BACKGROUND Despite practice guidelines promoting delirium assessment in intensive care, few data exist regarding current delirium assessment practices among nurses and how these practices compare with those for sedation assessment. OBJECTIVES To identify current practices and perceptions of intensive care nurses regarding delirium assessment and to compare practices for assessing delirium wit...

Evidence-based practice (EBP) has emerged as a marker for health care quality. However, several barriers prevent the transition of nursing research to practice, such as lack of knowledge, lack of time, and little perceived value. The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine the extent of current understanding of EBP, knowledge/skills, and attitudes among registered nurses in an urban Mi...

Research conducted amongst perioperative nurses during 1996 investigated both the causes of occupational stress and nurses' perceptions of the effects of modern medical technologies on several aspects of their work life during the preceding three years. It found that there was a strong perception amongst the 433 nurses in the study that medical technologies had contributed to their increased wo...

This paper uses mixed methods to examine the impact of New Public Management (NPM) on public sector nurses’ perceptions of workplace autonomy and, in turn, their job satisfaction. The quantitative findings of this study suggest that nurses’ perception of autonomy does moderate their job satisfaction. The qualitative findings suggest that the implementation of NPM has negatively affected nurses’...

OBJECTIVES To identify community nurses' perceptions of quality care provision for patients requiring palliative care. DESIGN Semi-structured interviews were conducted with community nurses working within the district nursing service. An adaptation of Flanagan's critical incident technique was employed to elicit factors associated with high or poor quality palliative care. Interviews were tap...

The objective of this study was to identify and analyze nurses' perceptions about diseases that are treated by acupuncture, taking into consideration: (1) the diseases of nurses who had received acupuncture treatment; (2) nurses' diseases which might be treated by acupuncture; (3) suggestions of diseases treatable by acupuncture. This exploratory study was performed with 33 nurses working at 11...

The purpose of this study was to acknowledge and interpret the stories and perceptions of pediatric nurses who care for children left unaccompanied during their hospitalization. This was a phenomenological qualitative study conducted via interviews using open-ended questions. The study was conducted in a large Midwestern pediatric hospital that has both urban and suburban settings. Twelve nurse...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore oncology nurses' perceptions about palliative care. RESEARCH APPROACH Descriptive study with narrative data analysis. SETTING Oncology units in three midwestern hospitals. PARTICIPANTS 33 actively practicing oncology nurses. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Oncology nurses participated in focus groups that elicited concrete experiences and reflections about palliative...

BACKGROUND Workplace safety culture is a crucial ingredient in patients' outcomes and is increasingly being explored as a guide for quality improvement efforts. OBJECTIVES To establish a baseline understanding of the safety culture in Australian intensive care units. METHODS In a nationwide study of physicians and nurses in 10 Australian intensive care units, the Safety Attitudes Questionna...

Nursing is feminized profession by its nature, and traditional development of its concept of caring to sick for centuries. Nursing has been stereotyped as a female dominated profession since the time of Florence Nightingale, worldwide [1,2]. Before the Crimean war, men had the responsibility to provide basic care to the wounded. However, from that war to the present, nursing profession began to...