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| 1 |  | Examination of factors influencing development of health care policy and programs in a state health department | Maxfield, Urla Jeane | Manpower | This research examined the comparative perceptions of professional nurse and a selected group of other health care professionals relative to the importance of key factors identified as influencing development and implementation of health care policy and programs. Any difference in perception could ... | 1984-08 |
| 2 |  | Relationship of nursing work environment to empowerment and powerlessness | Chandler, Genevieve Elizabeth | Manpower | This is an exploratory study of nurses' (n = 268) perceptions of work conditions. The theoretical framework was developed from Rogers' nursing model and Kanter's organizational theory. The principle of integrality from Rogers' nursing model was utilized. Integrality predicts changes in life proce... | 1986-12 |
| 3 |  | Nurses' knowledge of positioning of the acute-stroke patient for the prevention of contractures | Benson, Bonnie Eakle | Manpower; Nurses; Cerbrovascular Disease; Patients | The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge of a sampling of baccalaureate and associated degree registered nurses concerning position of the acute stroke patient for the prevention of contractures. Two data instruments were developed: (1) a checklist of joint positions for the examiner'... | 1969-08 |
| 4 |  | Utilization of patient acuity data for predicting staffing needs | Rossi, Julia Ann | Manpower; Hospital Patients; Nursing Services; Administration | The LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah wishes to utilize the computerized patient acuity data to determine the staffing requirement of the nursing units. Acuity items are the nursing care procedures provided the patient during a shift; a standard time is assigned to each procedure. A model was d... | 1986-12 |
| 5 |  | 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 |
| 6 |  | Role stress among nurses prepared at the Master's level in a clinical specialty who have job related administrative and management responsibilities | Madsen, Vanessa Brown | Manpower; Nurses' Instruction | Master's of Science prepared clinical specialists are being utilized increasingly in today's health care system no only by clinical experts but as nurse administrators and managers. Thus, difficulty arises when nurses are educated in graduate programs solely as clinicians, but are employed in posit... | 1985-06 |
| 7 |  | Application of Herzberg's motivational theory on a surgical unit | Ferrin, Tanna S. | Manpower; Motivation (Psychology) | This study explored the relationship between the application of a method to increase levels of motivation and the resultant change in measured levels of job satisfaction and turnover rate. It demonstrated that it is possible to increase job satisfaction and decrease the turnover rate in hospital nu... | 1978-03 |
| 8 |  | Positions accepted by the 1990 graduates of pharmacy residency and fellowship programs | Kowalchik, Carolyn G. | Manpower; Personnel Selection; Pharmacy | Graduate of pharmacy residency and fellowship programs are actively recruited through national advertisements and personnel placement services. Little current information is available about the types of positions accepted by this group of highly trained pharmacists. Understanding the job character... | 1991-06 |
| 9 |  | Relationship of functional roles in nursing to job satisfaction and authoritarianism in a selected private hospital | Bearnson, Kathleen Patrick | Manpower; Roles in Nursing; Utah Valley Hospital | The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a positive relationship between nurses'role function; mother surrogate and healer, and such factors as job satisfaction and authoritarianism, in a selected private hospital. The sample consisted of forty-seven registered professional nurses em... | 1964-08 |
| 10 |  | Patient knowledge and source of knowledge concerning medicines | Anderson, Rayola Hodkinson | Manpower | The purpose of this investigation was to determine if the nurse had moved toward the contemporary advocated practice of including the patient in his nursing care. Pharmacological therapy was the facet of nursing care that was investigated. It was hypothesized the (1) patients were not informed nor... | 1969-06 |
| 11 |  | Treatment program effect and nursing patient classification as determinants of psychiatric nurse staffing | Evans, Dale Helen Frost | Manpower | The influence of treatment programs of specialized psychiatric units of the need for nurse staffing was the problem area explored in this study. The major research question asked whether the treatment program of an inpatient psychiatric unit accounted for more variance in the need for nurse staffin... | 1985-12 |
| 12 |  | Compensation of staff nurses employed in United States hospitals from 1960-1990 | Cipriano, Pamela Frances | United States; Manpower; Economic Security | Compensation for registered nurses employed as staff nurses in nonfederal hospitals from 1960 to 1990 was studied. Significant events of hospital financing, professional efforts to improve wages and working conditions, and the changing demand for nurses were also examined. Historical method was used... | 1992-12 |
| 13 |  | Nurses' experiences of spirituality within nurse-client encounters | Getzlaf, Beverley Anne | Manpower | The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of spiritual experiences as they occurred in the context of nurse-client encounters. The research questions were as follows: (a) What are the elements of nurses' spiritual experiences that occur within the context of nurse-client encounters? (b) Wh... | 1996-08 |
| 14 |  | Customizing practice : constructing a practice milieu | Stapleton, Patsy Lea | Manpower | Understanding how nurses remain in hospital staff nurse positions to practice nursing provides information that can be used in developing programs and practices to increase the stability of the inpatient registered nurse (RN) work force. The purpose of this study was to analyze RN experiences of inp... | 1995-12 |
| 15 |  | International consultation by United States nurses: a descriptive study | Andrews, Margaret M | Manpower; Cross-Cultural Communication | Since the influence of United States Nursing; is far-reaching both geographically and ideologically, United States nurses are frequently asked to serve as consultants to other countries. This was an exploratory/descriptive study of United States nurses who have engaged in international consultation ... | 1984-12 |
| 16 |  | Job satisfation among nursing-service personnel | Neumann, Edna Lee Bishop | Manpower; Demographic Variables | Job satisfaction is a concept frequently used in studies of workers in many occupations, including nurses, yet there had been considerable disagreement as to the actual meaning of the term. Studies of job satisfaction are marked by a general lack of attention in the exact nature of the concept, per... | 1972-08 |
| 17 |  | An exploratory study of computer anxiety in nurses. | Beeson, Merry C. | Manpower; Data Processing | This research focused on the interactions of nurses with computer technology and existence of anxiety. The problems investigated were: "Does computer anxiety exit in a selected population of nurses?," "Does exposure to computers reduce computer anxiety?," and "Is there a demographic profile that d... | 1986-06 |
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