Aim: To explore the experiences of nurse practitioner students moving from expert registered nurses to novice program students. 
 Background: Moving can be a time filled with mixed emotions, lack confidence, adaptation, and competency development. Learning about navigating advanced practice nursing role challenging. Students in are encouraged engage regular reflective writing foster develo...

Background: Phlebitis leads to increased discomfort for patients, longer hospital stays, and higher healthcare costs. One of the factors causing phlebitis is lack skilled nurses when performing infusions. Aim: The purpose study was determine relationship between novice nurses' knowledge about infusion therapy with incidence phlebitis. Methods: This type research using questionnaire nurse analyt...

Background: The nurse’s transition into practice is challenging. need to facilitate a safe and retain nurses crucial in today’s healthcare. Objective Design: qualitative study aim was describe the lived experiences of new nurses’ their perceptions functioning as practitioners. Method: This descriptive, phenomenological arm larger, mixed methods (Safety Transition Education Practice study) inter...

Triage, the first step in the assessment of emergency department patients, occurs in a highly dynamic environment that functions under constraints of time, physical space, and patient needs that may exceed available resources. Through triage, patients are placed into one of a limited number of categories using a subset of diagnostic information. To facilitate this task and standardize the triag...

OBJECTIVE To identify the characteristics of an expert nurse. METHODOLOGY A group of 49 nurses starting their Master's degree was asked to answer the following question: ''Which characteristics and skills distinguish a novice from an expert nurse?'' The answers were analyzed and classified based on Bardin's content analysis. RESULTS Through a three-stage classification process, the competen...

Objective: To identify the characteristics of an expert nurse. Methodology: A group of 49 nurses starting their Master’s degree was asked to answer the following question: “Which characteristics and skills distinguish a novice from an expert nurse?” The answers were analyzed and classified based on Bardin’s content analysis. Results: Through a three-stage classification process, the competences...

Generational diversity provides a unique quandary for nursing leaders and educators to enlist, orient, and retain nurses. Millennials are the largest cohort since the Baby Boomers and the age group from which the nursing profession will build its future workforce. This study examined the experiences of the new graduate nurse of the millennial generation as they navigate orientation in an acute ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to develop nursing practice guidelines and algorithms for the pre- and postoperative care of gastric cancer patients. METHODS The guidelines and algorithms were developed based on a literature review and subject-matter experts' knowledge. The usefulness and applicability of the developed guidelines and algorithms were evaluated by the expert group. RESUL...

Nursing educators need to continue to explore ways that new pedagogies such as narrative pedagogy and reflective practice inform and extend students' thinking in classroom and clinical situations. The goal of instruction becomes creating an opportunity for learning that integrates content knowledge with knowledge of the context. Educational methodologies that incorporate the use of context in a...