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| 1 |  | 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 |
| 2 |  | Nice parents equal nice babies: an ethnographic study in the newborn intensive care unit | Carey, Leslie Zaricor | Psychology; Ethnology; Nurses | This thesis presents an ethnographic approach to the study of human behavior in a medical setting. The Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NBICU). Participant observation was the principle method used in this work. The study was conducted in order to explore the social organization in a high-technologic... | 1983-12 |
| 3 |  | Effects of oxygen therapy via nasal cannula on the oral-rectal temperature relationship of afebrile adult patients | Bickle, Ida Marie Randash | Oxygen therapy; Nurses; Nursing | It appears to be a common nursing practice to measure body temperature rectally on all patients receiving oxygen therapy, even when there is no contraindication for oral temperature measurement other than the presence of oxygen. Most of the nursing textbooks do not specify a particular site for mea... | 1969-06 |
| 4 |  | Conflict management behavior of the staff nurse. | Barker, Gayle | Conflict Management; Utah; Nurses | The purpose of this study was to determine the conflict management behavior modes most often employed by the registered staff nurse at McKay-Dee hospital Center in Ogden, Utah and St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah. To accomplish this objective, a descriptive approach was employed u... | 1984-08 |
| 5 |  | Operating room nurse implementation of perioperative nursing standards: a survey study. | From, Belle Marie Connelly | Standards; Nurses | Registered nurses working in the operating rooms of northern Utah hospitals were surveyed to assess the level of understanding, degree of compliance, and extent of implementation of preoperative Nursing; standards in Utah. The results of this Utah survey were compared to a national study conducted ... | 1984-06 |
| 6 |  | A Comparative study of attitudes and anxieties concerning death and dying. | Forrest, JoAnn Pasquali. | Nurses; Attitude (Psychology) | Death is one of the most difficult areas with which a nurse must learn to cope as she must work with her own feelings about it before she can be of therapeutic value to the dying patient. This study was conduced to gain further understanding of the nurses' attitudes and anxieties about death and dy... | 1970-05 |
| 7 |  | Analysis of organizational changes contributing to job satisfaction of registered nurses at St. Mark's Hospital: implications for nursing. | Hougaard, Judy Ellen | Nurses; Utah; St. Mark's Hospital | The subject of job satisfaction is an important area of research in Nursing;. Those concerned with the delivery of hospital Nursing; service can benefit from efforts to understand more completely factors underlying nurses' attitudes toward their jobs. The purposes of this study were a) to describe... | 1982-06 |
| 8 |  | An assessment of decubitus ulcers, contractures, urinary-tract infec/ tions and hypostatic pneumonia as indices of nursi-ngcare in three extended care facilities in the Salt Lake Valley. | Cullen, Mary Elizabeth, Sister. | Nurses; Long-Term Care Facilities; Utah | This study was undertaken in an attempt to determine whether certain physiological complications commonly found in incapacitated patients are correlated with an agency's staffing pattern and to detect if a difference exists in the nursing care rendered to patients in three extended care facilities. ... | 1972-06 |
| 9 |  | Self concept of intensive care nurses as compared to nonintensive care nurses. | Vogel, Donna Rockswold. | Nursing; Nurses | The self concept of intensive care nurses as compared to non-intensive care nurses was the problem in this study. It was predicted that the intensive care nurse would have a significantly lower self concept than non-intensive care nurses as measured by "The Tennessee Self Concept Scale." This hypo... | 1977-08 |
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