The WHO European Strategy for Nursing and Midwifery Education included a commitment to provide a series of tools to support those Member States that had requested assistance in implementing the Strategy. This Guidance document represents key elements of that support. Included in the pack (Sections 1–8) are two prototype curricula (one for nursing and one for midwifery); key elements of curricul...

a survey of frequency and type of medical errors done by nursing students of urmia medical sciences university in 1390     ebrahimi rigi tanha z [1] , baghaei r [2] , feizi a [3] *     received: 16 nov, 2011 accepted: 5 jan, 2012     abstract   background & aim: medication errors are among the most common medical errors. nursing students may commit these errors. thus, the aim of this study is t...

developmental millstones in children with normal, low, and very low birth weights.     abdeyazdan z [1] , ehsanpour s [2] *, hemmati e [3]     received: 22 may , 2013 accepted: 11 sep , 2013   abstract   background & aims : in recent years with the development of nicus, survival rates of vlbw and lbw infants has increased in many countries including iran. there is concern that this increased su...

Correction to: Effect of Motivational Interviewing, Dietary Advice, and Physical Activity on Fetal-Neonatal Outcome in Pregnant Women with Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial Farideh Mohsenzadeh-ledari1,  Zahra Motaghi2,  Ziba Taghizadeh3,  Afsaneh Keramat4,  Ali Najafi5, Mahmood Moosazadeh6, Shahla Yazdani7 1 Assistant Professor, Department of Midwifery, Faculty of N...

BACKGROUND The risk of occupational exposure to blood borne pathogens (including hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV) via sharp injuries such as needle stick injuries (NSIs) among health care workers, especially dental, nursing and midwifery students is a challenging issue. Inadequate staff, lack of experience, insufficient training, duty overload and fatigue may lead to occupational sharp injurie...

BACKGROUND Provide an up-to-date national picture of the medical, midwifery and nursing workforce distribution in Australia with a focus on overseas immigration and on production sustainability challenges. METHODS Using 2006 and 2011 Australian census data, analysis was conducted on medical practitioners (doctors) and on midwifery and nursing professionals. RESULTS Of the 70,231 medical pra...

Against a background of increasing concern over the widening theory practice gap and research evidence of problems in providing quality practice education, the English National Board (ENB) commissioned an 18 month study into the role of the teacher/lecturer in practice. This article, after providing a brief overview of the background, literature and methods, outlines the results from the Adult ...

introduction  self-efficacy in clinical performance had an important role in applying competencies; also competencies and self-efficacy in clinical performance influenced to quality care of nursing and midwifery students. so the present study aimed to define the relationship between clinical competencies and clinical self-efficacy among nursing and midwifery students. materials and methods  thi...