do que necessitaria ser modificado e nove acordaram e elaboraram conjuntamente um plano de ação. Dentre as atitudes relacionadas ao risco de neoplasia a inatividade física e os hábitos alimentares incorretos preponderaram. Quanto aos principais benefícios mencionados pelos participantes para adoção de comportamentos saudáveis destaca-se o ter mais saúde, evitar o câncer e a perda de peso. As barreiras declaradas foram tempo e a disposição. Do terceiro ao sétimo encontro que ocorriam a cada dez a quinze dias foram realizadas as avaliações parciais de acompanhamento do progresso da mudança de comportamento aos quais os nove compareceram. Houve adaptações nos planos quase sempre para ajustar a capacidade de realização de cada um. A avaliação final se deu no último encontro mostrando que por essa metodologia as pessoas, se acompanhadas e apoiadas conseguem aderir a comportamentos saudáveis. Isso demonstra que a Teoria Modelo de Promoção de saúde de Nola Pender é aplicável na oncologia como ferramenta para promoção e proteção dos indivíduos vulneráveis as neoplasias.

D.Cur. / South Africa, like many other countries, is charged with ensuring that her adolescents are mobilised to believe in the power of their own dignity in order for their life-world to change. Hundreds of thousands of adolescents were forced to experience political upheavals, violence, neglect, incarceration and family disorganisation. Many of these adolescents were forced onto the margins of society in their strive for understanding and survival. Many dropped out of school, are unskilled and therefore unemployed. They feel hopeless as they struggle for a place in society, because society has no faith in them - "they are lost to society". The purpose of this study was to generate a psychiatric nursing model to facilitate the reintegration of marginalised adolescents into the community. This study therefore has profound social, political and economic implications for the South African community. Through this model, which is a theoretical framework to be utilized by the advanced practitioner in psychiatric nursing, adolescents will be empowered to believe in themselves, to engage in meaningful relationships and activities with their families, peer groups and the broader community. The model provides a theoretical framework that attempts to rekindle and inspire the adolescents from a state of hopelessness and disillusionment, to integrated individuals who are respected, valued and accepted as integral members of their families, peer groups and communities. The model will assume a problem solving and preventative approach. Based on this discussion, the following questions were addressed in this research: What obstacles exist that hamper marginalised adolescents' reintegration into the community? What could be done to assist marginalised adolescents' reintegration into the community? A theory generative, qualitative, contextual, exploratory and descriptive design was followed. The research was conducted in four steps with a pilot-study that preceded step one of the research. In step one, focus group discussions were conducted with five groups of respondents to explore and describe obstacles that hamper the reintegration of marginalised adolescents into the community, as well as their views on how marginalised adolescents can be assisted to be reintegrated into the community. Data was analysed using Tesch's method. Based on the results of analyzed data, disempowerment, characterized by hopelessness, alienation/isolation, anger, frustration and worthlessness - related to poor socialisation, lack of support and services, family disorganisation, peer pressure and fragmented services - was identified as a main theme among stumbling blocks. Empowerment, characterized by improved self-image, feelings of worth, belief in own dignity - related to a sense of wellbeing, belonging and respect - resulting in personal growth and societal change with ultimate reintegration, was identified as major strategy to address marginalisation. In step two, the defined concepts were related to each other to show interrelationships. Classification of central and relational concepts followed to formulate relationship-statements, the result being to depict related concepts in structural form. In step three, a visual model to be utilized as a theoretical framework by the advanced psychiatric nurse practitioner to facilitate the marginalised adolescents as recipients and the advanced psychiatric nurse as agent, was designed to facilitate reintegration into the community. The model was evaluated by a panel of experts. Step four dealt with guidelines to operationalise the model in practice, education and research. Recommendations and limitations of the research were also discussed.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Clinical nursing faculty members often work with students who underperform in the clinical area. Underperforming students are those who exhibit deficits in nursing knowledge, the application of nursing knowledge, psychomotor skills, motivation, and/or interpersonal skills. The outcomes of faculty work with underperforming students have implications for patient safety and the nursing workforce, yet little is known about how faculty work with underperforming students. The purpose of this project was to develop a theoretical framework that describes how clinical faculty work with underperforming students in the clinical area. Twenty-eight nursing faculty who had worked with underperforming nursing students during clinical rotations were interviewed and invited to tell stories about working with these students. Their narratives were analyzed using constant comparison analysis, and a theoretical framework was developed. The framework included three stages that unfolded as faculty worked with underperforming students over time. The first stage, Being Present, was the process by which faculty came to know students were underperforming. They did this by noticing red flags, taking extra time with students, working side-by-side with students, and connecting with students "where they were at." The second stage, Setting a New Course, was the process by which faculty attempted to provide remedial experiences to improve the performance of those students determined to be underperforming. The participants did this by beginning a new course of instruction for the students, bringing in new people to help the students, and creating new learning experiences for them. This process could result in students turning it [their performance] around, making it through [the clinical rotation], or not making it. The final stage, Being Objective, was the process by which participants made negative progression decisions. They did this by relying on objective indices, documenting problematic student behaviors, and obtaining validation for their decisions.

