“During her 25 years of dedicated service as Education Consultant for the Nebraska Board of Nursing, Sheila was also actively involved at the national level with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN). She attended and actively participated at Mid-Year and annual Delegate Assembly meetings for 25 years. She additionally served on several different NCSBN committees and task forc...

This is the final article in a nine-part series describing the Principles of Nursing Practice developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in collaboration with patient and service organisations, the Department of Health, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, nurses and other healthcare professionals. This article discusses Principle H, the need for leadership among staff and the provision of c...

The use of simulation is gaining momentum in nurse education across the UK. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is currently investigating the use of simulation in pre-registration nursing. This article gives a brief history of simulation, discusses competence issues and why simulation is best placed to teach nurses in today's health service. An innovative approach to implementing simulation into...

This article examines the role of publications as evidence for university promotion and postulates reasons why the academic "publish or perish" rule applies. A systematic approach to evaluation of an academic's publication portfolio is described. The approach uses a four-step process for evaluating each publication: 1. Ranking of journal where article appeared or classification of book 2. Ranki...

INTRODUCTION IN the field of mobile communications, in response to reduction of bit cost and demands for QoS (quality of service), the needs for broadband communication are getting respectively stronger. Under these circumstances, standardization work of voice transmission by high-speed wireless communication technology and IP (Internet Protocol) is being pushed forward by the 3GPP2 (3rd Genera...

BACKGROUND The most important and contested element of nursing identity may be the patient-centredness of nursing, though this concept is not well-treated in the nursing identity literature. More conceptually-based mapping of nursing identity constructs are needed to help nurses shape their identity. The field of computational text analytics offers new opportunities to scrutinise how growing di...

AIMS The nursing-led inpatient unit is designed to substitute for a period of care in acute hospital wards and to improve patient outcome prior to discharge to the community. This paper aims to evaluate the cost, from the UK National Health Service perspective, of transfer to a nursing-led inpatient unit for intermediate care and to discuss the impact of these findings to the future development...

The concept of cultural safety arose from the colonial context of New Zealand society. In response to the poor health status of Maori, the indigenous people of New Zealand, and their insistence that service delivery change profoundly, nursing has begun a process of self examination and change in nursing education, prompted by Maori nurses. Nursing and midwifery organizations moved to support th...

BACKGROUND Internationally, there are concerns about the quality of care in nursing homes. The concept of 'corporate culture' as an internal variable could be seen as the means to improve quality of care and quality of life for the residents. The aim of this article was to describe the nursing home culture from the staff's perspective and to include how the residents describe quality of care. ...