Acute care nurse practitioners (ACNPs) are advanced practice RNs who are educationally prepared to provide advanced nursing care to patients with complex acute, critical, and chronic illness. The education of advanced practice nurses should prepare them for the setting in which they practice; ACNPs are well prepared for hospital and specialty practice, particularly if they have experience as RN...

Owing to the nature of nursing, patient may judge the overall quality of hospital services on the basis of their perception of nursing care received. Patients who are more satisfied with their care are more likely to follow medically prescribed regimens and thus contributing to the positive influence on health. More satisfied patients are more likely to recommend the hospital to family and frie...

PURPOSE The aim of this article is to report some of the work undertaken by a nursing "think tank", focussed on examining the causes of poor nursing care in hospitals, and potential solutions. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A "think tank" was convened which incorporated widespread discussion with national, regional and local stakeholders, a critical literature review, and a focus group of senior...

UNLABELLED This paper presents philosophical, pedagogical and political considerations on Ethics and Values in Professional Health Care Practice. The current changes and crises in the world, intensified by economic turmoil, have affected social justice issues affecting health and education. OBJECTIVES to clarify nurses' role in the context of the art to take care of clients both as individual...

Neonatal Care is one specialty within nursing as a whole where the repertoire of skills and knowledge for practice is broad. Competence in skills, an important component of today's nursing agenda, must extend to any post-basic specialty a nurse opts to work within. To become 'qualified in specialty' (QIS) is an aim of nurses who work within the neonatal area of practice following qualification,...

This study aimed to understand the meaning of nursing care as a social practice based on interactions and associations with complex-systemic thinking. Grounded Theory was the methodological framework used and 35 health professionals distributed in different sample groups were interviewed through a semi-structured questionnaire. Simultaneous data codification and analysis permitted the identific...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to understand this study sought to understand the meaning of the experience of humanized nursing care from the perspective of patients, relatives, and nurses. METHODS This was an interpretative phenomenological study that included 16 adult participants and which was based on in-depth interviews to gather the information and on the procedures proposed by Cohen, Kahn...

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OBJECTIVE To elaborate an interpretative model for the governance of professional nursing practice in a hospital setting. METHOD A mixed methods study with concurrent triangulation strategy, using data from a cross-sectional study with 106 nurses and a Grounded Theory study with 63 participants. The quantitative data were collected through the Brazilian Nursing Work Index - Revised and underw...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to assess the nursing students' global perspectives and compare it to a nationally normed reference group. BACKGROUND An individual's global perspective impacts the extent to which the person perceives and knows the people and cultures within the world. Nursing care is expected to take a holistic perspective in providing care and respond in cultu...