The purpose of the study was to explore relationships between nurses' perceptions of the impact of health information technology on their clinical practice in the acute care setting, their use of electronic nursing care reminders, and episodes of missed nursing care. The study aims were accomplished with a descriptive design using adjusted correlations. A convenience sample (N = 165) of medical...

1 RN. Ph.D. Master’s student, Graduate Program in Public Health Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 2 RN. Ph.D. Master’s student, Graduate Program in Public Health Nursing, University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto College of Nursing. Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil. [email protected] 3 RN, Ph.D., Professor, Maternal...

PURPOSE This paper aims to illustrate the process of theory-based nursing practice by presenting a case study of a clinical nurse specialist's assessment and care of a woman with type 2 diabetes. DESIGN Orem's self-care deficit theory and standardized nursing language, NANDA, NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification), and NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification), guided assessment and the ident...

BACKGROUND Internationally, there are concerns about the quality of care in nursing homes. The concept of 'corporate culture' as an internal variable could be seen as the means to improve quality of care and quality of life for the residents. The aim of this article was to describe the nursing home culture from the staff's perspective and to include how the residents describe quality of care. ...

The 7th International Family Nursing Conference took place June 1-4, 2005, in the beautiful and picturesque Canadian city of Victoria, British Columbia. Participants included 340 international colleagues from 21 countries. The theme of the conference was “Opening Spaces: Inviting Dialogue in Family Nursing”. Hosted by the School of Nursing, University of Victoria, and the School of Nursing, Uni...

BACKGROUND The present study was designed to implement an interprofessional simulation-based education program for nursing students and evaluate the influence of this program on nursing students' attitudes toward interprofessional education and knowledge about operating room nursing. METHODS Nursing students were randomly assigned to either the interprofessional simulation-based education or ...

This study analyzed what nurses wrote in narrative nursing notes for nursing outcome of cardiac-surgery patients. The nursing notes of 46 patients were decomposed into phrases and analyzed based on the nursing process. Eight patterns were extracted according to different combinations of nursing-process components, of which 29.2% have nursing outcome phrases. The content of the nursing notes was...

Theory development in nursing can be viewed to have progressed during the last 50 years in three periods: (a) the era of specifying theoretical orientations for nursing that occurred during the period of 1950s and 1960s, (b) the era of grand theorizing during the 1970s and 1980s, and (c) the era of middle-range theory development in the last two decades. The first era was characterized by the a...

Based on a primary study (Santos, 2011) focusing the integration of non-conventional therapeutic modalities in the nursing care process, a secondary analysis of the findings was performed in order to answer the following questions: What conception guides nursing practice when using non-conventional therapeutic modalities? What is the place of holistic nursing in nursing’s theoretical developmen...

introduction: nursing curriculum is not always overt; it can also exist covertly in the form of a hidden curriculum. this study aims to explain the factors influencing learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of undergraduate baccalaureate nursing students. method: this qualitative study was conducted through purposeful sampling strategy on 24 undergraduate baccalaureate nursin...