Background: To introduce a disease management model named “one disease, one quality” for kidney transplant nursing. Methods: By using the disease management model of the “one disease, one quality” to establish the nursing process for the kidney transplant patients, a whole, comprehensive and professional nursing service was provided for the patients. Results: The satisfaction of the kidney tran...

The work of a community psychiatric nursing service for acute psychiatric conditions was reviewed for the period 1980-82. Five community psychiatric nurses operated in 10 health centres. General practitioners were the most frequent users of the service and a wide range of psychiatric problems were encountered. The age structure of all referrals was found to be significantly related to sex, with...

Background: To introduce a disease management model named “one disease, one quality” for kidney transplant nursing. Methods: By using the disease management model of the “one disease, one quality” to establish the nursing process for the kidney transplant patients, a whole, comprehensive and professional nursing service was provided for the patients. Results: The satisfaction of the kidney tran...

Unless the ‘Crisis, what crisis?’ dictum guides you, you cannot be oblivious to the seemingly endemic erosion of caring and compassion in Nursing. This crisis has been long fermenting but came to a head with the UK revelations in the initial 2010 Francis Report and in the Patients Association landmark report of 2009. The latter did not soften its blows by absolving individual nurses and conveni...

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences and clinical challenges that nurses and nursing assistants face when providing high-quality diabetes-specific management and care for elderly people with diabetes in primary care settings. DESIGN Focus-group interviews. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Sixteen health care professionals: 12 registered nurses and four nursing assistants from nursing homes (10), distri...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY In 2008, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a five-star rating system of nursing homes in the United States. These star ratings have been widely publicized both by CMS and the national and state media. Although the components of the star rating system take into account various dimensions of quality, satisfaction of nursing home residents and th...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment and retention of health professionals in rural areas is a long-standing concern in Australia. In the context of an ageing rural nursing workforce, recruitment and retention of new graduate nurses is an important issue. OBJECTIVE To explore the role transition for new graduate nurses in rural practice in New South Wales (NSW). METHODS This study utilised a qualit...

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, the TCNS, and SAGE have collaborated to publish a new concept in journals publishing, a Core Curriculum for Transcultural Nursing and Health Care. The Core Curriculum is the culmination of many years of research, drawing from the fields of social and behavioral science, philosophy, and nursing to establish a core of knowledge that supports transcultural nur...

Family caregiving is an area that has received extensive attention in the professional and public domains. The graying ofAmerica, the looming aging and retirement of the baby-boomers, increased pressures to care for the chronically ill in their homes, and changes in health care service reimbursement systems all contribute to the generalized concerns regarding caregiving. Nursing constitutes the...

OBJECTIVE We evaluate the effects of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative (NHQI), which introduced quality measures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Nursing Home Compare website, on facility performance and consumer demand for services. DATA SOURCES The nursing home Minimum Data Set facility reports from 1999 to 2005 merged with facility-level data from the On-Line Survey, Ce...