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• Associate and baccalaureate degree nursing students' knowledge of the attitudes toward medication errors and reporting medication errors: Implications for curriculum development
  This paper evaluates senior nursing students' knowledge and attitudes of medication errors and reporting errors. This study was conducted to evaluate a need for improvements to nursing education on these two concepts. This mixed method study was conducted using a modified version of the Medication Administration Error Reporting Survey by Wakefield, Uden-Holman, and Wakefield (2005) […]
  Teal, Tabatha D.
• Exploring the homeless persons perception of living in a long-term care facility
  Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of homeless persons admitted to a nursing home facility. Originally, the study was to explore their understanding of and their experience with advance health care planning; coincidently, the participants were more open to their experience of living in a long-term care facility. Method: […]
  Woods, Janice X.
• An ethnographic study of pre-graduate precepted nursing student clinical placements in long-term care homes
  Long-Term Care (LTC) home recruitment challenges and nursing student disinterest in such clinical placements and careers, underscore this study’s urgent need. This qualitative focused ethnography explored preceptor, faculty advisor, and pre-graduate student beliefs, values, and practices contributing to positive LTC home clinical placements. Upon receiving research ethics board clearance, six participants were recruited through purposive […]
  Meloche, Fran M.
• Primary care access and use among homeless persons
  On a single night in the United States, more than 550,000 persons are homeless, a number that has increased in recent years. Homeless persons are disproportionately afflicted by acute and chronic communicable and non-communicable diseases, mental health disorders, and substance use disorders. These health disparities contribute to premature mortality: a marked life expectancy gap, as […]
  Dickins, Kirsten A.
• Exploring factors linked to weight status in Salvadoran infants
  Background: Obesity rates in the US have risen dramatically, especially among Hispanic adults and children. Because of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Latino children by preschool age, it is prudent to examine maternal factors potentially linked to weight status during an infant's first year of life. The literature on risk factors of […]
  Kiraly, Carmen M.