Essentials of Nurse Registration

Essentials of a productive nurse work environment.

BACKGROUND Staff nurse work environments must be improved. To do so, their quality must be measured. The Essential of Magnetism (EOM) tool measures eight characteristics of a productive and satisfying work environment identified by staff nurses in magnet hospitals as essential to quality patient care. The EOM items are based on grounded theory and are used to measure attributes of the work envi...

Leadership and pre-registration nurse education

Key findings • This rapid review analysed studies from nursing literature from 2008-2012 to answer the question: What approaches are being taken to teach and grow leadership skills in pre-registration nurse education in the UK? • The evidence base on effectiveness of nurse leadership skills teaching is limited, with a lack of consensus on what constitutes 'effective' leadership in nursing, and ...

Registration of nurse-initiated clinical trials: why, how, when?

Male or Nurse what comes first? Challenges men face on their journey to nurse registration

Objective – This paper aims to provide an account of the first phase of a qualitative longitudinal study that explored the initial challenges men in nursing face to become registered. What is known is that men, a minority group within nursing, face the usual challenges of all new nurses in their quest to register as nurses. In addition, they have added pressures that hinder their quest due to b...

Prescription for nursing informatics in pre-registration nurse education

Nurses need to be able to use information and communications technology not only to support their own practice, but also to help their patients make best use of it. This article argues that nurses are not currently adequately prepared to work with information and technology through their pre-registration education. Reflecting the lack of nursing informatics expertise, it is recommended that all...