This dissertation came out of my wondering why there are still so few men going into nursing especially when one considers that the history of nursing reveals men have been a part of nursing for a long time. In New Zealand it is only since the mid seventies that men have been able to gain the exact same nursing qualifications as their women colleagues. Men in nursing are still seen as unusual i...

Nursing is at the cusp of a truly revolutionary time in its history with the emergence of electronic health (eHealth) technologies to support client care. However, technology itself will not transform healthcare without skilled practitioners who have the informatics background to practice in this new paradigm of client care. Nurse educators have been slow to react to the matter of the necessary...

The objectives of this paper are to present a summary of the evolution of the content of perioperative nursing at the University of São Paulo School of Nursing (EEUSP) and reflect on the National Curriculum Directives (NCD) for the nursing course. The study was developed from a brief history of the practice of perioperative nursing and the inclusion of this topic in the nursing curriculum at EE...

The purpose of this research is to rescue from the 1950s onwards, in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, both the discursive and non-discursive practices, on how the nursing teaching went on being redesigned, in search of a profession that would be more scientific, less technicistic, and how the nursing theories had had a participation in such process of transformations and contradictions. The surv...

This study used the health histories of nursing students' families to facilitate students' understanding of the role genetics plays in reproductive health. An ethnographic genetic interview and data collection assignment were created and implemented. Participants included 107 nursing students enrolled in reproductive health nursing who collected ethnographic genetic information by interviewing ...

Cite this article as: Barton-Burke M. Building Capacity For EvidencedBased Practice at the Unit Level Using Oncology Nursing Society Putting Evidence Practice. Asia Pac J Oncol Nurs 2016;3:17-20. “It is evident that leadership in nursing ... is of supreme importance at this time. Nursing has faced many critical situations in its long history, but probably none more critical than the situation i...

This study aimed at developing an information system in nursing with the implementation of nursing care and management of the service. The SisEnf--Information System in Nursing--is a free software module that comprises the care of nursing: history, clinical examination and care plan; the management module consists of: service shifts, personnel management, hospital indicators and other elements....

This segmental historical study had as its main objective to register the trajectory of the National Seminars for Directives of Nursing Education (SENADEns) in the ten editions that occurred in various regions of the country from 1994 to 2006. Data sources consisted of official documents of the events, publications of ABEn-Nacional, articles, and theses reports concerning education in nursing. ...

BACKGROUND Stress is an inevitable part of life and is especially pervasive in the lives of nursing students. Identifying the predictors of stress as well as coping strategies used can allow for the implementation of appropriate coping interventions to assist in the management of stress in nursing students. Mixed methods research that has been undertaken to gain an understanding about student s...

Hybrid patient classification system in nursing logistics activities is discussed in this paper. Hybrid classification model is based on two of the most used competitive artificial neural network algorithms that use learning vector quantization models (LVQ) and self-organizing maps (SOM). In general, the history of patient classification in nursing dates back to the period of Florence Nightinga...