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...

BACKGROUND Health assessment skills are of the most important skills which nurses require. The more precise assessment, the better results would be obtained and the quality of patient care would be improved. However, in Iran, few studies have investigated nurses' assessment skills. OBJECTIVES This study was aimed to assessnurses' evaluation of the learned skills of health assessment and their...

Chronic early school absence (preschool through third grade) is associated with school failure. The presence of school nurses may lead to fewer absences, and nurse practitioners in school-based health centers (SBHCs) can facilitate a healthier population resulting in improved attendance. Efforts to get students back to school are unexplored in nursing literature. This article describes a nursin...

Ruth E. Taylor-Piliae, RN, CNS, MN Doctoral Candidate, Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, Calif. Erika S. Froelicher, RN, MPH, PhD, FAAN Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco; Calif. This research project was supported by grant 1 F31 NR08180-01 from the National Cen...

Limited English proficiency immigrant students have a high risk of dropping out of high school, resulting in significantly restricted employment opportunities. At the same time, the nursing profession is desperately in need of increased ethnic diversity in the workforce to better serve its diverse patient population. Recognizing both of these situations, a group of nursing students from Emory U...

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Paul Edwards Head of practice development, Bupa UK Care Services, Leeds Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Paul Labourne As...

the effect of active learning model on cognitive and clinical skills among icu nursing students     baghaei r [1] , mohammadpour y [2] *, naderi a [3] , rasouli d [4] , sheikhi n [5]     received: 4 sep, 2011 accepted: 15 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the clinical education and evaluation of nursing education is a fundamental pillar. this study aimed to assess the achievement of ...