Reflections on the continuing evolution of advanced practice nursing.

Nurses', midwives' and key stakeholders' experiences and perceptions of a scope of nursing and midwifery practice framework.

AIM This paper reports on the qualitative findings from a national review of a nursing and midwifery scope of practice framework. BACKGROUND Scope of professional practice frameworks offers a system of rules and principles to regulate its members and demonstrate its responsibility to society. Key issues in reviewing the scope of practice include notions of specialist and advanced practice, ac...

Education of advanced practice nurses in Canada.

In Canada, education programs for the clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and nurse practitioner (NP) roles began 40 years ago. NP programs are offered in almost all provinces. Education for the CNS role has occurred through graduate nursing programs generically defined as providing preparation for advanced nursing practice. For this paper, we drew on pertinent sections of a scoping review of the l...

تأثیر آموزش حین خدمت مراقبت‌های ویژه نوزادان بر آگاهی و عملکرد‌پرستاران شاغل در بخش‌های کودکان

Introduction: Nowadays continuing education is considered an essential part of nursing education. This study was planned to evaluate the effect of continuing education of neonatal intensive care nursing on knowledge and the practice of nurses who were working in the children’s hospitals. Materials and Methods: A semi-experimental study was carried out including 42 nurses of the children’s hospi...

Fostering RN-to-BSN students' confidence in searching online for scholarly information on evidence-based practice.

Graduates of bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) programs are increasingly expected to take an active role in assessing and improving nursing practice, and nurse educators are expected to prepare BSN students for this expanding role. Information literacy, the ability to search for, find, get, and use scholarly information to inform nursing practice, should be a critical component of nursing ed...

How continuing education can help the advanced practice shortage.