3 results match your criteria: "University of Virginia Center for Survey Research[Affiliation]"

Background: One way to improve the delivery of oncology palliative care in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) is to leverage mobile technology to support healthcare providers in implementing pain management guidelines (PMG). However, PMG are often developed in higher-resourced settings and may not be appropriate for the resource and cultural context of LMICs.

Objectives: This research represents a collaboration between the University of Virginia and the Nepalese Association of Palliative Care (NAPCare) to design a mobile health application ('app') to scale-up implementation of existing locally developed PMG.

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Exploring Perceptions of Shift Length: A State-Based Survey of Registered Nurses.

J Nurs Adm

September 2020

Author Affiliations: Nursing Administrator (Ms Haller), Research Coordinator (Ms Miller-Davis), Coordinator (Ms Noguera), and Research Program Lead (Dr Letzkus), University of Virginia Health System; Assistant Professor (Drs Quatrara and Keim-Malpass), University of Virginia School of Nursing; Assistant Professor (Dr Pannone), Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine; and Professor (Dr Guterbock), University of Virginia Center for Survey Research, Charlottesville.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore clinical nurses' perspectives of shift length.

Background: Discussions about scheduling practices, work rotations, and shift length are pervasive among nurses and nursing leadership. However, the science surrounding nurse perceptions of longer shifts is limited.

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Purpose/objectives: To describe and compare barriers to research utilization faced by oncology staff nurses and nurse managers/clinical nurse specialists (CNSs) and to compare these to barriers identified by other nurses.

Design: Exploratory descriptive.

Setting: National.

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