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Perspectives of professional competence by newly licensed, registered nurses
Title
Perspectives of professional competence by newly licensed, registered nurses.
Creator
Bartolone, Priscilla Dunson., Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
Professional competence is expected of all nurses in practice. Although new nurses have met the competency requirement for practice legally, opinions vary among new nurses and nurse administrators as to whether new nurses are indeed competent to practice nursing. The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to learn what new nurses think about professional competence. The research question guiding this study was, "What is professional competence from the perspective of newly...
Show moreProfessional competence is expected of all nurses in practice. Although new nurses have met the competency requirement for practice legally, opinions vary among new nurses and nurse administrators as to whether new nurses are indeed competent to practice nursing. The purpose of this phenomenological research study was to learn what new nurses think about professional competence. The research question guiding this study was, "What is professional competence from the perspective of newly licensed registered nurses?"
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Date Issued
2008
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/172666
Subject Headings
Clinical competence, Nursing, Standards, Nursing, Quality control, Nursing services, Administration
Format
Document (PDF)
Views of registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel on the differentiating aspects of their roles in a partnership model of care delivery
Title
Views of registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel on the differentiating aspects of their roles in a partnership model of care delivery.
Creator
Sorbello, Barbara C., Florida Atlantic University, Ray, Marilyn A.
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to explore, through a descriptive method, views of registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel about their roles. Data sources included interviews with three registered nurses and three unlicensed assistive workers practicing in partnership on an acute patient care unit. Study findings supported role theory assertions that role strain and stress, manifested as role ambiguity, role confusion, role overlapping, and role overload occur when the role...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to explore, through a descriptive method, views of registered nurses and unlicensed assistive personnel about their roles. Data sources included interviews with three registered nurses and three unlicensed assistive workers practicing in partnership on an acute patient care unit. Study findings supported role theory assertions that role strain and stress, manifested as role ambiguity, role confusion, role overlapping, and role overload occur when the role transition process and role expectations are not clarified or nurtured among role partners. Implications for nursing practice include the following: (1) Nurses in clinical and administrative practice need to be sensitized to the importance of nurses and ancillary personnel being active participants in the work redesign process, and must support the value of caring that transpires in the nurse-patient relationship. (2) Role theory can be utilized to understand dynamics that occur in work settings of nurses and assistive partners.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15305
Subject Headings
Differentiated nursing practice, Nursing services--Personnel management, Nurses--Attitudes, Nurses' aides, Nursing--Standards
Format
Document (PDF)
Unveiling The Mystery Of Covenantal Trust: The Theory of the Social Process Between the Nurse Manager and the Chief Nursing Officer
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Unveiling The Mystery Of Covenantal Trust: The Theory of the Social Process Between the Nurse Manager and the Chief Nursing Officer.
Creator
Hilsenbeck, Julie R., Ray, Marilyn A., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
The purpose of the research was to explore the social process of trust between the chief nursing officer and the nurse manager in the hospital setting. The researcher used the grounded theory method to analyze the nurse manager-chief nursing officer relationship from the perspective of the nurse manager. A total of 12 participants were interviewed by the researcher. The sample consisted of nurse managers employed in hospitals in the southeastern United States. Data analysis consisted of open...
Show moreThe purpose of the research was to explore the social process of trust between the chief nursing officer and the nurse manager in the hospital setting. The researcher used the grounded theory method to analyze the nurse manager-chief nursing officer relationship from the perspective of the nurse manager. A total of 12 participants were interviewed by the researcher. The sample consisted of nurse managers employed in hospitals in the southeastern United States. Data analysis consisted of open coding and constant comparative analysis. Resulting categories consisted of preparing to trust, co-creating trust and co-creating the trusting environment. The basic social process of the nurse manager-chief nursing officer trusting relationship in healthcare was the substantive theory of Striving to Live the Golden Rule which refers to living the nurse manager-chief nursing officer ethical relationship in a nursing environment where trust may be difficult to establish. The formal theory generated was the essential link between Striving to Live the Golden Rule to Living the Golden Rule as Unveiling the Mystery of Covenantal Trust. The overall results of this research demonstrated the process of trust between the nurse manager and chief nursing officer as essential to the overall relationship and to the success of both.
