Vignettes have often been used to evaluate students or collect data in nursing research. The format is familiar to most nursing students as well as nurses and nurse researchers. This article presents the development and testing of the Nurse Practitioner Performance Tool (NPPT) which used vignettes as an approach to nurse practitioner performance evaluation. In this example, vignettes were used ...

Introduction: Professionals in home health nursing mainly work alone in patients’ homes. This makes documentation from the electronic patient record crucial for carrying out proper care. The aim of this study was to elaborate on knowledge of home health nursing professionals’ attitudes towards electronic nursing documentation, and to investigate whether attitudes towards documentation and its p...

BACKGROUND Motivational interviewing (M.I.) is an option for modifying an individual's behavior. It is used as an educational method in recent years. The aim of our study was to indicate whether or not education, using lecture alone and lecture with M.I., would affect the performance of nursing personnel regarding their hand hygiene. If so, which of these two methods were most effective for thi...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To conduct a role delineation study of basic oncology nursing practice as a basis for revision of the blueprint for the Oncology Certified Nurse (OCN) examination. DESIGN Three-phase study of oncology nurses' practice. SAMPLE 735 oncology nurses randomly chosen from all nurses who are OCN certified. METHODS A pilot survey was mailed to a small group to allow refinement ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine how nurses' professional needs were met in nursing practice. DESIGN A survey design was used in this study. SETTING Data were collected from one metropolitan public hospital, one rural public hospital, and from postgraduate students in diploma/certificate course at a university in Victoria. SUBJECTS Participants consisted of 346 registered nu...

Effects of number of lambs suckled and supplemental protein source on ewe performance were determined. Lactat ion performance of ewes nursing twin or triplet lambs was compared in Exp. 1 and 2. In Exp. 1, ewes giving birth to and nursing triplets produced 21% (P<.05) more milk/unit metabolic body weight, were 10% more efficient in the conversion o f feed to milk and produced 26% (P<.05) more kg...

abstract background : infectious disease control is one of the important components of patient care which can assist in reducing morbidity and mortality. source isolation is one of the strategies that have used in order to prevent from the spread of contagious infectious diseases. since nursing student should be able to do the caring in source isolation patients after learning the principles, i...

background: educational clinical environment has an important role in nursing students' learning. any difference between actual and expected clinical environment will decrease nursing students’ interest in clinical environments and has a negative correlation with their clinical performance.   methods : this descriptive cross-sectional study is an attempt to compare nursing students'perception o...