This study examines whether, while controlling for local economic conditions, job design and other organizational factors affect facility aide turnover rates in a sample of 250 nursing homes from 10 states. Facility characteristics were largely based on administrator and director of nursing interviews conducted in 1993 as part of the Health Care Financing Administration's evaluation of the Resi...

Introduction In June 2002, the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) released a revised study projecting a shortage of 78,000 nurses in Canada by 2011 (Ryten 2002). This projected nursing shortage, along with the increasing average age of nurses, led The Ottawa Hospital to actively plan and strategize the sourcing of Registered Nurse (RN) positions. Annual workforce planning is followed by the deve...

In this exploratory descriptive study an attempt was made to develop a profile of professional nurses in the J.D. Allen operating theatre complex of Baragwanath hospital. Aspects of significance have been extracted from the analysed data and highlighted as trends, not only of demographic nature but also in nursing education and practice, with specific reference to operating theatre nursing. Pro...

Knowing the difference between health service evaluation, audit and research can be tricky especially for the novice researcher. Put simply, nursing research involves finding the answers to questions about “what nurses should do to help patients,” audit examines “whether nurses are doing this, and if not, why not,” and service evaluation asks about “the effect of nursing care on patient experie...

In Part 1 of this column (Villeneuve and Mildon 2013), we highlighted the background, activities and final report of the National Expert Commission (NEC), and the plan for transformation outlined in its nine-point Nursing Call to Action (NEC 2012). The titling of the report was deliberate, reflecting the commissioners’ intentions to call all of nursing to action, and at the same time, to suppor...

328 July/August 2011 • Vol 2 No 6 • The Veterinary Nurse Within human nursing, models of nursing care feature heavily, with many texts and research papers devoted to the subject. Pearson et al (2005) suggest an interesting trajectory in their use in practice, with the initial scepticism surrounding their introduction in the 1970s soon giving way to a widespread adoption of them in both practice...

a Graduate student of Nursing at the Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Scientifi c Initiation Scholarship student/National Counsel of Scientifi c and Technological Development (CNPq). João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil. b Nurse. PhD in Nursing. Collaborating faculty member of the Post-Graduate Nursing Programme (PPGENF/UFPB) linked to the National Post-Graduate Programme/Coordenação de Aperfeiç...

INTRODUCTION For almost fifteen years, the application of computer in hospitals increasingly has become popular. Nurses' beliefs and attitudes towards computer is one of the most important indicators of the application of nursing information system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of nurses on the usefulness of nursing information system for patient care. METHODS ...

PURPOSE We developed and tested a multi-modal intervention, delivered in the home health care setting, aimed at increasing osteoporosis treatment rates to prevent fractures. MATERIAL AND METHODS The intervention focused on home health nurses. Key components included: nursing education; development of a nursing care plan; patient teaching materials and creation of physician materials. Nursing ...

introduction. developing a course plan is a main part of every teacher preparation for teaching of each subject and can help him /her teach better and move effectively. this research was conducted to evaluate course plan status of faculty staff of shahid sadoughi university of yazd. methods. this assay was performed on theoretical course plan of all faculty staff of the selected faculties of me...