Power (Psychology)

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On the buzzword approach to policy formation.

This article draws attention to an absurd feature of contemporary political life that significantly affects health service policy and calls for an urgent explanation. Policies are formed by a process that privileges rhetoric over reality, producing ...
Michael Loughlin (J Eval Clin Pract, 200205)
buzzword-approach-policy-formation.asp

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Working together but apart: barriers and routes to nurse--physician collaboration.

The authors argue that the aircraft safety model may be of limited relevance for health care and suggest strategies for greater collaboration between nurses and physicians in the care of ...
Merrick Zwarenstein, Scott Reeves (Jt Comm J Qual Improv, 200205)
working-together-apart-barriers-routes-nurse-physician-collaboration.asp

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Caring for the involuntarily hospitalized adolescent: the issue of power in the nurse-patient relationship.

TOPIC: The power relations between involuntarily hospitalized adolescents and their caregivers from the viewpoint of theory development in nursing and the concept of medicalization. PURPOSE: To contribute to the development of nursing theories that can ...
Pall Biering (J Child Adolesc Psychiatr Nurs, 200204-06)
caring-involuntarily-hospitalized-adolescent-issue-power-nurse.asp

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Addressing the nursing shortage.

Support is essential for students and new nurses to develop confidence in their practice (Oermann & Moffitt-Wolf, 1997). Caring, empowerment and team building are essential in helping affirm the choice of nursing as a profession. Students and new nurses ...
Karen S Wilder, Kathy Halcomb, Vicki Grubbs (Ky Nurse, 200204-06)
addressing-nursing-shortage.asp

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Performing coolness: smoking refusal and adolescent identities.

The implications of smoking refusal for personal identity style were studied through conversations in six small focus groups or dyads of 13- and 14-year-old non-smokers from an urban New Zealand secondary school. The approach to analyzing their talk was ...
E W Plumridge, L J Fitzgerald, G M Abel (Health Educ Res, 200204)
performing-coolness-smoking-refusal-adolescent-identities.asp

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Showing results in community organization.

This article describes a community organization program and its tangible results in a stigmatized neighborhood in the center of Israel. The program lasted six years; its central goal was the autonomy of the community, the empowerment of its residents, ...
Haya Itzhaky, Alan S York (Soc Work, 200204)
showing-results-community-organization.asp

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The Midpeninsula Health Service: action research using small primary care groups to provide evidence-based medicine that empowers patients while continuously improving quality and lowering costs.

OBJECTIVES: A Joint Planning Committee Report was issued in 1974 exploring how Stanford University might itself provide primary care to students, faculty, employees and their dependents at low cost. The report called for the creation of a health ...
Harold I Goldberg, Douglas A Rund, Joseph R Hopkins (Med Care, 200204)
midpeninsula-health-service-action-research-small-primary-care-groups.asp

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Managed care and the US health care system a social exchange perspective.

Many countries are importing managed care and price competition from the US to improve the performance of their health care systems. However, relatively little is known about how power is organized and exercised in the US health care system to control ...
David E Grembowski, Karen S Cook, Donald L Patrick, Amy Elizabeth Roussel (Soc Sci Med, 200204)
managed-care-us-health-care-system-social-exchange-perspective.asp

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Intimate partner violence: causes and prevention.

Unlike many health problems, there are few social and demographic characteristics that define risk groups for intimate partner violence. Poverty is the exception and increases risk through effects on conflict, womens power, and male identity. Violence is ...
Rachel Jewkes (Lancet, 200204)
intimate-partner-violence-causes-prevention.asp

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Considering justice: an exploratory study of family therapy with adolescents.

Feminist approaches to therapy with adolescents emphasize an empowering focus on the strengths of adolescents while simultaneously insisting that therapists become aware of their own biases toward todays adolescents. However, a review of the family ...
Stephanie Weiland Bowling, Lisa K Kearney, Christine A Lumadue, Noelle R St Germain (J Marital Fam Ther, 200204)
considering-justice-exploratory-study-family-therapy-adolescents.asp