The dissatisfaction with nursing jobs is high among the younger generation, resulting in a decrease in the bottom line for healthcare organizations. The average turnover cost to a healthcare organization is 52,100. If nurses continue to be dissatisfied with their jobs, it could …
The heuristic inquiry-based phenomenological approach values focusing on a question or problem that has been a personal challenge in one’s quest to understand oneself and the phenomenon. Previous research has shown that counselors with a personal history of trauma who provide se…
Journalism plays an important role in our society. But what happens when a journalist decides to pursue a new profession? The loss of a journalist from a newsroom can have a significant impact, particularly when that journalist takes with them institutional knowledge and a histo…
The purpose of this study was to examine whether community policing models support and contribute to officer job satisfaction through work-related variables, such as skill variety, task identity, autonomy, and feedback, which enable officers to feel good about their work. The hi…
Leading a school is a demanding job. Over 20% of school principals in the United States leave their position annually, especially in disadvantaged areas where consistent leadership is most needed (Battle, 2010; Snyder, de Brey, & Dillow, 2016). The myriad of responsibilities and…
This study investigated the supports utilized by Black women in their career advancement as faculty members at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Although there is an abundance of scholarship about the challenges presented to Black women faculty at Predominantly White…
The behavioral healthcare (BH) community provides essential health care services to its clients. Employee turnover has a long history dating back as far as 30 years.Turnover continues to be a growing topic in the behavioral health care community.The success of services rendered …
This thesis explores the relational dynamic that exists between metaphysical belief and the economic cosmos, and how this relationship manifests in technically advanced societies that have undergone processes of secularisation through activity referred to as “work”. Taking an in…
The nursing profession is facing its largest professional nurse deficit in history. With nursing schools unable to produce enough new nurses to replace the number of nurses retiring, it becomes increasingly important to retain as many nurses as possible within the profession. Nu…
This study examined the relationship between perceived quality of clinical supervision and levels of vicarious trauma (VT) and secondary traumatic stress (STS) in a sample of novice therapists who reported working with survivors of sexual trauma. The researcher included therapis…
Workplace bullying is common in the military. This study involved an exploration into workplace bullying experiences of military personnel and whether these experiences contributed to PTSD symptomology. This study also attempted to extend previous research findings that women, e…
This study explores the impact of stereotype threat (Steele, 1997), the fear of confirming negative assumptions about a social group to which one belongs (e.g., race, age, religion). Specifically, this study explored a unique and novel form of stereotype threat (ST), family-work…
Background: Nursing students often experience critical events in the clinical setting, and too often, the clinical instructor does not have the training to help students through these situations. The literature shows that students often feel alone and abandoned, requiring them t…
This study was designed to empirically investigate whether there was a relationship between perceived social support and cumulative levels of secondary traumatic stress symptoms of intrusion, avoidance, increased arousal, anxiety and numbing/depression in disaster workers. The s…
This study encompassed a quantitative correlational research design to explore the relationship between spirituality (theism, self-transcendence) and workplace deviance (organizational deviance, interpersonal deviance). Instruments used to conduct the analysis included the Daily…
Calling has a rich history within several world religious traditions, particularly within Christianity. Via secularization of the construct, calling has become a mainstream, popular culture term that has garnered positive support among scholars and vocational psychologists. A re…
Vicarious trauma is the cumulative and pervasive effect of being exposed to trauma survivors, predominantly researched in the workplace. The field of interpreting, both in spoken and signed language, has attempted to study vicarious trauma suggesting that interpreters do work wi…
Diversified production systems are considered important tools to stabilize the income of smallholder rubber producers' in Indonesia. This study investigates the profitability of integrating sheep and selected crops into smallholder rubber production. Optimal control theory is ap…
In non-Western, nonindustrialized countries such as Nigeria, there is little evidence that Western-designed organization development interventions intended to improve organization functioning and facilitate the transfer of technology are effective. Yet, companies in nonindustria…