Browsing Nursing Undergraduate Theses by Issue Date
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A Suggested Program For The Improvement Of Public Health Nursing In Maternity And Newborn Care In The Mountain Province, Philippines
(1958-04-01)To the present, there has been no study made on the public health nursing aspects of maternity and newborn care in the Mountain Province, Philippines, and no comparison made of the past and present health conditions of the ... -
A Study Of The Correlation Among Pre-Nursing, Achievement And State Board Test Pool Of A Select Group Of Students
(1958-04-01)The testing program in schools of nursing has become increasingly significant within the past ten years. Pre-nursing tests, achievement tests and the state board test pool, constructed and administered by the National ... -
The Responsibility Toward Rehabilitation Of The Nurse In A General Hospital
(1958-04-01)Because rehabilitation is an ares of growing importance in total patient care and because nurses commonly make the misjudgment that rehabilitation includes only vocational aspects, the purpose of this paper is to show the ... -
A Study Of The Agencies And Personnel Available In Montana To Give Information And Guidance To The "New Mother"
(1961-04-01)In routine daily care of the mother and baby in our maternity wards, careful consideration should be given by the nurse to the emotional needs of the mother and to her needs for instruction and guidance. This experience ... -
A Survey Of The Problems Of Visiting Hours In The Pediatric Ward Of A General Hospital
(1961-04-01)Are liberal visiting hours harmful or beneficial for the emotional health of the pediatric patient? The purpose of this paper is to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion to the problem. Much has been written on this subject ... -
A Survey Of The Spiritual Care Administered To The Hospitalized Patient By The Student Nurse In The Four Catholic Hospitals In The State Of Montana
(1964-04-01)Today, nursing has placed a great deal of emphasis on the care of the whole patient, physical, emotional, and spiritual. Although the student nurse possesses sufficient theoretical knowledge about the spiritual care of ... -
The Therapeutic Value Of Play Therapy In The Hospitalized Child
(1964-04-01)In routine daily care of the hospitalized child in the pediatric department, careful consideration should be given by the nurse to the emotional needs of the child and to his instruction and guidance. For a child this ... -
Nursing in Montana: Institutional and Organizational Changes, 1961 - 1976
(1978-04-01)The nineteen hundreds saw American institutions as custodial centers whose goals were to keep the patient safe, guard him, and manage him as he was incapable of managing himself. The early institutions stripped the client ... -
The Relationship Between Feeding Method And Rate Of Weight Gain In The First Six Months Of Life
(1981-04-01)Obesity is the most important nutritional disorder in the United States today.1 The nursing profession has little need to be reminded of the clinical problem of obesity. There are concerns related to the social unacceptability ... -
An Exploratory Study Of The Right To Treatment Of The De-institutionalized, Civilly Committed, Conditionally Released Mentally Ill Patients From State Mental Health Facilities
(1981-04-01)In 1963, under President John F. Kennedy, federal legislation was passed toward developing new methods to treat the adult mentally ill in terms of decreasing the physical size of state hospitals, improving their resources, ... -
The Advantages Of Computerized Diagnosis Related Groups In Health Care And Medical Record Administration
(1985-04-01)In 1965, Congress passed legislation to provide health insurance for the aged and disabled. This legislation, also known as Public Law 89-97 or Medicare, became effective on July 1, 1966. This act of Congress has had a ... -
Nursing Informatics: A Challenge for Change
(1996-04-01)Although information systems were introduced into the health care setting over thirty years ago, their full potential remains consistently under-realized by nurses (Bongartz, 1988) . Kurt Lewin's Change Theory provides the ... -
Alzheimer's Disease And Hospice Care: A Biopsychosocial Model Approach
(1997-04-01)The document is designed for "lay people." That is, I wrote it specifically for family members of people with Alzheimer's disease in an effort to explain some of the things that happen during the course of the disease. I ... -
Nursing's Role in the Identification and Treatment of Bulimia
(1997-04-01)A review of the epidemiology, etiology, treatment and prevention of bulimia, a review of nursing process as it relates to bulimia, and the identification of a screening tool to assess bulimia is important to identify and ... -
An Exploration of the Role of the Nurse as Client Advocate in the Ethical Dilemmas of In Vitro Fertilization
(1998-04-01)In the following paper, there will be a discussion on infertility and in vitro fertilization (IVF), with a primary focus on the ethical dilemmas that have arisen with the introduction of IVF. This discussion begins with a ... -
A Holistic (Multi-Dimensional) Consideration of the Impact and Meaning of Christianity in the Lives of Four World War II Veterans
(1999-04-01)The purpose of this qualitative study is to consider the holistic impact and meaning of Christianity in the lives of four World War II veterans and subsequent implications for the author as a graduating professional nurse ... -
Explorative Case Study of Communicative Competence in 19 Year-Old Male with Severe Communication Impairments
(2000-04-01)The development of communication and language skills is vital to fulfilling the goals of expressing needs and wants, exchanging information, and developing social closeness. The process of building communicative competence ... -
Our Soil, OurSelves: Ecotherapy for the Nurse, Patient, and Planet
(2003-04-01)The nursing profession is concerned with the health and well-being of individuals and their physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs. Each need, or dimension, must be explored in isolation, as well as in relation ... -
Facing the Issue of Cultural Sensitivity with Female Patients who have Undergone Circumcision: A Survey ofNursing Students’ Knowledge and Perceptions Concerning the Practice of Circumcision
(2004-04-01)With an influx of refugees coming to the United States, the need to be culturally sensitive has become increasingly important. Health care workers are now being exposed to what was once a relatively unknown issue in the ... -
Suffering and Relaxing: The Experience of Three Women with Fibromyalgia Receiving Therapeutic Touch
(2004-04-01)Fibromyalgia is a potentially debilitating disease characterized by chronic pain, fatigue, and depression. The purpose of this research project was to describe the effects of Therapeutic Touch, an alternative therapy, on ...