Owing to the nature of nursing, patient may judge the overall quality of hospital services on the basis of their perception of nursing care received. Patients who are more satisfied with their care are more likely to follow medically prescribed regimens and thus contributing to the positive influence on health. More satisfied patients are more likely to recommend the hospital to family and frie...

PURPOSE The aim of this article is to report some of the work undertaken by a nursing "think tank", focussed on examining the causes of poor nursing care in hospitals, and potential solutions. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH A "think tank" was convened which incorporated widespread discussion with national, regional and local stakeholders, a critical literature review, and a focus group of senior...

UNLABELLED This paper presents philosophical, pedagogical and political considerations on Ethics and Values in Professional Health Care Practice. The current changes and crises in the world, intensified by economic turmoil, have affected social justice issues affecting health and education. OBJECTIVES to clarify nurses' role in the context of the art to take care of clients both as individual...

Neonatal Care is one specialty within nursing as a whole where the repertoire of skills and knowledge for practice is broad. Competence in skills, an important component of today's nursing agenda, must extend to any post-basic specialty a nurse opts to work within. To become 'qualified in specialty' (QIS) is an aim of nurses who work within the neonatal area of practice following qualification,...

This study aimed to understand the meaning of nursing care as a social practice based on interactions and associations with complex-systemic thinking. Grounded Theory was the methodological framework used and 35 health professionals distributed in different sample groups were interviewed through a semi-structured questionnaire. Simultaneous data codification and analysis permitted the identific...

Gender differences among nursing professionals were investigated in the area of job stress and stress coping strategies. Seventy six male nurses and 93 female nurses from 3 general hospitals were participated in this study. Korean job stress measurement developed by Chang (2005) and stress coping measurement modified by Yim (1994) were used. Using SPSS 22.0 program, gender differences in the le...

OBJECTIVE As care shifts to home and community, have nursing jobs followed? We examined changes in the absolute and relative size of the nursing workforce by sector/sub-sectors in Ontario, Canada. METHODS All nurses registered with the Ontario College of Nurses over the 11 years from 1993 to 2003 were categorized as Active, Eligible or Not Eligible. Active nurses were then categorized by sect...

a bstra ct background: effective time management is considered important for managers for achieving the goals in an organization. head nurses can improve their efficiency and performance with effective use of time. there has always been a lot of disagreement in understanding time management behaviors of head nurses; therefore, the present study was conducted with an aim to compare the understan...

The interrelatedness of nurses' career commitment and job performance is debated. In nursing, few studies have focused on the relationship between the two concepts. A convenience sample of 640 registered nurses (RNs) from 24 hospitals was recruited. A comparative design was used to assess differences among governmental, teaching and private hospitals in regard to the concepts measured. In gener...

Background: Psychiatric Nurses and nurses’ assistants working in an inpatient unit experience a significant number of critical cases. A small number of studies have explored which patients’ problems nurses perceive as ‘critical case or incident’ and particularly which interventions they choose. Aim: The aim of the research was 1. To identify the clinical problems that mental health nurses and a...