An objective structured long examination record (OSLER) is a modification of the long-case clinical examination and is mainly used in medical education. This study aims to obtain nursing students' views of the OSLER compared with the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), which is used to assess discrete clinical skills. A sample of third-year undergraduate nursing students (n=21) vo...

Selected Journal Articles Source Strategy Take-Home Message Abeggien, J. & Conger, C. (1997). Critical thinking in nursing: classroom tactics that work. Journal of Nursing Education, 36, 452-458. Multiple strategies were presented within the context of one Community Health nursing course. This article essentially describes the development of a CT format for a course. CT activities described inc...

INTRODUCTION The effectiveness of integrated care pathways for hip fractures in subacute rehabilitation settings is not known. The study objective was to assess if a hip fracture integrated care pathway at a subacute rehabilitation facility would result in better functional outcomes, shorter length of stay and fewer institutionalisations. MATERIALS AND METHODS A randomised controlled trial on...

Carotid artery aneurysms are rare. Nurses need an awareness of these lesions in order to conduct appropriate neurological and cardiovascular assessments, provide appropriate preoperative and postoperative interventions and educate patients and their families. Understanding carotid artery aneurysms enables the nurse to provide quality nursing care to this patient population.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although functional assessments and programs to prevent activity limitations are fundamental for efficient geriatric evaluations and interventions, these procedures have not been satisfactorily explored at nursing homes in Brazil. Literature is scarce on the evaluation of disability in Brazilian institutionalized older people. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conduct...

Background and Objective Finnish physicians have been increasingly dissatisfied with poor usability of the electronic patient record (EPR) systems, which they have identified as an overload factor in their work. Our aim is to specify which factors in EPRs are associated with work-related well-being of physicians. Methods A web-based questionnaire was sent to Finnish physicians younger than 65 ...

introduction. the necessity of making improvement on nurse’s knowledge and expertise has led nursing executives of continuing education to evaluate programs. application of continuing education program should not only be limited to taking part in programs but also it should include evaluation mechanism for measuring the extent of participant’s progress. this pre–post test study was arranged to ...

Background: Nursing bedside handover has been reported as a method to foster patients’ participation in their care. However, to date, no study has assessed the effect of implementing nursing bedside handover on patients’ perception of being involved in the decision-making process of their care and the side effects of nursing bedside handover. Aim: This study aims to evaluate the effect of nursi...

BACKGROUND Multi-morbidity, poly-pharmacy and cognitive impairment leave many old patients in a frail condition with a high risk of adverse outcomes if proper health care is not provided. Knowledge about available competence is necessary to evaluate whether we are able to offer equitable and balanced health care to older persons with acute and/or complex health care needs. This study investigat...

Several instruments have been developed to monitor nursing students' subjective evaluation of clinical placement. The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES+T) evaluation scale measures five dimensions. The purpose of this study was to translate and test the construct validity and internal consistency of the evaluation scale within a Norwegian context. The questionna...