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New nurse transitions: a qualitative study of perceived difficulties
(East Carolina University, 2013)
The transition from student to registered nurse has proven difficult for new graduate nurses. While organizations have implemented structures and processes to support new nurse transition into practice, new nurse turnover ...
The relationship between patient satisfaction and patient-and family-centered care
(East Carolina University, 2010)
Evidence of quality care is an important outcome in healthcare. Patient satisfaction, an outcome of care, is considered by many experts to be a measure of quality. Patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) is a healthcare ...
Self-efficacy in freshman and sophomore nursing students
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Healthcare disparities and inequities have been at the forefront of the health agenda, thus supporting that minority healthcare is of poorer quality than that experienced by the majority population. Compounding this issue ...
The lived experience of nurse practitioner graduates' transition to hospital-based practice
(East Carolina University, 2010)
The purpose of this hermeneutic phenomenology (van Manen, 1990) was to gain insight into the meaning and lived experience of nurse practitioners (NP) with at least one year of work experience regarding their initial ...
The relationship between religiosity and quality of life in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators
(East Carolina University, 2010)
The implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is often used in treatment and prevention of lethal cardiac arrhythmias in at-risk patients. Despite its established effectiveness, ICD therapy is associated with ongoing ...
Pre-licensure Baccalaureate nursing students' career choice goal for a future faculty role and graduate education: adaptation and testing of social cognitive career theory.
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The purpose of this study was to adapt and test the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) to (1) determine the intent of pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing students for a future faculty role and graduate education, and ...
Complementary pain intervention pilot study in the acute hospitalization phase after lower extremity amputation surgery
(East Carolina University, 2014)
Complementary pain intervention pilot study in the acute hospitalization phase after lower extremity amputation surgery. The national prevalence of limb loss is approximately 1.7 million people. Leading causes of this ...
Emergence delirium subsequent to general anesthesia in service members who served during the global war on terrorism.
(East Carolina University, 2011)
The primary aims of this study were to investigate, through active duty Army anesthesia provider's perceptions, the following: 1) the extent and seriousness of emergence delirium (ED) in service members; 2) effects of ED ...
Appraisal of uncertainty while waiting for a kidney transplant
(East Carolina University, 2012)
This study tested a middle range nursing theory to better understand the experience of uncertainty in deceased-donor kidney transplant candidates with a goal of identifying ways to improve the care of persons by nurses as ...
Nursing students' nonverbal reactions to malodor in wound care simulation
(East Carolina University, 2012)
Background: wound care is an essential competency which nursing students are expected to acquire. To foster students' competency, nurse educators use high fidelity simulation to expose nursing students to various wound ...