Journal of nursing scholarship : an official publication of Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
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Multicenter Study
Cultural competence among Ontario and Michigan healthcare providers.
To examine variables associated with cultural competence among urban, hospital-based healthcare providers in Ontario (Canada) and Michigan (US). ⋯ Variables significantly associated with cultural competence included prior training in cultural competency and higher educational attainment among both Ontario and Michigan healthcare providers.
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To assess how a Community Health Center (CHC) influenced access to care for uninsured people and to describe the economic effect on the local hospital. ⋯ After establishment of the CHC, ED visits by uninsured patients declined. Although a causal link cannot be made between the CHC and ED, the descriptive data provide information about a linkage between the decline of uninsured ED visits and the CHC.
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To examine nursing faculty job satisfaction and their perceptions of nursing deans' and directors' leadership styles, and to explore how the perceptions of leadership styles relate to faculty job satisfaction in Taiwan. ⋯ Three types of leadership behaviors explained significant variance (21.2%) in faculty job satisfaction in Taiwan, indicating the need for further attention to training and development for effective leadership behaviors.
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To describe the experiences of parents managing the type 1 diabetes of their young children using an insulin pump. ⋯ For this sample of parents, the health and management benefits of their children's use of the insulin pump outweighed the adjustment challenges involved in changing from MDI.
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To explicate a replicable methodology for designing and analyzing a large ongoing reliable and valid quality database to examine nurse staffing and patient care outcomes in acute care hospitals. ⋯ This working model for collecting reliable and valid data was derived from multiple hospitals across California. The data are the basis for studies to contribute to the development of evidence-based public policy, and for ongoing study of the effects of nurse staffing on clinical and service outcomes.