Nursing homes (NHs) are under increasing pressure to accurately gauge and improve the quality of care they provide to their residents. Higher patient acuity, demand from consumers and policy-makers, and media reports of inadequate care are providing the impetus for change. In response to these pressures, researchers are devising more appropriate indicators of quality,1 states are creating innov...

Nursing metrics have been used increasingly in UK health services over the past two years to measure and improve nursing performance and to aid commissioners in linking funding to quality. This article provides an introduction to nursing metrics, including some of the nurse-sensitive indicators and the background to their development. It also provides examples of how metrics are used in practic...

The aim of this contextual, exploratory, descriptive and qualitative study was to describe strategies to improve the performance of learners in a nursing college. The article seeks to deal with factors relating to nursing education that contribute to the poor performance of learners and to outline related strategies to improve the situation. Three focus group interviews were conducted. One grou...

High performing nursing teams deliver quality safe care that is valuable to a country. In order to successfully perform tasks, there needs to be a proper mix of team composition in terms of team knowledge and team skills. Also, the team must work in a good surrounding through a positive team context. Team context, in the form of team identification and team support, provides the necessary work ...

PURPOSE The study was done to identify turnover intention in new nurses according to characteristics of the nurses and other factors affecting turnover and to provide data to set up a strategy to reduce the turnover. METHODS Data were collected from 1,077 new nurses who had less than 12 months employment experience and worked in one of 188 hospitals. Eight research instruments were used. Data...

BACKGROUND Web-based learning is becoming an increasingly important instructional tool in nursing education. Multimedia advancements offer the potential for creating authentic nursing activities for developing nursing competency in clinical practice. OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe the design, development, and evaluation of an interactive multimedia Web-based simulation for developing n...