Work relationships between registered nurses (RNs) and practical nurses (LPNs) are changing as new models of nursing care delivery are introduced to create more flexibility for employers. In Canada, a team-based, hospital nursing care delivery model, known as Care Delivery Model Redesign (CDMR), redesigned a predominantly RN-based staffing model to a functional team consisting of fewer RNs and ...

 e aim of this paper is to show the importance of computerization in healthcare system on the example of electronic records in nursing. Electronic recordkeeping system was implemented in Vukovar General County Hospital (GCH) in 2011 with the aim of facilitating data entry. Today we can say that the implementation of e-care has improved nursing care. Health workers today have a common goal to r...

The RCN standards of care programme was established in 1987 as part of a wider initiative to improve the quality of nursing care. In the beginning its director, Alison Kitson, worked with groups of nurses to introduce the first concepts of nursing and health quality. Here, she describes how the programme developed.

Context Compassion is not a new concept within healthcare. However, compassion has become the focus of much research and debate during the past 10 years, following reports of lack of compassion within UK healthcare practice. This recent intense focus has addressed many aspects of care practices and education, recognising that compassion is a complex concept. This study adds a further dimension ...

This article presents part of a doctoral study which explored some spiritual aspects of nursing care. It reports how a sample of nurses perceived and reported how they gave spiritual care, and identifies possible influencing factors. The implications of these findings are discussed and suggestions for practice made.

The objective of this study was to learn about the production of nursing knowledge in Brazil associated with the clinic theme. This is a qualitative study performed by means of an integrative review. Data collection was performed on the SciELO database using the keywords nursing and clinic, present in the abstracts of articles. It was found that the clinic is seen as an instrument used to estab...

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