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The ability of PAs to solve patients' psychosocial problems. A preliminary report on patient expectations

Elizondo, E.; Blessing, J. D. (Springhouse Corporation, 1990-02)

Patient expectations of physician assistants constitute a relatively unexplored field. A survey was designed to evaluate the expectations that patients have of PAs faced with a patient's psychosocial problems. The survey ...
Access and attitudes toward oral health care among Hispanics in Wichita, Kansas

Vázquez, Lourdes; Swan, James H. (American Dental Hygienists' Association, 2003)

The purpose of this pilot study was to obtain information on access to care and attitudes toward oral health among the Hispanic population in Wichita, Kansas.
Adding medications in the emergency department: effect on knowledge of medications in older adults

Hayes, Karen S. (Mosby, 1999-06)

Older adults constitute 20% of the ED population. Of older patients discharged from the emergency department, 40% receive at least one new medication to add to their already complex medication regimen. The purpose of this ...
Antigovernment sentiment and support for universal access to care: are they incompatible?

Goldsteen, Raymond L.; Goldsteen, Karen; Kronenfeld, Jennie J.; Hann, Neil E. (American Public Health Association, 1997-01)

Attitudes toward universal access to medical care were examined to determine whether support for it among people opposed to government involvement in health care was modified by three proxy measures of self-interest: being ...
Assessment tool for nursing student computer competencies

Elder, Betty L.; Koehn, Mary L. (National League for Nursing, 2009-05)

Computer skills have been established as important for nursing students and for graduate nurses. No current research was found on the best method to evaluate the skills of incoming nursing students. The purpose of this ...
Capturing the full measure of patient outcome improvement using a self-assessed health adjustment

Long, Michael J.; McQueen, David A.; Lescoe-Long, Mary A.; Schurman, John R. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2005-10)

Self-assessed health (SAH) status is a very simple four-, or five-category self-reported measure of health status that has been shown to be a powerful predictor of mortality, service use and total cost of medical care ...
Dental hygienists and long-term care

Ablah, Carol R.; Pickard, Ruth B. (American Dental Hygienists' Association, 1998)

This study examined the willingness of dental hygienists to work in long-term care (LTC) facilities providing oral health care to the elderly.
Effectiveness of a videotape for sexual counseling after myocardial infarction

Steinke, Elaine E.; Swan, James H. (John Wiley & Sons, 2004-08)

A two-group randomized clinical trial was used to test the hypothesis that patients with myocardial infarction (MI) who receive both written instructions and a videotape to view at home will have greater knowledge, better ...
Effect of light and season on pain and depression in subjects with rheumatic disorders

Hawley, Donna J.; Wolfe, Frederick (Elsevier, 1994-11)

The clinical and neurochemical association between depression and season noted in seasonal affective disorder (SAD) has suggested that clinical pain might also be linked to season, perhaps through similar neurochemistry ...
The high-risk register for hearing loss in Kansas: some preliminary data

Wynne, M. K.; Molloy, T.; Bloom, B. T. (Kansas Medical Society, 1992-06)
Knowledge and attitudes of older adults about sexuality in ageing: a comparison of two studies

Steinke, Elaine E. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 1994-03)

Two studies using separate samples sought to explore differences among male and female elders on their knowledge, attitudes, and sexual behaviour using a nonexperimental approach. Two different samples from separate health ...
Marital status and health care expenditures among the elderly in a managed care organization

Cabrera-Alonso, Juliana; Long, Michael J.; Bangalore, Vinay G; Lescoe-Long, Mary A. (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003-07)

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship of marital status in and health care expenditures among the elderly in a managed care organization. The study population consisted of 277 functionally impaired ...
Marital status in rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic disorders: a study of 7,293 patients

Hawley, Donna J.; Wolfe, Frederick; Cathey, M. A.; Roberts, F. K. (Journal of Rheumatology Publishing, 1991-05)

Divorce has been considered to be increased in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), perhaps as a result of the stress of serious chronic illness. We studied marital status in 7,293 consecutive rheumatic disease patients attending ...
The NCLEX-RN and nurse educators

Washburn, J.; Short, L. (Slack, 1992-04)

The involvement of nurse educators with recent NCLEX-RN changes was studied. One hundred and twenty administrators from associate (ADN) and baccalaureate (BSN) degree programs across the country responded to a questionnaire ...
Nurses' perceptions of evidence-based nursing practice

Koehn, Mary L.; Lehman, Karen D. (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008-04)

This paper is a report of a study to investigate Registered Nurses' perceptions, attitudes and knowledge/skills associated with evidence-based practice.
Pain, disability, and pain/disability relationships in seven rheumatic disorders: a study of 1,522 patients

Hawley, Donna J.; Wolfe, Frederick (Journal of Rheumatology Publishing, 1991-10)

We studied the pain, Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire functional disability, pain/disability ratio, and psychological scores in 1,522 patients with rheumatic disease with 7 distinct disorders. Individual differences ...
Perspectives of nurses and patients on the need for sexual counseling of MI patients

Steinke, Elaine E.; Patterson-Midgley, Pat (John Wiley & Sons, 1998-03)

The concept of sexual integrity was used to analyze nurses' and patients' perceptions of the need to provide sexual counseling for patients in the acute care setting who have had a myocardial infarction. A qualitative ...
Practicing dental hygienists' perceptions about the bachelor of science in dental hygiene and the oral health practitioner

Anderson, Kelly L.; Smith, Barbara S. (American Dental Education Association, 2009-10)

No research data are available about practicing dental hygienists' opinions regarding the Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene (B.S.D.H.) and the oral health practitioner (OHP), a new professional category in dental ...
The prevalence and meaning of fatigue in rheumatic disease

Wolfe, Frederick; Hawley, Donna J.; Wilson, K. (Journal of Rheumatology Publishing, 1996-08)

To determine the prevalence of fatigue in rheumatic disease; to characterize the strength of associations between demographic and clinical features and fatigue; to identify predictors of fatigue, and to determine the ...
Progress in sexual counseling by cardiac nurses, 1994 to 2009

Steinke, Elaine E.; Mosack, Victoria; Barnason, Susan; Wright, David W. (Mosby, 2011-05)

To examine trends in the practice of sexual counseling by cardiac nurses.