This study was undertaken to ascertain mathematical weaknesses demonstrated by nursing students beginning clinical practice in a selected collegiate school of nursing. The purposes of the study were: (1) to ascertain the mathematical weaknesses of the nursing students beginning clinical practice in a selected school of nursing as demonstrated by...
The problem of this study was to determine whether the direct nursing care of premature infants of different weights varied as to the number of nursing activities performed and the amount of time utilized for these activities in relation to the weight of the infant. An analysis of the direct...
The point of departure of the study is the observation that over fifty per cent of cases of infantile eczema develop asthma in the majority of cases by four years of age. It would be of great clinical vlue to be able to more skillfully predict the development of asthma...
The problem of this study was to ascertain whether the graduates of a selected professional nursing program were prepared with an understanding of administration that enabled them to assume responsibilities of the graduate professional nurse. The research method used in the study was normative survey and the technique employed was...
The purposes of the study were: (1) to determine if practical nurses were performing the functions of patient teaching and ward administration in four selected Kansas hospitals, and (2) to determine the frequency of performance of these functions by the practical nurses. The research method used was descriptive-survey with a...
This study was conducted to determine the information that doctors, nurses, and mothers considered useful to parents in the preparation of the preschool age child for hospitalization. The purposes of the study were to: (1) elicit from these persons the information considered by them important to parents in the preparation...
The purpose of this study was to determine, on the basis of opinions of head nurses, directors of nursing service and hospital administrators, whether a central supply service could be operated as efficiently under non-nursing administrative control as it could be under the control of the nursing department. The normative-survey...
The purposes of the study were to develop a guide which would provide the nursing instructor with a list of materials from which to select learning experiences that would aid the nursing student to develop an understanding of the principles of communicable disease, and to illustrate how these learning experiences...
This study was a survey of public health nurses opinions concerning selected factors involved in counseling parents of mentally subnormal children. The purposes were to: (l) obtain the public health nurses' opinions regarding some of the needs and problems of families with mentally subnormal children; (2) identify the areas in...
In the modern practice of Allergy, it is occasionally necessary or convenient to perform routine diagnostic skin testing while the patient is taking antihistamines. Current texts contain general statements that antihistamines depress skin reactions, but no quantitative data are given. Present concepts are based on work done with antigen challenge...