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Timing Of Breastfeeding Initiation In Rural Haiti: A Focused Ethnography
(Nursing, 2014-03-12)
A focused ethnography aimed at describing the factors affecting the timing of breastfeeding initiation among Haitian mothers, particularly the specific cultural beliefs and practices was conducted in Artribonite, Haiti. A ...
Health Screenings Beyond A History Of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Secondary Analysis Of The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
(Nursing, 2012-04-11)
Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) affects over 200,000 women in the United States each year placing them at a sevenfold risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus within a decade of delivery as compared to women without ...
Identifying The Characterestics Of Patients With Community Versus Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
(Nursing, 2014-07-14)
Pressure ulcers (PU) are a common problem with important implications for the nursing community and for patients, including pain and suffering, delayed recovery, morbidity, mortality, and healthcare costs, but little is ...
The Pursuit Of Language Appropriate Care: Remote Simultaneous Medical Interpretation Use
(Nursing, 2010-07-19)
Background. The U.S. government mandates nurses to deliver linguistically appropriate care to hospital patients. It is difficult for nurses to implement the language mandates because there are 6,912 active living languages ...
Networking: Building Relationships
(2013-04-25)
Strategies To Improve Respiratory Outcomes In Premature Infants With Respiratory Distress Syndrome
(Nursing, 2012-04-11)
Infants born prematurely with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) are at high risk for complications from mechanical ventilation. Strategies are needed to minimize their days on the ventilator. The purpose of this study ...
Ethnography Of Chronic Pain Experiences Of Enlisted Women
(Nursing, 2010-11-01)
The American Pain Foundation reported in 2006 that 32% of military men and women with chronic pain reported that military culture is a barrier to pain care and receiving pain care jeopardized their career. Pain management ...
A Correlational Study Of A Reading Comprehension Program And Attrition Rates Of ESL Nursing Students In Texas
(Nursing, 2013-07-22)
Decreasing the attrition rate of nursing students has become an important issue for programs in Texas as a means to alleviate the nursing shortage (THECB, 2009). Programs are admitting a more diverse group of students but ...
Depressive Symptoms and Violence Exposure: Contributors to Repeat Pregnancies Among Adolescents
(Springer Publishing Company, 2015)
Depressive symptoms and violence exposure (VE) often cooccur and have been recognized to influence
childbearing; contribution to repeat pregnancy is unclear and examined in this article. This cross-sectional,
descriptive, ...