Power (Psychology)

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Influence and opportunity: reflections on the U.S. role in global public health.

Todays global health crisis illustrates many of the transnational governance challenges the United States faces today. In the arena of global health, the United States can create a new role for itself by moving beyond a national-interest paradigm and ...
Ilona Kickbusch (Health Aff (Millwood), 200211-12)
influence-opportunity-reflections-u-s-role-global-public-health.asp

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Staff retention and empowerment: functions of leadership.

Regardless of any organizations structure and technology, the most potent leverage for exceptional performance and quality assurance resides within personnel. Retention of empowered, committed staff who believe in their organizations purpose and ...
Diana Mass (Clin Leadersh Manag Rev, 200211-12)
staff-retention-empowerment-functions-leadership.asp

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The relationship of empowerment and selected personality characteristics to nursing job satisfaction.

PURPOSE: This study reports on a secondary data analysis undertaken to better understand the determinants of job satisfaction for hospital nurses. Both workplace and personal factors can contribute to job satisfaction.THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Kanters ...
Milisa Manojlovich, Heather K Spence Laschinger (J Nurs Adm, 200211)
relationship-empowerment-selected-personality-characteristics-nursing.asp

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Relationship power, decision making, and sexual relations: an exploratory study with couples of Mexican origin.

This study explored how couples of Mexican origin define power in intimate relationships, what makes men and women feel powerful in relationships, and the role of each partner in decision making about sexual and reproductive matters. Interviews were ...
S Marie Harvey, Linda J Beckman, Carole H Browner, Christy A Sherman (J Sex Res, 200211)
relationship-power-decision-making-sexual-relations-exploratory-study.asp

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In our own image--a multidisciplinary qualitative analysis of medical education.

One aim of reform of undergraduate medical education is to achieve a better balance between an emphasis on scientific knowledge and an enhancement of desirable professional attitudes: for example, reducing the core curriculum in biochemistry in order to ...
Amanda Howe, Kate Billingham, Christina Walters (J Interprof Care, 200211)
own-image-multidisciplinary-qualitative-analysis-medical-education.asp

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Meeting the challenges of critical case study in nursing research: an interview with Alison Dixon.

Critical case study is a methodology seldom used in nursing or midwifery research, yet it offers a process for revealing and acting on power relations in the practice worlds of nurses and midwives. This is the eighth article in a series based on ...
Dixon Alison (Nurs Prax N Z, 200211)
meeting-challenges-critical-case-study-nursing-research-interview.asp

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Empowering practitioners: an unrealistic expectation of nurse education?

BACKGROUND: Empowerment has become an increasingly popular theme in nurse education. This is evident from the growing number of courses that claim to enable nurses to become empowered. However, this is taking place in an environment with little critical ...
Stephen Leyshon (J Adv Nurs, 200211)
empowering-practitioners-unrealistic-expectation-nurse-education.asp

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Integrating medical specialists and hospitals. The growing relevance of collective organisation of medical specialists for Dutch hospital governance.

The policy of the Dutch government (now enshrined in legislation) aims at the integration of medical specialists in hospitals and seeks to end the economic and organisational autonomy of the medical specialist. This article suggests that this policy has ...
G R M Scholten, T E D van der Grinten (Health Policy, 200211)
integrating-medical-specialists-hospitals-growing-relevance.asp

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Risk factors for domestic violence: findings from a South African cross-sectional study.

In 1998 a cross-sectional study of violence against women was undertaken in three provinces of South Africa. The objectives were to measure the prevalence of physical, sexual and emotional abuse of women, to identify risk factors and associated health ...
Rachel Jewkes, Jonathan Levin, Loveday Penn-Kekana (Soc Sci Med, 200211)
risk-factors-domestic-violence-findings-south-african-cross-sectional.asp

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Transnational industrial power, the medical profession and the regulatory state: adverse drug reactions and the crisis over the safety of Halcion in the Netherlands and the UK.

Taking the controversy over the safety of the hypnotic, Halcion, in the Netherlands and the UK, as a case study, this article examines the problems for public health associated with responses to warnings about drug hazards by regulatory agencies, ...
John Abraham (Soc Sci Med, 200211)
transnational-industrial-power-medical-profession-regulatory-state.asp