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M Brendtro

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PubMed1989

Battered women: how can nurses help?

Research findings about the experience of 1,000 battered wives are presented in this paper. A total of 146 once-battered wives volunteered to be interviewed about their backgrounds, their victimization, and their use of personal strategies, informal help-sources, and formal help-sources to end the violence in their lives. As part of an article in Woman's Day magazine about this research, women who were currently or who had been previously battered were invited to respond to a questionnaire. The first 854 questionnaires returned in usable form were added to the interviews to create a 1,000-case national data base. An important finding of the study is that formal help-sources differ significantly in their effectiveness in providing service to battered women. The women in this study rated health care personnel as less effective than any other formal source of help. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the research findings for nursing practice as they relate to the need for: a) awareness by the nurse of her or his own attitudes about battered women, b) understanding of the dynamics of battering, c) knowledge and skills for assessment of battering, and d) effective strategies for nursing intervention.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
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Nursing faculty: one generation away from extinction?

Concern over an impending shortage of qualified nursing faculty sparked a statewide survey of nurses with graduate degrees in one midwestern state. A return rate of 61 per cent yielded a sample of 288. In general, nursing faculty members were older than nurses with graduate degrees employed in other roles. Three fourths of the sample worked full-time in stable positions in which they intended to remain until retirement. Fewer than one third were nurse educators; one-third were hospital employees. Nearly half the sample had nonnursing graduate degrees despite local availability of two nursing master's programs. Noncompetitive academic salaries, desire for clinical practice, and rising expectations in higher education were factors deterring nurses with graduate degrees from pursuing faculty roles. Improved compensation, greater respect, closer proximity to work, more realistic expectations, and improved opportunity to continue clinical practice were viewed as incentives to entice practicing nurses into faculty roles. Recommendations for addressing these important challenges are summarized. The next generation of nurses depends on strategic planning now to build the pool of qualified faculty for the future.

Education, Nursing↗