Background: resident-to-resident aggression (RRA) is an understudied form of elder abuse in nursing homes. Objective: the purpose of this systematic review was to examine the published research on the frequency, nature, contributing factors and outcomes of RRA in nursing homes. Methods: in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Statement, this rev...

Today the development of a unique professional language and publishing of professional and scientific publications is the basis of every profession, including the nursing profession. The task of the unique language specific to the nursing profession is to describe the nursing profession (to make it more familiar to the other team members and clients/customers), improve communication between nur...

VERN BULLOUGH, BONNIE BULLOUGH, and MARIETTA P. STANTON (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00. This volume, by established and new writers on the history of nursing, is the result of a conference held at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989. The editors are to be congratulated for th...

TWO duties are mine this morning, the first is a complete pleasure and it is to welcome the new class of students to this hospital. This is the traditional moment when you commence to walk the wards of a teaching hospital; when you meet patients for the first time; when some reality will distill from your dreams of what being a medical student was. It is fully understood that you have met patie...

INTRODUCTION Official recognition and certification for informatics professionals are essential aspects of workforce development. OBJECTIVE To describe the history, pathways, and nuances of certification in nursing informatics across the globe; compare and contrast those with board certification in clinical informatics for physicians. METHODS (1) A review of the representative literature on...

Why are modern-day Americans, especially members of the "baby boom" generation, so obsessed with health and physical fitness, despite the tremendous medical advances of the past hundred years? In Able-bodied womanhood, Martha H. Verbrugge suggests we must look beyond strictly medical explanations for an answer to this apparent paradox. Expanding upon the work of Lester S. King, Susan Sontag, an...