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M J Wilhite

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PubMed1991

Establishing incidence and administrative protocols for do not resuscitate orders.

An order not to resuscitate refers only to CPR and does not imply the omission of any other type of medical care. Institutional DNR policies should include specific statements reflecting resuscitation for those without DNR orders, the patients' wishes, medical conditions, roles of family, protocol describing the process for DNR orders, scope of DNR orders, and frequency of review of DNR orders. The most common reasons for not having written DNR protocols were that directors of nursing did not have guidelines for or did not feel qualified to develop policies, and that they were not sure of the legal implications of such policies. An interagency ethics committee can serve as an advisory committee, but all medical and nursing decisions should be made by the appropriate professional, based on agency policy.

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Changes in nursing students' stereotypic attitudes toward old people.

The twofold purpose of this study was to determine if: 1) student stereotyped attitudes toward old people would diminish during an eight-week introduction to a professional nursing course which featured laboratory and classroom components on health-illness concepts in the care of geriatric patients, and 2) changes in student attitude toward the aged were related to instructor attitude toward old people. Eighty nursing students were randomly assigned to ten faculty members for experimental treatment which consisted of nursing home laboratory experiences and within-group interaction and instruction. Students were pre- and posttested using the Attitude toward Old People Questionnaire. The same instrument was used to assess instructors' attitudes at the beginning of the course. Results revealed that students' stereotypic attitudes were decreased during the course and that the amount of change in student attitude was functionally related to faculty attitude toward the aged.

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