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Barriers to creating a more culturally diverse nursing profession. Linguistic bias in multiple-choice nursing exams.

As part of a grant to recruit and retain multicultural and economically disadvantaged nursing students, funding was approved for a study analyzing multiple-choice nursing course exams for linguistic and cultural bias. Nineteen exams, for a total of 673 multiple-choice test items, were analyzed for this study. The categories of analysis used to identify flaws in the test items were: testwise flaws, irrelevant difficulty in stem, irrelevant difficulty in option, linguistic/structural bias, and cultural bias. Twenty-eight types of flaws occurred at least 10 times in the reviewed exams. Flaws from each of the categories are presented and discussed; specific examples are analyzed and revised.

Cultural Diversity↗
PubMed1996

The nursing profession and its relationship with hospital managers.

This paper describes the relationship between the professional nursing and managerial imperatives in health care and explains some of the ways the managerial culture affects the working environment of professional nurses. It goes on to highlight some of the professional developments of the last 17 years and describes how these could augment the difference in imperatives. Finally it suggests ways in which the nursing profession might develop to maintain its unique contribution to health care, whilst embracing the managerial domain. This is necessary to ensure that professional nursing is nurtured and not overwhelmed by workloads and empirical assessments of nursing outputs.

Hospital Administrators↗
PubMed2001

Joining the nursing profession in Qatar: motives and perceptions.

We aimed to identify why female students in Qatar decide to become nurses and how the students perceived the community attitude towards nursing. A self-administered anonymous questionnaire was distributed to all (57) female students of the four academic classes of the Nursing Unit, University of Qatar for the academic year 1999-2000. The two commonest reasons for joining the nursing profession were an interest in medical services and the humanitarian nature of nursing. There were 33 (57.89%) students who considered there was a negative community attitude towards nursing mainly due to the presence of male patients and colleagues and the working hours. A mass media campaign and govemmental support were two strategies suggested to change this.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1998

Clinical recognition of adverse drug reactions: obstacles and opportunities for the nursing profession.

Knowing that adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can occur is only part of the challenge facing nurses today. Clinical recognition of ADRs when they occur is an equally challenging component of pharmacotherapeutics. By understanding the obstacles to their clinical recognition, nurses can design strategies that will engender renewed enthusiasm and vigilance for these complications of drug therapy. These strategies will afford the nursing profession with enhanced opportunities to assume a leadership role in the recognition and intervention of ADRs.

Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Systems↗
PubMed2002

Collective bargaining in the nursing profession: salient issues and recent developments in healthcare reform.

This article examines practical workplace issues and recent developments related to collective bargaining in the nursing profession, with emphasis on issues affected by recent reforms in the healthcare industry. Included are examples of issues most salient to nurses in their efforts to organize, given the reforms. An overview of recent developments in the political, legal, and local areas is also provided.

Collective Bargaining↗
PubMed1990

The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession.

Caring for persons with AIDS calls upon a range of physical, psychological, social, and spiritual interventions that, in the absence of a cure, can make a palpable difference for patients. The "culture of caring" that nurses bring to bear on the epidemic is shaped by their education and socialization, and by shared background characteristics. The nursing profession has been among the leaders in organizing AIDS care; such care entails stress for individuals at a time when the profession and the health care system are facing a generalized crisis, but nurses have testified to the redeeming significance they find in performing their work. It remains to be seen whether the contribution nurses and their ethos of caring have made will endure to influence the relative status of this profession.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