AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore family perspectives on their involvement in the timely detection of changes in their relatives' health in UK nursing homes. BACKGROUND Increasingly, policy attention is being paid to the need to reduce hospitalisations for conditions that, if detected and treated in time, could be managed in the community. We know that family continue to be involved in the care ...

Nursing schools in the United States have not been teaching evidence-based practices for safe patient handling, putting their graduates at risk for musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). The specific aim of this study was to translate research related to safe patient handling into the curricula of nursing schools and evaluate the impact on nurse educators and students' intentions to use safe patient...

UNLABELLED The focus of this study is the interface between nursing education and nursing care in its educative dimension. OBJECTIVE To develop a profile of competencies for nursing care education from the perspective of the subjects involved. METHOD Historical and dialectical materialism was used as the theoretical and methodological framework. Competence was addressed as the conceptual ca...

In the process of introducing a new disability unit into an undergraduate nursing curriculum in a New Zealand educational setting, the opportunity arose to conduct a small study comparing the attitudes of student nurses towards people with disabilities. This paper discusses the literature reviewed, which formed the basis for the study. A range of perspectives and research was identified that ex...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To use the Oncology Nursing Society's cultural competence guidelines to review research studies conducted by oncology nurse researchers with racial and ethnic minorities and published in the Oncology Nursing Forum during 1990-2000. DATA SOURCES Using selected key words (e.g., cultural competence, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, minorities, African American/Black Ameri...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Nursing managers and policy makers must adopt holistic approaches and refocus on efforts on all factors that hinder effective coping with transition to the working environment. Researches have demonstrated that new graduates encounter a degree of ''emotional hardness'' and cynicism during clinical placements, which can influence...

OBJECTIVE The goal was to determine if new bachelor's of science in nursing (BSN) nurses perceived their education to be relevant for the current demands of the profession. METHODS The design was nonexperimental, descriptive survey research. Data were gathered using a researcher-designed mailed survey. Addresses for survey participants, RNs who had graduated with a BSN within 2 years prior to...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment and retention of health professionals in rural areas is a long-standing concern in Australia. In the context of an ageing rural nursing workforce, recruitment and retention of new graduate nurses is an important issue. OBJECTIVE To explore the role transition for new graduate nurses in rural practice in New South Wales (NSW). METHODS This study utilised a qualit...

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...