Abstract The aim of this study was to construct a theory of an environment supporting the well-being of the home-dwelling elderly from Northern Finland. The development process proceeded as follows: 1) description of elements of environment supporting the well-being of home-dwelling elderly aged over 65 years (physical, social and symbolical environment) and, using concept synthesis, construction of hypothetical models of a physical, social and symbolic environment supporting well-being, 2) development of an indicator to test the hypothetical models and 3) testing the hypothetical models. The analysed data (N = 39) of the first stage consisted of theme interviews with home-dwelling elderly persons. Hypothetical models of an environment supporting the well-being of home-dwelling elderly were constructed using inductive concept synthesis. In the second stage, the reliability of the indicator designed to test the hypothetical models was evaluated by a panel of experts consisting of 15 students of nursing science and three doctors of Health Sciences. The data (n = 96) used to test the reliability of the second indicator consisted of the results of a postal questionnaire to elderly over the age of 65 from Northern Finland. The questionnaire also included questions about answering the indicator aimed further development. The data were analysed by looking at descriptive statistics and correlation coefficients. The data (n = 328) of the final stage of the study comprised again home-dwelling elderly from Northern Finland. The data were analysed using explorative and confirmatory factor analyses to test the hypothetical models. In addition, the data were analysed using statistical methods. According to the theory, an environment supporting the well-being of home-dwelling elderly from Northern Finland is made up by its physical, social and symbolical attributes. The attributes defining a physical environment supporting well-being are a northern environment, an environment ensuring safety and a pleasant physical environment. A social environment supporting well-being is made up of the availability of assistance, contact with family members, friends supporting well-being and a pleasant living community. A symbolic environment supporting well-being comprises the idealistic attributes of well-being, spirituality, the normative attributes of well-being and historicalness. The information gained from the study can be used to broaden the knowledge base of gerontological nursing science and gerontological nursing in supporting the health and well-being of home-dwelling elderly. / Tiivistelmä Tämän tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli rakentaa teoria kotona asuvien pohjoissuomalaisten ikääntyneiden hyvinvointia tukevasta ympäristöstä. Teorian kehittämisprosessi eteni seuraavasti: 1) kuvattiin kotona asuvien yli 65-vuotiaiden pohjoissuomalaisten ikääntyneiden hyvinvointia tukevan ympäristön osa-alueita (fyysinen, sosiaalinen ja symbolinen ympäristö) ja rakennettiin käsitesynteesin avulla hypoteettiset mallit hyvinvointia tukevista fyysisestä, sosiaalisesta ja symbolisesta ympäristöstä, 2) kehitettiin mittari hypoteettisten mallien testaamiseksi ja 3) testattiin hypoteettisia malleja. Ensimmäisen vaiheen analysoitavan aineiston (n = 39) muodostivat kotona asuvien yli 65-vuotiaiden ikääntyneiden teemahaastattelut. Induktiivisen käsitesynteesin avulla tuotettiin hypoteettiset mallit pohjoissuomalaisten ikääntyneiden hyvinvointia tukevasta ympäristöstä. Toisessa vaiheessa hypoteettisten mallien testaamiseksi kehitetyn mittarin luotettavuutta arvioi asiantuntijapaneelissa 15 hoitotieteen loppuvaiheen opiskelijaa sekä kolme terveystieteiden tohtoria. Toisen mittarin luotettavuuden testaamisessa käytetyn aineiston (n = 96) muodostivat pohjoissuomalaisten yli 65-vuotiaaiden ikääntyneiden postikyselyn vastaukset. Kyselylomake sisälsi myös mittariin vastaamista koskevia kysymyksiä sen edelleen kehittämiseksi. Aineisto analysoitiin tarkastelemalla tilastollisia tunnuslukuja ja korrelaatiokertoimia. Tutkimuksen viimeisen vaiheen aineisto (n = 328) muodostui niin ikään kotona asuvista pohjoissuomalaisista ikääntyneistä. Aineistolle tehtiin eksploratiiviset ja konfirmatoriset faktorianalyysit hypoteettisten mallien testaamiseksi. Lisäksi aineistoa analysoitiin tilastollisin menetelmin. Kehitetyn teorian mukaan pohjoissuomalaisten kotona asuvien ikääntyneiden hyvinvointia tukeva ympäristö rakentuu sen fyysisten, sosiaalisten ja symbolisten ominaisuuksien myötä. Hyvinvointia tukevaa fyysistä ympäristöä määrittävät pohjoinen