AIM To evaluate, from the students' point of view, educational software developed as a tool to help teachers and students in neonatal nursing. METHOD The study evaluates the contents and simulations addressed in the software. A total of 57 undergraduate nursing students affiliated with five Brazilian public colleges participated. RESULTS The general assessment of the software was highly sat...

BACKGROUND As soon as Diagnosis related Groups (DRG) were introduced in many hospital financing systems, most nursing research revealed that DRG were not very homogeneous with regard to nursing care. However, few studies are based on All Patient refined Diagnosis related Groups (APR-DRGs) and few of them use recent data. Objectives of this study are: (1) to evaluate if nursing activity is homog...

background: the nursing profession, due to the nature of its tasks, is a high risk occupation for work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds). the objective of this study was the determination of the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders and their associated risk factors among nursing personnel with patient transfer tasks. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 nurses fro...

Nurses spend much more time dealing with patients compared with other healthcare personnel. This group has a significant role in identification of threatening complexities of patients, removing medical errors and in keeping patients safe, on the other hand, a considerable amount of human errors is committed by nurses (1). Therefore, nurses have to face with many occupational risks compared with...

A sample survey (N = 2660) was conducted at eight acute care hospitals in New Jersey during an 11-month period between 1979 and 1981 in order to develop a client-focused, case-mix sensitive measure of resource use for the allocation of inpatient general nursing costs. Using general linear modeling techniques, the direct and indirect effects of age, length of stay, multiple diagnoses, multiple p...

conclusions many caring behaviors associate with aesthetic experience for both patients and nurses and despite two different views, findings of this study showed that these experiences were similar in most cases. the aesthetics of nursing care was defined as what reflects the holistic nature of nursing with an emphasis on spirituality and skill. results of this study are effective in identifica...

Context: This study investigated the uses of statistical techniques in nursing research articles (RAs) published within 2016 - 2020. Evidence Acquisition: Through stratified random sampling, 374 quantitative and mixed-method RAs were selected from five journals (i.e., International Journal Nursing Studies, Scholarship, Nurse Education Today, Outlook, Cardiovascular Nursing) The used these deriv...

This article describes the use of continuous quality improvement (CQI) techniques, such as use of customer focus and the promotion of group interaction and problem solving, in an introductory nursing course. The use of CQI techniques resulted in satisfied students who met the course objectives.