AIM To describe career pathways of consultant nurses/midwives and identify postholders views on key factors in role initiation, development and progression to inform future development and appointment of nurse/midwife consultants in National Health Service Scotland. BACKGROUND Nurse/midwife consultants represent the highest levels of clinical practice. Given the Scottish Executive Health Depa...

To improve diabetes management in Indigenous Australians using an integrated nurse-led model of education and eye screening indigenous primary care specialist clinics. A pre–post study. This study will be implemented clinics Victoria, Australia. Participants recruited to the existing adult patient with diagnosed attending sites. nurse-credentialled educator certified retinal imager deliver thre...

background and objectives: in this paper, a real life nurse scheduling model is described based on the conditions in iranian hospitals such as monthly shift rotation, consecutive morning and evening shifts and consecutive evening and night shift.   methods: the developed model considers both hospital constraints and nurses’ preferences. hospital constraints include assigning adequate qualified ...

BACKGROUND In many UK general practices, nurses have been used to deliver results against the indicators of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), a 'pay for performance' scheme. AIM To determine the association between the level of nurse staffing in general practice and the quality of clinical care as measured by the QOF. DESIGN OF THE STUDY Cross-sectional analysis of routine data. S...

The term consultancy is used in many contexts. It has been applied to advanced nursing practice roles such as clinical nurse specialist, advanced nurse practitioner, nurse practitioner and other occupations. This causes confusion in the healthcare setting as the word is often used interchangeably between roles and has traditionally been used in a medical context. In addition, the development of...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to design a means to educate the registered nurse or nurse practitioner on epidemiology, signs and symptoms, risk factors, screening tools, management, and complications that can occur with delayed diagnosis of postpartum depression. A decision tree was also developed to help the registered nurse or nurse practitioner understand the best clinical practice g...

The June 2005 Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing editorial titled "Communication: Whose Problem Is It?" (Griffin-Sobel, 2005) was written to begin a dialogue about a phenomenon frequently experienced yet rarely discussed: workplace aggression, also known as disruptive behavior. Prompted by a groundbreaking study published in the American Journal of Nursing by Rosenstein and O'Daniel (2005), t...

This qualitative study identifies and describes different ways in which newly graduated nurse anesthetists (NAs) experience and perceive nurse anesthesia. It explains different approaches to nurse anesthesia care and, thus, to clinical nursing care (in an anesthesia and surgical context), provided by new NAs. One month after graduation, all NAs who had completed an anesthesia nursing program re...

The 2013 American College of Critical Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit serves as a living example of nurses' involvement in the development and implementation of professional guidelines. Nurses who served on this guideline-writing panel describe their expe...