BACKGROUND An understanding of the time nurses spend assessing and meeting patients' needs is key to improve nursing outcomes and support organizational well-being. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The study was designed to determine whether the use of an assessment scale with some clinical parameters indicative of hemodynamic, neurological, respiratory and mobility functions could be able to estimate nur...

Computer-based, standardized, comprehensive testing is becoming a popular assessment tool in nursing education.This study sought to determine student response and satisfaction regarding such testing at a large state nursing school. Surveys that reviewed the entire testing process were provided to all students taking the computerized testing. Student feedback led to revisions for future testing.

Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713630242 Reliability of the Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scale During Toddlerhood Eric A. Hodges a; Gail M. Houck b; Thomas Kindermann c a Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA b Oregon Health & Science Uni...

CDR Colleen O. Lee, RN, MS, AOCN®, is a practice assessment program manager in the Offi ce of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD. (Mention of specifi c products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Society.)

AIM To determine the effects of a course for nursing students on developing competence in spiritual care and the factors that might influence the effects. BACKGROUND Studies suggest that role preparation in nursing for spiritual care is poor. For the assessment of competence, few or no explicit competency framework or assessment tools seemed to be used. DESIGN Quasi-experimental crossover d...

Management of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) requires accurate assessment and evaluation, appropriate treatment strategies, and timely nursing interventions (e.g., monitoring, bleeding prevention, patient education). The overview of ITP in the current article reviews its etiology and provides updates about medical management and key components of nursing care.

background: it is important to learn how to study for different examinations. the objective of the current study is to explore whether the assessment method selection would significantly affect the studying and learning approaches of students. methods: this descriptive-analytical research consisted of 191 first-year undergraduate nursing students from three nursing schools and was conducted dur...

To determine the reliability of the nursing informatics selfassessment tool which was developed and extended from Kaminski’s assessment tool among health care students. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant difference in participant responses for a test/retest survey completed by nursing students.