AIMS To assess levels of occupational stress, job satisfaction and job performance among hospital nurses in Kampala, Uganda; and how they are influenced by work and personal characteristics. BACKGROUND Occupational stress is reported to affect job satisfaction and job performance among nurses, thus compromising nursing care and placing patients' lives at risk. Although these factors have been...

Nonphysician clinicians (NPCs) are becoming increasingly prominent as health care providers. This study examines 10 such disciplines: nurse practitioners (NPs), physician assistants (PAs), nurse-midwives, chiropractors, acupuncturists, naturopaths, optometrists, podiatrists, nurse anesthetists, and clinical nurse specialists. The aggregate number of NPCs graduating annually in these 10 discipli...

In 1860, the Nightingale School of Nursing opened at St Thomas's Hospital, London. Florence Nightingale's overriding raison d'etre in the setting up of this foundation was a replacement of the old fashioned nurse (caricatured by Mrs Gamp-an "ignorant and immoral drunkard") by the highly trained, and eminently respectable "lady-nurse". While this change met with a great deal of approval from the...

53 Evaluation of a Tool for Assessing Clinical Competence of Msc Nurse Students *Margaret Chege Peter Mwaniki 2 Timothy Abuya 3 1. PhD student, Mount Kenya University 2. Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture &Technology 3. Population Council * E-mail of the corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract This paper reports the first of a four phase study whose aim is to develop and validate ...

IN BOTH CANADA and the United Kingdom, the attention of the medical profession has been focusing on the nurse as a solution to the increasing demands being made on first contact health services. Many feel that the registered nurse with some extra training is capable of taking on several of the family physician's tasks. Estimates of the amount of usual physician work load she can assume vary fro...

This study examined the effectiveness of a new skills training program designed to increase nurse aides' knowledge of behavior management. The training program, designed as five 90-minute group learning modules, was implemented in two Western Pennsylvania nursing homes over a 5-month period. Topics covered within the training program included-basic principles of behavioral management as they ap...

n engl j med 364;3 nejm.org january 20, 2011 193 phase of reform must slow the growth of health care costs and improve value through payment reforms, including bundling of payments and payments for episodes of care. Some savings will derive from implementation of innovative models of care, such as accountable care organizations, medical homes, transitional care, and community-based care. We bel...