conclusions nursing process indicators can be used to audit nursing care. such audits can be used as quality assurance tools. results the compliance rate of nursing process indicators was 79.71 ± 0.87. mean compliance scores did not significantly differ by education level and gender. however, overall compliance scores were correlated with nurses’ age (r = 0.26, p = 0.001) and work experience (r...

BACKGROUND Nursing home performance measurement systems are practically ubiquitous. The vast majority of these systems aspire to rank order all nursing homes based on quantitative measures of quality. However, the ability of such systems to identify homes differing in quality is hampered by the multidimensional nature of nursing homes and their residents. As a result, the authors doubt the abil...

A hypothetical model was formulated to explore factors that influenced academic and clinical achievement for undergraduate nursing students. Sixteen latent variables were considered including the students’ background, gender, type of first language, age, their previous successes with their undergraduate nursing studies and status given for previous studies. The academic and clinical achievement...

Background: Improvement in the performance of health care workers is an important aspect of infection control in the health care settings. Nursing students are more exposed to infections during clinical experience so they need to improve their performance related to infection control measures. Aim: This study was conducted to assess of knowledge, practice and attitude of internship nursing stud...

OBJECTIVES To identify the impact of the regulations implemented in Maryland in 2001, related to nursing home attending physicians and medical directors, and nursing home quality assurance requirements, on Maryland nursing homes, administrators, and physicians. DESIGN Two surveys were mailed to all nursing home administrators in Maryland, one for their completion and one to give to their medi...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to analyze opinions about the action plan for implementation of clinical performance exam as part of the national nursing licensing examination and presents the expected effects of the performance exam and aspects to consider regarding its implementation. METHODS This study used a mixed-methods design. Quantitative data were collected by a questionnaire s...

Competence of performance is important in education and the whole generation nurses. Aimof this study was to assess nursing educators' staff competence regarding inTechnical Institute Nursing. Descriptive research design utilized. Setting: The wasconducted at Technical Nursing Health Benha City. Twosamples were used: Convenient sample for [n=38] simple randomsample students [n=279]. Three tools...

PURPOSE The Minimum Data Set (MDS) Activities of Daily Living (ADL) bed-mobility item, which rates the staff-assistance level necessary for bed movement, is used to target scheduled repositioning interventions and to identify physical function changes in nursing home residents; however, accuracy of the item is uncertain. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the MDS ADL bed-...