Katrina holds the position of Deputy Director of Nursing at Lyndoch Warrnambool Inc., which is the largest provider of residential services in the South-West region of Victoria. In addition to the organizations vast community services, Lyndoch provides accommodation for 85 high care residents and 112 people with low care needs. With over twenty years experience as a nurse Katrina has been fortu...

In this article we describe the nursing care needs of wounded service members (WSMs) from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the evolving role of the nurse case manager (CM). New types of injuries, in-field treatment, immediate transport to multiple care centers, and new technologies have created a new patient population of WSMs that requires new types of nursing care and knowledge. We interv...

AIM This paper reports on structures and processes of hospital care influencing 30-day mortality for acute medical patients. BACKGROUND Wide variation in risk-adjusted 30-day hospital mortality rates for acute medical patients indicates that hospital structures and processes of care affect patient death. Because nurses provide the majority of care to hospitalized patients, we propose that str...

dear editor, as a current phd student working on my dissertation entitled “developing a nursing handover process program in pediatric ward: an action research,” i interviewed nurses and students and found that they had little knowledge about the ethical and legal principles of nursing handover and expressed their dissatisfaction about this process. one of the reasons for this problem, they expr...

The aim of this paper is to describe the provision of a human value system in nursing management that would lead to an environment conducive to quality of care to nurses. Caring is a complex phenomenon with caring concepts which emphasized the human element in human resource management in the health services. Watson (1985) focused on the philosophical and spiritual basis of caring. The ten cara...

Oncology nurses in many roles, including educator, clinical specialist, manager, and nurse practitioner, frequently are involved in continuing-education (CE) activities. The rapidly changing field of oncology demands constant education of staff regarding new innovations in care, including new drugs and treatments available. A continuous need also exists for basic oncology education of new emplo...

A series of team-building activities were conducted on a medical-surgical unit and their impact on staff's communication and job satisfaction was examined. Forty-four unit personnel participated in the interventions. Staff communication and job satisfaction were measured before and after the intervention. The findings linked team-building activities with improved staff communication and job sat...

Objective: The purpose of this qualitative study was to obtain a better understanding of nurse manager’s recognition behavior. Methods: This study, consisting of semi-structured interviews, was conducted in five hospitals with 100 beds or more in the Kanto, Kansai, and Kyushu regions of Japan. Fifteen nurse managers, who each had more than one year of professional work experience as a nurse man...

Background: When family members and/or patients behave in a problematic way, this hinders the provision of safe and secure medical care. During perinatal period, family’s relationships functions change significantly, each member is prone to experiencing stress. As such, conflict arises easily between staff. Aims: Therefore, we conducted study shed light on following phenomena: 1) members’ behav...

Hospital personnel scheduling deals with a large number of constraints of a different nature, some of which need to be satisfied at all costs. It is, for example, unacceptable not to fully support patient care needs and therefore a sufficient number of skilled personnel has to be scheduled at any time. In addition to personnel coverage constraints, nurse rostering problems deal with time relate...