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Improving the Forensic Documentation of Injuries through Alternate Light: A Researcher- Practitioner Partnership, Maryland, 2021-2023 (ICPSR 39024)

Released/updated on: 2026-05-14

Geographic coverage: United States, Maryland

Time period: 2021-01-01--2023-12-31

This study assessed and evaluated the programmatic implementation of alternate light source (ALS) use during the examination of injuries among adult victims of sexual violence and intimate partner violence (IPV) in a hospital setting. Researchers selected two forensic nursing departments, one with no experience using ALS in clinical practice (Site A) and one with 10+ years' experience (Site B), and conducted a thorough contextual analysis of each site to 1. develop an evidence-based ALS implementation program for forensic nursing departments and 2. evaluate the feasibility of this ALS implementation program.

Contextual analysis involved the collection of qualitative data through structured focus groups with nurses and quantitative data using 6-months of de-identified forensic medical records from patients who received a medical forensic exam for reported (or suspected) sexual assault or IPV. Nurses were recruited to the study upon completing an anonymous survey about their prior knowledge of ALS, qualifications or certifications related to ALS, workplace team dynamics, and organizational support for changes in practice using the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment [ORCA]. This Nurse Survey Data and aforementioned Medical Record Data are currently available for secondary users, and qualitative interview transcripts will be made available in a future update.

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COEP Replication Package for "The Effect of Expansion of Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice on Early Covid-19 Deaths" (ICPSR 208406)

Released/updated on: 2024-08-09

Public safety is often used as an argument against expanding scope of practice (SOP)for nurse practitioners, despite the benefit of filling unmet health care demand. As aresponse to the Covid-19 Pandemic, some states expanded SOP for nurse practitionersto accommodate the unprecedented healthcare challenge. We analyze the effect of theexpansion of SOP on daily Covid-19-related mortality, exploiting the quasi-randomstate policy changes at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Checking differentmodel specifications, we do not find evidence that expanding SOP for nurse practitionersduring the pandemic causes adverse effects on patients measured by Covid-19 mortality

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Employers’ requests when advertising for nurses. A national mapping of recruitment advertising for nurses in Sweden (ICPSR 202042)

Released/updated on: 2024-05-18

Geographic coverage: Sweden

Time period: 2016-05-01--2020-10-01

Abstract Introduction

Maintaining sufficient nursing staff is a major healthcare challenge for societies worldwide.

Aims To map and describe the content of recruitment advertisements for nurses. Research questions were: ‘What qualifications do healthcare employers request when recruiting nurses?’ and ‘What sorts of professional development do healthcare employers offer nurses? Methods A comprehensive national mapping of recruitment advertisements for nurses in Sweden where all advertisements, N=450, on 20 of the 21 regional hospital websites were collected. A manifest content analysis was performed. Results Personal characteristics dominated requested competence in recruitment advertisements. Employers offered general nursing opportunities with unspecific work content and focused more on recruiting newly registered, rather than experienced, nurses. In only a few advertisements, employers asked for a master’s degree. No employer requested nurses with a PhD or research experience. Conclusion While the World Health Organization stresses the need for a sustainable recruitment and attainment of nurses to secure health care, employers’ recruitment of mostly newly graduated nurses and offering little professional development and few career opportunities may be one explanation to the difficulties to secure safe nurse staffing.

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Massachusetts Nursing Profession Entrants Survey, 1988 (ICPSR 9520)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1988-07-01--1988-07-31

The purpose of this survey was to gather information to assist educators, administrators, and policymakers in the development of strategies for the recruitment and retention of registered nurses. To that end, nurses taking the Massachusetts licensure exam were queried about their reasons for going into nursing, their nursing career goals, their attitudes toward the nursing profession, their preferences for various branches of the nursing profession, and the importance they placed on various aspects of work in general, e.g., job security, high income, and good opportunities for advancement. Respondents were also questioned about their job searches and their current or impending jobs: how the job was found, number of applications filled out and offers received, number of hours usually worked, earnings, type of medical facility, shift usually worked and preferred, commuting distances, public transportation and child care needs, whether student clinical experience was obtained with the employer, planned length of stay at the job, and the importance of various factors that attracted them to the position, such as the attractiveness of the town or city where the job was located, salary and benefit levels, availability of parking and child care, and job flexibility. In addition, the survey asked respondents how and when they decided to become nurses, how they found out about educational options in nursing, how much basic nursing education they received and how it was financed, which factors attracted them to the schools from which they graduated, and how much of their basic nursing education was devoted to clinical experience. Background information on respondents includes age, sex, citizenship, race, ethnic group, marital status, education, education goals, family income, number and ages of related persons living in the household, usage of child care and elderly care services, parents' education and occupations, and mother's employment status at various stages of the respondent's childhood and adolescence.

