Power (Psychology)

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Empowering nursing staff and residents in long-term care.

An exploration of empowering and disempowering experiences among nursing staff members and long-term care residents yielded themes based on educational, communication, and relationship needs of nursing staff and environmental and relationship needs of ...
Sara L Campbell (Geriatr Nurs, 200305-06)
empowering-nursing-staff-residents-long-term-care.asp

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Predicting registered nurse job satisfaction and intent to leave.

BACKGROUND: Nurse job dissatisfaction has been the primary predictor of intent to leave; however, although many predictors of job satisfaction have been identified, little is known about the influence of variable nurse attitudes, such as psychological ...
June H Larrabee, Michelle A Janney, C Lynne Ostrow, Mary Lynne Withrow, Gerald R Hobbs, Christopher Burant (J Nurs Adm, 200305)
predicting-registered-nurse-job-satisfaction-intent-leave.asp

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What works for mental health system change: evolution or revolution?

The mental health system has realized significant metamorphoses in the standards and practices of quality care for people with psychiatric disability during the past decade. Now change agents are wrestling with effective strategies that help real-world ...
Patrick W Corrigan, Michael G Boyle (Adm Policy Ment Health, 200305)
works-mental-health-system-change-evolution-or-revolution.asp

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Burning bridges: policy, practice, and the destruction of midwifery in rural Costa Rica.

The trend toward hospitalization of birth has a long history in Costa Rica and currently approximately 98% of births take place in the clinical setting. Impoverished rural areas, like the town of Buenos Aires, lag behind national trends and only recently ...
Gwynne L Jenkins (Soc Sci Med, 200305)
burning-bridges-policy-practice-destruction-midwifery-rural-costa-rica.asp

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Empowerment or control? An analysis of the extent to which client participation is enabled during health visitor/client interactions using a structured health needs assessment tool.

The demand for explicitness in the way health visitors target their services has given rise to a plethora of different health needs assessment tools (HNATs). This paper describes an in-depth conversational analysis of the use in practice of these ...
Jan Mitcheson, Sarah Cowley (Int J Nurs Stud, 200305)
empowerment-or-control-analysis-extent-client-participation-enabled.asp

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Do nurses exercise power in basic care situations?

Power is a matter of authority and control. It can be wielded either consciously or unconsciously, and it can be either overt or latent. Using a structured questionnaire, this study set out to describe nurses opinions about the exercise of power in basic ...
Piia Palviainen, Minna Hietala, Pirkko Routasalo, Tarja Suominen, Maija Hupli (Nurs Ethics, 200305)
nurses-exercise-power-basic-care-situations.asp

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Restructuring the health system: experiences of advocates for gender equity in Bangladesh.

This paper illustrates how advocates for gender equity succeeded in influencing the restructuring of the health system in Bangladesh in the mid-1990s but failed to influence its implementation. Using published and unpublished documents and personal ...
Rounaq Jahan (Reprod Health Matters, 200305)
restructuring-health-system-experiences-advocates-gender-equity.asp

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Using accountability to improve reproductive health care.

Accountability is best understood as a referee of the dynamics in two-way relationships, often between unequal partners. The literature on accountability distinguishes between political, fiscal, administrative, legal and constitutional accountability. ...
Asha George (Reprod Health Matters, 200305)
accountability-improve-reproductive-health-care.asp

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Integrating reproductive health services in a reforming health sector: the case of Tanzania.

Universal access to comprehensive reproductive health services, integrated into a well-functioning health system, remains an unfulfilled objective in many countries. In 2000-2001, in Tanzania, in-depth interviews were conducted with central level ...
Monique Oliff, Philippe Mayaud, Ruairí Brugha, Ave Maria Semakafu (Reprod Health Matters, 200305)
integrating-reproductive-health-services-reforming-health-sector-case.asp

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Comparisons of American, Israeli, Italian and Mexican physicians and nurses on the total and factor scores of the Jefferson scale of attitudes toward physician-nurse collaborative relationships.

This cross-cultural study was designed to compare the attitudes of physicians and nurses toward physician-nurse collaboration in the United States, Israel, Italy and Mexico. Total participants were 2522 physicians and nurses who completed the Jefferson ...
Mohammadreza Hojat, Joseph S Gonnella, Thomas J Nasca, Sylvia K Fields, Americo Cicchetti, Alessandra Lo Scalzo, Francesco Taroni, Anna Maria Vincenza Amicosante, Manuela Macinati, Massimo Tangucci, Carlo Liva, Gualtiero Ricciardi, Shmuel Eidelman, Hanna (Int J Nurs Stud, 200305)
comparisons-american-israeli-italian-mexican-physicians-nurses-total.asp