This research was conducted to reveal Hindu nurse services at Sanglah Hospital Denpasar. As the largest hospital in Bali, RSUP Denpasar has sufficient, safe, reliable, sophisticated facilities with support of qualified and experienced human resources received various awards both national international should be able provide patients by upholding dignity services, education, research. phenomenon...

OBJECTIVE Evidence-based findings of the effects of nursing station design on nurses' work environment and work behavior are essential to improve conditions and increase retention among these fundamental members of the healthcare delivery team. The purpose of this exploratory study was to investigate how nursing station design (i.e., centralized and decentralized nursing station layouts) affect...

OBJECTIVE To analyze nursing practiced in the treatment of tuberculosis, based on secondary data records. METHOD Descriptive study of the retrospective survey kind, conducted in Ribeirão Preto, from August to December 2013. The data of 109 electronic and clinical medical records, and a TB reporting system in the state of São Paulo for residents in the municipality monitored in the reference c...

Nursing students must be prepared to enter the practice environment ready to competently care for patients. The purpose of this study was to examine factors hypothesized to influence senior nursing students' perceptions of readiness for practice and to determine their level of comfort performing skills independently. This study also validates an investigator-developed instrument, the Casey-Fink...

O ur society is increasingly aging. The US Census reports that the population over age 85 will triple from 4.5 million in 2003 to 14.2 million by 2040. The ratio of retired adults to working adults will grow over 50 percent by 2040. Five percent of Americans over 65 currently reside in nursing homes, with 20 to 50 percent of those over 85 expecting to be placed in a nursing home at some point i...

BACKGROUND We examined the agreement over time of the physical functioning domains of the Resident Assessment Instrument: Minimum Data Set Version 2.0 (RAI-MDS) and the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) in nursing home residents with dementia. METHODS We completed a secondary analysis of data from a longitudinal quasi-experimental study of residents who could transfer independently or wit...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare a variety of resident and staff outcomes across two types of staffing patterns, permanent and rotating assignment, and work shift. Although studies have examined these staffing patterns as part of multicomponent intervention packages, few studies have examined the isolated effects of staffing pattern by using an experimental design. DESIGN AND ...

The authors discuss ways in which nurses speak to older people. Research shows that the words nurses use can have a powerful effect on the wellbeing of older people. An experimental project developed at the University of Hull is described in which creative writing techniques were used to increase nursing students' and staff's sensitivity to the importance of language in care. The project enable...

background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...