Looking forward to the Quality Assurance Performance Improvement (QAPI) program to be implemented and required in 2014, and as nursing home staff provide care for residents with increasingly complex health issues, knowledge of how to implement quality improvement (QI) is imperative. The nursing home administrator and director of nursing (DON) provide overall leadership, but it is the primary re...

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Nursing leaders play a critical role in creating and enacting a vision for collaborative practice with advanced practice nurses (APNs). In this special issue, Nancy Carter and colleagues have identified many important influences and outcomes of successful nursing leadership in the context of promoting advanced practice nursing roles. The authors make a strong case for the importance of nursing ...

Aims: This paper presents the operationalization of concepts in the nursing intellectual capital theory and the results of a methodological study aimed to empirically validate the concepts. Background: The nursing intellectual capital theory proposes the stocks of nursing knowledge within an organization are embedded in two concepts, nursing human capital and nursing structural capital. The the...

When the World Health Organization (WHO) analyzed culprits of global warming, it was found that in developed countries with relatively few high-polluting heavy industries, medical sector is one sources high-density carbon emissions. Therefore, industry has a noticeable impact on environment. Amid current COVID-19 epidemic, this study adopts theory planned behavior (TPB), widely used decision-ma...

background: nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. however, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (or) is rarely reported. we evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the or infections. methods: overall, 382...

background : patients undergoing pacemaker implantation often experience anxiety and fear. as such, studies have focused on the mechanisms that relieve the negative emotions caused by the intervention. continuous nursing is a safe and effective nursing mode. in this study, continuous nursing intervention was provided for elderly patients undergo-ing pacemaker implantation and an empirical inves...

PurposeInformation can help parents of children with cancer by reducing uncertainty and giving them a sense control in chaotic situation. Although providing information to is core activity paediatric oncology nursing, few studies focus on interventions for informing parents. Thus, the aim this study evaluate parents’ experiences after participating person-centred intervention cancer.MethodThis ...