PubMed Health⌕ Search

SEARCH · PubMed Health

Results for “NURSING PROFESSION”

Explore indexed PubMed citations for clinical trials, systematic reviews and public health research. Read source abstracts and follow each citation to its original PubMed record.

Quote a phrase for an exact phrase match. Source license links do not imply unrestricted reuse.

At least 451 records · Page 25Linked to original sources
PubMed2003

Bullying in the nursing profession.

BACKGROUND: Self-esteem is a major predictor of behaviour. Nurses with healthy self-esteem are likely to deliver therapeutic patient care, while those with low self-esteem are less likely to do so. AIM: The aim of the 3-year study discussed here was to explore students' self-esteem and how their experiences of preregistration education influenced its development over the period of the programme. RESEARCH METHODS: Students participated in unstructured qualitative interviews at the beginning and end of their 3-year preregistration course and a grounded theory approach was used for data collection and analysis. FINDINGS: Bullying was found to be commonplace in the transition to becoming a nurse. Students were bullied and also witnessed patients being bullied by qualified nurses. The internalization of nursing norms meant that students then bullied others. Students' self-esteem was low. CONCLUSION: Bullying, and its effects on self-esteem, are perpetuated by practices within nursing. This situation will only be changed if nurses and educators transform their practice and the context in which bullying occurs. Otherwise, each new generation of nurses will continue to be socialized into negative practices which undermine both their own feelings of self-worth and standards of nursing care.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

Thrombolytic therapy and the nursing profession. Results of a statewide survey.

A statewide survey of 624 nurses in 92 hospitals in Massachusetts indicates that recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator and streptokinase are the most widely available thrombolytic agents. Nurses play an active role in drug reconstitution and administration, but only 20% of the total respondents participate consistently in screening procedures. The majority of patients were informed about the risks and benefits of treatment before initiation of therapy. Nurses reported their major management concern was internal bleeding, with cost of treatment being a minor concern.

Adult↗
PubMed2003

[The underpaid nursing profession: myth or reality].

The originality of this research lies in its object, nurses salaries, a subject that is often discussed amongst professionals, yet rarely broached in writing. The concepts of salaries and salaried workers are examined, then, through literature, a list of salary data from 1845 to 1945 is made. The study of nursing personnel salaries from 1945 to 2001 begins with a reconstruction of salary charts, continuing with an internal analysis of the private and semi-public sector, then alternatively with the teachers. This work provides objective information on the aspect of this profession's salaries and uncovers numerous questions on the origins of wage increases.

Career Mobility↗
PubMed1981

The implementation of nursing research related to the nursing profession in Northern Ireland.

Adopting the holistic approach to the definition of nursing as purported by Treece & Treece (1977), this paper presents the findings of the reported efforts of five grades of nursing personnel, directly involved in hospital care in Northern Ireland, to utilize research information in their area of work during the 12 months up to Spring 1979. It draws the conclusion that these groups have not yet begun to identify to any great extent the importance of research to nursing practice, or with the need to devise a process through which research can be implemented and evaluated.

Education, Nursing, Continuing↗