The nursing shortage is exacerbated by the faculty shortage, as faculty approach retirement age and too few faculty exist to replace them. Masters-prepared nurse with limited preparation for teaching may be unable to attend traditional educational programs because of work and family commitments. Without further academic preparation, these nurses are illprepared for the faculty role. The College...

1Reaserch Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 2Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Para-Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 3Medical Ethics Research Center, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Iran. 4Medical Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Para-Medicine, Jahrom University of Medical Sc...

393 The current system for doctoral education in nursing does not have the capacity to prepare the number of graduates necessary to replace retiring faculty, nor does it have a sufficient number of nurse researchers to generate knowledge for the discipline (Potempa, Redman, & Anderson, 2008). According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2007), a large percentage of senior nursing faculty me...

BACKGROUND Treatment decisions for apnoea of prematurity (AOP) are usually based on nursing staff's documentation of pulse oximeter and heart rate alarms. OBJECTIVE In an observational study, to compare the accuracy of oxygen saturation (SpO2) and heart rate alarm documentation, and the resulting interventions by nursing staff, with objectively registered events using polysomnographic and vid...

Objective: (1) To assess the work load and job satisfaction among Nursing staff. (2) To assess special provisions available for them. Materials and Methodology: The present descriptive epidemiological study which had adopted exploratory survey design was carried out during July 2009 to June 2010 in Topiwala National Medical College and Nair Hospital (Twin Institute), a Tertiary Health Care Hosp...

Background Weakness of curriculum development in nursing education results in lack of professional skills in graduates. This study was done on master's students in nursing to evaluate challenges of neonatal intensive care nursing curriculum based on context, input, process, and product (CIPP) evaluation model. Materials and Methods This study was conducted with qualitative approach, which was...

BACKGROUND It is of importance and urgency for hospitals to retain excellent nursing staff in order to improve patient satisfaction and hospital performance. However, it was found that simply increasing the salary is not the best method to resolve the problem of lacking nursing staff; it is necessary to focus on the impact of non-monetary factors. The delicate relationship between organizationa...

BACKGROUND A growing number of health care organizations are implementing a system of electronic patient records (EPR). This implies a change in work routines for nursing staff, but it could also be regarded as an opportunity to improve the quality of care. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to obtain more insight into the usefulness of EPR as perceived by nursing staff and to clarify t...

* Extract from the thesis "Relação dialógica entre profissionais de enfermagem e mães de crianças hospitalizadas em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Pediátrica", Graduate Nursing Program at Federal University of Paraíba, 2007. 1 RN. MSc. in Nursing. Undergraduate Nursing Faculty at Faculdade de Enfermagem Nova Esperança. João Pessoa, PB, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN, Ph.D. in Nursing. Undergra...