There is growing recognition of the need to maximize efforts to bring evidence into practice in low-resource settings, following realization that the gap between evidence and practice in developing countries results in ineffective treatments that drain their health systems (1). In health systems with few resources, putting evidence into practice is proving exceedingly challenging for reasons th...

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...

This Special Issue on Education in the Present Age needs a reflection what nurtures education, holds it together: care. essay is an account of our experiences with care education. It based contribution to International Doctoral Summer School Granada June 2022. Thinking about education and not new, but gained renewed attention pandemic, when lines between students teachers blurred because collec...

Nurses and health care professionals should have an active role in meeting the spiritual needs of patients in collaboration with the family and the chaplain. Literature criticizes the impaired holistic care because the spiritual dimension is often overlooked by health care professionals. This could be due to feelings of incompetence due to lack of education on spiritual care; lack of inter-prof...

In this issue of the journal Christopher Coope presents three sorts of worries about the use of case studies in medical ethics teaching. The first is that heavy reliance on case studies 'tends to exaggerate the degree to which morality is controversial'; the second is that 'it is often quite unclear what problems count as moral problems'; the third is that there are 'limits as to what we may re...

In the United Kingdom a new group of children with intensive and complex health care needs are now being cared for at home as a result of medical advances and government policies emphasising the community as the arena for care. This has led their parents to become involved in providing care of a highly technical and intensive nature that would previously have been considered to be the domain of...

Pakistan is a developing country and most of its population is based in rural areas. Over the last two decades' significant changes have occurred in the health system in an attempt to improve the health care in general with a particular emphasis in the health of people living in rural areas. Despite these efforts, significant development and planning is required to improve the health of nation....