This column focuses on advanced practice nursing. A definition and central competency of advanced practice are given and four roles assumed by advanced practice nurses are identified. Questions related primarily to the advanced practice role of nurse practitioner are raised. Two nurse scholars who teach and practice discuss their experiences as advanced practice nurses, with an emphasis on the ...

The inclusion of gerontology content in the nursing curriculum is paramount as our population of older adults grows. As one of 10 recipients of the John A. Hartford Foundation/AACN awards for Enhancing Gerontological and Geriatric Nursing Education for Advanced Practice Nursing Programs, we successfully integrated gerontological/ geriatric content throughout core courses for all concentrations ...

The long-awaited results of phase I (RNs in hospitals) of the National Council of State Boards of Nursing’s (NCSBN) multisite, randomized, controlled Transition to Practice study have been released (Spector et al., 2015). This large, national study is the only transition-to-practice research that randomly assigned sites to a control group (they used their existing onboarding strategies) or to N...

background: several studies have established that all nurses need continuing education, especially those who are working in oncology wards. in the current programs, there are just two general patterns for teaching: teacher-centered and student-centered patterns. in this study, the effect of teacher-centered (lecture) and student-centered (module) teaching methods in relation to safety standards...

conclusions the present study showed that nursing students have not a high mean score in the three subscales of knowledge, attitude and intention to implement ebp. it is essential for faculties and nurse managers not only to focus on education of ebp, but also to support nurses and nursing students to implement it in the process patient care. materials and methods in this cross-sectional study,...

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Clinical practice guidelines (CPG) propose preventive, diagnostic and treatment strategies based on the best available evidence. CPG enable practice of evidencebased medicine and bring about standardization of healthcare delivery in a given hospital, region, country or the whole world. This study explores generation of guidelines from data using machine learning, causal discovery methods and th...