A report by the Institute of Medicine, “The Future Nursing,” called for a doubling 28 369 doctorally prepared nurses in 2008 2020.1Institute Medicine (US) Committee on Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative Nursing, at MedicineTransforming education.The Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health. National Academies Press, 2011Google Scholar Although this goal was achieved, it done primarily t...

Based on a sample of 237 university undergraduate students, we examined the 24 Values in Action (VIA) character strengths in relation to two indices of academic success--student satisfaction and grade point average (GPA). All 24 character strengths were positively and significantly related to General Life Satisfaction; 22 were significantly, positively related to College Satisfaction; and 16, t...

The tremendous growth in victim-oriented laws granting various rights to crime victims, which emerged worldwide during the last two decades, has initiated a renewed research interest in the varied aspects of the ‘needy victims’ concept. Highly sophisticated theoretical models, indicating various risk factors (e.g. external control, upward relative risk assessments) and protection factors (hardi...

The analysis stage of a narrative inquiry project presents particular challenges. Finding the most suitable method of data analysis and presentation of the findings takes time and effort. It is important to make the most use of the data collected and to represent participantsʼ narratives in a coherent and meaningful way. This paper reviews some of the analytic lenses used in narrative inquiry a...