ympäristö, turvallisen toiminnan mahdollistava ympäristö ja viihtyisä fyysinen ympäristö. Hyvinvointia tukeva sosiaalinen ympäristö rakentuu avun saamisesta, yhteydenpidosta omaisiin, ystävistä ja viihtyisästä asuinyhteisöstä. Hyvinvointia tukeva symbolinen ympäristö muodostuu hyvinvoinnin ideaalisista ominaisuuksista, hengellisyydestä, hyvinvoinnin normatiivisista ominaisuuksista ja historiallisuudesta. Tutkimuksessa tuotetulla tiedolla voidaan laajentaa gerontologisen hoitotieteen tietoperustaa tuettaessa kotona asuvien ikääntyneiden terveyttä ja hyvinvointia. Gerontologisessa hoitotyössä teoriaa voidaan käyttää eräänlaisena ajattelun tai päätöksenteon apuvälineenä jäsentämään ikääntyneiden hyvinvointia tukevaa ympäristöä.

This study was designed to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of incarcerated male juveniles who had committed drug-related crimes and to suggest guidelines for their rehabilitation with specific reference to their health care needs. In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher used Parse’s (1998) Theory of Human Becoming as a theoretical framework for the study and Parse’s (1998, 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic research method. This study was restricted to three juvenile correctional centres in the Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa (RSA). A sample of 15 male juveniles (5 at each of the three juvenile correctional centres) was used for the purpose of individual dialogical engagements with the participants. Focus group interview sessions were held with two groups (5 members per group) at two identified juvenile correctional centres. A qualitative content analysis according to methods recommended by Graneheim and Lundman (2004) was performed on the data that was collected from the individual dialogical-engagements and the focus group interviews. The researcher attempted to elucidate the meanings that the participants attached to their experiences of incarceration as narrated by them and analysed the data according to Parse’s (1998; 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic method comprising of extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation. The findings of this research confirm that problems of drug abuse and criminal activity represent a multifaceted, complex and often intractable phenomenon. The research also confirmed that the participants suffer from a variety of emotional and psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, remorse, regret and a craving for the drugs that they had abused before their incarceration. It appears that the participants find it extremely difficult to deal effectively with these disorders on their own and that they are generally averse to asking for professional help and assistance. Interventions to alleviate these problems are crucial for the success of the current rehabilitation programmes being pursued in the correctional centres where the participants are accommodated. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

This study was designed to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of incarcerated male juveniles who had committed drug-related crimes and to suggest guidelines for their rehabilitation with specific reference to their health care needs. In order to achieve these objectives, the researcher used Parse’s (1998) Theory of Human Becoming as a theoretical framework for the study and Parse’s (1998, 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic research method. This study was restricted to three juvenile correctional centres in the Gauteng province, Republic of South Africa (RSA). A sample of 15 male juveniles (5 at each of the three juvenile correctional centres) was used for the purpose of individual dialogical engagements with the participants. Focus group interview sessions were held with two groups (5 members per group) at two identified juvenile correctional centres. A qualitative content analysis according to methods recommended by Graneheim and Lundman (2004) was performed on the data that was collected from the individual dialogical-engagements and the focus group interviews. The researcher attempted to elucidate the meanings that the participants attached to their experiences of incarceration as narrated by them and analysed the data according to Parse’s (1998; 2005) phenomenological-hermeneutic method comprising of extraction-synthesis and heuristic interpretation. The findings of this research confirm that problems of drug abuse and criminal activity represent a multifaceted, complex and often intractable phenomenon. The research also confirmed that the participants suffer from a variety of emotional and psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, remorse, regret and a craving for the drugs that they had abused before their incarceration. It appears that the participants find it extremely difficult to deal effectively with these disorders on their own and that they are generally averse to asking for professional help and assistance. Interventions to alleviate these problems are crucial for the success of the current rehabilitation programmes being pursued in the correctional centres where the participants are accommodated. