bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Teaching the Spiritual Dimension of Nursing Care: A Survey of U.S. Baccalaureate Nursing Programs
Authors: Lemmer Corinne 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
One hundred thirty-two randomly selected baccalaureate nursing programs in the Unites States responded to a survey exploring how the spiritual dimension of nursing care currently is being taught. The majority of programs included the concept of the spiritual dimension in curricula, but few programs had definitions of spirituality or spiritual nursing care. Content addressed most consistently by programs included assessment of spiritual needs, the needs of dying individuals, and the spiritual dimension as a component of holism or culture. There appeared to be a lack of clarity in the understanding of the concept of spirituality, as well as uncertainty about levels of faculty knowledge and comfort with teaching this topic.
The Values Profile of Nursing Undergraduate Students: Implications for Education and Professional Development
Authors: Thorpe Karran , Loo Robert 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
This study examined the values profile of 152 nursing undergraduate students, as measured by the 20 life and work values from the Values Scale, and compared their profiles to those from a comparable sample of 111 management undergraduate students. Results showed that Personal Development and Altruism are the most important values for this sample of nursing students. There also were several significant age effects related to six of the values. The results of the t tests showed that the nursing sample had a significantly higher mean on the Altruism value and lower means on the Life Style, Advancement, Autonomy, Authority, Creativity, Economic, and Risk values, compared to the management sample. Recommendations are offered for nurse educators and managers. Inevitably, values compel individuals to be and to act, both personally and professionally.
Clinical Decision Making Among Fourth-Year Nursing Students: An Interpretive Study
Authors: White Ann H 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
This study investigated how fourth-year nursing students learned clinical decision making. Seventeen fourthyear nursing students between ages 21 and 37, who were completing their last semester of a baccalaureate nursing program, were interviewed. A research team using a modified seven-step process developed by Diekelmann and Allen analyzed the data. Five themes or essential components associated with learning clinical decision making were identified, including gaining confidence in their skills, building relationships with staff, connecting with patients, gaining comfort in self as a nurse, and understanding the clinical picture.
Faculty for the Millennium: Changes Needed to Attract the Emerging Workforce Into Nursing
Authors: Wieck K Lynn 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
The twenty-something generation wants educators who nurture, motivate, and listen. Personal attention is important to these students who are entering nursing education programs that are under great pressure to produce more nurses. To compete with other career options and address the global nursing shortage, nursing education must be considered a collaborator, rather than a barrier. Aging faculty and declining faculty numbers increase the challenges related to recruiting and retaining the emerging workforce in nursing professions. This study explored what young students want in their faculty and new options for increasing the number of nursing graduates.
A Challenge to Meet the Future: Nursing Education in Oregon, 2010
Authors: Gubrud-Howe Paula , Shaver Katherine S , Tanner Christine A , Bennett-Stillmaker Jerri , Davidson Sue B , Flaherty-Robb Marna , Goudreau Kelly , Hardham Linda , Hayden Charla , Hendy Sandy , Omel Sue , Potempa Kathleen , Shores Louise , Theis Saundra , Wheeler Pam 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Nursing leadership in Oregon has united behind a plan to address the nursing shortage, setting forth five strategic goals. Two of these are specific to nursing education - to double enrollment by 2004 and redesign nursing education to more directly meet the changing health care needs of Oregonians. This article describes the Oregon Nursing Leadership Council plan and the processes used to develop it. Controversial issues, challenges, and future directions also are discussed.
Mentoring Youth: A Service-Learning Course Within a College of Nursing
Authors: Childs Janis C , Sepples Susan B , Moody Kimberly A 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Faculty at the University of Southern Maine College of Nursing and Health Care Professions developed a servicelearning course that connected students and faculty with at-risk children in a local community. Nursing students, with faculty supervision and support, developed, implemented, and evaluated interventions to reduce risk factors and increase protective factors to build and strengthen the participants' resiliency.
Students enrolled in the service-learning course worked in the community where they gained an understanding of what it was like for children and adolescents to live in an impoverished community setting with disorganized family units and weak community support. The students learned to collaborate with police, schools, public health nurses, and churches, as well as students in other major programs. The benefits of this course for students and the community were far reaching and even life changing.
Reading Statistics in Nursing Research: A Self-Study CD-ROM Module
Authors: Messecar Deborah C , Van Son Catherine , O'Meara Katherine 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
A statistics CD-ROM tutorial program was developed to replace a classroom course with several self-study modules. For the CD-ROM delivery method, students were asked to complete a Likerttype questionnaire with response options similar to those used for end-of-course evaluations at the nursing school. Ratings ranged from 1 to 5, with 1 equaling outstanding and 5 equaling completely unsatisfactory. Ratings for the CDROM were compared with those of a Webbased course taught the prior year. Mean satisfaction ratings of Web-based delivery of content was low due to technical problems with the Internet courseware used. Overall satisfaction with the CDROM for students who used all the components was improved substantially, compared to the Web-based delivery method.
