The Executive Editor and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of School Nur... more The Executive Editor and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of School Nursing recognize the following people for their commitment to provide feedback to authors. This list of 210 reviewers represents those who completed reviews between September 22, 2011, and September 27, 2012. Thank you all for your service!
Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association, 2003
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning remains a common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The... more Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning remains a common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The classic signs of cherry red lips, cyanosis and retinal haemorrhage rarely occur, however.
As a long-term political relationship matures, the nurse's scope of influence with the legisl... more As a long-term political relationship matures, the nurse's scope of influence with the legislator generally grows and mutual respect ensues. In the best relationships, legislators seek the opinion of nurses on health care questions and ask them to share their expertise at informal meetings or through formal testimony at a policy committee hearing. When possible, backing friendly legislators from either party during their re-election bids places nurses in a proactive rather than a reactive relationship with legislative policymakers. Alliances-are further developed when nursing organizations endorse legislators who have taken pro-nursing stances on important issues. Nurses or nursing groups that take the initial step toward involvement in the political process are the ones who will influence the future of nursing and health care policy. Visionary nurses throughout the past century helped establish nursing as a professional discipline. They were risk takers with a dream and acted f...
This qualitative research study was undertaken to investigate the experience of being a registere... more This qualitative research study was undertaken to investigate the experience of being a registered nurse (RN) student enrolled in a specific nontraditional nursing program, ie, Regents College Nursing Program (RCNP), from the perspective of the RCNP baccalaureate graduate. Fifteen RN bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) graduates of RCNP participated in this descriptive phenomenological investigation in which participant interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed phenomenologically using Colaizzi's methodology. An exploration of the language of human experience and human expression yielded 101 themes within 20 theme clusters, yet the meaning of the experience was characterized by 8 major clusters that included recounting reasons for choosing RCNP, describing learning approaches for testing, describing the challenges of testing conditions, experiencing stress and describing its effects, describing feelings of uneasiness, describing responses to failure, providing support, and finding ways of mastering Regents. It also was discovered that an underlying theme of stress suggested a pervasive pattern throughout the thematic clusters: stress wove its way throughout the fabric of the experience and caused a disruption of the entire design. The interpreted description of the lived experience of these RN students uncovered reasons for RN baccalaureate program selection by nurses that supported previous research assumptions, isolated specific stressors affecting nurses involved in performance testing, and clarified specific needs of nurses, especially with regard to support networks and learning resources. The results of this study may provide future RN students with information to make a more informed decision about choosing RCNP for a baccalaureate program. In addition, a better understanding of adult learners may assist nurse educators in developing curricula that facilitate professional growth for RN students and relieve some of the possible stress associated with the education process.
International journal of nursing education scholarship, 2010
Since the aim of this study was to understand human experience, phenomenology was used to researc... more Since the aim of this study was to understand human experience, phenomenology was used to research the lived experience of chronically ill baccalaureate nursing students. Purposive sampling yielded ten participants with at least one diagnosed chronic illness. Interviews were tape-recorded and verbatim transcriptions were analyzed through the seven-step Colaizzi (1978) method. Four major themes emerged: (1) needing to be normal, (2) dealing with the behaviors of others, (3) enduring the restrictions of illness, and (4) learning from self to care for others. This study supported previous findings about the disruption of illness and the methods used by the chronically ill to cope with disease-related symptoms. It also showed that chronic illness creates an inner strength and an intuitive knowledge about the body that provides meaning and direction in the lives of the chronically ill and yields a deeper understanding about the needs of others.
The case method stimulates critical thinking through problem analysis of real or hypothetical cas... more The case method stimulates critical thinking through problem analysis of real or hypothetical cases. Developing clear, concise, fact-filling cases that promote problem solving in the classroom is not easy. The author presents a systematic, seven-step process for case construction.
The Executive Editor and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of School Nur... more The Executive Editor and the members of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Journal of School Nursing recognize the following people for their commitment to provide feedback to authors. This list of 210 reviewers represents those who completed reviews between September 22, 2011, and September 27, 2012. Thank you all for your service!
Emergency nurse : the journal of the RCN Accident and Emergency Nursing Association, 2003
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning remains a common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The... more Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning remains a common preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The classic signs of cherry red lips, cyanosis and retinal haemorrhage rarely occur, however.
As a long-term political relationship matures, the nurse's scope of influence with the legisl... more As a long-term political relationship matures, the nurse's scope of influence with the legislator generally grows and mutual respect ensues. In the best relationships, legislators seek the opinion of nurses on health care questions and ask them to share their expertise at informal meetings or through formal testimony at a policy committee hearing. When possible, backing friendly legislators from either party during their re-election bids places nurses in a proactive rather than a reactive relationship with legislative policymakers. Alliances-are further developed when nursing organizations endorse legislators who have taken pro-nursing stances on important issues. Nurses or nursing groups that take the initial step toward involvement in the political process are the ones who will influence the future of nursing and health care policy. Visionary nurses throughout the past century helped establish nursing as a professional discipline. They were risk takers with a dream and acted f...
This qualitative research study was undertaken to investigate the experience of being a registere... more This qualitative research study was undertaken to investigate the experience of being a registered nurse (RN) student enrolled in a specific nontraditional nursing program, ie, Regents College Nursing Program (RCNP), from the perspective of the RCNP baccalaureate graduate. Fifteen RN bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) graduates of RCNP participated in this descriptive phenomenological investigation in which participant interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed phenomenologically using Colaizzi's methodology. An exploration of the language of human experience and human expression yielded 101 themes within 20 theme clusters, yet the meaning of the experience was characterized by 8 major clusters that included recounting reasons for choosing RCNP, describing learning approaches for testing, describing the challenges of testing conditions, experiencing stress and describing its effects, describing feelings of uneasiness, describing responses to failure, providing support, and finding ways of mastering Regents. It also was discovered that an underlying theme of stress suggested a pervasive pattern throughout the thematic clusters: stress wove its way throughout the fabric of the experience and caused a disruption of the entire design. The interpreted description of the lived experience of these RN students uncovered reasons for RN baccalaureate program selection by nurses that supported previous research assumptions, isolated specific stressors affecting nurses involved in performance testing, and clarified specific needs of nurses, especially with regard to support networks and learning resources. The results of this study may provide future RN students with information to make a more informed decision about choosing RCNP for a baccalaureate program. In addition, a better understanding of adult learners may assist nurse educators in developing curricula that facilitate professional growth for RN students and relieve some of the possible stress associated with the education process.
International journal of nursing education scholarship, 2010
Since the aim of this study was to understand human experience, phenomenology was used to researc... more Since the aim of this study was to understand human experience, phenomenology was used to research the lived experience of chronically ill baccalaureate nursing students. Purposive sampling yielded ten participants with at least one diagnosed chronic illness. Interviews were tape-recorded and verbatim transcriptions were analyzed through the seven-step Colaizzi (1978) method. Four major themes emerged: (1) needing to be normal, (2) dealing with the behaviors of others, (3) enduring the restrictions of illness, and (4) learning from self to care for others. This study supported previous findings about the disruption of illness and the methods used by the chronically ill to cope with disease-related symptoms. It also showed that chronic illness creates an inner strength and an intuitive knowledge about the body that provides meaning and direction in the lives of the chronically ill and yields a deeper understanding about the needs of others.
The case method stimulates critical thinking through problem analysis of real or hypothetical cas... more The case method stimulates critical thinking through problem analysis of real or hypothetical cases. Developing clear, concise, fact-filling cases that promote problem solving in the classroom is not easy. The author presents a systematic, seven-step process for case construction.
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