OBJECTIVES To investigate the factors associated with the timeliness of electronic nursing documentation using the entry time on the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system. METHODS As a retrospective study, data were extracted from January 1 to February 28, 2014 from a hospital EMR system and a nurses' personnel information system. The timeliness of instances of nursing documentation was cate...

This is a review article on the adoption of technology in higher education. Higher education in general is looked at. Nursing Education is also higher education and therefore it will not be addressed separately, but mentioned in some instances. The article presents a look into how students and lecturers experience change, as well as barriers they perceive in the integration and adoption of tech...

Focus groups are used frequently in nursing research as a method for collecting qualitative data. However, due to inadequate planning or execution, the results can be of poor quality or even worthless. A well-defined purpose, carefully planned environment, and well trained personnel are discussed as the cornerstones to focus group success. This article sets the stage with a description of a wel...

Purpose: To understand the needs of information in the collaboration between health personnel in hospitals and care nursing personnel in municipal care in the process of discharging care-needing older patients from hospitals. Theory: The analytical perspective is a process of patient transition, in which responsible actors in health and municipal care have to collaborate in certain patterns, wi...

The incidence of viral hepatitis in Denmark, as notified to the National Board of Health during 1974-78, was determined for health care personnel. Compared to the rate for the population as a whole, a fivefold increase was found for physicians and surgeons as well as for laboratory technicians. Dentists also had an increased rate of infection. No increase was apparent for the nursing staff in g...

This paper describes the results of a survey performed in the home nursing care at different municipalities and health regions in Norway. The purpose of the survey was to map which kind of technical or informational mobile support the personnel reckoned as important when visiting patients at their homes or elsewhere when mobile. The sample was drawn based on an index that groups the regions bas...

This paper describes our experiences in collecting user data on humanrobot interaction in nursing homes for the elderly. Learnings from two experiments were used to develop guidelines to support human-robot user studies with elderly users, in particular for experiments in an eldercare institution. Our experiences show that this demands a very strict organization, full cooperation by nursing per...

Dr.Andreas Charalambous, Member of the Transcultural Centre of Middlesex University Special Scientific Personnel at Cyprus University of Technology DiplGN, BSc, MSc, PGCERT, PhD (Oncology Nursing) Professor (I) Rena Papadopoulos, PhD, MA, BA, DipNEd, DipN, RN, RM, NDNCert Head of Research Centre for Transcultural Studies in Health, Chair, School Ethics Committee, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Heal...

Many health care organizations, nursing leaders, and individual clinicians are not providing care consistently based on evidence and many are not aware of the evidence that is available. Preventable complications have an adverse effect on hospital reimbursement and the burden is placed on hospital personnel and nursing leaders to use current evidence to improve care and prevent complications, s...

Nursing personnel have consistently been ranked among the top ten professions impacted by musculoskeletal injuries. Inpatient pediatric nurses witnessed an increase in injuries and upon discovering limited evidence applicable to pediatrics, conducted a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of a safe patient handling program. Surveys were distributed to assess risk and workplace safety pe...