This study sought at testing a newly developed instrument that measures nurse managers’ actions (NMAs) conducive to Jordanian nurses’ autonomy. NMAs scale was tested using a convenience sample of two hundred and fifty registered nurses (RNs) who were working in a large teaching hospital in Jordan. The highest reported Cronbach’s alpha of actions promoted nurses' autonomy was related to supporti...

results a significant higher serum pab value was observed in shift working and daytime nurses (152.28 ± 43.64 hk) in comparison to the control group (63.64 ± 34.41 hk index), p value = 0.001. in day time nurses, also serum pab between male (119.09 ± 47.14 hk) and female (162.53 ± 37.02 hk) in nursing workers was significant, p value = 0.005. in the night shift working nurses, there was also a s...

Two interventions for improving stroke caregiver knowledge, stabilizing family function, promoting patient adjustment, and enlisting the use of social resources after stroke were compared with routine medical and nursing care of stroke patients (n = 61) at a 440-bed Veterans Administration Medical Center. The education intervention (n = 64) consisted of classroom instruction for caregivers abou...

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This article addresses the synchrony between a Western middle-range theory of care for persons with dementia and traditional Korean nursing care. The Western theory is called a need-driven, dementia-compromised behavior model and is heavily influenced by the assessment categories outlined in Nightingale's work. This model is presented as congruent with Nightingale's work and then viewed from th...

This is the seventh article in a nine-part series describing the Principles of Nursing Practice developed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in collaboration with patient and service organisations, the Department of Health, the Nursing and Midwifery Council, nurses and other healthcare professionals. The article discusses Principle F, the application of skills and knowledge to person-centred...

We adopt the largest consistent set defined by Chwe (1994; J. Econ. Theory 63: 299–325) to predict which coalition structures are possibly stable when players are farsighted. We also introduce a refinement, the largest cautious consistent set, based on the assumption that players are cautious. For games with positive spillovers, many coalition structures may belong to the largest consistent set...

OBJECTIVE This work sought to understand the meaning of humanized nursing care in the experience of participants, nurses, patients, and their relatives. METHODOLOGY This was an interpretive phenomenological study based on in-depth interviews, which included 16 adult participants and was conducted in Medellín, Colombia, between December 2012 and March 2013. RESULTS The patient’s situation, t...

NMR solution structure of the reduced form of thioredoxin 1 from Sacharomyces cerevisiae Anderson Sá Pinheiro, Gisele Cardoso Amorim, Luis Eduardo Soares Netto, Fábio C.L. Almeida, and Ana Paula Valente* 1 Centro Nacional de Ressonância Magnética Nucelar Jiri Jonas, Instituo de Bioquı́mica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil 2 Instituto de Biologia, Universi...

Follow up what we will offer in this article about aacn standards for nursing care of the critically ill. You know really that this book is coming as the best seller book today. So, when you are really a good reader or you're fans of the author, it does will be funny if you don't have this book. It means that you have to get this book. For you who are starting to learn about something new and f...