background the members of healthcare team have an important role in implementation and protection of patient’s rights. contemporary nursing entails an ethical responsibility to advocate and protect the patients’ rights. conclusions the results of this study was concerning with regard to nursing students’ readiness for duties such as patient’s rights advocacy. therefore, it proposes ethics educa...

background:learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. the aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. methods: in a quasi-experimental study with two g...

background: human beings use different approaches to learning. thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. methods: this qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. the data were collected using se...

OBJECTIVES To determine functional status and mortality rates after colon cancer surgery in older nursing home residents. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Nursing homes in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Six thousand eight hundred twenty-two nursing home residents aged 65 and older who underwent surgery for colon cancer in the United States between 1999 and 2005. MEASUREMENTS ...

■ Apply knowledge of normal cardiac anatomy and physiology and assessment techniques in caring for clients with cardiac disorders. ■ Assess functional health status of clients with cardiac disorders, documenting and reporting deviations for expected findings. ■ Based on client assessment and knowledge of the disorder, determine priority nursing diagnoses. ■ Plan, prioritize, and provide evidenc...

BACKGROUND Ambulatory geriatric rehabilitation (AGR) is a community based outpatient intervention which aims to improve physical function, maintain independent living of geriatric patients, avoiding hospitalisation and institutionalisation. It should therefore reduce health care costs. The objective of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness of AGR for frail elderly patients insured by the s...

A great deal of the caring work of nursing is accomplished and mediated through language. This paper attempts to characterize some of this language in quantitative and stylistic terms in an attempt to characterize the genre of nursing report language. Nursing students (n = 26) and graduate nurses (n = 3) viewed a videotape of a person being interviewed by a psychiatrist and produced written rep...

BACKGROUND The low infectious dose and multiple transmission routes favour the appearance of norovirus outbreaks. The objective of this study was to compare the incidence of norovirus outbreaks in hospitals and nursing homes in Catalonia. METHODS A descriptive study of norovirus outbreaks between 15/10/2004 and 30/10/2005 was carried out. An epidemiological survey was completed for each outbr...