Nurses today are providing care, education, and case management to an increasingly diverse patient population that is challenged with a triad of cultural, linguistic, and health literacy barriers. For these patients, culture and language set the context for the acquisition and application of health literacy skills. Yet the nursing literature offers minimal help in integrating cultural and lingu...

enrolled in hospice, versus those dying without hospice, are less likely to be hospitalized in the last month of life, concludes a new study. Because of Medicare regulations forbidding acute care hospitalizations for patients enrolled in hospice, hospices often intervene when hospitalization is being considered. This regulation, together with the availability of increased end-of-life palliative...

a survey was conducted to study the nursing faculty,s problems in clinical evaluation of nursing students in iran medical sciences-university, school of nursing and midwifery (tehran 1994) the especific purposes of this study were to identify the personal characteristics of the subjects. to identify the problems they faced in clinical evaluation in relation to certain personal characteristics o...

background: professionalism in nursing is critical for creating credibility and a positive image. objectives: this study was carried out to explain the use of hidden curriculum in teaching professionalism in nursing students. materials and methods: this qualitative study was conducted through purposeful sampling strategy by the participation of 32 nursing students. the data were collected by us...

This paper seeks to review the legal and policy trends facing nurses and, in so doing, indicates the numerous medico-legal and ethical issues confronting the nursing profession. At the same time, it is important to note that many of these developments have a wider impact, affecting not just those involved directly in health care. It is only by way of a collaborative effort that a suitable path ...

Note: In this column, the author describes some of the experiences of a medicalsurgical nurse volunteer aboard the United States Navy Ship (USNS) Mercy. Mr. Yates served on the second Project HOPE (Health Opportunities for People Everywhere) rotation aboard the Mercy from February 26 to March 20, 2005. The earthquake and resulting tsunami of December 26, 2004, in the Indian Ocean affected 12 co...

Dr. Howland is Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Address correspondence to Robert H. Howland, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O’Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; e-mail: HowlandRH@upm...

background: the aim of present study was to determine the quality of nursing documents in medical-surgical wards and factors affected this quality. methods: in this descriptive study the quality of nurses' documents in medical-surgical wards of teaching hospitals related to tabriz university of medical sciences was assessed. for data gathering, four checklists assessed four parts of nursing doc...

Nursing is a fascinating discipline. Nurses have the honor and expertise to participate closely in human healing processes of individuals, families, communities, and other systems of care. Yet, because the practitioner’s expertise in healing is not fully understood, some account for it by relying on concepts (like intuition, tacit knowing, and gut feelings) that render nursing knowledge more my...