BACKGROUND Nursing project management is widely used in different aspects of the society. However, whether the nursing project management can control the infections in the operation room (OR) is rarely reported. We evaluated the outcomes of surgical patients after implementing a nursing project management program to provide new scientific ways to manage the OR infections. METHODS Overall, 382...

The study aimed at identifying and analyzing the meaning of concept according to Deleuze, in Philosophy, and Rodgers, in Nursing. Based on an extract of reality, Deleuze creates the concept and calls it "plan of immanence". For Rodgers, in nursing, the concept emerges at the actual moment one wishes to construct the conceptual bases for Nursing. The authors demonstrate that, although Deleuze an...

A professional portfolio is a collection of carefully selected materials that document the nurse's competencies and illustrate the expertise of the nurse. Since a portfolio is developed over time, it also provides a way of monitoring professional development. By periodically reviewing the portfolio, nurses can assess their progress in meeting personal and professional goals and can better plan ...

A curriculum model for curriculum development in nursing and the health sciences is discussed. This model establishes a strategy by which curriculum development can be approached comprehensively and systematically. The steps and tasks inherent in the three curriculum development phases, namely planning, design and application are outlined. Application of the Model for Curriculum Development in ...

Background: At a specialist nursing education in intensive care, located at a University college in Sweden, there was a desire among the faculty to develop their ability to support specialist nursing students in their academic development, as well as in their academic writing, to improve the overall quality of the master theses. A quality improvement design, the Plan, DO, Study, Act (PDSA) cycl...

Study on Staffing Requirements in Nursing Facilities.--The Secretary shall conduct a study and report to Congress no later than January 1, 1992, on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver to resident ratios and minimum supervisor to caregiver ratios for skilled nursing facilities serving as providers of services under title XVIII [Medicare] of the Social Security Act and nursing f...

It is interesting to see that in some wards of Littlemore Hospital, in order to promote good relations between patients and staff, some nurses are now wearing plain clothes. Your readers might be interested to learn that from 1929, when the late Dr. Elizabeth Casson started her Nursing Homes, the nursing staff have not worn uniform for the same reason, and that the plan is successful and now pa...

Study on Staffing Requirements in Nursing Facilities. --The Secretary shall conduct a study and report to Congress no later than January 1, 1992, on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver to resident ratios and minimum supervisor to caregiver ratios for skilled nursing facilities serving as providers of services under title XVIII [Medicare] of the Social Security Act and nursing ...

The study aimed to analyze the available evidence in the literature on nursing care in the hospital post-cardiac surgery. Data were collected from electronic databases LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE, via DeCS thoracic surgery, hospital, nursing care, in the period 2001 to 2011. Ten articles were selected that showed the need to develop a plan of nursing discharge focusing on prevention of complication...

Fecal incontinence affects slightly more than 1% of community-dwelling adults. This article describes an assessment format, with a research basis when available, that has been developed in a specialist nursing clinic in the United Kingdom. The focus is on how to obtain the most useful information from the patient to plan appropriate nursing interventions. A subsequent article will describe the ...