As future healthcare professionals, Master of Nursing Specialist (MNS) students will play an important role in nursing and healthcare. MNS education emphasises the cultivation students’ critical clinical thinking. Traditional classroom methods often result being unable to combine theory with practice reduce their ability problem-solve within scope or professional services. However, economically...

If there were an endangered species list for nursing practice, the psychiatric-mental health clinical nurse specialist (PMHCNS) would surely now be at the very top. Changes in the delivery of mental healthcare over the past 2 decades have clouded the value of the traditional PMHCNS role and pushed this specialist to the brink of extinction. The latest assault was the announcement by the America...

OBJECTIVE To explore the demographics of individuals teaching basic science courses in private nursing schools. METHODS The study was conducted in Karachi, and comprised teachers teaching basic science courses in 16 registered private nursing schools. A demographic questionnaire was used to collect data. The study was conducted in the year 2013. RESULTS Teachers holding academic/professiona...

BACKGROUND We studied the possible advantages of feed-forward control nursing model in the treatment of placenta previa. METHODS We enrolled 60 pregnant women who were receiving treatment for expectant placenta previa between January 2010 and January 2016 and randomly divided them into the control group and the observation group with 30 cases in each group. In the control group, we offered sp...

diabetic foot ulcer (dfu) is considered as one of the main causes of hospitalization in diabetic patients, which can lead to infection, gangrene, amputation, and even death if the necessary care is not provided. based on the recent investigations, one of the most effective tactics to manage diabetic foot ulcer is to form a multidisciplinary team including a general practitioner, a nurse, an edu...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to assess the knowledge of definition of cancer survivors among Japanese oncology nurses and their roles in long-term cancer survivorship care. METHODS A structured self-administered and self-report questionnaire created by the study investigators was given to members of the Japanese Society of Cancer Nursing. The subjects were 81 female oncology nurses. RESULTS Fo...

Background & Aims: It is necessary to educate nurses reduce the difficulty of communicating with patients at terminal phase cancer and talk openly patients. This study aimed clarify (1) current status education regarding communication, (2) difficulties face in terminally ill patients, (3) responses certified nurse specialist nursing (CNSCN) when consult about difficulties.

To date there are no services in hospitals of the German speaking parts of Switzerland that offer continuous and specialist nursing care in oncology. This systematic literature review aims at providing an overview of the effectiveness of such interventions by specialist nurses for women with breast cancer. It should also inform the conceptualisation of new specialist nurse interventions in prac...

This article casts a critical lens on the current Nursing and Midwifery Council standards for nurse education their potential impact mental health nursing in UK. It discusses how appear to be transitioning towards generic, task-orientated role doing so, are undervaluing unique contributions of profession contemporary care. also argues that this descent genericism not only risks erosion speciali...