College students' personal listening device usage and knowledge.

Objective: To determine the usage and knowledge of safe limits on personal listening devices (PLD) among college students.

Design: First, information on health history was collected. Second, microphone in real ear techniques determined eardrum to free-field correction factors.

Stemming the obesity epidemic: are nurses credible coaches?

Obesity has become a health crisis in the United States, leading to serious physical, social, and psychological outcomes. Nurses are obese in the same proportion as the general population, which may discredit them as role models of and educators for healthful living.

Student narratives of faculty incivility.

Academic incivility remains a problem on college campuses. Nursing research has refocused from student impropriety to aberrant faculty behaviors. Our original study using the Nursing Education Environment Survey showed that 133 of 152 student participants experienced uncivil treatment.

Faculty incivility: effects on program satisfaction of BSN students.

This study examined the effects of faculty incivility on nursing students' satisfaction with their nursing programs, a topic previously unreported. In addition, incidences of incivility, students' responses to incivility, and academic location of incivility were explored. A high incidence of perceived faculty incivility was reported by participants, and perceived incivility correlated strongly with nursing student program dissatisfaction.