In this paper, the authors address the serious neglect of the 'classical' virtues in ethical reflection upon mental health nursing. The virtues are offered as a possible alternative paradigm for mental health nursing in its search for new models and approaches. Embodied in the notion of a moral community, the virtues have important implications in addressing problems adherent in various 'dualis...

The current healthcare system is slowly evolving into a new system built on a vision of health promotion, primary care and community-based home care, with hospitals still being a core pillar of the healthcare system but not its primary service. This transformation requires a new approach to practice, namely, Strengths-Based Nursing Care (SBC). SBC is about mobilizing, capitalizing and developin...

Globally, graduate students have been found to have high prevalence of mental health problems. With increasing severity of mental health problems on university campuses and limited resources for mental health treatment, alternative interventions are needed. This study investigated the use of biofeedback training to help reduce symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression. A sample of 60 graduate...

PURPOSE This study examines population-based trends in home care service utilization, alone and in conjunction with hospitalizations, during a period of health reform in Canada. It focuses on the extent to which observed trends suggest enhanced community-based care relative to three competing hypotheses: cost-cutting, medicalization, and profitization. DESIGN AND METHODS Analyses drew on admi...

The Top 30 Rising Stars project was established as a unique partnership between Saint Elizabeth Health Care, Toronto Public Health and Women’s College Hospital to support nursing leadership succession planning in the community, public health and ambulatory care sectors. The project also addressed the shortage of emerging leadership talent and an aging nursing workforce. It brought together 10 h...

The purpose of this paper is to inform the nursing community of the extraordinary progress that the Canadian National Nursing Quality Report (NNQR(C)), the Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) and the Nursing Quality Indicators for Reporting and Evaluation (NQuiRE) have made to date, and to share our commitment to continue working together to build a strong nursing...

AIM Data were collected on tenure, mobility and retention of the nursing workforce in Queensland to aid strategic planning by the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU). BACKGROUND Shortages of nurses negatively affect the health outcomes of patients. Population rise is increasing the demand for nurses in Queensland. The supply of nurses is affected by recruitment of new and returning nurses, retentio...

1Family Medicine, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, USA 2Division of Urologic Oncology, College of Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA 3Department of Pharmacy, Bon Secours,Virginia Health System, Midlothian, VA, USA 4Family and Community Health Nursing, School of Nursing, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA 5Department of Family Medic...

328 With access to multimedia through social networks at global level, one wonders why some of the preventive healthcare services such as children and adult immunizations, annual screening for men and women, prenatal and dental care for childbearing women and adolescents are not provided at a 100% rate. Community awareness is a crucial aspect of preventative healthcare and perhaps those respons...