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| 1 |  | Analysis of variable billing for nursing services based on patient classification | Shimp, Monica Laura | Accounting; Patients | Health care cost containment and nursing's role in fiscal accountability are important areas of research in nursing administration. The use of patient classification as a means of variable billing for Nursing Services addresses the issue of care versus cost. The purposes of this study were to a) d... | 1984-03 |
| 2 |  | Drug compliance among adult hypertensive patients. | Haak, Sandra Watt, | Drug Therapy; Patients; Nursing | The general problem considered in the study was drug compliance or adherence to a therapeutic regimen among adult hypertensive patients and the purpose of the study was to identify factors significantly associated with compliance behavior. A specific Health Belief Model was used in establishing the... | 1976-06 |
| 3 |  | Drug usage in a self-medication program for post-partum patients | Freston, Margie Sudweeks | Patients; Stages of Labor | The purpose of this study was to explore the difference in drug usages of post-partum patients under two different methods of drug administration in the hospital setting. The two methods studied were self-medication and traditional nurse-administration. The study was concerned largely with assessi... | 1972-06 |
| 4 |  | The effect of body position upon pulmonary artery and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure in critically ill patients. | Burrage, Rebecca Lee. | Patients; Positioning; Blood Pressure | Critically ill subject, with a wide range of diagnoses and with pulmonary artery flow-directed balloon-tipped catheters in place, were studies to determine the effect of body position change on pulmonary artery and pulmonary capillary wedge pressure. The head of the bed was raised from a supine fla... | 1979-03 |
| 5 |  | Effects of brief psychiatric nursing intervention on patient socialization | Sanada, Marilyn Louise | Patients; Salt Lake City | The recent trend in the care of psychiatric patients has been away from long-term institutional care to community based, outpatient treatment. When necessary, patients are being admitted to psychiatric units in general hospitals, where the treatment program most likely to be employed is based on th... | 1972-06 |
| 6 |  | Evaluation of tools for describing patient responses to labor. | Sturrock, Elizabeth Lloyd Winchester. | Maternity Nursing; Patients | This study was an attempt to develop tools for assessing women's responses and attitudes relative to their labors. Two tools were developed, the Sturrock Labor Coping Tool (SLC) and the Retrospective Tool. A third tool, the Labor Analgesia and Anesthesia Dosage Score (LAAD) was also developed. The... | 1972-06 |
| 7 |  | Influence of fetal monitoring on patients' perceptions of nursing support during labor | Payton, Ruth Gailon | Maternity Nursing; Patients | The influence of fetal monitoring on patients' perceptions of the nursing support they received during their labors was investigated in this study. The 151 subjects were selected at one general hospital in an effort to control for such variates as nurse staffing, medical staffing and hospital polici... | 1976-06 |
| 8 |  | 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 |
| 9 |  | The role and responsibility of the nurse in caring for the dying patient. | Marostica, Julia Guenzi | Nursing; Care; Patients | The central purpose for this study was to determine whether or not evaluation and revision of Nursing; curricula may be indicated to give nurses better preparation in the care of the dying and a sense of adequacy in giving this care. It was hypothesized that (a) nurses would exhibit measurable diff... | 1965-08 |
| 10 |  | Sleep in the elderly cancer patient | Tadje, Marsha | Cancer; Patients | Sleep quality disturbances are reported in 15% to 30% of the U.S. adult population, including half of those aged ? 65. Sleep disruptions in individuals with cancer have been reported clinically but are yet to be verified in the literature. Sixty percent of all cancer occurs in persons aged ? 65. ... | 1999-08 |
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