Instructions: 1.2 contact hours will be awarded by Villanova University College of Nursing upon successful completion of this activity. A contact hour is a unit of measurement that denotes 60 minutes of an organized learning activity. This is a learner-based activity. Villanova University College of Nursing does not require submission of your answers to the quiz. A contact hour certificate will...

Recognizing your motivation and identifying the content of your potential article are the first two steps in writing for publication. However, you will almost certainly receive a rejection letter if you do not plan and structure your article to meet the style of the specific journal you intend submitting to. In the third part of a series of articles, John Fowler, an experienced nursing lecturer...

Hospitals can be confusing environments for patients and their family members to navigate, especially when they are feeling exhausted, stressed, overwhelmed, or all of the above. When they need help in their rooms, inpatients often resort to the only resource they are aware of: the call bell. Nurses are frequently called to perform non-nursing tasks, such as ordering food, changing room tempera...

This small handbook (containing 185 pages in all) should fill a long-felt want. It contains very practical instructions for home nursing in Indian homes amongst all communities. It covers a large range of subjects including the structure of the human body. The latter being dealt with very simply and clearly. It should be a most useful possession in Indian homes: the cost (12 annas) bringing it ...

The cumulative index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) is a useful research tool for accessing articles of interest to nurses and health care professionals. More than 2,800 journals are indexed by CINAHL and can be searched easily using assigned subject headings. Detailed instructions about conducting, combining, and saving searches in CINAHL are provided in this article. Establi...

I n t e r v e n t i o n Children were allocated to an intervention group (n = 99) or a control group (n = 101). The intervention included a general educational booklet about asthma in preschool children that discussed symptoms, triggers and how to avoid them, and asthma treatment; a written, guided self-management plan with instructions on when to use rescue medication, what to do if asthma wor...