Purpose: General self-efficacy, occupational and grit have a correlation with academic practical success amongst nursing students. The role of these same characteristics during the first 18-24 months following transition from student to nurse is poorly understood. In addition, when graduate begins consider career in rural area also remains unclear. This study sought understand change, if any, g...

PURPOSE Prior research has demonstrated that healthcare providers' implicit biases may contribute to healthcare disparities. Independent research in social psychology indicates that facial appearance-based evaluations affect social behavior in a variety of domains, influencing political, legal, and economic decisions. Whether and to what extent these evaluations influence approach behavior in h...

Abstract Background Sexual assault examiners provides comprehensive health care to victims of sexual assault. Communication with the victim is important collect relevant information from victims. Ineffective communications can cause re-victimization and hamper medico-legal evidence collection. Main text This article aims orient novice examiner nurses prerequisites history collection, techniques...

Focus group data collection can capture what is unknown about nurses' perceptions of routine patient care issues in clinical settings. Using Gibbs Reflective Cycle (1988) novice researchers Caroline O'Connor and Siobhan Murphy critically analysed the practicalities of conducting a focus group interview.

The electronic health record (EHR) requires the use of standardized nursing languages such as NANDA, NOC, and NIC. Helping nurses use these languages for an EHR requires different educational strategies in 3 domains: intellectual, interpersonal, and technical. The author explains the rationale for changes in educational methods, expectations that educators and managers should set for students a...

Developing effective nurse leaders in today’s “reengineered” corporate healthcare cultures requires that more attention be given to the preparation of ethical leadership during undergraduate programs and nurses’ formative years in practice. Through analyzing the experiences of three nurse leaders dealing with ethical conflicts and the meaning they made of these experiences, we identified that n...

This study investigates the roles trust and bias may play in nursing information technology acceptance via a two-phase study. In phase one, the impact of user experience on levels of trust in and bias towards automated decision aids (ADAs) is assessed. In phase two, the impact of trust and bias on ADA adoption is explored using actual usage data. The results indicate that experienced nurses hav...

Errors in health care settings are common and potentially dangerous to patients. Errors will arise as novice nursing students practice skills in complex health care settings. This article describes one baccalaureate nursing program's approach toward student errors that integrates core competencies described in the Institute of Medicine's Health Professions Education report, the Quality and Safe...