Filters: Publication Type:"thesis" Subject:"Utah" Collection:"ir_etd" Type:"Text" Department:"Nursing"
| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | Profile of teen mothers in a Salt Lake County school district | Wanlass, Bonnie J. | Utah; Mothers; Data Collection; Social Class | The purpose of this descriptive study was to profile young women currently enrolled in a Salt Lake Count school district Young Parent Program. This profile included (a) descriptive characteristics, (b) teens perceptions of current challenges, and (c) their perceptions of the benefit of the Young Pa... | 1999-05 |
| 2 |  | Use of herbal medicines during pregnancy, parturition and six weeks postpartum by women in Utah | Sunderland, Claire Anne | Utah | A sample population was drawn from all women in the state of Utah who delivered live births between January 1 and November 1, 1981 to examine herbal practices followed during pregnancy, parturition and six weeks following delivery. Spoerke (1980) provided the foundation regarding herb use, mode of ... | 1982-08 |
| 3 |  | Comparative study of death anxiety among baccalaureate nursing students | Lamb, Ruth Watts | Psychology; Utah; University of Utah | The present cultural attitude toward death and dying in the American culture has been one of avoidance and denial. The most frequent behavioral response observed in the culture by many investigators and writers has been the perceived psychological posture of death fear or death anxiety. The most f... | 1997-06 |
| 4 |  | Depression among older divorced people | McKay, Mary Ann | Single Person; Social Environment; Utah | This ex post facto, descriptive, correlational study was designed to examine the degree of depression of 106 currently-divorced individuals over 50 years of age who had been married at least 15 years, separated not more than 4 years, divorced 3 years or less and living in Salt Lake County, Utah. Mea... | 1988-03 |
| 5 |  | Mormon attitudes toward high risk pregnancy management: birth control, prenatal diagnosis and abortion | Duke, Joanne | Utah; Family Planning | The purpose of this study was to identify married Mormon women's beliefs, attitudes, subjective norms, and behavioral intentions toward birth control, prenatal diagnosis, and abortion especially in regard to high risk pregnancy management. Factors contributing to the congruence of behavior were ide... | 1985-06 |
| 6 |  | Investigation of supporting and restraining factors for instituting collaborative practice in a community hospital | Oleson, Kathy J. | Organization and Administration; Nurse-Physician Joint Practice; Utah; Odgen | The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of instituting collaborative practice in the Intensive Care Unit of a community hospital. The conceptual framework for the study was based on Kurt Lewin's theory of Force Field Analysis. Determining the forces involved in a setting, and ca... | 1984-06 |
| 7 |  | Personality traits of Navajo children living in a semi-urban community | June, Virginia Knoki | Utah; Navajo Indians | Previous investigations of infants and children describing the characteristic of culturally distinct groups of people such as the Dine', or Navajo people, suggest definite differences which have been associated with genetic explanations, environmental impoverishment, and culture specific child reari... | 1977-06 |
| 8 |  | Adherence to protocols by members in the Nurse Practitioner Pilot Project | Campbell, Cynthia Lynn | Utah; Nurse Practioners | The Nurse Practitioner Pilot Project (Senate Bill 198) was initiated in June 1980 in Utah. Senate Bill 198 legalized prescriptive practice for specific nurse practitioners for a three-year period. Protocols selected for guidelines in practice were required for use by pilot project members. Two ev... | 1984-08 |
| 9 |  | Factors affecting use of natural family planning in Utah | Knapp, Eileen Marie | Utah; Family Size; Family Planning | This descriptive study was conducted to discover what factors affected use of natural family planning (NFP) in Utah. A survey was mailed to 189 persons in Utah who had received instruction in NFP. Sixty-seven females completed and returned the survey as did 40 of their spouses. This group indicated ... | 1990-06 |
| 10 |  | Risk and protective factors of Hispanic youth in Utah | Maughan, Erin D. | Utah; Health | In this study of adolescent risk and protective factors, secondary analysis was used to examine the use of alcohol and other substances. Comparisons of Hispanic youth were made to the White population. The data showed that the Hispanic youth (n > = 762) used more substances than the White youth (n <... | 2000-12 |
| 11 |  | Nurse practitioner-physician joint practice criteria | Tarmina, Mary Suzanne | Questionnaire; Utah; Job Description; Protocols | All nurse practitioners and physicians in Utah joint practice were studied to describe the joint practice criteria occurring in the state. No empirical studies on joint practice were available in the literature. An article by Brown (1977) titled "Nature and Scope of Services: Joint Practices" sug... | 1979-08 |
| 12 |  | Recognition of adolescent depression in primary care by nurse- practitioners: a descriptive study | Hartle, Janna | Primary Care; Utah; Depression in Adolescence | Primary care providers, such as nurse-practitioners (NPs) often are the first to encounter depressed adolescents, particularly those with somatic complaints. NPs provide early recognition and referral for treatment of adolescent depression, interventions that can greatly decrease life-time morbidity... | 1995-06 |
