To move the healthcare industry into the 21st century, nurses must become savvy in the use of informatics to provide optimal care to their patients. However, the relatively few formal nursing informatics programs that exist across the country are simply not adequate to meet the demands of both new and existing nurses. Informatics competencies must be incorporated into nursing curricula at entry...

BACKGROUND There are several studies that have targeted student nurses, but few have clarified the details pertaining to the specific ethical problems in clinical practice with the viewpoint of the nursing faculty. This study was to investigate the ethical problems in clinical practice reported by student nurses to Japanese nursing faculty members for the purpose of improving ethics education i...

a ttitude among urmia medical university health workers about patient safety     khalilzadeh h [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, mohaddesi h [3] , zare fazlollahi z [4]     received: 17 jun , 2013 accepted: 14 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : today, patient safety is a critical factor in the quality of health care. the main problem of health care providers in improving their quality...

This article describes a project designed to change the climate of whiteness in academic nursing. Using an emancipatory, antiracist perspective from whiteness studies, we describe a project that helped faculty and staff to work together to challenge and begin to change the status quo of unnamed white privilege and racial injustice in nursing education.

In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established the VA Nursing Academy (VANA), a 5-year, $60-million pilot program funding 15 partnerships between schools of nursing and local VA health care facilities nationwide, to expand nursing faculty, enhance clinical faculty development, increase nursing student enrollment, and promote educational innovations. VA is an ideal setting for educ...

introduction: depression as a disorder is relatively common in all societies several factors are involved in depression development, that shift work is one of these factors. this study compared the frequency of depression in different shifts of nurses in hospitals of yazd university of medical sciences. materials & methods: this study is a descriptive analytical study. based on statistical meth...

New strategies are emerging to promote structure and increase learning in the clinical setting. Nursing faculty designed a mechanism by which integrative learning and situated coaching could occur more readily in the clinical setting. The Clinical Goals Initiative was implemented for sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level students in their clinical practicums. Students developed weekly goals ref...

Nursing schools state that faculty shortages caused by low faculty salaries are a primary reason for nursing shortages. In a Shenandoah University graduate survey, many nurses wanted to teach but could not leave their higher-paying clinical jobs. Shenandoah University’s Graduate Program in Winchester, VA received funding from the Virginia Health Workforce Development Authority to use rural comm...

nursing management from retired nurses' perspective     nobahar m [1] , ahmadi f* [2] , alhani f [3] , fallahi khoshknab m [4]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : managers are one of the effective factors in improvement of the organizations efficacy, effectiveness, and productivity. nursing managers' efficacy has an important role in hea...