Surveying the hidden attitudes of hospital nurses' towards poverty.
*Attitude of Health Personnel; *Healthcare Disparities; *Poverty; Adult; Age Factors; Attitude Measures; attitudes; Coefficient Alpha; Convenience Sample; Cross Sectional Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Descriptive Research; Descriptive Statistics; Educational Status; Female; health disparities; health inequities; Health Status Disparities; Hospital; Hospital/*psychology; Human; Humans; Income; Job Experience; Male; Middle Age; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Nurse Attitudes – Evaluation; nurses; Nursing Staff; Ohio; Politics; poverty; Poverty; Registered Nurses; Regression; Regression Analysis; Summated Rating Scaling; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To explore the attitudes held by registered nurses about persons living in poverty. BACKGROUND: As a profession, nursing has strong commitment to advocating for the socioeconomically disadvantaged. The links among poverty and health disparities are well established and research demonstrates that attitudes of providers can influence how those in poverty use health services. Although nurses are the largest sector of healthcare providers globally, little research has been published on their attitudes towards patients they care for who live in poverty. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. METHODS: Used a convenience sample of 117 registered nurses who completed the Attitudes Towards Poverty Short Form that contained three subscales. Regression analysis was used to examine the associations between the nurses' age, education, and years of experience, political views and financial security with their total score and subscale scores. RESULTS: Nurses were more likely to agree with stigmatising statements than statements that attributed poverty to personal deficiency or structural factors. In the multivariate analysis, years of experience were associated with more positive attitudes towards those living in poverty. Nurses with the most experience had less stigmatising beliefs about poverty and were more likely to endorse structural explanations. Those with a baccalaureate education were also more likely to endorse structural explanations for poverty. CONCLUSIONS: Gaining knowledge about attitudes towards and the factors influencing those attitudes, for example, education, are important in helping combat the disparities associated with poverty. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Nurses have a duty to evaluate their individual attitudes and biases towards those living in poverty and how those attitudes and biases may influence daily practice. Assessing nurses' attitudes towards poverty may aid in better means of empowering nurses to seek solutions that will improve health conditions for those living in poverty.
Wittenauer James; Ludwick Ruth; Baughman Kristin; Fishbein Rebecca
Journal of clinical nursing
2015
2015-08
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12794" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/jocn.12794</a>
Dynamic automatic ultrasound optimization: time savings, keystroke savings, and image quality.
Abdomen/*diagnostic imaging; Adult; Automation; Computer-Assisted; Ergonomics; Female; Human; Humans; Image Enhancement; Image Processing; Imaging; Job Experience; Middle Aged; Occupational Diseases/diagnosis; Pain/diagnosis; Phantoms; Treatment Duration; Ultrasonography; Ultrasonography – Methods; Ultrasonography/*methods; Young Adult
PURPOSE: The aims of this study were to evaluate if a dynamic automatic image optimization technique decreases examination time and number of keystrokes while maintaining or improving image quality and to determine if these variables vary with sonographer experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Five sonographers of varying experience performed a randomized standard abdominal ultrasonography using manual and automatic techniques on 5 healthy volunteers. The time to perform the examinations and the number of images obtained were recorded, and a keystroke log was maintained for all examinations. Images were stored digitally for review and image analysis. The sonographers graded their pain during the examinations on a
Barr Richard G; Grajo Joseph R
Ultrasound quarterly
2009
2009-06
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/RUQ.0b013e3181a424e2" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/RUQ.0b013e3181a424e2</a>