All professions, including nursing, rest on a cultural base. Berger and Luckman argue that the sociology of knowledge concerns itself more with common sense than with theoretical abstractions. Everyone must exist within some kind of structure, some kind of ordered world, and so people create a "reality" for themselves about nurses and nursing which is based on things they "know," regardless of ...

INTRODUCTION The enactment of various legal provisions like Consumer Protection Act, Right to Information Act and standardization of procedures and practices have brought nursing care under legal ambit. Needless to say, the level of legal awareness amidst nursing staff in India is abysmally low. Present study was undertaken to assess the level of legal awareness and responsibilities of nursing ...

Research enriches pediatric nursing practice through the translation of the best evidence for practice – making this connection is essential for improving the quality of pediatric nursing. GENERATING AND DISCOVERING new knowledge is critical for the development of evidence to improve pediatric nursing practice. The power of research is that it provides the evidence to develop best practices to ...

AIM This paper is a report of a study exploring the empowerment of nursing students in clinical practice. BACKGROUND There is a great deal of literature regarding empowerment in nursing but most focuses on the empowerment of patients and registered nurses. There is very little regarding the empowerment of nursing students. Of the limited available studies, most explore empowerment in an acade...

Background: Documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an important component of medical evidence and patient’s record. Finding effective teaching methods for enhancing nurses’ ability in documentation can be helpful. Aim: This study was performed to determine the effect of continuing education program on nurse’s knowledge, attitude and performance about documentation. Met...

AIM This paper is a discussion of the use of poststructuralism as a means of exploring power and empowerment in nursing. BACKGROUND Power and empowerment are well-researched areas of nursing practice, but the issue of how to empower nurses and patients continues to cause debate. Power and empowerment are complex issues and other researchers have provided some clarity by proposing three theore...

AIMS This paper is a report of a study conducted to explore the relationship between nurses' personal and professional factors and evidence-based nursing practice. BACKGROUND Like most health-related professions, nursing is shifting from the traditional intuition-based paradigm to evidence-based nursing practice. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2007 with a convenience samp...

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...