A Premature Baby’s Nursing Care Plan

The Effect of Concept Mapping on Nursing Students' Critical Thinking Skills and Nursing Care Plan Design

Introduction: The concept mapping method has been used in nursing education for many years; However, limited studies have examined its effect on critical thinking skills and nursing care program design. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of concept mapping method on critical thinking skills and nursing care program in nursing students. Methods: This two- group educational trial...

The Premature Infant: Its Medical and Nursing Care

Viewpoint of Mothers of Premature Newborns about Nursing Supports in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

Introduction: Prematurity is the leading cause of mortality in newborns without congenital anomalies worldwide. A premature newborn has a devastating effect on parents'roles, especially the mothers’, and creates sentimental and vague feelings for mothers. Although advances in technology and high levels of nursing care provide mothers with adequate support and relative independen...

A Nursing Care Plan Recommender System Using a Data Mining Approach

Recommender systems have been extensively studied to present items such as movies, music, and books that are likely of interest to the user. We propose to use correlations among nursing diagnoses, outcomes, and interventions to create a recommender system for constructing nursing care plans. Nursing care plan recommender systems can provide clinical decision support, nursing education, clinical...

Case study: a critical reflection of implementing a nursing care plan for two hospitalized patients

328 July/August 2011 • Vol 2 No 6 • The Veterinary Nurse Within human nursing, models of nursing care feature heavily, with many texts and research papers devoted to the subject. Pearson et al (2005) suggest an interesting trajectory in their use in practice, with the initial scepticism surrounding their introduction in the 1970s soon giving way to a widespread adoption of them in both practice...