Letvak, Susan

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Life is hard : the lived experience of adults with bipolar disorder and comorbid substance use disorder 2009 4381 Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand and describe the lived experience of adult bipolar patients with comorbid substance use disorder. About 5.7 million American adults or about 2.6 percent of the population age 18 and older in any giv...
Does resilience mediate the effects of bullying in nurses? 2013 8023 The overarching purpose of the research was to examine workplace bullying among nurses who work in North Carolina hospital. The research examines the influence of individual factors, individual characteristics and organization factors on physical hea...
Structural empowerment’s influence on nursing outcomes in MagnetTM and non-MagnetTM healthcare organizations 2015 4250 The purpose of this study was to examine structural empowerment's impact on nursing outcomes in MagnetTM and non-MagnetTM organizations. This study explored structural empowerment's influence on two quality sensitive indicators, job satisfaction and ...
Emotion recognition deficits among children with conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors: differences by child race 2016 1126 Deficits in emotion recognition have been associated with psychopathic and callous-unemotional (CU) behaviors among adults, adolescents, and children. However, few previous studies have examined such associations exclusively during early and middle c...
Perceptions of an Intensive Care Unit Mentorship Program 2007 3577 Critical care nursing necessitates specialized knowledge and skill acquisition. Because of this, intensive care units have historically hired competent acute care nurses. Due to the current nursing shortage, critical care units are now hiring new gra...
The lived experience of the older registered nurse working at the bedside in the critical care unit 2009 6185 This study focuses on the lived experience of the older RN, an area lacking research. The purpose of the study was to discover why the older RN remains working at the bedside in the critical care unit. The purpose of the study was to explore the expe...
The experience of the intimate dyad after weight loss surgery: a qualitative description 2012 2579 This qualitative descriptive study was performed to describe the experience of both members of the intimate dyad after one member had weight loss surgery. A convenience sample of ten dyads was recruited by snowballing sampling techniques through the ...
The adaptation of new registered nurses 2012 9451 New registered nurses report they experience work-related stress, multiple challenges, and negative emotional responses during their first year in practice. There are concerns for quality of health care, patient safety, and turnover in nursing when t...
Nurse Practitioner Knowledge and Use of Complementary and Alternative Therapies for the Management of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Pilot Study 2019 318 Over prescription and misuse of opiates in the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) in adults can result in patients becoming dependent on opiates for pain relief. In adjunct with current regulations on opiate prescribing practices, compl...
Stories of African American women who are long-term breast cancer survivors 2016 1085 The purpose of this study was to report the stories of African American (AA) women who are disease-free survivors of breast cancer, 10 or more years after initial diagnosis, and consider themselves to be thriving after cancer. Narrative inquiry was u...
The lived experience of women living with HIV regarding intimate relationship power and reproductive decision-making 2019 234 The purpose of this research study was to understand the truths and the realities of women living with HIV (WLWH) regarding their intimate relationship power and reproductive decision-making. To meet the objective of this research study, the nurse re...
Second victim support: nurses’ perspectives of organizational support 2019 255 The purpose of this study was to describe hospital nurses’ experiences with organizational support following an adverse event (AE). Additionally, this study explored the organization’s support programs’ usefulness and availability. AEs occur often in...
Perspectives of nursing students regarding racial implicit bias 2020 171 Racial implicit bias is defined as prejudiced notions based on unconscious attitudes and stereotypes founded on race. In addition, implicit bias has the ability to influence one’s behavior, affect, thinking, and judgement (FitzGerald & Hurst, 2017; M...
An educational intervention to improve nursing care of geriatric care in the emergency department 2016 1666 The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of an educational intervention on attitudes and knowledge of emergency department (ED) nurses toward the older adult patient and their intentions to change their care behaviors toward this populatio...
Hotspotting in home health: the impact of interprofessional student-team home visits on health outcomes of super-utilizers of the health care system 2019 541 The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of interprofessional student-team home visits on the health outcomes of super-utilizers of the health care system. The cost of health care continues to increase at an unsustainable pace. Innovative ...
The opioid epidemic and the impact on opioid prescribing in hospice and palliative care: a qualitative description 2019 294 The United States has seen rising rates of opioid abuse, which have led to changing policies designed to curb opioid prescribing. These guidelines and policies generally exclude hospice and palliative care from prescribing restrictions. However, no s...
Understanding the experiences of chronic low back pain in Post-9/11 female veterans 2020 111 Chronic low back pain is a significant and widespread problem that is pervasive among Post-9/11 veterans. Injuries acquired during deployments to war conflicts are the leading predictors of chronic low back pain experiences in this population. A gap ...
African American male caregiving for adult care recipients during the COVID-19 pandemic 2021 108 This qualitative descriptive study describes the experiences of 13 African American (AA) men who acted as caregivers to adult chronically ill or debilitated loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. The increased prevalence of caregivers for this vuln...
Just a click away : first-time mothers’ invisible presence using social networking sites 2021 131 The early postpartum period, defined as the first 12 weeks following delivery and professionally referred to as the fourth trimester, is an important transition timeframe for new mothers. It has been identified as an overlooked time period lacking su...
Using institutional ethnography to understand how the ruling text organizes nursing performance related to catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the intensive care unit 2021 84 Introduction/Background: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is a healthcare associated infection that is associated with the placement of an indwelling urinary catheter. In the recent past, CAUTI and other HAIs have come under intens...
A quantitative exploration of strategies to reduce fatigue among nurses 2020 224 The work environment of nurses places them at high risk of fatigue. The literature suggests a high prevalence of fatigue exists among nurses. Fatigue leads to reduced cognitive and physical abilities increasing the risk for personal injury and patien...
Black Moms Matter – A Literature Review of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Black Women 2021 447 While the United States has an abysmal maternal mortality rate for a developed country (17.4 deaths for every 100,000 live births), this national maternal mortality rate is further exacerbated by racial and socioeconomic differences, with non-Hispani...
Hospital nurses’ experiences of providing care for Muslim patients in the United States 2021 367 Understanding a patient’s culture is imperative to providing holistic patient care. With knowledge of cultural expectations, nurses can deliver more effective care to their patients. The purpose of the study is to describe and explore the lived exper...
When is the appropriate time to pursue nurse practitioner practice legislation? : a case study 2017 444 In the United States, many states have revised their nurse practice acts to include provisions that promote full practice authority for nurse practitioners. Such revisions reflect the expanded qualifications and abilities of nurse practitioners and p...
Nurses’ knowledge regarding nursing surveillance of the septic patient 2020 1441 The purpose of this study had two aims. The first was to explore nurses’ knowledge of nursing surveillance related to the septic patient and to describe barriers that prevented the implementation of nursing surveillance. This was a qualitative descri...