Objective This study describes how mature aged people reconstruct themselves as nursing students. Mature learners becoming registered nurses: a grounded theory model Design This is a constructivist grounded theory study that used grounded theory methods of concurrent data generation and analysis, coding, developing categories and memoing. Setting The study was undertaken at the rural campuses o...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine if marital status, including specific types of single status categories, is associated with length of survival in lung cancer patients. METHODS Data from the 1996-2007 Florida Cancer Data System were linked with Agency for Health Care Administration data and U.S. Census data. Patients with both small cell and non-small cell lung cancer were i...

iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper would never have been written without the vision of Judith Bruce, whose analysis and passion have been vital to bringing attention to the neglected topic of married adolescent girls. We are enormously appreciative of her guidance. We are grateful to Rachel Goldberg for her research assistance, insight, and moral support. We owe tremendous thanks to Sajeda Amin, who...

Writing and maintaining a Tcl C extension for several years is an experience which can be compared to a long lasting relationship between a man and a woman. At the beginning, there is great excitement and you enjoy a real good time. However, once the relationship settles, you will find out that being married is sometimes straining and you start to look at things from a slightly different perspe...

How to stay married by J illy Cooper Methuen, 12s. 6d. With a new divorce Act on the statute book and the inevitable actual increase in recorded divorces that will follow such legislation, Marital stability will remain in the

  Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is an important occupational injury. Musculoskeletal injuries, especially CLBP, are prevalent in the nurses, and can lead to reduced productivity, work absenteeism, and work disability.   The purpose of this study was to determine nurses' knowledge of the risk factors of low back pain (LBP) and their self-efficacy in coping with the risk f...

Background: Ethical challenges are considered an integral part of the nursing profession. In these challenges, despite moral courage, nurses experience moral distress. Objectives: This study was conducted to determine the amount of moral courage and moral distress of nurses and their related factors in educational and medical centers in the city of Zanjan. Methods: This descriptive-analytica...

Objectives: The purpose of the study is to predict the psychological well-being of nurses based on personality traits and defense mechanisms. Methods: The research method was correlational and the statistical population consisted of all married female nurses in hospitals of the Qom city. The sample size estimated by Tabachnik and Fidel method 114 and with Overestimate attain to 120 people. T...