Initiation Into Qualitative Data Analysis
Authors: Beck Cheryl Tatano 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Qualitative data analysis may be daunting to nursing graduate students and other novice qualitative researchers. This article describes a qualitative research project required in a graduate nursing research couree that was designed to guide students through their first qualitative data analysis. Common pitfalls novice researchers may encounter, such as data shuffling, premature closure, and overly delayed closure, also are discussed. The project reported in this article not only decreased students' anxiety concerning qualitative data analysis but also helped students gain respect for the amount of time, effort, and creativity this process entails.
Public Health Nursing Education in Russia
Authors: Ivanov L Louise , Paganpegara Galina 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990 brought many changes to Russia, including changes in nursing education. However, the changes did not include content in public health nursing. Most health care in Russia is provided at the tertiary level in hospitals. Health promotion and health education are new concepts in Russia and are not well understood. When health education does occur, it is at the individual level, taught by physicians, and in response to new diagnoses. Health promotion at the primary level and with aggregates is not often practiced. Russia currently is in a demographic crisis where health indicators continue to decline. Russian nurses trained in public health principles, such as health promotion, health education, and providing primary and secondary prevention services at the population and aggregate level, can positively affect the current demographic crisis.
Blackbirds Singing in the Dead of Night?: Advancing the Craft of Teaching Qualitative Research
Authors: McAllister Margaret , Rowe Jennifer 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Qualitative research education, which is overly concerned with teaching content, can reduce knowledge to the technical-rational domain, and in this process, opportunities for students to be inspired and passionately engaged with the art of qualitative research are lost. Although students may acquire the characteristics of qualitative researchers by observing role models, there is much skilled teachers can do to teach students not only how to conduct research, but also how to be committed qualitative researchers. The craft knowledge of skilled teachers in facilitating these understandings, techniques, and attributes in students must be shared and discussed in meaningful ways to advance quality education and, in turn, quality nursing research. If unshared, teachers' knowledge may go unheard, and they may be left isolated, like blackbirds singing in the dead of night. In this article, the skills of "doing and being" in qualitative research are emphasized by sharing strategies the authors have used in research education. The aim is to discuss creative aspects of teaching practice that are helpful in understanding and advancing rigorous qualitative research.
Near-Evoked Nystagmus in Spasmus Nutans
Authors: Chrousos Georgia Antonakou , Matsuo Victor , Ballen Ann K , Cogan David G 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Near-evoked nystagmus was evident in two children with spasmus nutans by clinical observation and electrooculographic recording. In one child the nystagmus appeared to be evoked by fusional convergence and in the other by convergence-accommodation. These cases represent an atypical form of spasmus nutans in which the nystagmus is modulated by centers controlling visuomotor changes with near viewing.
Preferential-Looking Acuity and Stereopsis in Infantile Esotropia
Authors: Stager David R , Birch Eileen E 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
One hundred esotropie infants were assessed by preferential-looking (PL) for monocular acuity and stereopsis before the initiation of treatment. PL acuity of infantile esotropes who freely alternated fixation and of preferred eyes of unilateral esotropes was not significantly different from monocular acuity of age-matched normal infants. PL acuity of non-preferred eyes was normal during months three to five, but frequently below normal during months six to 14. Approximately the same percentage of normal and esotropie infants aged three to four months demonstrated stereopsis, but fewer esotropes than normals demonstrated stereopsis during months five to 14. Ninety-five percent of infants judged non-amblyopic by the cover-uncover test also showed no evidence of amblyopia in the PL test. Overall, 42% of esotropie infants judged amblyopic by the cover-uncover test were found amblyopic by PL. Most discrepancies between PL and fixation preference (73%) occurred when clinically amblyopic infants under eight months of age were found non-amblyopic by PL. These findings suggest that fixation preference develops prior to the onset of amblyopia detectable by PL. The results of PL stereopsis testing suggest that stereoscopic pathways are present and potentially functional in at least some esotropie infants.
The Relationship of Rectus Muscles to the Globe: A Study With Coronal CT Scanning
Authors: Saunders Richard A , Croley Thomas L , Croley Marilyn R , Holgate Richard C 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Coronal computerized tomographic scans of 25 patients were reviewed in order to determine the normal relationship of rectus muscles to the globe. Using a horizontal reference line constructed along the anterior cranial fossa, the mean horizontal rectus muscle axis was found to be slightly excyclotorted in both eyes, and the mean vertical rectus muscle axis slightly incyclotorted in both eyes. In addition, the mean superior temporal quadrant angle formed by the intersection of the horizontal and vertical rectus muscle axis was significantly greater than the mean superior nasal quadrant angle in the same eye. The presence of large anatomical variations in individual patients may make it difficult to implicate rectus muscle malposition as an important etiology of A- and V-pattern strabismus.
