This study was undertaken to: (1) ascertain the patterns of suicide and attempted suicide in a selected city, and (2) explore the need for follow-up by the public health nurse of patients who had attempted suicide. The purposes were to: (l) stimulate an awareness in professional workers of the complexity...
The purpose of this study was to identify the nursing staff behaviors that were judged effective in helping the relatives. The critical incident technique was the research method chosen for this study. Twenty-nine relatives of hospitalized patients were interviewed in a state psychiatric hospital. A total of fifty-four incidents were...
The purpose of this study was to determine the energy cost of ambulation in traumatic paraplegics, and to lay the groundwork for continued study into the metabolism of these patients under various conditions. Objects of consideration were the level of lesion and the rate and type of gait. Samples of...
In response to the growing concern for effective communication encountered in the modern hospital this study sought to discover a method that would improve attitudes of the hospital head nurses toward communication. A short introductory course in "general semantics" using three selected basic premises was prepared to be used in...
The purpose of this study was to develop a method for determining the costs involved in the employment and initial orientation of a graduate staff nurse at X Hospital, to determine the average cost involved in the employment and initial orientation of a graduate staff nurse at X Hospital, and...
The problem of this study was to determine if nurses' communication behavior could be measured according to four postulated levels of communication; and if the distribution of the use of these levels indicated that there were reactive nurse communicators and restrictive nurse communicators. The method of study was descriptive-survey with...
This study was conducted to determine the effects that supportive nursing care had on primiparous patients during labor and delivery. The purposes of the study were to: (l) determine the degree of satisfaction patients received from supportive nursing care; (2) determine the effects that supportive nursing care had on the...
The problem was to determine the extent to which a selected group of professional nurses employed on a part-time basis were satisfied with certain selected factors relative to their employment. It was the purpose of this study to (l) gather data from selected nurses employed on a part-time basis to...
The problem of this study was to investigate the perceptions of the psychiatric nurse and the patient in the therapeutic community. Those perceptions to be studied were: (l) the nurses' perceptions of their actual role and their ideal role; (2) the patients' perceptions of the nurses' actual role; and (3)...
The study was designed to determine if the care given a selected group of patients in the hospital emergency department was individualized. The purposes of the study were: (1) to establish criteria by which it could be determined if patient care was individualized, (2) to utilize the criteria to determine...