Needlestick/sharp injuries (NSIs/SIs) are a serious threat to medical/nursing students in hospital internships. Education for preventing NSIs/SIs is important for healthcare workers but is rarely conducted and evaluated among vocational school nursing students. We conducted an educational intervention for such students after their internship rotations before graduation. This program consisted o...

EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE ACCORDING TO GUIDELINES IN OSTEOARTHRITIS MANAGEMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY Mozhgan Behshid, Vahid Zamanzadeh, Fazlollah Ahmadi, Alireza Irajpoor. PhD student, Research Center of Medical Education, Tabriz Health Services Management Research Centre, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Nursing & Midwifery Faculty, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences; PhD, Professor, Ta...

Background: New graduate nurses’ competence rarely meets the rigorous expectations of clinical settings. Researchers suggest that competency validation before graduation can shorten the length of clinical orientations for graduate nurses after they enter the workforce. The purpose of this study was to explore the difference in clinical competence between students in different types of nursing p...

This article aims to examine gender stereotypes in relation to men in nursing, discuss gender discrimination cases in nursing, and explore methods used for promoting equal educational opportunities during nursing studies. The literature review was based on related databases, such as CINAHL, Science Direct, MEDLINE, and EBSCO. Legal case studies are included in order to provide a more practical ...

BACKGROUND Academic incivility is a serious challenge for nursing education, which needs to be empirically measured and fully addressed. METHOD A convenience sample of nursing faculty and students from 20 schools of nursing in the United States participated in a mixed-methods study to test the psychometric properties of the Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INE-R) Survey. RESULTS A f...

One of the most urgent problems confronting the National Health Service is that of providing sufficient nursing staff. It will be possible to maintain the hospitals at the existing level of efficiency only if it is possible to provide enough adequately trained nurses in future years. To a large extent the quality and quantity of the nursing staffs, as of the Health Service in general, must depe...

Dr Chantal Ski BA (Hons), PhD, Research Fellow, Deakin University/Eastern Health School of Nursing, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria, Australia Professor Bev O'Connell' RN, MSc, PhD, FRCNA, Chair in Nursing, Cabrini Deakin Centre for Nursing Research, 183 Wattletree Rd, Malvern, Victoria, Australia 'corresponding author [email protected] Accepted for publication Ma...

Faculty Name Cricket Barakzai Faculty Name Dorothy Fraser Current Faulty Rank Assoc Prof / Current Faculty Rank Lecturer/ Int. Dir., Ctr. for Excellence in Nursing Chair, Nursing Evaluation Committee Department Nursing School/College Health & Human Services Office Phone 451-3428 Office Phone 278-7978 E-mail maryb E-mail dfraser Campus Mailing Address 2345 E. San Ramon Ave. M/S MH25 Fresno, Cali...

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The need for nurses with expertise in technology and information systems is expected to increase. This article describes a collaboration between a university's school of nursing and school of computer science and information to prepare nurses who wish to become nurse informaticians. The specifics of the master's-level Collaborative Nursing Informatics Program are discussed, classroom and clinic...