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Date Issued
2006
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000621
Subject Headings
Nursing ethics--Philosophy, Nursing--Standards, Nurse administrators, Nursing services--Administration
Format
Document (PDF)
bureaucratic system: A positive or negative effect on nursing home quality of care?
Title
The bureaucratic system: A positive or negative effect on nursing home quality of care?.
Creator
Lipsman, Lisa A., Florida Atlantic University, Evans, Arthur S.
Abstract/Description
Over the last fifty years quality of care has been a consistent problem in nursing home facilities. The federal government implemented a bureaucratic system as an attempt to improve this standard. This thesis traces the emergence of this system in nursing homes and illustrates its failure to solve the problem. George Ritzer's four-point McDonaldization model of bureaucracy is applied to argue that the bureaucratic system for governing nursing homes has a negative effect on the quality of care...
Show moreOver the last fifty years quality of care has been a consistent problem in nursing home facilities. The federal government implemented a bureaucratic system as an attempt to improve this standard. This thesis traces the emergence of this system in nursing homes and illustrates its failure to solve the problem. George Ritzer's four-point McDonaldization model of bureaucracy is applied to argue that the bureaucratic system for governing nursing homes has a negative effect on the quality of care. Although this hypothesis has proven to be accurate, additional factors were consistently cited as having detrimental effects on resident care. These include issues such as insufficient pay and lack of training/education for CNAs. Moreover, human greed and societal views of the elderly appear to be the true root of the problem.
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Date Issued
2004
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13148
Subject Headings
Long-term care of the sick--Quality control, Nursing home care--Quality control, Outcome assessment (Medical care), Long-term care facilities--Standards
Format
Document (PDF)
Suffering in the midst of technology
Title
Suffering in the midst of technology: the lived experience of an abnormal prenatal ultrasound.
Creator
Gottlieb, Jeanne C., Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the lived experience of women after having an abnormal prenatal ultrasound. One hundred years ago, health disciplines had limited therapies for prenatal and neonatal disorders. During this period, the eugenics movement influenced leaders to involuntarily sterilize individuals who were sought to be "unfit" to prevent disorders in offspring. ... One of these contemporary reproductive genetic technologies is...
Show moreThe purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenological study was to understand the essence of the lived experience of women after having an abnormal prenatal ultrasound. One hundred years ago, health disciplines had limited therapies for prenatal and neonatal disorders. During this period, the eugenics movement influenced leaders to involuntarily sterilize individuals who were sought to be "unfit" to prevent disorders in offspring. ... One of these contemporary reproductive genetic technologies is the use of ultrasound and serum bio-medical markers for detection of congenital, chromosome, and genetic disorders. When ultrasounds reveal abnormal findings, the perceived perfect pregnancy vanishes and gives way to feelings of shock, disbelief, fear, guilt, loss, and threats to self and their unborn baby. Twelve women who had an abnormal ultrasound were interviewed within the context of their cultural values and beliefs. The method of van Manen's hermeneutic phenomenology illuminated the meaning for these women in their life worlds. ... They endured this experience through their own coping mechanisms, but often felt uncertainty and emotional turmoil until the birth. The women also sought comfort through their cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. In coping with the risks found on this abnormal ultrasound, women often selected silence or blocking perceived threats. With these coping methods, they were alone in their suffering. ... Health providers, in not recognizing these women's misunderstandings and emotional fears, abandoned them in their psychosocial and cultural needs. The significance reveals that nurses and health providers need to infuse human caring ways of being, knowing, and doing within advanced technological environments.
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Date Issued
2013
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3362381
Subject Headings
Medical genetics, Medical care, Decision-making, Health services accessibility, Abortion, Moral and ethical aspects, Pregnancy, Complications, Diagnostic ultrasonic imaging, Communication in medicine, Genetic counseling, Genetic disorders, Nursing, Standards
Format
Document (PDF)