Power (Psychology)

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Postcolonial nursing scholarship: from epistemology to method.

Postcolonial theory, with its interpretations of race, racialization, and culture, offers nursing scholarship a set of powerful analytic tools unlike those offered by other nursing and social theories. Building on the foundation established by those who ...
Sheryl Reiner Kirkham, Joan M Anderson (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200209)
postcolonial-nursing-scholarship-epistemology-method.asp

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Workplace empowerment, collaborative work relationships, and job strain in nurse practitioners.

PURPOSE: To test a theoretical model linking nurse practitioners (NPs) perceptions of workplace empowerment, collaboration with physicians and managers, and job strain. DATA SOURCES: A predictive, nonexperimental design was used to test a model in a ...
Joan Almost, Heather K Spence Laschinger (J Am Acad Nurse Pract, 200209)
workplace-empowerment-collaborative-work-relationships-job-strain.asp

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Suffering: toward a contextual praxis.

Janice M. Morses article in Advances in Nursing Science (24:1) revised and summarized the major findings of a research program exploring the behavioral-experiential nature of suffering. Using a feminist critical theory stance, this article addresses ...
Jane M Georges (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200209)
suffering-toward-contextual-praxis.asp

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The curse of the superstar CEO.

When struggling companies look for a new chief executive today, the one quality they prize above all others is charisma. But once theyve recruited a larger-than-life leader, they often find that their troubles only get worse. Indeed, as the authors new ...
Rakesh Khurana (Harv Bus Rev, 200209)
curse-superstar-ceo.asp

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Coaching your unit team for results.

Communication and critical thinking skills are core to the coaching processes. Bringing the coaching role to the individual and team level at the bedside is the key to improved results in patient care, nurse retention, clinical performance including ...
Sarah S Detmer (Semin Nurse Manag, 200209)
coaching-your-unit-team-results.asp

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The nursing shortage as a community transformational opportunity.

The nursing shortage is continuing toward its projected peak in 2010. As a profession we seem unable to devise effective strategies to enhance growth and overcome this looming crisis. By focusing on predictable barriers using methods of reductionism, ...
Carey S Clark (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200209)
nursing-shortage-community-transformational-opportunity.asp

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Leading and empowering the multicultural work team.

The multicultural team clearly is a part of the landscape in many work environments today. This article focuses on the opportunity for leaders to create a climate in which people of diverse cultures are invited into full participation as their unit ...
Nancy Rollins Gantz (Semin Nurse Manag, 200209)
leading-empowering-multicultural-work-team.asp

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Home care leadership of the future.

Home care leaders have been given an important responsibility--to assure the delivery of quality care to patients in need. And yet we accomplish this important goal only through the work of others. As leaders in home care we must work to continually ...
Nancy Koury King (Caring, 200209)
home-care-leadership-future.asp

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Beyond behavioral skills to human-involved processes: relational nursing practice and interpretive pedagogy.

This article argues that the teaching of behavioral communication skills may interfere with the learning of humanistic nursing practice. By inviting readers to consider moving beyond a method approach, the author discusses the pedagogical value of ...
Gweneth A Hartrick Doane (J Nurs Educ, 200209)
beyond-behavioral-skills-human-involved-processes-relational-nursing.asp

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The decision dynamics of clinical research: the context and process of informed consent.

This article explores the neglected dimensions of informed consent. In such documents as the that govern clinical research, it is explicitly stated that informed consent is a process, not a form to be signed. However, virtually all research on informed ...
Mark G Kuczewski, Patricia Marshall (Med Care, 200209)
decision-dynamics-clinical-research-context-process-informed-consent.asp