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Utilization of the emergency department (ED) for non-urgent visits has become an important topic among healthcare providers and administrators. Non-urgent visits to the ED result in financial and health related problems for those who...
Diabetes is a significant problem in the health care arena today, impacting morbidity and mortality. Approximately 1.3 million people aged 20 years or older are newly diagnosed each year with diabetes. Additionally, obesity, has now...
It is estimated there are approximately 8.5 million migrant workers in the U.S. The migrant workers are employed in low paying manual labor jobs. Most of the migrant workers are undocumented and are in the U.S. illegally. Many of the...
Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths of North American women. In the last thirty years, great strides have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, which have led to a reduction in breast cancer...
Background: Patients who become lost to follow-up after bariatric surgery are "status unknown" and could be at risk for complications known to occur months and years after surgery. Bariatric programs stand to lose their designations as...
A review of literature from the fields of nursing, medicine, sociology, law and psychology from the late 1980's to the present reveals extensive discussion and debate of male circumcision. This investigation was an attempt to determine...
Nursing diagnoses are a critical part of the nursing process and have been a large part of nursing education and clinical documentation for more than 30 years. Utilization of nursing diagnoses in practice is largely unknown because of...
The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of compassion fatigue student nurses experienced while assisting hurricane victims and if these levels changed after they returned. This study examined the levels of risk for compassion...
Technology has expanded the availability of information through various routes, such as, television, music, movies, internet and magazines. These routes avail adolescents to endless learning venues about any issue that might be of...
The profession of nursing is in the midst of a crisis brought on by a nursing shortage. Many are choosing to leave the profession of nursing coupled with fewer numbers choosing nursing as a profession. As a result, nurses are challenged...
Objective: Breastfeeding promotion is one of the most basic and important health initiatives today. The benefits of breastfeeding to infants, mothers, and society are indisputable. Current breastfeeding rates of 70% initiating...
This study was performed to identify the reasons Florida hospital Registered Nurses leave hospital employment. The study was a descriptive study using convenience sampling. Inclusion criteria included RNs who held an active Florida RN...
This was a comparison study which examined health beliefs and locus of control among African American and Caucasian women concerning breast cancer in North Florida. The instrument used to collect data was the Health Screening...
The current shortage of staff nurses calls for studies that explore factors that lead to nurse retention. The purpose of this study was to employ survey research techniques to measure job satisfaction in a random statewide sample of...
The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge level of EH risk factors of senior baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a public health course in a public university in northern Florida. A convenient sample was used from one...
Patients suffering from various arthritic conditions such as osteoarthritis (OA) seek relief through total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The surgery itself has been proven successful; however it carries a difficult and challenging recovery...
Caregivers of the elderly who suffers from AD and dementia have significantly high psychological stress. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive degenerative disease that affects cognition, the ability to perform activities of daily...
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are handheld devices that combine computing, telephone/fax, Internet and networking features. PDAs can be loaded with all types of reference material to be utilized in many situations. Currently many...
This study compared immunization adherence rates of 440 two-year-old children receiving two different types Medicaid managed care services in a nine county area in North Florida. Of particular interest was the primary care nurse case...
This study compared immunization adherence rates and demographic characteristics of 288 indigent and non-indigent 2-year-old children in Leon and surrounding Counties of North Florida. The hypothesis of the study was that indigence is...
The nursing shortage is of growing concern to the nation's health care system. The problem and thus the solution are multifaceted. Many solutions exist in alleviating the nursing shortage, one of those solutions is to reduce the...
The framework that guided this study was Dorothea Orem's Self Care Deficit Theory (2001) and the principles of andragogy (Knowles, 1998). This quasi-experimental study utilized a repeated measures design and retrospective, as well as...
Historically, several studies about knowledge of the P A catheter were done. Critical care nurses and physicians were tested for their level of knowledge of the P A catheter and its use on critically ill individuals. Unfortunately, each...
Breastfeeding has documented benefits for mothers and babies. A Healthy People 2010 goal is to increase breastfeeding rates to 75% initiation, 50% at 6 months, and 25% at 1 year. Nurses play a key role in meeting the goals by influencing...
A sample of radical prostatectomy patients from a urology office located in the Southeastern United States were asked to complete a written questionnaire for the purpose of evaluating whether the radical prostatectomy procedure for...
