To the Editor: The recent editorial titled ‘‘Advanced Practice Nurses and Attending Physicians: A Collaboration to Improve Quality Care in the Nursing Home,’’ highlighted several aspects of nursing home care involving the advanced practice nurse (APN). We would like to make some general comments with respect to this area and then finish with some more specific points addressed to the editorial ...

Medicines’ management is a priority in healthcare delivery, but weaknesses in the monitoring and management of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) cause unplanned hospital admissions, financial burdens on healthcare systems, patient discomfort, morbidity, and mortality. This paper suggests policies and strategies that would help nurses minimise and manage ADRs to prescription medicines. The literatur...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain consensus on priorities for oncology nursing research in the United Kingdom.
. DESIGN A three-round online Delphi survey.
. SETTING Oncology nurses were invited via the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) database. Patient participation was invited through patient organizations.
. SAMPLE 50 oncology nurses and 18 patients.
. METHODS Eligible and ...

PurposeThe aim of this research project was to describe the education, competence, and role nurses working in postanesthesia care unit (PACU) 11 countries having an established perianesthesia specialty nursing organization membership on International Collaboration PeriAnaesthesia Nurses, Inc (ICPAN) Global Advisory Council (GAC).DesignThis is a descriptive international cross-sectional study.Me...

Background: Nursing collaboration is important in enhanced health care quality. Previous studies have identified agreeableness and supervisor negative mood as two predictors for subordinate collaboration. However, in nursing contexts, exactly how these factors influence nursing intention to help colleagues remains unknown, as well as how their interactive influences. Objectives: Thus this study...