Suppression and the Pattern Visual Evoked Potential
Authors: Wright Kenneth Weston , Ary James P , Shors Tracey J , Eriksen K Jeffrey 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
We assessed the effect of amblyopic suppression on the pattern visual evoked potential (P-VEP). Since anisometropic amblyopia is associated with the monofixation syndrome and a central suppression scotoma in the amblyopic eye, patients with this functional defect were used for the study.
Five anisometropic amblyopes and four normal subjects were studied using the P-VEP test. A modified haploscope was used to present a pattern stimulus to the area of suppression. By comparing responses generated under monocular conditions (non-suppression) with monocular responses under binocular viewing conditions (suppression), we measured the effect of suppression on the P-VEP.
Our results show that amblyopic suppression completely abolishes P-I amplitudes in patients with large suppression scotomas; in patients with small suppression scotomas the P-I amplitudes were greatly reduced. Rivalry in normals also caused a reduction in P-I amplitudes, but to a much lesser degree than that associated with anisometropic suppression. Patients with significant amblyopia did not show a rivalry effect on the P-VEP.
Because the P-I wave of the transient P-VEP is thought to represent activity at the level of the striate cortex, our results indicate that suppression probably occurs at the striate cortex or lateral geniculate nucleus.
Results of Overminus Lens Therapy on Postoperative Exodeviations
Authors: Iacobucci Ida L , Martonyi E Jean , Giles Conrad L 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
This paper is a study in the use of overminus lenses for 37 patients with postoperative exodeviations. These patients have been observed for a period ranging from three to nine years following their surgery. This study includes: (1) the immediate response to overminus treatment, (2) results at the time of cessation of overminus therapy, and (3) the followup results. The results are evaluated with an average followup of 24 months after termination of treatment and sequentially at one-year intervals following overminus therapy.
Acquired Esotropia as Initial Manifestation of Arnold-Chiari Malformation
Authors: Bixenman Wayne W , Laguna Jose F 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
A 13-year-old patient originally presented with a divergence palsy and gaze-evoked nystagmus. Over a short period of time, the esotropia became increasingly comitant and was successfully treated with strabismus surgery. Three years later, she developed downbeat nystagmus. An Arnold-Chiari Malformation could only be demonstrated using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Subsequent neurosurgical decompression resulted in resolution of the downbeat nystagmus with maintenance of single binocularity.
Histologic Consequences of Inferior Oblique Anastomosis to Denervated Lateral Rectus Muscle
Authors: Christiansen Stephen , Madhat Maher , Baker Robert S 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Secondary muscular neurotization has been proposed as a means of restoring contractility to paretic extraocular muscle. We studied this technique by anastomosing healthy inferior oblique muscle to lateral rectus muscle that had been denervated either orbitally or intracranially in 20 dogs. Nerve and muscle fiber growth from the inferior oblique to the lateral rectus was demonstrated but no new neuromuscular junctions were formed. Regeneration of the lesioned sixth nerve occurred frequently and may explain the restoration of function claimed after this procedure.
Epikeratophakia on Pediatric Traumatized Corneas
Authors: Vila-Coro A Aguirre , Goosey John D , Mazow Malcolm L , Martin David I 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Four children ranging from 4 to 6 years of age with unilateral aphakia and corneal scarring secondary to penetrating injuries were treated with epikeratophakia. One child had undergone a rotational penetrating keratoplasty to displace the corneal scar from the visual axis prior to the epikeratophakia procedure. In all of the cases, nonlyophilized donor tissue was utilized. The procedure was successful in all four cases. The average best corrected postoperative visual acuity was 20/45. These results confirm prior studies suggesting that epikeratophakia can be performed successfully on partially opaque and scarred corneas in pediatric aphakic eyes.
Bradycardia With Traumatic Hyphema in Children
Authors: Cohn James N , Scagliotti Daniel , Deutsch Thomas A 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Eleven patients, aged 4 to 18 years, who were admitted to the hospital with the diagnosis of traumatic hyphema were placed on 24-hour cardiac (Holter) monitors. Ten of the 11 patients had episodes of bradycardia and bradyarrhythmias. Blood pressures monitored during the same period showed that the bradycardia was not hemodynamically significant. Cardiac monitoring was repeated on six patients 3 months later, and nocturnal cardiac rhythms were compared; the minimum heart rates immediately following the eye injury were significantly lower (p=.03) than those measured 3 months later. While these data do not establish a relationship between bradyarrhythmias and the frequently-observed occurrence of somnolence, it does appear that episodes of bradyarrhythmias represent a common physiologic response to traumatic hyphema, and they can be expected to resolve spontaneously.