| 13 |  | Prevalence of hepatitis B in childbearing Southeast Asian refugees in the Salt Lake area | Bonare, M. Sandae | Epidemiology; Utah | Over 7,000 Southeast Asian refugees live in the Salt Lake area. The hepatitis B carrier rate among Southeast Asians in the United States is 12-14%. A retrospective study was conducted to obtain data concerning the prevalence of hepatitis B virus among Southeast Asian prenatal clients. The study samp... | 1985-06 |
| 14 |  | Home births in Salt Lake County in 1975 | Chase, Eileen Sharon | Utah; Childbirth | In the 1970's an increasing number of consumers of health care showed dissatisfaction with the present maternity care system. This dissatisfaction was due to the following: Consumers wanted more control and to be active participants in their health care; and they belied childbirth to be an essenti... | 1976-08 |
| 15 |  | Concerns of primiparous mothers at two months postpartum | Hall, Mary Dorsey | Obstetrical Nursing; Postnatal Care; Utah | This study examined the concerns of employed and unemployed primiparous mothers at 2 months postpartum. The convenience sample consisted of 51 subjects. The categories of maternal concerns that were studied included maternal-infant attachment, breastfeeding, child development, and maternal self-iden... | 1988-06 |
| 16 |  | Survey of nursing personnel in seventeen nursing homes in Utah | Hansen, Norma Lucile Jones | Manpower; Utah | This study was done because the writer was concerned about the preparation of the personnel who were giving nursing care to the aged person. There seemed to be very little known about nursing home personnel per se. The write believed that when some specific information was known, it may be possibl... | 1965-06 |
| 17 |  | Continuing education course in microbiology for registered nurses | Fenn, JoAnn Parker | Utah; Clinical Microbiology | Continuing education in the health professions is now a necessity for the administration of quality health care. Continuing education courses can provide awarenesses of technological changes as well as refresh memories of basic principles and theories once learned in undergraduate schooling. The nur... | 1979-08 |
| 18 |  | Beliefs and perceptions of Utah women choosing home birth | Colby, Tanya S. | Midwife; Utah | This descriptive study addresses the beliefs and perceptions of first time mothers choosing home birth. The sample studied consisted of nulliparous Utah women currently receiving care from an unlicensed lay midwife and planning a home birth and primiparous women who planned a home birth after Januar... | 1996-12 |
| 19 |  | Attitudes toward nurse practitioners among rural residents | Hughes, Melanie Corbett | Utah; Rural Health Services | With the cost of health care continuing to rise, more clinics and hospitals are turning to nonphysician clinicians such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants to help provide care for their clients. Some clients, however, may be reluctant to seek care from these types of nontraditional prov... | 2005-05 |
| 20 |  | Women's interest in alternative maternity facilities | Mather, Sally Jane | Women's Hospital; Utah | A survey of women's interests in alternative maternity facilities was conducted in Salt Lake County. The survey sought to answer the following questions: (a) Is there a market for alternative maternity facilities (birthing suite, birth center and homebirth service) in Salt Lake County? (b) What a... | 1979-06 |
| 21 |  | Knowledge, attitudes and practice of contraception in multiparous women | Leefsma, F. Miriam | Utah; Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints | The knowledge and practice of contraception of mothers of large families were investigated, as well as their attitudes about birth control. The focus of the investigation was to determine if mothers of large families became pregnant by choice or at random. Data were collected by means of a question... | 1977-06 |
| 22 |  | Long-term health care administrators' perceptions of needed professional competencies | Autin, Floyd S. | Utah; Socialization; Professional; Gerontology | The educational preparation that long-term care (LTC) administrators have received is thought to influence their professional socialization. This process influences the perceptions of LTC administrators which then influence their actions. The question raised by this research was as follows: 'Does th... | 1996-03 |
| 23 |  | Nurse advancement: a study of experiential learning | Hall, Denza Smit | Utah | Nursing, unlike many other professions, has various educational routes which prepare graduates for licensure. Although they offer different degrees, nursing programs have common technical and professional foundations. The common areas of achievement provide a base upon which knowledge can be expande... | 1985-06 |
| 24 |  | Personality adjustment of children with cystic fibrosis | Parrott, Elaine Ave | Health Care Delivery; Salt Lake City; Utah | The focus of this study was the personality adjustment of chronically ill children. While there has been very detailed and careful research conducted regarding the physiological processes resulting from various chronic illnesses, there has been little critical research conducted regarding the psych... | 1975-06 |
| 25 |  | Examination of the difference in motivation to attain social power in male assistant hospital administrators and female directors of nursing | Bacon, Marlene P. | Power (Social Sciences); Hospital Administrators; Nurse Administratoars; Utah | Female directors of nursing and male assistant hospital administrators throughout the state of Utah were surveyed for their response to a questionnaire designed to measure their motivation to attain social power. The major reason for the study was to analyze the differences. The two groups were sep... | 1983-12 |