This past November, over 700 nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, clinical nurse specialists, and other oncology professionals gathered at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge hotel in Phoenix to participate in the JADPRO Live at APSHO conference. This meeting was the third such JADPRO Live event focusing on the unique educational and professional needs of the advanced practitioner i...

Graduates of bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) programs are increasingly expected to take an active role in assessing and improving nursing practice, and nurse educators are expected to prepare BSN students for this expanding role. Information literacy, the ability to search for, find, get, and use scholarly information to inform nursing practice, should be a critical component of nursing ed...

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing in collaboration with leaders in the health care arena has developed a new role in nursing, the clinical nurse leader (CNL). The CNL is a master's-prepared advanced nurse generalist, accountable for providing high-quality, cost-effective care for a cohort of patients in a specific microsystem. Although initial implementation of the CNL has been pr...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

In the previous issue of Critical Care, Rose and colleagues report the results of a survey on the frequency with which ICU nurses are involved in decision-making in ventilator management. About 63 to 88% of the decisions were made by nurses in collaboration with physicians, and as much as 68% of ventilator adjustments were performed by nurses independent of physicians. Nurse involvement in deci...

The whole process of information visualization from data acquisition to the final image includes sources of uncertainties (e.g., during measuring, aggregation, sampling, mapping,. . . ) that may significantly influence the assumptions about the data and the decisions made. Although there is no universal representation of uncertainties, a somehow common approach is to use fuzzy or blurred repres...

The aim was to describe, from the newly registered nurses’ perspective, specific events when using their pedagogical knowledge in their everyday clinical practice. The design was qualitative and the critical incident technique was used. Data were collected via interviews with ten newly registered nurses. Two categories emerged in the analyses. The first category was “Pedagogical methods in theo...

The nurse scheduling problem consists of assigning working shifts to each nurse on each day of a certain period of time. A typical problem comprises 600 to 800 assignments that have to take into account several requirements such as minimal allocation of a station, legal regulations and wishes of the personnel. This planning is a di cult and time-consuming expert task and is still done manually....

The Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) Oncology Nursing Committee (ONC) was initially established in 1983 as a working group with the specific aim of promoting protocol compliance through collaboration, communication, and education to enhance the scientific goals of the Group. Due to the efforts of its members, the committee gained full committee status. ONC members now serve as principal inve...