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / A move toward care of residents in nursing homes where they are respected and heard is finally emerging. Common strategies used in nursing homes to improve quality of care for residents are integration of person-centered care and assessing care using satisfaction surveys. Although approaches of integrating person-centered care and satisfaction surveys have been valuable in improving nursing home quality, strategies of care that include things that matter from residents’ perspectives while living in nursing homes need investigation. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to describe things that residents age 65 and older state matter to them while living in the long-term care sections of nursing homes. A qualitative mode of inquiry using purposeful sampling led to a natural unfolding of data that revealed things that mattered to residents. Content analysis was used to reduce the data in a manner that kept the data close to the context yet moved the data toward new ideas about including things that mattered to residents in nursing care. The findings revealed residents’ positive and negative experiences and addressed the question: How can nurses manage residents’ positive and negative aspects of care in nursing homes? This study substantiated the importance of developing nursing care strategies derived from residents’ descriptions of care. Finding ways to promote nurses’ investment in attitudes about a person-centered care philosophy is essential for successful person-centered care implementation. Enhancing nurses’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes with an investment in person centeredness will be more likely to put nurses in a position to role-model care that is person-centered from residents’ perspectives.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This qualitative study was successful in utilization of grounded theory methodology to ascertain nurses’ decision-making processes following their awareness of having made a medical error, as well as how and/or if they corrected and reported the error. Significant literature documents the existence of medical errors; however, this unique study interviewed thirty nurses from adult intensive care units seeking to discover through a detailed interview process their individual stories and experiences, which were then analyzed for common themes. Common themes led to the development of a theoretical model of thought processes regarding error reporting when nurses made an error. Within this theoretical model are multiple processes that outline a shared, time-orientated sequence of events nurses encounter before, during, and after an error. One common theme was the error occurred during a busy day when they had been doing something unfamiliar. Each nurse expressed personal anguish at the realization she had made an error, she sought to understand why the error happened and what corrective action was needed. Whether the error was reported on or told about depended on each unit’s expectation and what needed to be done to protect the patient. If there was no perceived patient harm, errors were not reported. Even for reported errors, no one followed-up with the nurses in this study. Nurses were left on their own to reflect on what had happened and to consider what could be done to prevent error recurrence. The overall impact of the process of and the recovery from the error led to learning from the error that persisted throughout her nursing career. Findings from this study illuminate the unique viewpoint of licensed nurses’ experiences with errors and have the potential to influence how the prevention of, notification about and resolution of errors are dealt with in the clinical setting. Further research is needed to answer multiple questions that will contribute to nursing knowledge about error reporting activities and the means to continue to improve error-reporting rates