Nursing homes have a long history of providing inconsistent standards of care quality to older persons.1,2 In 2010, under the leadership of Professor Bruno Vellas, the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) developed a task force to focus on the needs of nursing homes and how to develop research in nursing homes. This led to a position paper setting out a global developm...

After reading this chapter you will be able to: • recognise the importance of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery • differentiate major philosophical approaches in the conduct of research and their use in nursing and midwifery services • understand developments in nursing and midwifery research in the context of society, politics and history • understand the links betw...

UNLABELLED The lack of professional agreement upon chosen terminology in nursing detracts from the role of Clinical Information Systems (CIS) as central repositories of patient health records. The purposes of this paper are: (1) Identification of common terminology for clinical nursing information in CHS according to the following stages: patient history of health and illnesses; nursing assessm...