AIM This paper describes the establishment of the first Japanese nurse practitioner graduate programme and legislative activities to institutionalize nurse practitioners in Japan. BACKGROUND To address the super-ageing population, Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences initiated the first academic graduate level nurse practitioner programme in Japan, based upon the global standard def...

Registered nurses (RNs) have, according to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, the overall responsibility for the medical care in the ambulance care setting. Bringing RNs into the ambulance service are judged, according to earlier studies, to lead to a degree of professionalism with a higher quality of medical care. Implicitly in earlier studies, the work in the ambulance service ...

Authors’ Note: This document was developed through collaboration of members of The american academy of Nursing expert Panel on global Nursing and Health and The Transcultural Nursing Society, with participation by members of The american academy of Nursing expert Panel on Cultural Competence. Sharon M. Weinstein, MS, CRNI, RN, FaaN, Larry Purnell, PhD, RN, FaaN, Cheryl Leuning, PhD, RN, and Rut...

Aids to Medical Nursing by Margaret Hitch is a valuable and essential addition to the series. It gives just the information on medical subjects that nurses need, with concise details of nursing care. This pocket-sized book should prove most helpful, both as a reference for those on duty, and for study for'the final examination. I shall have no hesitation in warmly recommending this book to both...

Moral resilience is the ability to deal with an ethically adverse situation without lasting effects of moral distress and moral residue. This requires morally courageous action, activating needed supports and doing the right thing. Morally resilient people also have developed self-confidence by confronting such situations so they can maintain their self-esteem, no matter what life delivers. Fin...

Aim The RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme was set up in 1995 and sought to identify how clinical nurses in recognised leadership positions could improve the quality of patient care. Method The programme was tested on four senior nurses and 24 ward sisters in four acute hospital trusts in England over an 18-month period. The primary research question was whether the intervention impr...

Aim The aim of the study, being part of a Norwegian evaluation project of the RAFAELA system, was to explore nurse managers' perception of the RAFAELA system as a management tool in a Norwegian hospital setting. Design We applied an explorative qualitative design using focus group interviews. Methods Two focus group interviews were performed with 12 nurses in different management positions ...

The purpose of this paper is to inform the nursing community of the extraordinary progress that the Canadian National Nursing Quality Report (NNQR(C)), the Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) and the Nursing Quality Indicators for Reporting and Evaluation (NQuiRE) have made to date, and to share our commitment to continue working together to build a strong nursing...

SILVER SPRING, MD – The American Nurses Foundation (ANF) today announced that Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and point-of-care solutions for health care, has agreed to help broaden exposure for Honor a Nurse through a major corporate donation and sponsorship agreement. “Honor a Nurse” publicly acknowledges registered nurses who have made a difference in the lives of ot...

OBJECTIVE To describe pica behavior (ingestion of nonfood items) in pregnant low-income Mexican-born women in Mexico and the United States. DESIGN A convenience sample of informants was interviewed with a questionnaire containing open-ended and closed-ended questions. SETTING A low-income community on the outskirts of Ensenada, Mexico, and clinics serving low-income people in southern Calif...