OBJECTIVES Qualitatively describe the adoption of strategies and challenges experienced by intervention facilities participating in a study targeted to improve quality of care in nursing homes "in need of improvement". To describe how staff use federal quality indicator/quality measure (QI/QM) scores and reports, quality improvement methods and activities, and how staff supported and sustained ...

This is an experience developed during the Master program in Nursing at UFSC. It aimed to reflect on the nursing care delivered to the patient unable to verbally communicate, based on Paterson and Zderad's Theory and to analyze the communicational process between nursing and client. The experience was carried out in the Intensive Care Center of a private hospital in two stages: non-participatin...

Although PBL (problem-based learning) has gained increasing acceptance as an alternative to teacher-centered methods in nursing education, there are challenges to implementing this method in conventional course-based curriculums due to lack of additional faculty tutors to facilitate and monitor small group process. Little is known in nursing education regarding the effectiveness of teaching PBL...

The practice environment is increasingly complex and requires that nursing students and graduates possess the ability to make evidence-based decisions. The factual overload current in many curricula, however, can suppress the reflective and critical thinking skills required for the development of searchable, answerable questions, the first step in the evidence-based nursing process. In order to...

Humor has been recognized by nurse researchers and practitioners as a constructive therapeutic intervention and has shown positive psychological and physiological outcomes for patient care. Because cross-cultural research on humor is sparse, this preliminary study investigates how nursing faculty members approach teaching therapeutic humor in the classroom and clinical education in different co...

Introduction: Faculty- student caring relationship in nursing education has been offered as enhancing students' learning experiences to care , desire to care for others and self-actu-alization. This review therefore was carried out to analyze faculty-student caring interactions in nursing education. Methods: This concept analysis of caring in the nursing education was conducted based on Broom m...

BACKGROUND Although nursing education aims to equip nursing students to provide care to dying patients and their families, nurses often feel ill-prepared to cope with the emotional labour involved in end-of-life care. OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to explore and describe nursing students' experiences of end-of-life care through experiential learning within a constructivist educational m...

In response to a transformational movement in nursing education, faculty across the country are considering changes to curricula and approaches to teaching. As a result, an emerging trend in many nursing programs is the adoption of a concept-based curriculum. As part of the curriculum development process, the selection of concepts, competencies, and exemplars on which to build courses and base ...

This column concerns itself with the issue of research and the doctor of nursing practice. The reports of the Institute of Medicine about patient safety, quality in healthcare, and the restructuring of education of healthcare providers are reviewed. The reasons for the creation of the doctor of nursing practice are illuminated along with the essentials of educating nurses for the role and the p...

The ethnic proportions of the population in the United States are rapidly changing, with the nation's minority population at approximately 101 million. This is also true for the West Texas region, where locally in a city with 183,000 residents, 43 different languages are spoken suggesting that cultural education needs to be included in nursing program curricula. Therefore, a study was conducted...