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values lived in the day-to-day practice of nursing
Title
The values lived in the day-to-day practice of nursing.
Creator
Barry, Charlotte D., Florida Atlantic University, Parker, Marilyn
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this study was to examine nursing's values as they are lived day-to-day in nursing practice. A nurse's story, a reflective remembrance of a nursing situation, was explored for the illumination of nursing's values embedded in the service activities of the nurse. Using qualitative descriptive content analysis, the story was studied for significant statements depicting activities of the nurse and for the values guiding those activities. The analysis revealed three transcendent...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to examine nursing's values as they are lived day-to-day in nursing practice. A nurse's story, a reflective remembrance of a nursing situation, was explored for the illumination of nursing's values embedded in the service activities of the nurse. Using qualitative descriptive content analysis, the story was studied for significant statements depicting activities of the nurse and for the values guiding those activities. The analysis revealed three transcendent values, reflected in every activity: Caring, respect for the dignity of the other, and inner harmony. The analysis further revealed eight actualizing values, individually embodying the transcendent values: compassion, competence, courage, humility, honesty, commitment, trust and hope. The wholeness of the inquiry is presented using metaphor to illuminate the meaning of nursing's values in nursing practice.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14953
Subject Headings
Nurses--Attitudes, Nursing--Philosophy, Nursing--Practice
Format
Document (PDF)
The lived world experience of the Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA)
Title
The lived world experience of the Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA).
Creator
Smith, Jennifer R., Florida Atlantic University, Locsin, Rozzano
Abstract/Description
With the current trends in health care, new avenues must be explored in order to contain cost, yet provide for quality care. The Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA) provides a cost effective alternative to another surgeon as surgical assistant. Using Max van Manen's phenomenological method, four RNFAs participated in semistructured audio-taped interviews, in order to explore their lived world experience. Six essences of being an RNFA emerged from the data: being a nurse/nursing; a way of...
Show moreWith the current trends in health care, new avenues must be explored in order to contain cost, yet provide for quality care. The Registered Nurse, First Assistant (RNFA) provides a cost effective alternative to another surgeon as surgical assistant. Using Max van Manen's phenomenological method, four RNFAs participated in semistructured audio-taped interviews, in order to explore their lived world experience. Six essences of being an RNFA emerged from the data: being a nurse/nursing; a way of being with others/presence; a way of doing for others; constancy/continualness; experience/knowing; and, a sense of self-completeness. These were interwoven against the lifeworld existentials of relationality, spatiality, temporality, and corporeality. The findings revealed that the RNFA offers uniqueness as nursing and uniqueness as experience.
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Date Issued
1994
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15100
Subject Headings
Nursing--Practice, Operating room nursing, Surgical nursing
Format
Document (PDF)
Integrating simulation into advanced practice education: weighing costs and benefits
Title
Integrating simulation into advanced practice education: weighing costs and benefits.
Creator
Weiss, Josie A.
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3183265
Subject Headings
Advanced Nursing Practice, Advanced Nursing Practice --Education, Education, Nursing, Patient Safety --Education, Patient Simulation, Simulations, Teaching Methods
Format
Document (PDF)
Enhancing the work environment and connecting with academic partners in nursing education through an innovative dedicated education unit
Title
Enhancing the work environment and connecting with academic partners in nursing education through an innovative dedicated education unit.
Creator
Dyess, Susan MacLeod
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3336148
Subject Headings
Education, Nursing, Interprofessional Relations, Nursing Practice, Nursing Practice, Theory-Based, Nursing Theory, Nursing Units, Professional Practice, Quality Improvement, Work Environment
Format
Document (PDF)
The nurses' experience of being assisted in practice by multiskilled personnel
Title
The nurses' experience of being assisted in practice by multiskilled personnel.
Creator
Ross, Michele Alessa Stankes., Florida Atlantic University, Ray, Marilyn A.
Abstract/Description
This study's purpose was to explore, through a descriptive method, the registered nurses' experience of being assisted in practice by multiskilled personnel for the provision of direct patient care. The multiskilled personnel were unlicensed, functioned in an assistive role to the nurse, and were trained at the hospital to perform technical direct patient care tasks. Data sources included interviews with three registered nurses. Study findings supported the existence of a caring nurse...
