Nursing homes can be ideal clinical teaching and learning environments for acquiring geriatric specialty and interdisciplinary team skills, particularly those regarding assessment, care planning, management, monitoring, and collaborating in an interdisciplinary milieu. Little is known as to how geriatric specialty training programs use nursing homes to meet expected specialty competencies, or t...

BACKGROUND Clinical education has a basic role in nursing education, and effective clinical training establishes a sense of clinical self-efficacy in senior nursing students. Self-efficacy is a key component for acting independently in the nursing profession. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to outline senior nursing students' views about clinical self-efficacy and to determine its level in...

HHE 2012 | 001 (Tables 1 and 2). The 105 cases are divided into 37 acute and 68 chronic wounds with an average patient age of 70 years (female: 51 years; male: 54 years; standard deviation ±16). The patients had the typical concomitant diseases associated with their age and primary diagnoses. Table 3 summarises the important parameters for the three most prevalent types of wound in the case stu...

INTRODUCTION The quality of nursing documentation is still a challenge in the nursing profession and, thus, in the health care industry. One major quality improvement program is clinical governance, whose mission is to continuously improve the quality of patient care and overcome service quality problems. The aim of this study was to identify whether clinical governance improves the quality of ...

The value of an ideal clinical teaching in individual and professional development, also nursing clinical skills is undeniable.1 Clinical teaching, on the other hand, is the highest cost part of each nursing curriculum. And Practicum andinternship play an important role in forming basic skills and professional competencies of nursing students.2 Therefore, much time must be spend on the function...