DEVELOPMENTS IN VISITING NURSING

Management issues of visiting nursing station business

A role of Visiting Nursing Station (VNS) is getting crucial due to recent medical system reformation policy in Japan, to encourage home medical care in place of hospitals. In the future, home health care will be substantial in the aging society and the VNS will play a much more important role. Typical VNS’s are operated by so-called “social entrepreneurs” who are highly motivated in pursuing so...

Nursing, midwifery and health visiting since 1900

growth studies were conducted for humanitarian purposes. Heights and weights of children were measured to provide evidence of poverty, malnutrition, disease, and labour abuse in an attempt to bring about social reforms. The emphasis on social comment is a great strength of this book. The author not only explains what was done and how it was done (details of the methodology are always given wher...

Nursing developments in Iran during World Wars I & II: A historical study

Background and Purpose: Iran's nursing has witnessed remarkable changes in the period 1914 to 1945 that could be a turning point in the history of the nursing professionin Iran. This paper is a survey of modern nursing transformation history in the historical period of the World Warsand their impacton the development of the nursing profession in Iran. Methods: In the present historical study, f...

Recent Developments in Public Health Nursing in the Americas

This study presents an assessment of the participation and training of nurses in public health areas in the Americas. Information was gathered through a literature review and interviews with key informants from Mexico, Colombia, and Paraguay. Results demonstrate that there is significant variation in definitions of public health nursing across the region and current systematized data about the ...

Contemporary challenges in education for the caring professions: education for nursing, midwifery, and health visiting.