Lamellar Sclerokeratoplasty of Epibulbar Tumor in Xeroderma Pigmentosum
Authors: Arora Ritu , Panda Anita , Kumar Harsh 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
A 10-year-old boy was followed up from the stage of biopsy-proven dysplastic conjunctival mass to carcinoma in situ. This carcinoma was managed by radical excision and lamellar sclerokeratoplasty. To our knowledge, this case represents the first reported successful management of conjunctival carcinoma in xeroderma pigmentosum.
Abortive Cryptophthalmos: A Case Report and a Review of Cryptophthalmos
Authors: Walton William T , Enzenauer Robert W , Cornell F Michael 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Cryptophthalmos is a rare, probably autosomal recessive condition in which the lid folds fail to separate in the embryo resulting in a continuous sheet of skin from the forehead to the cheeks covering the eyes. Cryptophthalmos has many variants and is usually associated with multiple other congenital anomalies.
This article reports on an isolated case of "abortive cryptophthalmos" with multiple systemic anomalies. The surgical treatment is described and the general features of the cryptophthalmos syndrome and its variants are reviewed.
PVEP Evidence of True Suppression in Adult Onset Strabismus
Authors: Wright Kenneth W , Fox Barbara E S , Eriksen K Jeffrey 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Customarily, it is taught that strabismus acquired in childhood results in suppression of the diplopic image, whereas strabismus acquired in adulthood causes diplopia or conscious image ignoring, but not true cortical suppression. The pattern visual evoked potential (PVEP) was recorded from strabismic patients, three with childhood onset, two adult onset with diplopia, and three with longstanding adult onset strabismus "ignored" diplopia. Patients with childhood onset and adult onset "ignored" diplopia similarly showed essentially no response under haploscopic stimulation, whereas patients with diplopia and normal control subjects showed a 50% decrease (rivalry). These results suggest that adults with acquired strabismus who "ignore" the diplopic image actually have a suppressed cortical visual activity, as evidenced by the pattern visual evoked potential.
Iritis in Children With Varicella
Authors: Kachmer M L , Annable W L , DiMarco M 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
A prospective study that included 82 consecutive children seen over 2 years by five pediatricians was undertaken to determine the incidence of iritis in children with chickenpox. Twenty-one (25%) children without pox on their lids were found to have iritis. Follow-up of children with objective evidence of iritis revealed no long-term sequelae.
The Effect of Topical Cysteamine Drops on Reducing Crystal Formation Within the Cornea of Patients Affected by Nephropathic Cystinosis
Authors: MacDonald Ian M , Noel Léon P , Mintsioulis George , Clarke William N 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
We studied the usefulness of topical cysteamine ophthalmic drops in reducing crystal formation within the corneas of patients affected by nephropathic cystinosis. A dosage of 0.3% cysteamine given four times daily was chosen as a more manageable method than a previously reported protocol of hourly administration of 0.11% drops. No reduction in crystal formation was observed in our patients; they were followed for seven months.
Microphthalmos With Cyst in Monozygous Twins
Authors: Leatherbarrow Brian , Kwartz Jeffrey , Noble Joan Laura 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
We present two cases of microphthalmos with cyst affecting monozygotic twins. The etiology and pathogenesis of this developmental anomaly are discussed. The diagnostic evaluation, differentia) diagnoses, and management options of this unique disorder are also considered.
Adjustable Vertical Rectus Muscle Transposition Surgery
Authors: Laby Daniel M , Rosenbaum Arthur L 
Published: April 2021

ABSTRACT
Transposition of the vertical rectus muscle to the insertion of a paralytic or aberrantly innervated lateral rectus muscle is useful in treating esotropia associated with abducens palsy and Duane syndrome. However, this procedure may cause a manifest vertical deviation, requiring either prismatic or additional surgical correction. In an attempt to reduce the incidence of this surgical complication, we performed vertical rectus muscle transposition surgery, using an adjustable suture technique on each muscle, in 10 consecutive patients with abnormal lateral rectus function. Preoperative diagnoses included abducens palsy (70%) and Duane syndrome (30%). Preoperative deviations ranged from 14 to 85 prism diopters esotropia (mean, 39 δ) in the primary position. No vertical deviation was present preoperatively. Following transposition surgery, 8 of 10 patients were esotropic, 1 of 10 patients was exotropic, and 4 of 10 patients had a manifest vertical deviation. At the time of adjustment, all vertical deviations were corrected by "recessing" the appropriate vertical rectus muscle. Additionally, exotropia was lessened by "recessing" both vertical muscles in one patient.