Building therapeutic nurse-patient relationships is pivotal to the provision of optimum nurse care management for geriatric home health care (HHC) patients. However, little is known about which strategies most effectively treat older adult HHC patients with concomitant depression and disability. This qualitative descriptive study was conducted in two parts to explore the issue further. The firs...

BACKGROUND the EU Directive states the requirement of staff working in trials to be qualified by education, training and experience [14]. This includes the research nurse; however, in the transition from ward nurse to research nurse, new and highly developed skills and knowledge are required in order to work effectively. METHODS an educational programme was developed, which included a review ...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer mortality among women worldwide, but actually is largely preventable. The practice of Pap smear testing (PST) needs to be expanded in order to diagnose cervical cancer at an early stage and thus reduce the burden this women's health problem brings to the society. Effective public education is therefore crucial. Determining th...

Background A nurse shortage in Canada is contributing to large amounts of paid/unpaid overtime and increased laborrelated expenditures. Shifting PID/SID patients from hospital-based IVIg to less labor-intensive home-based SCIg can improve their quality of life and treatment satisfaction [1] and may improve efficient allocation of nurse staff. The objectives for this study were to estimate the r...

The role of the nurse practitioner in the UK is new. It extends the traditional role of the nurse and may help overcome some of the difficulties in communication that have bedevilled clinical practice in recent years. This paper reviews the emergence of nurse practitioners in the USA and considers their status in the UK. The philosophical basis for clinical interventions by nurses is assessed a...

Nurse prescribing has become established in the UK, though the number of prescriptions written in primary care in 2006 by nurses remained small at 0.8% of the total. Healthcare teams employ nurse prescribers to streamline the service and improve patients' access to medicines. As the range of medicines available to nurses for prescribing increases, so questions about the need for more training i...

nurse training, and staffing problems generally. In discussing nurse training developments the hope is expressed that training schools will make every effort to try out the experimental syllabuses which have been drawn up by the General Nursing Council. The standard training of mental deficiency nurses in particular, is noted as being completely divorced from the actual work they are called upo...