Power (Psychology)

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Local governance and community financing of primary care: evidence from Nepal.

Improved community participation in the financing of primary health care (PHC) is important for sustaining quality and availability of care in developing countries. This study asks whether the social status of members on a local support committee is ...
David Bishai, Louis W Niessen, Mohan Shrestha (Health Policy Plan, 200206)
local-governance-community-financing-primary-care-evidence-nepal.asp

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Service and collaboration keys to physician control.

Discover what physicians must do to regain power and half health cares slide from a profession toward a trade. The solutions lie in better customer service and improved physician ...
Joseph S Bujak (Physician Exec, 200205-06)
service-collaboration-keys-physician-control.asp

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Patient empowerment and ethical decision making: the patient/partner and the right to act.

Consumer groups are demanding quality healthcare and are more knowledgeable regarding healthcare practices. A healthcare delivery model wherein the patient is central in the decision-making process will assist in the seamless intersections needed for ...
Tyna Williams (Dimens Crit Care Nurs, 200205-06)
patient-empowerment-ethical-decision-making-patient-partner-right-act.asp

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A vision for tomorrow: transformational nursing leaders.

BACKGROUND: Interviews with 8 transformational nursing leaders are presented. PURPOSE: My purpose was to provide a picture of leadership principles and values as practiced by transformational nursing leaders. METHOD: Interviews were conducted as ...
Kelley Ward (Nurs Outlook, 200205-06)
vision-tomorrow-transformational-nursing-leaders.asp

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An empowerment model for social welfare consumers: its effectiveness and implications for welfare reform.

There is no uniformly accepted social work case management treatment model for use with impoverished consumers of social welfare services. Differences in intervention models vary greatly across the spectrum of social welfare agencies. There is even ...
Liddell L Madden, Anne Hicks-Coolick, Alan B Kirk (Lippincotts Case Manag, 200205-06)
empowerment-model-social-welfare-consumers-effectiveness-implications.asp

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Language and power: ascribing legitimacy to interpretive research.

More than merely describing what constitutes a good or truthful interpretation, all judgments about the legitimacy of knowledge claims can be understood as enacting relations of power. That is, our understanding of what it means to make a reasonable ...
Christine Ceci, Lori Houger Limacher, Deborah L McLeod (Qual Health Res, 200205)
language-power-ascribing-legitimacy-interpretive-research.asp

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Experience and meaning of user involvement: some explorations from a community mental health project.

With an increased interest in and policy commitment to involving service users in the planning and delivery of health service provision, there is a clear need to explore both the rhetoric and realities of what user involvement entails. In the present ...
Carole Truman, Pamela Raine (Health Soc Care Community, 200205)
experience-meaning-user-involvement-explorations-community-mental.asp

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Great fleas have little fleas: Irish student midwives views of the hierarchy in midwifery.

BACKGROUND: Many studies have investigated the world of the student nurse, but there is little work into the lives and experiences of student midwives. Studies of Irish midwives provision of care have demonstrated that they are not fulfilling their ...
Cecily M Begley (J Adv Nurs, 200205)
great-fleas-little-fleas-irish-student-midwives-views-hierarchy.asp

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Relationship between organizational climate and empowerment of nurses in Hong Kong.

AIMS: The authors explore the relationship between organizational climate and empowerment among the nursing staff of a regional hospital in Hong Kong. The main purpose of the study was to apply the modified Spreitzer measure of empowerment in a hospital ...
Esther Mok, Betty Au-Yeung (J Nurs Manag, 200205)
relationship-organizational-climate-empowerment-nurses-hong-kong.asp

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Effects of power on perceived and objective group variability: evidence that more powerful groups are more variable.

The perception of group variability is affected by social power and status. Three different mechanisms may be responsible for these effects: (a) the power of the perceiver affects perceived group variability; (b) the power of the perceived group affects ...
Ana Guinote, Charles M Judd, Markus Brauer (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
effects-power-perceived-objective-group-variability-evidence-more.asp