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Two research questions are examined in this study. First, is there a relationship between the type of sexuality education policy (comprehensive vs. abstinence only) and adolescent outcomes (teen births, STDs, HIV in Florida)? The study...
This study explored the effects of a complete smoking ban on smoking behavior of employees of a hospital in north Florida. Data from the hospital's employee smoking survey was used as pre-existing data for a convenience sample of smoking...
Rural communities in the United States are served by relatively fewer health care professionals than urban or suburban areas. As the physician shortage remains a concern in rural America, the expanded roles of other health care...
Children in developing countries continue to die from diseases that are preventable or curable. These do not necessarily lead to death in the developed world. The literature reveals that every year ten to almost eleven million children...
Nursing diagnoses are a critical part of the nursing process and have been a large part of nursing education and clinical documentation for more than 30 years. Utilization of nursing diagnoses in practice is largely unknown because of...
The purpose of this study was to explore the knowledge level of EH risk factors of senior baccalaureate nursing students enrolled in a public health course in a public university in northern Florida. A convenient sample was used from one...
This study was performed to identify the reasons Florida hospital Registered Nurses leave hospital employment. The study was a descriptive study using convenience sampling. Inclusion criteria included RNs who held an active Florida RN...
Background: Patients who become lost to follow-up after bariatric surgery are "status unknown" and could be at risk for complications known to occur months and years after surgery. Bariatric programs stand to lose their designations as...
The nursing shortage is of growing concern to the nation's health care system. The problem and thus the solution are multifaceted. Many solutions exist in alleviating the nursing shortage, one of those solutions is to reduce the...
The current shortage of registered nurses in the United States has been well documented. It is a complex problem with no easy or short-term solutions. In fact, the problem is projected to worsen over the next ten to twenty years as the...
A sample of radical prostatectomy patients from a urology office located in the Southeastern United States were asked to complete a written questionnaire for the purpose of evaluating whether the radical prostatectomy procedure for...
The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the professional values of Senior Baccalaureate and Associate Degree Nursing students as measured by the Nurses Professional Values Scale, a 44 question questionnaire based on the ANA...
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