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National Survey of Primary Care Physicians and Nurse Practitioners, 2012 (ICPSR 36050)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2011-11-23--2012-04-09

The focus of this survey was the role of nurse practitioners and physicians in primary care and the likely effects on the health care system of expanding the supply of nurse practitioners and their scope of practice. Topics of the survey include satisfaction with career, daily roles and responsibilities, perceived affects of increasing the supply of NPs, attitudes toward NP scope of practice, information on clinical practice services and revenue, and respondent demographics and income.

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New Careers in Nursing (NCIN) Alumni Survey, 2013 (ICPSR 36228)

Released/updated on: 2024-02-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2013-03-01--2013-06-30

This survey was conducted as part of an evaluation of New Careers in Nursing (NCIN), a national scholarship program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for nursing students from underrepresented groups in nursing or from disadvantaged backgrounds. It was founded in 2008 to help alleviate the nursing shortage, increase the diversity of nursing professionals, expand capacity in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs, and enhance the pipeline of potential nurse faculty. The survey explored NCIN alumni employment in nursing, career aspirations and advanced education after they graduated from their nursing degree program. Additionally, respondents were asked to rate various aspects of their nursing degree program. Other topics covered by the survey include leadership and mentoring experiences, the reputation of NCIN among employers, student loans and alumni demographics.

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Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Quality Improvement Survey 1, 2008 (ICPSR 36817)

Released/updated on: 2021-01-27

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2008-01-01--2008-12-31

The purpose of this study was to describe what newly licensed registered nurses (NLRN) working in hospitals learned about quality improvement in their education programs and workplaces. The survey was administered to nurses working in a hospital who participated in the second wave (ICPSR 36812) of the Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Survey series. This was part of a ten year panel survey. Quality improvement topics covered by the survey include:

patient-centered care
evidence-based practice
standardized practices for restrain and seclusion, infection control and pain management
use of information technology or strategies to reduce reliance on memory
participation in analyzing errors and designing system improvements
use of national patient safety resources, initiatives or regulations
use of specific quality improvement models

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Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Quality Improvement Survey 2, 2010 (ICPSR 36818)

Released/updated on: 2020-02-20

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2010-01-01--2010-12-31

The purpose of this study was to describe what newly licensed registered nurses working in hospitals learned about quality improvement in their education programs and workplaces. The survey was administered to nurses working in a hospital who participated in the second wave of the Newly Licensed RN Survey: Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Survey, 2007 (ICPSR 36812). Quality improvement topics covered by the survey include patient-centered care; evidence-based practice; standardized practices for restrain and seclusion, infection control and pain management; use of information technology or strategies to reduce reliance on memory; participation in analyzing errors and designing system improvements; use of national patient safety resources, initiatives or regulations; and use of specific quality improvement models, specifically, FADE (Focus, Analyze, Develop, Execute, and Evaluate), PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act), Six-Sigma-DMAIC/DMADV (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) or (Define, Measure, Analyze, Design, Verify), CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) and TQM (Total Quality Management).

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Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 1 Survey, 2009 (ICPSR 36819)

Released/updated on: 2020-02-20

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2009-01-01--2009-12-31

The Newly Licensed Registered Nurse Cohort 1 Survey, 2009 is the first wave of a multi-wave panel survey that studied newly licensed registered nurses who obtained their first license to practice between August 1, 2007 and July 31, 2008. It was conducted as part of the RN Work Project, a national study of new nurses funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The survey interviewed the nurses about their jobs, turnover, education, intentions and attitudes--including intent, satisfaction, organizational commitment, and preferences about work.

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Newly Licensed Registered Nurse New Cohort 2 Survey, 2012 (ICPSR 36820)

Released/updated on: 2020-02-20

CBS News Monthly Poll, December 2009 (ICPSR 30408)

