AIM To propose the Careful Nursing Philosophy and Professional Practice Model© as a conceptual and practice solution to current fundamental nursing care erosion and deficits. BACKGROUND There is growing awareness of the crucial importance of fundamental care. Efforts are underway to heighten nurses' awareness of values that motivate fundamental care and thereby increase their attention to eff...

Background: The existence of a gap between theory and practice in nursing is a problem that is rooted in the history of nursing education, which means that there is a difference between what the student at the college and the behavior that appears in the clinic, and this discrepancy is of concern to community health educators. A coherent understanding of the learning and practice gap is a cruci...

Research enriches pediatric nursing practice through the translation of the best evidence for practice – making this connection is essential for improving the quality of pediatric nursing. GENERATING AND DISCOVERING new knowledge is critical for the development of evidence to improve pediatric nursing practice. The power of research is that it provides the evidence to develop best practices to ...

BACKGROUND While improvements in nursing practice environments are considered essential to address the nursing shortage, relatively little is known about the nursing practice environments in most hospitals. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study are to describe variations in nursing practice environments across hospitals and to examine their associations to hospital bed size, community size,...

Centre of Research & Education in General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark Region Zealand, Primary Health Care Research Unit Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA Centre for EvidenceBased Medicine, Nuf...

Background and aims: Much of early medical and nursing practice was based on nonscientific traditions that resulted in variable and haphazard patient outcomes. These traditions and rituals, which were based on folklore, gut instinct, trial and error, and personal preference, were often passed down from one generation of practitioner to another. It has become essential for practitioners to use t...

introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...

Dementia is a group of neurological conditions that lead to gradual decline in mental function. It is the most common reason for entry into long-term care settings such as nursing homes (NHs) and residential care/assisted living (RC/AL).1 The majority of care for people with dementia is provided in the community by family members; however, increasing care needs in later stages of the illness of...

introduction. with constant changes in health care it is imperative that nursing education programs themselves act as agents of change. nursing education has the responsibility to produce nursing professionals and expert practitioners to shape the nursing practice not merely respond to changes in the practice environment. it must prepare nurses who can participate as full partners in health car...

This is a methodological research, which aimed at organizing the systematization of nursing assistance in a critical care unit. The following steps were carried out: description of the nursing practice; transcription of nursing diagnoses; elaboration of a protocol for nursing diagnosis based in International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP); determination of nursing prescriptions and ...