Medication errors: ending the blame-game.
Here, review an analysis of leadership's reaction to medication errors made by nurses, pharmacists, and physicians.
Attitude of Health Personnel↗
Biomedical subjects
Zane Robinson Wolf
Publications and source records attributed to Zane Robinson Wolf.
Relationship between nurse caring and patient satisfaction in patients undergoing invasive cardiac procedures.
Cardiac patients (N = 73) undergoing interventional cardiology studies reported perceptions of nurse caring and patient satisfaction with care. A moderately strong relationship (r = 0.53, p = 0.01) between caring and satisfaction was found. Male and female subjects did not differ on perceptions of caring and patient satisfaction. Since caring is considered fundamental to the nature of nursing, practicing nurses must appreciate its connection to outcomes, such as patient satisfaction.
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Strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students: a descriptive study.
The purpose of this study was to describe the patterns of strengths and weaknesses of faculty teaching performance as reported by undergraduate and graduate nursing students on a narrative section of a university faculty evaluation form. The study used a descriptive, retrospective, qualitative design. The summary forms represented a convenience sample of undergraduate and graduate nursing course sections (N = 317) taught by full-time and part-time nursing faculty from spring 1998 through fall 2002, including summer sessions. Course sections represented didactic and clinical education experiences. Content analysis was used to interpret the recorded comments representing strengths and weaknesses in faculty performance from students' perspectives. Patterns and associated themes were derived. Faculty performance strengths included patterns such as being a knowledgeable and strategic teacher, creating a positive learning environment, demonstrating professionalism, displaying scholarly traits, and being supportive. Weaknesses included patterns such as poor delivery of content, acting disorganized, being inaccessible, displaying weak teaching skills, being dishonorable, being unprofessional, and displaying negative traits. Implications for continuous quality improvement in teaching/learning processes are presented.
Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate↗
Teaching the code book: preparation for data entry.
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Abstracting and Indexing↗
Exploring the audit trail for qualitative investigations.
The audit trail helps to establish the credibility of qualitative studies and serves to convince the scientific community of their rigor. The author describes the activities of the audit trail and explores the creation of its structures and processes. Excerpts of audit trails from qualitative studies are presented for faculty and students.
Data Collection↗