International standards of care for children in emergency centres – do they apply to Africa?

Competency standards for critical care nurses: do they measure up?

OBJECTIVE To determine the construct validity of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) competency standards as a tool for assessing the clinical practice of specialist level critical care nurses in Australia. DESIGN A comparative descriptive design was used to examine the relationship between the domains, competencies and elements of the ACCCN competency standards. Participan...

Newborn's primary care standards do graduate midwifery

Introduction: First minutes of a baby's life are very important stage of life is filled with danger, this study aimed to assess the infant's primary care standards do graduate midwifes. Methods: Present research is a cross-sectional study. Statistical society of this research is a group of recent graduated midwifes including 50 persons, have graduated in the recent three years and are providin...

Lower blood pressure targets: to whom do they apply?

Standards of care: what do they mean to chiropractors, and which organizations should develop them

This article is a follow-up on our previous work examining Canadian chiropractors’ attitudes towards chiropractic philosophy and scope of practice and their implications for the implementation of clinical practice guidelines. In this current study, we examined Canadian chiropractors’ attitudes toward standards of care, the organizations developing them and their relationship to the philosophy i...

Standards of care for obsessive–compulsive disorder centres

In recent years, many assessment and care units for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) have been set up in order to detect, diagnose and to properly manage this complex disorder, but there is no consensus regarding the key functions that these units should perform. The International College of Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders (ICOCS) together with the Obsessive Compulsive and Related Di...