Objective—To evaluate a programme introducing quality improvement (QI) in nursing education. Settings—Betanien College of Nursing and clinical practices at hospitals in Bergen. Subjects—52 nursing students from a second year class working in 16 groups undertaking hospital based practical studies. Intervention—Second year nursing students were assigned to follow a patient during a day’s work and...

Background: Job stress is one of the most important diseases of the century, plays a major role in today's organizations which researchers are trying to control and reduce it. One method for control and reduce of stress is hidden in job and its characteristics. Nursing students are faced continually with one of the stressful job. Hackman & Oldham Job Characteristics Model is famous theory in th...

Objective: This paper studies acquisitions of nursing home facilities by nursing home chains. We examine the causes of nursing home acquisitions. We also examine how acquisitions affect the operating strategies of the acquired facilities and the health outcomes of the residents within those facilities. How acquisitions affect resident health outcomes will depend on the ability of the acquiring ...

ABSTRACT CULTIVATING KNOWING AND RELATIONSHIPS: A GROUNDED THEORY OF QUALITY OF DEATH IN THE NURSING HOME Rebecca L. Trotta, Author Sarah H. Kagan, Supervisor Understanding quality of death in the nursing home is mandated both by demographics and morality in an aging society. Nursing home residents are among the oldest and most physically and mentally frail members of our society. Today, approx...

Nurses have the most important role among health care workers (HCWs) in each hospital (Aiken et al., 2008) [1]. Nurses education can lead to the improvement of nursing care If is implemented and designed based on nurses' needs and proper principles (Aiken et al., 2008) [1]. Nowadays, increased quality of the treatment and increase the chances of survival of patients with acute respiratory failu...

j o u r n a l o f wo u n d c a r e vo l 1 5 , n o 8 , s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 6 3 4 8 C ommunity leg ulcer clinics have emerged as a new approach to leg ulcer management. Studies have found that they improved healing rates1-3 when compared with individual nursing care. Such clinics provide easier access to wound care specialist nurses, increased social interaction and improved information excha...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a programme introducing quality improvement (QI) in nursing education. SETTINGS Betanien College of Nursing and clinical practices at hospitals in Bergen. SUBJECTS 52 nursing students from a second year class working in 16 groups undertaking hospital based practical studies. INTERVENTION Second year nursing students were assigned to follow a patient during a day's wo...

background: the aim of present study was to determine the quality of nursing documents in medical-surgical wards and factors affected this quality. methods: in this descriptive study the quality of nurses' documents in medical-surgical wards of teaching hospitals related to tabriz university of medical sciences was assessed. for data gathering, four checklists assessed four parts of nursing doc...

J O U R N A L O F WO U N D C A R E VO L 1 5 , N O 8 , S E P T E M B E R 2 0 0 6 3 4 8 C ommunity leg ulcer clinics have emerged as a new approach to leg ulcer management. Studies have found that they improved healing rates1-3 when compared with individual nursing care. Such clinics provide easier access to wound care specialist nurses, increased social interaction and improved information excha...