INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...

One of the most urgent problems confronting the National Health Service is that of providing sufficient nursing staff. It will be possible to maintain the hospitals at the existing level of efficiency only if it is possible to provide enough adequately trained nurses in future years. To a large extent the quality and quantity of the nursing staffs, as of the Health Service in general, must depe...

Introduction: Documentation of intake and output is written or electronically generated information about client’s all the fluid that goes into eliminated from patient’s body. Fluid balance monitoring documentation a challenging area in nursing practice, since patients’ management plan for surgery, renal, cardiac, acute gastrointestinal disease depends on nurse’s documentation, it hence medical...

Objective: To study the nursing management measures about controlling hospital-acquired infection in laminar flow operating rooms. Method: 261 cases of nursing materials in operating rooms with quality strengthening management and nursing management in LFOR of the hospital from May 2015 to May 2016 are taken as the observation group, and 261 cases of nursing materials before May 2015 with routi...

I am surprised by the survey of 1,600 nurses revealing that only one in seven were happy with their jobs, and more than half said they had considered leaving the UK to work abroad (News February 12). I would have thought that fewer than one in seven were happy with their jobs. What is there to be joyful about? All the fun of nursing seems to have evaporated. Our pay and conditions have taken kn...

Nursing homes have lagged in the development and use of technology and clinical informatics. This paper describes a practical model of translating clinical informatics research into practice. The Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessment data collected by nursing homes nationwide is translated into knowledge-based information that supports continuous quality improvement. It does so by providing timely ...

BACKGROUND Many ethical problems exist in nursing homes. These include, for example, decision-making in end-of-life care, use of restraints and a lack of resources. AIMS The aim of the present study was to investigate nursing home staffs' opinions and experiences with ethical challenges and to find out which types of ethical challenges and dilemmas occur and are being discussed in nursing hom...

Objective — To discuss the application value of PDCA cyclical management in improving standard rate goods management, which is capable experience patients, and thus work efficiency sense comfort medical staffs by investigating non-standard outpatient area our hospital. Methods All diagnostic areas were evaluated, evaluation results showed that standardized stood at 53.3%. According to analysis ...

In a recent paper published in this journal entitled Cognition and the compassion deficit: the social psychology of helping behaviour in nursing, John Paley analyzes the two reports by Robert Francis on the Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust (Mid Staffs) and suggests that, contrary to the findings and the general consensus both inside and outside the nursing profession, there was no ‘failure of compas...