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The primary purposes of this study were: (a) to examine the relationships among factors associated with organizational culture and the scholarly productivity of African American women nurse faculty teaching at historically black (HBCUs) and predominantly white colleges and universities (PWCUs) and, (b) to compare the differences in African American women nurse faculty productivity at HBCUs and PWCUs. Data were collected using a two-part survey, mailed to the campus addresses of 467 African American nurse faculty. A 31.5% response rate (N = 147) was achieved. A variety of scales using multiple statistical techniques were employed to analyze the data sets.
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Black or African American/psychology , Cultural Diversity , Efficiency , Faculty, Nursing/organization & administration , Minority Groups/psychology , Nursing Research/organization & administration , Schools, Nursing/organization & administration , Universities/organization & administration , Women, Working/psychology , Adult , Aged , Attitude of Health Personnel , Career Mobility , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Female , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Middle Aged , Models, Psychological , Organizational Culture , Surveys and Questionnaires , United States , White People/psychologyABSTRACT
The high-tech homecare nurse is operationalizing the trend to bring critical care nursing and medical services directly to the homecare environment. With the continuing advancement in technologic capability, the role of this newly emerging critical care nurse clinician will grow in scope of practice. As the health care industry strives to create more cost-effective solutions to the nation's burden of health care delivery, the relocation of complex medical interventions to the homecare setting is one method of effecting a seamless health care delivery system, where quality of care is maintained while costs are controlled.
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Community Health Nursing/organization & administration , Critical Care/organization & administration , Home Care Services/organization & administration , Clinical Competence/standards , Community Health Nursing/education , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Humans , Job Description , Nursing Assessment/methods , Nursing Staff/education , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administration , Reimbursement MechanismsABSTRACT
The future of critical care nursing will be dependent upon the subspecialty's ability to prepare the high-tech homecare nurse for practice in the next millennium. Client self-management of highly complex interventional therapies will be enabled by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will facilitate the transitioning of critical care nursing to the home setting. Rapidly evolving technologic capabilities will be managed by the high-tech homecare nurse, who will assist in the development of a seamless health care delivery system, where quality of care is maintained in settings beyond the traditional boundaries of the intensive care unit.
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Community Health Nursing/organization & administration , Critical Care/organization & administration , Home Care Services/organization & administration , Medical Laboratory Science/organization & administration , Telecommunications/organization & administration , Aged , Forecasting , Heart Failure/nursing , Humans , Male , Monitoring, Physiologic/nursing , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administrationABSTRACT
As this nation becomes increasingly more culturally diverse and seeks to compete in a global health care market, it is incumbent upon the nursing profession to prepare high-tech homecare nurses who are experts in their ability to make appropriate culturologic assessments of the clients whom they provide care. The culturologically competent high-tech homecare nurse is one who is able to obtain value-free culturologic information and who utilizes that information in the development of culturally sensitive plans of care. This article has provided a framework, with supporting rationale, to assist the high-tech homecare nurse in the gathering of culture-specific data from clients whose care delivery occurs in the richly diverse home setting.
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Community Health Nursing/organization & administration , Critical Care/organization & administration , Cultural Diversity , Home Care Services/organization & administration , Medical Laboratory Science/organization & administration , Transcultural Nursing/organization & administration , Adolescent , Adult , Aged , Attitude to Health/ethnology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Nursing Assessment , Nursing RecordsSubject(s)
Community Health Nursing/organization & administration , Immunization/methods , Mobile Health Units/organization & administration , Nursing Faculty Practice/organization & administration , Community Health Nursing/education , Community Participation , Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate , Humans , Models, Organizational , Quality Assurance, Health Care/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Education, Nursing , Faculty, Nursing , Nursing , Career Choice , Humans , United States , WorkforceABSTRACT
This article contains all of the instructions needed to create a computerized test bank program. The program is flexible enough to allow for the sequential numbering of test items; the alteration of stems, distractors, and options to develop new test items; and the programmability to produce a hard copy objective examination, as designed by the user.
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Educational Measurement , Software , Education, Nursing , HumansSubject(s)
Allied Health Personnel , Nursing , American Medical Association , United States , WorkforceSubject(s)
Arrhythmias, Cardiac/diagnosis , Electrocardiography , Aged , Female , Humans , Monitoring, Physiologic/methods , Tape RecordingABSTRACT
In summary, this author has been able to assist in alerting the physician to the critical findings of his patients' cardiac analyses so that immediate medical intervention could be initiated. The implications for such a tool are far-reaching. Heart disease is still America's number one killer, but with devices such as this one, advances are being made to undermine its life-threatening effects.
