This article describes one university's experience in creating a master's geriatric clinical nurse specialist-nurse educator program to address the nursing faculty shortage and the need for geriatric clinical nurse specialists. The successes and challenges are outlined, and curricular ideas that may be beneficial to other nursing programs also are presented. This program has enhanced the univer...

INTRODUCTION To combat the AIDS epidemic and increase HIV treatment access, the South African government implemented a nurse-based, doctor-supported model of care that decentralizes administration of antiretroviral treatment (ART) for HIV positive patients through nurse initiated and managed ART. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) implemented a mentorship programme to ensure successful task-shiftin...

Expert nurse clinicians who are transitioning into academic positions after successful clinical careers often find they are unprepared to assume their new educator roles. Although nursing clinical expertise may be a necessary expectation, this knowledge is not sufficient to assume a nurse educator position. The purpose of this study was to identify essential entry-level nurse educator competenc...

This study aims to analyze the factors that influence critical thinking skills of clinical nurses in performing nursing care at inpatient installation Immanuel Hospital, Bandung. The method used was an analytic survey with a cross-sectional design on 161 Data collection carried out using questionnaire which then analyzed chi-square test and multiple logistic regression tests. results showed the...

Clinical judgment is a skill every nurse needs, but nurse educators sometimes struggle with how to present it to students and assess it. This article describes an exploratory study that originated and pilot tested a rubric in the simulation laboratory to describe the development of clinical judgment, based on Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model.

Background: Patient satisfaction and purposeful nurse rounding gave that patients are in a vulnerable dependent state while the hospital, reaction time is crucial component of their care experience. One most important criteria for evaluating quality hospitals patient satisfaction. Nurse-initiated clinical rounds give nurses chance to talk patients, address concerns, improve uncomfortable circum...

AIM This study explored clinical nurse managers' perceptions of the factors affecting role performance. METHOD Interviews were carried out with 15 clinical nurse managers in four trusts. RESULTS Results highlight the main influences on the role, the barriers to successful role fulfillment, and the stressors that cause some of the postholders to consider leaving the NHS. CONCLUSION The fin...

The transfer of nurse education from the hospital setting to the university sector has increased the dichotomy between theory and practice. Nurse academics have been exploring methods of maintaining clinical competence and credibility through organizational structures such as faculty practice. Faculty practice is a formal arrangement which exists between a clinical setting and a university whic...

background: today, nurses are exposed to everchanging complicated conditions in health care services, they provide. to be able to cope with these conditions effectively, they should be competent decision makers. besides, as decision making conditions get more complicated, using critical thinking is a need. the current study was carried out to evaluate the relationship between critical thinking ...