Nursing-Theses
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Item Implementation of an advance directive teaching protocol with nurses in a rural hospital(1998-08) Stoughton, CynthiaItem Nurses' attitudes toward caring for relatives in the hospital setting(1995-12) Bannister, JaniceItem Female alcohol dependence: psychosocial background, drinking history, and barriers to treatment(1986-12) Wilhite, TommyeItem The impact of chronic childhood illness on the family as perceived by the mother(1984-12) McHugh, KathleenNo abstract availableItem A comparison of family interaction on a health to pathology continuum(1975-05) Neill, BarbaraNo abstract availableItem A comparison of nursing and non-nursing salaries among inactive nurses(1986-05) King, Yvonne; Huges, Oneida; Sandra, Strickland; Goad, SusanThis descriptive correlational study was undertaken to determine if nursing salaries influenced nurses' decisions to leave nursing. The difference between the last nursing salary and the salary of the current non-nursing employment was determined with years of non-nursing employment controlled. Data collection was done by mailed questionnaire to randomly selected inactive nurses in Texas. Analysis utilizing the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test revealed that non-nursing salaries were significantly higher than nursing salaries at the 95% confidence level. A significant association was found between the importance of salary as a reason to leave nursing and the importance of salary in the choice of non-nursing employment.Item Health beliefs and practices of runners versus non-runners(1984-12) Walsh, Valerie; Anderson, Elizabeth; McFarlane, Judith; Rudnick, Betty; Gudmundsen, AnneItem Item Nursing diagnosis: response component and predicted goal outcome congruence(1983-08) Booher, BarbaraItem Medical-surgical nurses' and physicians' perceptions regarding who should initiate selected patient care activities(1990-05) Rayl, Rosemarie; Nieswiadomy, Rose; Ziegler, Shirley; Goad, SusanItem Attitudes toward the changing role of the school nurse(1984-08) Oquin, Charli; Strickland, Sandra; Goad, Susan; Watson, Gail; Gudmundsen, AnneItem Selected factors influencing the care and treatment of the mentally retarded person: 1960 to 1985(1986-12) Woods, EleanorThis study is a historical perspective dealing with the care and treatment people who are mentally retarded have experienced throughout history. The years chosen to detail were those where the greatest changes occurred, 1960 to 1985. The purpose of the study was to acquire a basic understanding of who these people are, what they have been subjected to, what changes have occurred, where are they currently in society, and what are the possible implications for their future care and treatment. Data was collected, researched, and reviewed pertaining to the field of mental retardation. Selected factors were emphasized that influenced the care and treatment of people with mental retardation. Those selected factors were societal attitudes, legislation, litigation, normalization, and the role of the nurse. They were specifically investigated to understand what impact they had on the field of mental retardation past, present, and future. Sources of information were from published books, professional and lay periodicals containing newspaper clippings, documents researched and requested from the state capitol, and personal interviews with people involved in the field of mental retardation. These sources were compared and contrasted in the final compilation of this historical study. A review of the general history of the field of mental retardation is initially presented. Secondly, a general history of mental retardation in the United States is covered, as well as its history in the State of Texas. Emphasis on the years 1960 to 1985 are presented in ten year blocks highlighting major changes during each decade. Major concepts related to the field of mental retardation are also addressed. Tables listing specific landmark decisions affected people who are mentally retarded are presented in a chronological format. Cognition of those historical aspects dealing with people who are mentally retarded and the long struggle they have endured to acquire their legal rights will hopefully permit professionals to make more humane decisions effecting their future care, treatment, and management.Item Comparison by sex of elderly patients' perceptions of their physical health status(1986-12) Nero, LydiaItem Positioning patients for flow-directed pulmonary artery catheter measurements(1985-12) Prince, JacquelynneItem The effects of relaxing therapy upon the anxiety levels of cardiac patients(1983-05) Pryor, OraItem An evaluation of a bilingual preoperative instruction guide for the monolingual Spanish-speaking person(1976-05) Milam, DoraNo abstract availableItem Subjective nursing assessment of cough effort(1997-05) Cozart, Huberta; Hanneman, Sandra; Young, Anne; Hawkins, Christine