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W E Snell

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PubMed1999

A national study: the use of specialty surgical teams.

Perioperative nursing is changing in response to the increasing complexity of patient care during diverse, specialized surgical procedures. As a result, designated specialty surgical teams have developed to fulfill needs of patients, nurses and surgeons. This exploratory, descriptive study examined reasons for implementing specialty surgical teams, the frequency and RN composition of such teams and their benefits. Data concerning the prevalence and specific use of specialty surgical teams are necessary to validate and redefine the nature and role of specialized perioperative nurses. Results of the U. S. study generally paralleled the Missouri study although findings were not as pronounced. Clearly though, in both studies, specialty surgical teams are perceived very positively by study respondents.

Health Care Surveys↗
PubMed1995

The Clinical Anger Scale: preliminary reliability and validity.

This article reports preliminary evidence for the development and validation of the Clinical Anger Scale (CAS), an objective self-report instrument designed to measure the syndrome of clinical anger. Factor analysis of the CAS confirmed a unidimensional item structure; reliability analyses also demonstrated adequate internal consistency and test-retest stability for the CAS; other results indicated that the CAS was unrelated to social desirability influences. Additional findings indicated that clinical anger was associated positively with several anger-related concepts (e.g., trait anger, state anger, anger-in, anger-out, anger-control) and that the CAS was related in predictable ways to people's psychopathological symptoms, personality traits, and early family environments. Implications for future research and therapeutic assessment with the Clinical Anger Scale are discussed.

Acting Out↗
PubMed1993

Specialty surgical teams. Results of a study.

Perioperative nursing is changing in response to the increasing complexity of patient care during diverse, specialized surgical procedures. As a result, designated specialty surgical teams have evolved to fulfill needs of the patient, nurse, and surgeon. This exploratory, descriptive study examined reasons for implementing specialty surgical teams, the frequency and composition of such teams, and their perceived benefits. Data concerning the prevalence and specific use of specialty surgical teams are necessary to validate and redefine the nature and role of specialized perioperative nurses.

Cardiac Surgical Procedures↗
PubMed1989

Stereotypic beliefs about women as moderators of stress-distress relationships.

Health psychologists have begun to examine the mediating effect of gender roles in stress-distress relationships. One particular area in which attention has been focused concerns the impact of "stereotypic" beliefs about women on the distress that individuals experience in response to stressful life experiences. The present investigation examined the extent to which the gender stereotypes measured by the Beliefs About Women Scale (BAWS; Belk & Snell, 1986) intensify the impact of stressful life experiences. The results indicated that among individuals with a recent history of stressful experiences in their lives, a personal adherence to the gender stereotypes assessed by the BAWS was associated with elevated distress.

Achievement↗
PubMed1987

The attributional model of depression: a path analysis test in a naturalistic setting.

A path analysis test of the attributional model of depression was conducted in a naturalistic achievement setting (N = 77). Relatively depressed and nondepressed students reported their attributions on an academic test, and then their subsequent test performance were measured. In support of the attributional model of depression, the results indicated that for successful outcomes the attribution dimension of stability (i.e., stable vs. unstable across different situational contexts) served to buffer the influence of depression on later test performances. The results thus show that stability attributions for a successful behavior, defined in terms of consistency across different situational contexts, play a mediating role in the behavioral consequences of depression.

Achievement↗