Nursing
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/10211.8_120
2024-03-29T05:05:34ZReducing Emergency Nurse Compassion Fatigue
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/217187
Reducing Emergency Nurse Compassion Fatigue
Limonta, Crystal
Compassion fatigue resulting from a poor nurse-patient relationship is a common problem that develops in Emergency Department (ED) nurses (RNs) due to the often stressful, unpredictable, and potentially violent environment that exists within the ED. This creates psychological stress for ED RNs resulting in adverse patient outcomes due to depersonalization and disengagement of the RN in the clinical setting. Studies have shown that a positive nurse-patient relationship helps to combat compassion fatigue and its negative effects. Unfortunately, this can be difficult to achieve in the chaotic environment and limited timeframe the ED permits. This grant proposal intends to assess how a meet-and-greet socializing event where patients share their ED experiences and feedback (independent variable) with ED RNs affects RN compassion fatigue levels (dependent variable). Compassion fatigue among the RNs will be measured at six different intervals over a two year period using the ProQOL Version 5 survey. This study will contribute to the body of knowledge to help decrease compassion fatigue in ED RNs and ultimately improve patient outcomes by improving ED RN engagement and clinical practice.
2020-08-12T00:00:00ZFactors Preventing Active Duty Service Members from Utilizing Mental Health Services
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/217168
Factors Preventing Active Duty Service Members from Utilizing Mental Health Services
Simmons, Suzanne
Despite mental health resources being available to active duty military members, there continues to be a significant mental health crisis related to military service. Efforts have been made to identify mental health issues and expand resources available to service members and veterans. Following the changes, only one half of service members identified as having mental health issues seek mental health services and a mere on half of those complete treatment. The VA reports those seeking mental health services continue to have a high suicidality indicating even these individuals are not receiving enough assistance (US Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration (VA), n.d.). A common explanation for lack of psychiatric utilization has historically been stigma. This research is to identify other factors, specific to military culture, which are impeding appropriate treatment for active military personnel.
The military has implemented measures to help reduce stigma, and implement education and policies to help increase utilization of mental health services, however there remains a deficit which continues to put our present and former military at risk. The purpose of this study is to identify and examine the relationship between the variables of command climate, warrior ethos, mental health literacy, stigma, and career consequences to active duty military utilizing mental health services.
2020-08-06T00:00:00ZThe Effect of Resilience and Coping Intervention (RCI) on Resilience among Medical Fragile Foster Children with Depression
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/217110
The Effect of Resilience and Coping Intervention (RCI) on Resilience among Medical Fragile Foster Children with Depression
Nash, Noja
Children in foster care with greater medical complexities are at risk for undesirable placement outcomes. Youth with disabilities are more likely to be placed in group homes or institutions due to lack of placement options. This population is faced with multiple challenges. Childhood exposure to adversities often lead to behavior problems, depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder, maladaptive coping, and lowered school performance. However, not all children exposed to adversities develop problems, and this is due to resilience. Resilience is the ability to overcome stress or adversity, or it is resistance to environmental risks. Resilience and Coping Intervention (RCI) helps individuals to identify their thoughts, feelings, and coping strategies, and can be beneficial in targeting resilience in foster children. In this proposed study, RCI will be administered to medical fragile children with depression aged 10 to 16 to assess resilience. Coping and resiliency will be measured with Children’s Coping Strategies Checklist (CCSC), Child Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (CSDQ), and The Hope Questionnaire (HQ).
2020-08-04T00:00:00ZThe Impact of Chewing Gum on Test Anxiety
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/215883
The Impact of Chewing Gum on Test Anxiety
Lam, Thy
The nursing shortage continues to remain a problem in the United States. To improve the nursing shortage, more nursing students must complete a nursing program, apply for licensure, and pass the national certification examination. Nursing school examinations carry the most weight in the final grade of nursing courses. Thus, these examinations become the greatest academic stress for nursing students. Currently, there is a lack of an effective intervention for test anxiety on undergraduate nursing students during an examination. This grant proposal intends to study the impact of chewing gum on test anxiety during a nursing examination for undergraduate nursing students in a randomized controlled trial research with the use of a two-group pretest-post test design. This study is significant to nursing since the intervention may be suitable and applicable to any nursing examination as a strategy for a advanced practice nurse or a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner to address a nursing student’s test anxiety in an effort to alleviate the national nursing shortage.
2020-05-14T00:00:00Z