Urological nursing - speaking up for our service

Effects of a senior practicum course on nursing students' confidence in speaking up for patient safety.

As patient advocates, nurses are responsible for speaking up against unsafe practices. Nursing students must develop the confidence to speak up for patient safety so that they can hold themselves, as well as their peers and coworkers, accountable for patients' well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a senior practicum course on confidence for speaking up for patient ...

Reclaiming our 'nursing fundamentals'.

A t a 50th wedding anniversary celebration for my former nursing instructor, other faculty members told me their horror stories of recent hospitalizations. Oral care wasn't offered, they weren't turned and repositioned, and nobody checked to ensure their nutritional needs were met after procedures. I was dismayed. After 25 years of hands-on nursing , I had earned my master's degree in nursing e...

Speaking up for the Clerks 1

At the end of his essay " Pragmatism, pluralism, and postmodernism " (1998), Richard Rorty writes: " Many of my fellow philosophers use the term " post-modernist relativism " as if it were a pleonasm, and as if utilitarians, pragmatists, and philosophical pluralists in general had committed a sort of " treason " of the clerks, as Julien Benda puts it. 1 Has Rorty betrayed the clerks? Well, it i...

Mental handicapped nursing. Sexual abuse. Speaking out.

Clostridium difficile infection - a challenge for any urological service

Introduction. Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) remains the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections and is an immediate threat to public health that requires urgent and aggressive measures. Material and methods. This clinico-epidemiological study was conducted between April 2014 January 2015 and included 18 patients who developed acute diarrhoeal disease (ADD) during hospitalizati...