Show moreThis study's purpose was to explore, through a descriptive method, the registered nurses' experience of being assisted in practice by multiskilled personnel for the provision of direct patient care. The multiskilled personnel were unlicensed, functioned in an assistive role to the nurse, and were trained at the hospital to perform technical direct patient care tasks. Data sources included interviews with three registered nurses. Study findings supported the existence of a caring nurse-multiskilled assistant relationship that was characterized by the concepts of communication, task responsibility, reciprocal helping, respect, commitment to a shared goal, and nurse leadership. Through a dialectical process, where the thesis was the nurse-patient relationship as identified in the study and the antithesis was the multiskilled assistant-patient relationship, the nurse-multiskilled assistant-patient relationship was synthesized. The study findings in relationship to previous studies, team theory, and Nursing as Caring theory were discussed.
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Date Issued
1996
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15361
Subject Headings
Delegation of authority, Nursing services--Personnel management, Differentiated nursing practice
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)
Development and testing of an instrument to measure holistic attributes of nurse practitioner care
Title
Development and testing of an instrument to measure holistic attributes of nurse practitioner care.
Creator
Kinchen, Elizabeth V., Lange, Bernadette, Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
With passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing, nurses are slated to take on an expanded role in primary healthcare delivery in the near future. Nurse practitioners, in particular, will be instrumental in filling the gap in primary care availability engendered by the increasing specialization of physician practice and increased access to healthcare made possible by the provisions of the...
Show moreWith passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report on the future of nursing, nurses are slated to take on an expanded role in primary healthcare delivery in the near future. Nurse practitioners, in particular, will be instrumental in filling the gap in primary care availability engendered by the increasing specialization of physician practice and increased access to healthcare made possible by the provisions of the PPACA. The need for this study was identified through gaps in the literature related to nurse practitioner practice; specifically, the paucity of quantitative research regarding patients’ perspectives of core holistic nursing values in nurse practitioner care, and, since nursing care is by definition and tradition holistic in nature, this inquiry attempted to quantify the degree to which nurse practitioner care upholds and preserves core holistic nursing values.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004297, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004297
Subject Headings
Holistic nursing, Nurse and patient, Nurse practitioners -- Training of, Nursing -- Philosophy, Nursing -- Practice, Primary care (Medicine) -- Practice
Format
Document (PDF)
Evaluation of speak for myself™ with patients who are voiceless
Title
Evaluation of speak for myself™ with patients who are voiceless.
Creator
Koszalinski, Rebecca S., Tappen, Ruth M., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Abstract/Description
Patients who are hospitalized and are without voice would like to participate in their care. This requires clear communication. Speak for Myself™ (SFM) was developed for use at the bedside so that communication may be facilitated between patient and nurse when the patient is voiceless. The objective of this study was to evaluate Speak for Myself™ at the bedside and to measure the outcomes. This was a mixed methods, one group pre-test-post-test, quasi-experimental study. Twenty adult patients...
Show morePatients who are hospitalized and are without voice would like to participate in their care. This requires clear communication. Speak for Myself™ (SFM) was developed for use at the bedside so that communication may be facilitated between patient and nurse when the patient is voiceless. The objective of this study was to evaluate Speak for Myself™ at the bedside and to measure the outcomes. This was a mixed methods, one group pre-test-post-test, quasi-experimental study. Twenty adult patients in three hospitals in South Florida agreed to use Speak for Myself™ during their acute care hospital stay (M = 8.86 hours). This group of participants (n = 20) ranged from 45 to 91 years old (males = 14; females = 6). Of the participants, 15 (75%) self-identified as European American, 2 (10%) self-identified as Hispanic, 2 (10%) self-identified as African American, and 1 (5%) self-identified as Asian. Ten of the participants (50%) were in respiratory failure. Two (10%) were receiving oxygenation measures related to unspecified complications of their illnesses. Of the remaining eight participants (40%), one each was receiving oxygenation measures due to atrial fibrillation, arteriosclerotic heart disease, cardiogenic shock, endocarditis, neck abscess, renal failure, status post seizure activity, and tongue metastasis.
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Date Issued
2014
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004298
Subject Headings
Communication devices for people with disabilities, Nurse and patient, Nursing -- Practice, Nursing -- Research -- Methodology, Outcome assessment (Medical care), People with disabilities -- Means of communication
Format
Document (PDF)