Relatively little attention has been paid to questions of how language acts in and through the interactions of language in situations where people are encouraged to learn to be active in contexts of work. This paper argues that detailed analysis is needed to understand how activation through language acts in the shaping and governing of workers. By combining resources from Michel Foucault and t...

The district nursing service in Bristol comprises more than 80 nurses working on a geographical basis, of whom 52 have specific case-loads and the others act as reliefs and assistants. Requests for their help are channelled through a central office and then out to the appropriate nurse. In 1965 consideration was given as to what might be done to enable general practitioners to have closer worki...

Selected Journal Articles Source Strategy Take-Home Message Abeggien, J. & Conger, C. (1997). Critical thinking in nursing: classroom tactics that work. Journal of Nursing Education, 36, 452-458. Multiple strategies were presented within the context of one Community Health nursing course. This article essentially describes the development of a CT format for a course. CT activities described inc...

PURPOSE Better Jobs Better Care (BJBC) was a long-term care workforce demonstration that sought to improve recruitment and retention of direct care workers by changing public policy and management practice. The purpose of this article is to document and assess BJBC's implementation, analyze factors affecting implementation, and draw lessons from it for other long-term care workforce initiatives...

Football reminiscence for men with dementia: lessons from a realistic evaluation A major challenge of studies of non pharmacological dementia interventions is the likely modest intervention effect size and difficulties collecting data from individuals with behavioural, psychological and communicative symptoms. The reported Realist Evaluation is built around sets of contextually comparable case ...

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is celebrating its 40th anniversary, so it seems only fitting that this column focuses on how evidence-based practice (EBP) has evolved for oncology nurses and ONS during the past 40 years. EBP has been around for a very long time. In the famous Notes on Nursing published in 1860, Florence Nightingale noted that, "The most important practical lesson that can b...

This study analyzed questions presented by nursing technicians and auxiliaries during medication preparation and administration. Data were collected through a form in which nurses who worked in the hospitalization unit of a general hospital in São Paulo, Brazil, were asked to take notes of any questions asked to them. Most of the 255 questions were related to medication dilution (103). Regardin...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the terms used by nurses in a variety of data sources and to test the feasibility of using SNOMED III to represent nursing terms. DESIGN Prospective research design with manual matching of terms to the SNOMED III vocabulary. MEASUREMENTS The terms used by nurses to describe patient problems during 485 episodes of care for 201 patients hospitalized for Pneumocystis carin...

Editor's note: This is a summary of a nursing care-related systematic review from the Cochrane Library. For more information, see http://nursingcare.cochrane.org.

For nursing students in the vocational education system Taiwan, English-language writing skills, whether for general or specific purposes, have long been ignored, which may jeopardize their success medical-oriented courses and future careers. This study designed a note-writing course (NNWC) university explored teaching outcomes of its implementation. The three main objectives were to (a) examin...