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Preparing nursing students to develop the leadership and management skills necessary to adapt to ever-changing practice environments is a challenge for educators. Videoconferencing and Web-based conferencing allow for expansion of traditional classroom walls to develop partnerships among peers, exchange perspectives, and gain a more global understanding of nursing care delivery systems. A collaborative leadership seminar using videoconferencing was used to connect two large colleges of nursing in the midwestern United States, and through Web-based conferencing, one of the midwestern colleges was connected to a university in the United Kingdom. Objectives for students were exposure to different schools of thought, management of care via technology, network and cultivation of global perspectives on health care delivery, and experience of novel educational approaches.
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Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate/organization & administration , International Educational Exchange , Internet/organization & administration , Videoconferencing/organization & administration , Attitude of Health Personnel , Computer-Assisted Instruction/methods , Cooperative Behavior , Education, Distance/organization & administration , Forecasting , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , Leadership , Midwestern United States , Nursing Education Research , Nursing Methodology Research , Philosophy, Nursing , Pilot Projects , Program Development , Program Evaluation , Qualitative Research , Students, Nursing/psychology , Surveys and Questionnaires , United KingdomABSTRACT
Preventive measures for long-life illnesses such as asthma, obesity, and diabetes can start as early as in infant feeding practices. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends introducing babies to solid foods, anything other than breast milk or formula, no earlier than 4-6 months of age (Kleinman, 2004). This study's purpose was to assess beliefs and attitudes of mothers enrolled in Medicaid about the introduction of solid foods and other infant feeding behaviors. Six focus groups (N = 23) were conducted with Black and Caucasian mothers with infants under 1 year old. The Theory of Planned Behavior was used as a framework for moderator questions and interpretation of themes. Maternal knowledge about infant feeding, maternal perceptions of applicability of infant feeding guidelines, and manner and type of information useful for infant feeding decisions emerged as themes. Implications of themes for informing an educational program for mothers to delay the introduction of solid foods are discussed.
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Feeding Behavior , Feeding Methods , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Mothers , Poverty , Adult , Community Health Nursing , Decision Making , Female , Focus Groups , Humans , Infant , MichiganABSTRACT
The prevalence of obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in African-American children. Fathers influence mealtime behaviors but are often overlooked in nutrition education. A sample of six African-American fathers of toddlers participated in a focus group to describe mealtime behaviors with their toddlers. The focus group was audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. Five thematic categories were identified: mealtime rituals and routines, division of responsibility, family constellation, nutritional knowledge, and tension during mealtimes. Fathers expressed frustration with the toddler's "picky-eater" developmental stage. Fathers need to be included in nutrition education that promotes healthy mealtime habits with their toddlers.
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Attitude to Health/ethnology , Black or African American/ethnology , Father-Child Relations , Fathers/psychology , Feeding Behavior/ethnology , Parenting/ethnology , Adolescent , Adult , Age Factors , Child Nutrition Sciences/education , Child, Preschool , Fathers/education , Focus Groups , Frustration , Health Education/organization & administration , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Health Services Needs and Demand , Humans , Michigan , Middle Aged , Nursing Methodology Research , Obesity/ethnology , Obesity/prevention & control , Qualitative Research , Stereotyping , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
This paper contains a description of the use of the theory of dependent-care in the Nutrition Aimed at Toddlers project, a nursing intervention study with parents of toddlers, and discusses the research and practice utility of the theory of dependent-care, a corollary theory to Orem's self-care theory. In particular, the concepts of dependent-care, dependent-care agency, therapeutic self-care demand and an educative-supportive nursing system are discussed within the context of the Nutrition Aimed at Toddlers project.
