OBJECTIVE Diabetic management process requires nurses with expert knowledge and patient care skills. This study was carried out to identify nurses' diabetic care approaches and their post graduate education needs in order to develop a "Basic Diabetes Patient Care Education Program" in a university hospital in Turkey. METHODS The descriptive study, using the survey technique, was carried out i...

Older persons with mental disorders, excluding dementia disorders, constitute a vulnerable group of people. With the future international increase in the older population, mental disorders will increase as well, thus entailing new challenges for their caregivers. These older persons often remain in their own homes, and in Sweden they are cared for by nursing aides. With little previous research...

This paper reports findings from a national, qualitative study in England that investigated if young adult carers services are facilitating people’s transitions to adulthood, including considering future beyond caring. Semi-structured, online interviews were conducted 2022 with purposive sample of managers or lead workers eleven England. We discuss the consideration given assessments caring pre...

The aim of the present study was to determine the economic impact in the UK of wheezing disorders in preschool children. Health, societal and family-borne costs were calculated for a sample of 94 preschool children who attended hospital with a primary diagnosis of wheeze or asthma during 1998/1999. Sample costs were calculated using data from a structured interview schedule and from symptom dia...

This paper reports a two-phased pilot study that explored the concept of 'specialling' older patients with challenging behaviours in acute ward situations. Previous research suggests that the nursing workforce is not equipped with the skills and resources required to provide quality care for these patients. The hospital in which this study was conducted, instigated a model where these patients ...

abstract background: nurses, who are considered to form the largest group of professional healthcare providers, face the challenge of maintaining, promoting, and providing quality nursing care and to prepare themselves to function confidently and to care effectively. among the factors affecting nursing performance, self-efficacy has been expected to have the greatest influence. however, the con...

Is there anything more desolate than the death of a loved one? What comes near to describing the pit of grief and the wretchedness of despair? How to describe the indescribable. How to put into words the abject misery of it all? Perhaps Auden's poem comes close. How to deal with the symbols that are left behind: the toothbrush, still in the rack; the coat hanging by the kitchen door; the unfini...

Caring theories are the description and conceptualization of the care that is given in caring practise by nurses and other professional caregivers with the aim of verbalizing and communicating caring phenomena. Intermittently, a theory -practice gap is given expression- that theory does not go along with clinical practice in caring.The aim of this study was an investigation into the possible di...

Caring and nursing are so intertwined that nursing always appeared on the same page in a Google search for the definition of caring. Caring is “a feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; showing or having compassion” (The Free Dictionary, 2002, para. 2). As these definitions show, caring is a feeling that also requires an action. Dr. Jean Watson’s caring theory is well known in nu...