To the nurse managers who volunteered to participate in this study. To Miss Jacqueline Britton and Ms Brenda Hayman for their support with transcription and encoding in NVivo and Dr Joanne Cummings for editorial assistance. ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to explore and describe nurse managers' experiences with a team‑based approach to nursing care in hospital settings. Design A qualitative...

INTRODUCTION A high prevalence of psychological/ mental disorders has frequently been reported among nursing staff. However, there is a scarcity of data about 'psychological, mental and behavioural problems' among Nepalese nurses. Current study aimed to measure the prevalence of psychiatric problems among nursing staff in a tertiary care hosital. METHODS All nursing staffs working in the hosp...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of staff influenza vaccination on all-cause mortality in nursing home residents. DESIGN Pair-matched cluster-randomized trial. SETTING Forty nursing homes matched for size, staff vaccination coverage during the previous season, and resident disability index. PARTICIPANTS All persons aged 60 and older residing in the nursing homes. INTERVENTION Influenza...

BACKGROUND To date, there are no valid statistics regarding the number of full time staff necessary for nursing care in emergency departments in Europe. MATERIAL AND METHODS Staff requirement calculations were performed using state-of-the art procedures which take both fluctuating patient volume and individual staff shortfall rates into consideration. In a longitudinal observational study, th...

This descriptive study aimed to calculate and compare the nursing staff at the medical-surgical clinical units of a philanthropic hospital in current and projected situations, and to investigate how much time the nursing team delivers patient care in the current and projected situations. Gaidzinski's method was used to calculate the nursing staff, and the equation proposed by the Hospital Quali...

AIM This qualitative study explored clinicians' and educators' perspectives on how knowledge and skills about family assessment and family nursing are translated from student learning to clinical nursing practice, together with barriers and supports for family-centred nursing practice. BACKGROUND Previous studies have explored educational preparation for family nursing and indicated that fami...

This article aimed to analyze the perception of the nursing team about the care of institutionalized elderly. It consists of a qualitative and exploratory study developed in the six long-term care nursing homes for elderly in the city of João Pessoa/PB, Brazil, from January to June 2013. The sample was comprised 50% of the nurses from all the institutions, totaling 13 participants, whose data w...

Methods It was a quasiexperimental pretest posttest control study. There were 15 residents and 10 nursing home staff in experimental and control groups respectively. An ICP related to enteral feeding was given to the experimental group. The knowledge and practice in enteral feeding among nursing home staff was measured by questionnaires; and 60 pairs of specimens were taken for bacterial counts...