Junior year students (= 276) at a culturally diverse, urban high school were surveyed to examine how their perceptions of nursing compared with their perceptions of an ideal career. Findings indicate that significant differences exist among cultural and racial groups and between genders. Recommendations are made to increase recruitment of multicultural students into nursing.
The purpose of this Roy adaptation model-based multi-site international mixed method study was to examine the relations of type of caesarean birth (unplanned/planned), number of caesarean births (primary/repeat), and preparation for caesarean birth to women's perceptions of and responses to caesarean birth. The sample included 488 women from the United States (n = 253), Finland (n = 213), and Australia (n = 22). Path analysis revealed direct effects for type of and preparation for caesarean birth on responses to caesarean birth, and an indirect effect for preparation on responses to caesarean birth through perception of birth the experience.
The purpose of this column is to describe the implementation of an international multisite Roy adaptation model-based study of women's perceptions of and responses to cesarean birth.The data collected at six sites are being used to extend a program of research that began in the Fawcett, Aber, Weiss, Haussler, Myers, King, Newton, Silva 2 late 1970s and continued with periodic data collection into the 1990s (Fawcett, 1981;Fawcett & Burritt, 1985;Fawcett, Pollio, & Tully, 1992;Reichert, Baron, & Fawcett, 1993).The study has provided a research learning experience for undergraduate students in maternal-neonatal nursing courses, as well as the basis for one master's thesis and a master's comprehensive paper. The integration of research, teaching, and practice is a collaborative effort involving faculty and students at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Marquette University, Hampton University, and Australia's Monash University. The study also has provided an opportunity for the integration of research and practice for faculty at the University of Tampere in Finland and for staff nurses at hospitals in Oklahoma and Finland.
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