Biomedical subjects
S Hutchinson
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Intergenerational geriatric remotivation.
This piece of a larger study on intergenerational geriatric remotivation discusses influential program variables. Interviews, participant observation, and videotapes were used to study a program in the Southeast and a comparison program in the Midwest. The variables examined were frequency, longevity, and constancy of intergenerational contact, problem discovery and problem resolution procedures, physical environment, and activity structure. As practitioners contemplate establishing intergenerational programs, a number of issues regarding program structure need to be considered to ensure that outcomes match expectations.
Interviewing institutionalized elders: threats to validity.
In the course of an ethnographic study of an intergenerational Geriatric Remotivation Program in a Southeastern U.S. nursing home, we encountered difficulties in interviewing institutionalized elders that threatened the validity of the data. The purpose of this paper is to explicate the difficulties and to recommend strategies for overcoming them. Four main clusters of elder characteristics threatened the validity of data: (1) physical characteristics; (2) cognitive characteristics; (3) affective characteristics; and (4) personal characteristics. Problematic data were categorized as "insufficient," "unclear," "nice" and "emotionally charged." Strategies for increasing validity when interviewing impaired institutionalized elders included increasing the sample size, returning to the setting frequently, lengthening observation periods, recognizing the value of stories, recognizing the value of socializing, using videotapes, collecting both interview and observation data, and having elders view and respond to videotaped recordings.
Myths in health care ethics.
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Neonatal nurses and issues in research ethics.
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Self-care and job stress.
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A method of integrating family nursing in an undergraduate curriculum.
The authors describe integrating theoretical content of families into an undergraduate curriculum based on the biopsychosocial spheres. Using audiovisual materials, and printed media, the student is introduced to independent learning and applies content to clinical settings in the community.
Validity threats in scheduled semistructured research interviews.
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Chemically dependent nurses: the trajectory toward self-annihilation.
Interviews and participant observation were used to generate a substantive grounded theory that explains the process of nurses becoming chemically dependent. Data collection included: reading 10 case histories of nurses who had appeared before the Board of Nursing because of a problem with chemical dependency; interviewing 20 nurses who admitted their dependence on drugs and/or alcohol and who were in the process of recovery; interviewing representatives of the Board of Nursing, Department of Professional Regulation, and nurse investigators; attending Board of Nursing hearings and meetings concerning nurses who violated the Nurse Practice Act; accompanying a nurse investigator on her rounds to do urine checks on chemically dependent nurses presently on probation; and observing meetings of a chemically dependent nurses' self-help group for a period of 1 year. Findings revealed that as a result of physical and/or psychological pain nurses who became chemically dependent embarked on a trajectory of self-annihilation. The stages and phases of the self-annihilation process are discussed.