Sturm, Bonnie A
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
The purpose of this secondary analysis of qualitative data was to discover and articulate the nature and value of therapeutic nursing interventions (TNIs) utilized by psychiatric community health nurses (PCHNs). PCHNs encounter ethical conflict when faced with increasingly strict payment limitations on nursing practice (Sturm, 2004). This new analy...
Scheier, Donna B
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
Deaf individuals face many barriers when trying to access health care. The reasons why barriers are encountered, difficulties met as a result of the barriers, and ways that health professionals and others working with deaf people can overcome obstacles are included in this review of the literature. A brief summary of Deaf culture and history gives ...
Worral, Priscilla Sandford Levin, Rona F Arsenault, Denise Côté
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
In increasing numbers, nurses as members of intradisciplinary and transdisciplinary teams are implementing evidence-based practice (EBP) changes. These variations result in demonstrated improvement in outcomes for the patient and family, staff, organization, and community. Many of these EBP activities remain an untapped resource; however, they have...
Millor, Georgia Havener, Jeanne-Marie
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
Kalman, Melanie Wells, Margaret Gavan, Carol Scheel
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
Most nurses enter the profession at the associate degree (AD) level, however, the link between nursing education and patient outcomes supports the need for nurses to be educated at the baccalaureate level. The purpose of this phenomenological study of 11 AD nurses enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing program was to describe their perspectives on ret...
Myers, Gina Malmgreen, Christine Havener, Jeanne-Marie
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
The New York State Research Agenda promotes nursing research and evidence-based practice as a means of improving the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of care in the state. One way to put the research agenda into action is through the development of regional nursing research alliances across New York State. These alliances are focused on ways ...
Sellers, Kathleen Millenbach, Linda Kovach, Nancy Yingling, Jennifer Klimek
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the knowledge of nursing administrators about horizontal violence (HV) among New York Organization of Nurse Executive members and to ascertain if they used evidence-based leadership in their roles. In this paper the authors describe the research conducted and examine evidence-based leadership wit...
Pieper, Barbara B
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
As the population ages, and healthcare costs continue to rise, innovative models to address these twin issues of cost-effective elder care continue to evolve. Looking to the community as the context for care requires new ways of thinking about how to develop and evaluate services. This paper describes the Neighborhood Health Advocate Program (NHAP)...
Pacsi, Alsacia L
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
Nursing often deals with ethical dilemmas in the clinical arena. A case study demonstrates an ethical dilemma faced by healthcare providers who care for and treat Jehovah's Witnesses who are placed in a critical situation due to medical life-threatening situations. A 20-year-old, pregnant, Black Hispanic female presented to the Emergency Department...
Pacsi, Alsacia L
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The Journal of the New York State Nurses' Association
The purpose of this paper is to discuss and explore the historical perspectives, capacities, and usage of human patient simulators (HPS) in clinical simulations and propose future uses for HPS in nursing education. The use of HPS at all levels of nursing education appears promising because research suggests that the use of HPS facilitates the devel...
