On December 4th, 2010, the Nursing School of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul celebrated 60 years. After six decades, the institution is in good shape and recognized academically. Created in 1950, the School was a landmark, for it was the first Nursing School in the Southern Region of Brazil. However, maintain and expand it is a daily challenge for its faculty and staff. In 1966, the S...

Introduction: School nursing services should be evaluated through health and academic outcomes of students; however, it is observed that the number of studies in this field is limited. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of comprehensive school nursing services provided to 4th grade primary school students on academic performance of students. Methods: The quasi-experimental study wa...

There have been a number of articles addressing diversity in nursing programs and the nursing workforce. However, few of the programs have reviewed the best practices to attract and retain nursing students. This article delineates a number of programs and then makes suggestions for the best practices for nursing schools.

1Organization for Promotion of Tenure Track, University of Miyazaki, 5200 Kihara, Kiyotake, Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture 889-1692, Japan 2Division of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Graduate School of Nursing, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture 260-8672, Japan 3Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Chiba University Hospital, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, Chiba Pref...

1Department of Pediatrics, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 2Department of Medical and Surgical Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, IR Iran 3Health Research Centre, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran 4Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Medical Sciences, Ilam Universi...

Habib Shareinia, Forough Rafii, Payam Sarraf, Mahnaz Seyedalshohahadaee. Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Social Development & Health Promotion Research Centre, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran; Professor, Center for Nursing Care Research, Medical surgical Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran Universityof Medical Sciences,...

A key step in the development of a model for learning is to identify the needs of both the facilitators and the learners. The purpose of this study was to develop a model for facilitation in nursing education based on the identified needs of facilitators and learners and a confirmation by the literature. A qualitative research design was used and the population of the study was the facilitators...

Academic dishonesty, whether in the form of plagiarism or cheating on tests, has received renewed attention in the past few decades as pervasive use of the Internet and a presumed deterioration of ethics in the current generation of students has led some, perhaps many, to conclude that academic dishonesty is reaching epidemic proportions. What is lacking in many cases, including in the nursing ...

Yonatan Mintz, Anil Aswani, Philip Kaminsky Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, {aaswani,kaminsky,ymintz}@berkeley.edu Elena Flowers Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, [email protected] Yoshimi Fukuoka Department of Physiological Nursing & Institut...

1Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Amir Emami Zeydi, Student Research Committee, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-9355952357, Fax: +98-51385915...