Released/updated on: 2011-08-05

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2009-12-01--2009-12-31

This poll, fielded December 17-22, 2009, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how they felt about the future of the United States over the next few years, whether they thought their opportunities to succeed in life were better or worse than their parent's generation, how satisfied they were with their life, and what major ambition or dream they would like to accomplish over the next 10 years. Respondents were queried on how they would rate the condition of the national economy, and how concerned they were that they or someone in the household would be out of work in the next year. Respondents were also asked what grade they would give to the United States in finding a cure for AIDS, cancer, and Alzheimer's disease, in ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply, and the quality of the public schools, in its ability to protect the country from a terrorist attack, its efforts to combat obesity, in its progress in protecting the environment, in the condition of the military, and in the nation's technological innovation compared to other countries. Information was collected on what was more important to the respondent, stimulating the economy or protecting the environment, whether they would be willing to pay more for a product if they knew it would be better for the environment, and how much confidence they had that advances in technology will solve global warming and other threats to the environment. Respondents were asked how likely they thought it was that there would be anther terrorist attack in the United States within the next few months, how secure they thought the country's ports and harbors were from terrorist activity, whether they thought that obesity was a serious public health problem, whether they would like to lose or gain weight, whether they support or oppose a special tax on junk food, and whether they thought that a special tax on junk food would encourage more people to lose weight. Respondents were queried on whether they had teenagers that they thought have tried illegal drugs and prescription drugs to get high, whether they thought that their teenaged children were sexually active, whether they thought that their teenagers have sent or received sexually explicit messages or images through their mobile phone, and whether they thought that their teenagers were overweight. Information was collected on how much free time their teenagers spent on the Internet, whether they monitor what their teenagers are doing online, whether their teenagers have been threatened or bullied online, whether they give their teenagers allowance, whether their teenagers work, and whether their teenagers have chores. Respondents were asked whether they favor or oppose divorce as a solution if the marriage isn't working out, whether they know anyone who has been unfaithful to their spouse, and whether they feel torn between their job and their family. Finally, respondents were also asked if they thought that we should return to a military draft, whether they thought that the United States military was adequately prepared to respond to a new military threat, whether public schools should teach a course on the major religions of the world, and how often they went to the theater to see a movie. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, employment status, military service, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and voter registration status.

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Primary Care Judgments of Nurses and Physicians, 1976-1978: Clinical Simulation Test -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Data (ICPSR 7731)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-18

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1976-01-01--1978-12-31

This data collection contains four files of the Clinical Simulation Test for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an instrument developed by the Primary Care Judgements of Nurses and Physicians Research Project to empirically assess the clinical judgements of physicians and nurses in relation to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the period 1976-1978. The purpose of the study was to measure the clinical judgments of health professionals in relation to those of a panel of eight national experts in the specific area of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The instrument simulates the clinical processes from presentation of the chief complaint of a 53-year-old Caucasian male with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease through diagnoses and treatment. The Clinical Simulation Test (Part 1) was given to 200 respondents who were divided into six groups: family practice physicians, nurse practitioners with master's degrees, certified nurse practitioners, public health nurses, pre-medical students, and nursing students. The test contains 13 sections and three diagnostic tests. Nine of the test sections required the respondents to choose from a list of possible treatment actions. Four sections were open-ended and required respondents to identify relevant patient data or to list patient problems. During the process, respondents chose appropriate procedures from among a wide range of possible choices. Items also include an evaluation of the test instrument by the respondents, a proficiency scale which is scored by means of a computer program (Part 2), and the responses of 2 panels of experts used for the purpose of test instrument validation (Parts 3 and 4). Demographic items specify age, sex, education, professional preparation, residency program, specialty, position, and disease management experience of respondents. See the related collection, PRIMARY CARE JUDGMENTS OF NURSES AND PHYSICIANS, 1976-1978: CLINICAL SIMULATION TEST -- HYPERTENSION DATA (ICPSR 7732).

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Primary Care Judgments of Nurses and Physicians, 1976-1978: Clinical Simulation Test -- Hypertension Data (ICPSR 7732)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-18

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1976-01-01--1978-12-31

This data collection contains four files of the Clinical Simulation Test for Hypertension (CST:HYP), an instrument developed by the Primary Care Judgements of Nurses and Physicians Research Project to empirically assess the clinical judgements of physicians and nurses in relation to essential hypertension in the period 1976-1978. The purpose of the study was to measure the clinical judgments of health professionals in relation to those of a panel of eight national experts in the specific area of hypertension. The instrument simulates the clinical processes from presentation of the chief complaint of a 46-year-old Caucasian male with essential hypertension through diagnoses and treatment. The Clinical Simulation Test (Part 1) was given to 173 respondents who were divided into six groups: family practice physicians, nurse practitioners with master's degrees, certified nurse practitioners, public health nurses, pre-medical students, and nursing students. The test contains 11 sections and three diagnostic tests. Eight of the test sections required the respondents to choose from among a list of possible treatment options. Three sections were open-ended and required respondents to identify relevant patient data or to list patient problems. During the process, respondents chose appropriate procedures from among a wide range of possible choices. Items also include an evaluation of the test instrument by the respondents, a proficiency scale which is scored by means of a computer program (Part 2), and the responses of eight experts used for the purpose of test instrument validation (Parts 3 and 4). Demographic items specify age, sex, education, professional preparation, residency program, specialty, position, and disease management experience of respondents. See the related collection, PRIMARY CARE JUDGMENTS OF NURSES AND PHYSICIANS, 1976-1978: CLINICAL SIMULATION TEST--CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE DATA (ICPSR 7731).