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H S Laschinger

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PubMed2001

A relaxation training program to increase self-efficacy for anxiety control in Alzheimer family caregivers.

This study investigated whether relaxation training would increase caregivers' self-efficacy for controlling anxiety associated with difficult behaviors by care recipients. Thirty-six individuals caring for relatives with Alzheimer's disease were taught four types of relaxation techniques. Caregivers' self-efficacy increased following the intervention. Length of time spent in the caregiving role and duration of time since care recipients' diagnosis were significantly related to caregiver self-efficacy before the intervention, but became non-significant following the intervention. An insignificant decrease in incidence of reported behavioral problems occurred following the intervention.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1997

The effect of a clinical practicum on undergraduate nursing students' self-efficacy for community-based family nursing practice.

Providing family nursing care using a collaborative practice model presents a challenge to undergraduate students and to faculty who structure their learning experiences. A pre-test-post-test design was used to assess the impact of a 13-week family nursing clinical practicum on the perceived self-efficacy of two groups of nursing students in three areas: knowledge related to family nursing, home visiting, and collaborative practice. Students completed the Family Nursing Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (FNSE) at the beginning of the academic year and 4 and 8 months later to coincide with the timing of the practicum for each group (fall or winter term). A two-factor repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed a significant group X time effect (lambda = .80, p < .001). Students' self-efficacy differed significantly by group at time 2 only (t = 4.3, p < .001), supporting the positive effects of the clinical practicum on students' self-efficacy. Consistent with Bandura's (1977, 1986) theory, students rated actual performance of family nursing skills in a clinical setting as the most important source of efficacy information. Implications for designing meaningful clinical experiences in family nursing are discussed.

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PubMed1996

Power and opportunity in public health nursing work environments.

Kanter's structural theory of power in organizations provided the conceptual framework for this comparative study on perceptions of power of two levels of nurses working in three public health agencies during a time of program transition. Forty-six public health nurses and 10 nurse managers were surveyed to examine their perceptions of the amount of power existing in their own and their counterparts' jobs. Propositions from Kanter's theory were supported by the data. Both groups rated their work environments to be somewhat low in power, although managers perceived themselves to be significantly more empowered in their work environments than did staff nurses. In addition, staff nurses perceived themselves to have significantly less access to empowerment structures (opportunity, information, support, and resources) than their managers perceived them to have. Staff nurse empowerment was found to be significantly related to perceptions of their immediate managers' power in the organization.

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PubMed1990

Building undergraduate nursing students' knowledge of the research process in nursing.

This article describes a simple approach to teaching a nursing research course to undergraduate nursing students which was received with enthusiasm by both students and faculty. Through short answer progressive assignments throughout the semester involving students in the thinking processes required at each stage of the research process, student knowledge of the research process was progressively developed. Students chose a topic of personal interest for a proposed study and carried this topic through the various phases of the research process. Students positively evaluated this approach frequently commenting that the approach helped them to "think in different ways than before" and strongly recommended continuance of the approach in future course presentations.

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Helping students apply a nursing conceptual framework in the clinical setting.

The author describes one way of helping nursing students apply a nursing conceptual model in their patient care experiences. A structured data collection tool designed to secure data on salient aspects of the nursing model is described and illustrated in part. Students reported that using this tool in daily patient care helped them transfer classroom content on nursing theory to their patient care experiences and guided their assessments of their patients according to the dictates of the model.

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