Lisa Pullen
University of Tennessee
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Western Journal of Nursing Research | 2001
Inez Tuck; Debra C. Wallace; Lisa Pullen
The high level of religious participation in the United States provides a venue for parish nursing, a holistic nursing specialty that emphasizes the relationship between spirituality and health. This descriptive study measured two aspects of spirituality (spiritual perspective and spiritual well-being) in a national sample of parish nurses and described variables related to their practice. Furthermore, it qualitatively examined the provision of spiritual care to clients in this parish nurse sample. Parish nurses scored high in spiritual perspective and spiritual well-being and reported an emphasis on health promotion and education in their activities. Three views of spiritual interventions (ideal, general, and specific) were reported. Types of spiritual interventions typically fell into one of four categories: religious, interactional, relational, and professional.
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing | 1998
Mary Anne Modrcin-Talbott; Lisa Pullen; Karlyn Zandstra; Heidi Ehrenberger; Bob Muenchen
Over the past decade, nursing has identified the significance of self-esteem in maintaining wellness among adolescents. Low self-esteem has been linked to numerous adolescent risk behaviors such as smoking, drug use, and sexual activity. Adolescents engaging in these risk behaviors may have subsequent health problems, such as alcohol and drug addiction, as well as teen pregnancy. Present treatment modalities for low self-esteem have not been optimally effective. Nursing needs to examine adolescent self-esteem within the discipline of nursing and develop its own prevention and intervention strategies. Guided by the Roy Adaptation Model, our study used a descriptive, correlational design and examined the self-report of self-esteem on age group, gender, exercise participation, smoking, parental alcohol usage, depression, and anger in a nonclinical, community sample of adolescents aged 12-19.
Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing | 1998
Mary Anne Modrcin-Talbott; Lisa Pullen; Heidi Ehrenberger; Karlyn Zandstra; Bob Muenchen
Although self-esteem is an important concept, nursing has only begun to focus on the significance of self-esteem as a mechanism for achieving wellness among adolescents, and as a variable for targeted intervention. Nursing studies identifying self-esteem as the primary focus of their research in an adolescent population seeking treatment in mental health settings are scarce. The Roy Adaptation Models Theory of a Person as an Adaptive System was used to guide this descriptive, correlational study. Research examined the self-report of self-esteem on age, gender, smoking, exercise, depression, anger, and parental alcohol use in a sample of adolescents ages 12-19 years who were being treated in an outpatient mental health setting.
Western Journal of Nursing Research | 1997
Inez Tuck; Lisa Pullen; Cynthia Lynn
This descriptive qualitative study explored the spiritual nursing interventions provided by mental health nurses. Fifty mental health nurses responded to open-ended interrogative statements to report on nursing interventions in three situations that supported the spiritual needs of patients and families. Their responses were grouped into four categories, nurses being with the client, doing for the client, encouraging the client to look inward, and encouraging the client to look outward. Being with was demonstrated through the presence of the nurse. Doing for included interventions performed on the clients behalf and included the nurse using time, people, and space to provide care. Clients were encouraged to look inward for strength and look outward for people and objects that could be resources for them. A serendipitous finding was that mental health nurses were able to describe the ideal spiritual interventions but reportedfewer instances of actually having intervened.
Issues in Mental Health Nursing | 1999
Lisa Pullen; Inez Tuck; Debra C. Wallace
This study determined nursing research priorities that focused on mental health nursing in the published literature from 1990 to 1996. Determination of which priorities were related to mental health was completed using 18 sources (experts, organizations, and individual research projects). A content analysis of the 18 sources was completed, and 56 mental health related research priorities were identified. Six categories emerged from the data analysis: support, holism, mental health nursing practice, quality care outcomes, mental health etiology, and mental health delivery systems. As mental health nursing embraces evidenced-based practice, the need for clear research priorities is imperative for knowledge development in the field.
Journal of Addictions Nursing | 1999
Lisa Pullen; Mary Anne Modrcin-Talbott; William R. West; Mildred M. Fenske; Bob Muenchen
This study investigated the relationship between religiosity (high or low attendance at religious services) and tobacco use (smoking or not smoking) by adolescents 12-19 years of age in both nonclinical and clinical psychiatric settings. Questionnaires were used to obtain data from 217 subjects who resided in the southeastern United States. With the exception of early adolescents (12- to 14-year-olds), results showed an inverse relationship between attending religious services and smoking irrespective of gender, age, and clinical group. The 12 to 14 age group had the fewest smokers (25.4%) with the 15-to 18-year-olds accounting for the majority (74.6%) of smokers. The high religiosity group had significantly fewer smokers (56.7%) than the low religiosity group (22%), X2 (1. n = 211)= 16.12, P < 0.00009. This study supports further investigation of religiosity (attendance at religious services) for inclusion as an intervention to reduce smoking behaviors in adolescents.
Journal of Addictions Nursing | 1993
Lisa Pullen
A nationwide trend continues to focus attention on the abuse of controlled drugs such as cocaine and crack. As a result, the abuse and problems associated with alcohol are often neglected, despite the fact that alcohol remains the drug of choice on college campuses. A study conducted by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, for instance, found that 42% of undergraduates stated that they viewed alcohol abuse as a major problem on their campus, which results in the greatest physical and psychological damage, and concluded that alcohol is overwhelmingly the drug of choice. Following the alcohol-related death of a student at Western Washington University in 1984, the National Association of Student Personnel Administration (NASPA) provided guidelines for dealing with the severity of alcohol abuse on college campuses nationwide (Sherwood, 1987). Zirhel and Tsai (1990) reviewed numerous court decisions and found that fraternities and institutions of higher education face increasing exposure to civil liability for accidental injuries, especially when alcohol is served to minors or intoxicated persons. Historically, the fact that alcohol abuse has been an integral part of the college social environment is reflected in the amount of drinking on college campuses (Maddox, 1970). Hunnicutt (1991) concluded that solving the drinking problems associated with behaviors of college students is now more critical than ever.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing | 1999
Lisa Pullen; Mary Anne Modrcin-Talbott; Wr West; R Muenchen
Journal of Holistic Nursing | 1996
Lisa Pullen; Inez Tuck; Kristin Mix
Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing | 2000
Lisa Pullen; Mary Anne Modrcin-McCarthy; Ellen V. Graf