CARING AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN NURSING PRACTICE IN IRELAND AND THE UNITED STATES: HELPING IRISH NURSES BRIDGE THE GAP WHEN THEY CHOOSE TO PRACTICE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Contributors: Clark University (Worcester, Mass.)
Published: 1994
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Adult and Continuing.
Description: When the need for registered nurses increases, the United States recruits foreign nurses to meet the demand. A significant number of these nurses are recruited from Ireland. This study assessed the professional values of caring and accountability of practicing nurses in both the United States and Ireland and the ways these values are implemented in nursing practice. There were ninety participants in the study: thirty from a hospital in the United States, thirty from a hospital in Ireland and thirty from a recruiting agency in Ireland. The results indicated that, although nurses in both countries endorsed both values, there were significant differences in the manner in which these values were implemented in practice. The findings were used to design an education unit, based on the Neuman System Model and Instructional Scaffolding, for incoming Irish nurses to teach them the professional values of caring and accountability which are required for acceptable nursing practice in the United States.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-01, Section: B, page: 0076.

Thesis (ED.D.)--CLARK UNIVERSITY, 1994.

School code: 0048.