Betty Neuman's Systems Model (1985), the Integrated Case Management Model (2004), and the Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Spheres of Influence (1998) were blended together to create the theoretical framework that guided this study. This...
The current shortage of registered nurses in the United States has been well documented. It is a complex problem with no easy or short-term solutions. In fact, the problem is projected to worsen over the next ten to twenty years as the...
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the professional values of Senior Baccalaureate and Associate Degree Nursing students as measured by the Nurses Professional Values Scale, a 44 question questionnaire based on the ANA...
Health care individuals such as emergency preparedness teams, clergy, nurses, and physicians are first responders during times of disaster. These types of responders are at risk to develop compassion stress, compassion fatigue, or even...
Ramona T. Mercer's theory of Maternal Role Attainment was the framework that guided this study conducted to compare the maternal confidence levels of the depressed and non-depressed first-time mother 4 months after delivery. A sample of...
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is an important cause of nosocomial infection and is rapidly becoming a community-acquired infection. Recently, however, it has been suggested that the addition of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to the...
Rural communities in the United States are served by relatively fewer health care professionals than urban or suburban areas. As the physician shortage remains a concern in rural America, the expanded roles of other health care...
This study explored the effects of a complete smoking ban on smoking behavior of employees of a hospital in north Florida. Data from the hospital's employee smoking survey was used as pre-existing data for a convenience sample of smoking...
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States. Decades of research have indicated that controlling risk factors can reduce the incidence of this disease in the population. And, early treatment of symptoms can...
Recent reports and studies have identified that the increasing number of individuals developing Type 2 diabetes is a public health concern. The enormous increase in the prevalence of this disease warrants further studies. Florida has...
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a leading cause of preventable death in the United States. The possibility of developing a DVT is one major complication for the patient population with damaged blood vessels, decreased circulation problems...
The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge level of nutrition and physical activity among rural school-age children in a north Florida coastal community. There is evidence to support a correlation between nutrition and...
According to historical data from the self-reported Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), overweight and obesity in Florida has reached epidemic proportions with a 58 % increase in overweight adults and a 93 % increase in...
The presence of a father has been positively associated with outcomes in several aspects of a child's life, including health. However, studies have shown that limitations on a child's health may reduce father child closeness. Fathers...
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect a debriefing had on Compassion Fatigue levels as measured by the Compassion Fatigue Self Test (CFST) in public health nurses employed by the Florida Department of Health who provided...
The framework that guided this study was Betty Neuman's Systems Model (1995), The Gate Control Theory (1965), and Malcolm Knowles' Principles of Andragogy (1998). The pathophysiology of pain and the pharmacological treatment of pain were...
Health care literature and mainstream media sources have produced volumes of information regarding the current and projected effects of the nursing shortage. Little, however, has been written regarding the deleterious effects of this...
A convenience sample of women having Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery in a hospital located in Northwest Florida were asked to complete two written questionnaires for the purpose of evaluating and comparing quality of life...
Neonatal units have been in existence for more than forty years and little attention has been given to the design of the neonatal unit. Preterm infants' developmental outcomes may be directly related to the type of care and the...
This study examined use of support services in urban and rural areas and the factors which contribute to the placement of persons with AD into long-term care facilities or Alzheimer's units sooner than in urban areas. Financial hardships...
Children in developing countries continue to die from diseases that are preventable or curable. These do not necessarily lead to death in the developed world. The literature reveals that every year ten to almost eleven million children...
Coronary heart disease is the single leading cause of death in the United States. According to the American Heart Association, cardiovascular diseases are responsible for the lives of 41.4 % of more than 2.3 million Americans who die...
Nausea and vomiting are common complications of surgery, which are not only unpleasant for the patient, but also increase cost through prolonged hospital stays and additional interventions. Specific risk factors for postoperative nausea...
Pediatric end-of-life palliative care (EOL-PC) has been recognized as an area in which nursing knowledge is deficient. Due to this deficiency, children and their families are not given optimal EOL-PC. The philosophy and principles of...
The evolution of the nursing profession is a process that requires nurses to evaluate the nature of change in various professional settings. Due to varied practices throughout the country, some hospitals may not be utilizing the most...
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