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Ruth Shearer

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PubMed2004

Assisting patients to maintain a healthy blood pressure.

Nurses can serve a significant role in helping patients reduce their blood pressure and in achieving goals for attaining a healthy blood pressure. Strategies that can help include 1.) Increase awareness of the need to assess, treat, and control blood pressure, 2.) Assist patient with high blood pressure to effective evaluation and monitoring, 3.) Motivate patients to assess and manage their blood pressure, 4.) Use correct technique to measure blood pressure, 5.) Provide patient education, 6.) Provide Patient Education Resources, and 7.) Modify treatment for older patients to achieve treatment goals.

Health Promotion↗
PubMed2003

Using role play to develop cultural competence.

Role play is a useful teaching strategy for nursing education. This strategy can simulate patient behaviors, as well as demonstrate nursing interventions that students must learn to be clinically competent. Role play is a dramatic technique that encourages participation to improvise behaviors that may be encountered in nurse-patient situations. Using this technique, participants may test behaviors and decisions in an experimental atmosphere without risk of negative effects in a relationship. Role play is useful in developing cultural competence because participants may experience diverse roles. Cultural competence is the ability to care for patients in a culturally sensitive and appropriate manner. In role play, students may participate as culturally diverse patients or as nurses encountering patients from different cultures. Various teaching strategies facilitate successful use of role play in the classroom, including defining a time frame, selected roles, specific objectives, references, and grading criteria. To optimize learning, the importance of exploration and analysis must be emphasized. Many benefits and potential problems accompany use of role play.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2003

The nurse manager in transition.

With the current, widespread, highly visible, non-fault dismissals brought about by massive hospital downsizing and restructuring, there has been a layoff of many capable, responsible, and respectable managers. In some localities it will not be possible to obtain a similar position to the one that is lost. Adjusting to this significant life transition event, moving from one job to another involves a process that is initiated when the manager's current reality is disrupted and ends when a bridge is built from the disrupted reality to one of the possible realities that can be created. During this process there are many emotional ups and downs and confusion as to identity. While what is happening may be clear to an observer, for the person in transition reality may be fractured in such a devastating way that it is like being frozen in time. Finally, a new reality is built as the old one is relinquished, and the excitement of new beginnings is experienced with a new and perhaps different role. Eventually, the pain and disappointment of losing a job is replaced with the challenges of the present. Meanwhile, while the present job seems secure it is good planning for the future to be aware and ready for the job hunt process. Getting laid off or fired is a real possibility in today's tightening economic conditions and the astute nurse manager should be ready for it.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2002

Taking charge by "letting go".

An administrator who is able to delegate to subordinates without feeling the need to "micromanage" gains power by "letting go." Power is the ability to influence others by persuasion in coercion. The administrator who is able to "let go" can enjoy the role of facilitator and mentor to subordinates. Details that were formerly obsessed about can be left to others. The administrator who has accomplished the art of "letting go" can say of a subordinate manager, "I trust the manager as a competent professional. I don't 'supervise' constantly. That would be 'micromanaging.' If that person needs some assistance, I will encourage the request."

Decision Making, Organizational↗
PubMed2002

Creating a professional image in the laboratory.

Professional image is important for all members of the health-care team, including laboratory technicians. The image of individual members not only makes a statement about the competency of the team and the self-regard of its members, but also speaks of the way the individual represents the profession. Dexterity and skill, appearance and dress, and skills in communication all contribute to the impression a patient will have of the services received and the public image of the health-care agency. Laboratory technicians play a significant role as members of the interdisciplinary team regarding patient satisfaction in health care.

Humans↗
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When your nursing student is culturally diverse.

Nursing faculty are increasingly confronted with nursing students who are culturally diverse. No longer can traditional educational strategies be expected to work with everyone, and strategies must be selected which meet the needs of the students. This article addresses the need to adapt to diversity in the classroom as well as how to personalize strategies to the needs of the students, plan appropriate interventions, and evaluate interventions for effectiveness. Use of the Giger-Davidhizar assessment model can assist the faculty in assessing for cultural differences and thus can provide a base on which to plan effective interventions.

Cultural Diversity↗