BACKGROUND Nursing, like many disciplines in university settings, is experiencing increasing demand for online courses. Development and implementation of online courses with the quality of education nursing students experience in traditional classroom settings, is essential to maintaining integrity of the educational process. Nursing research has been offered in the online format in the RN-BSN ...

NURS 304. Principles of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervie...

NURS 304. Principles of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervie...

Public health nursing is a challenging course to teach. Most baccalaureate nursing (BSN) students enter nursing school with a vision of acute care nursing practice. In contrast, they often have little previous exposure to the nurse’s role in public health. When adult learners do not readily understand why content is important to their future career, it can be difficult to engage them in the lea...

NURS 304. Priniciples of Practice: Foundations of Health Assessment. 3 Credits. This didactic and laboratory course emphasizes the assessment phase of the nursing process. Supervised practice, faculty demonstration, and selfpaced learning in the audio-visual laboratory, simulation laboratory and selected clinical sites facilitate skill acquisition in health assessment and health history intervi...

Groenhoff, MSN, MBA, RN, CNN (South Florida Flamingo Chapter), Sue McManus, MSN, CFNP, CNN (Acadiana Chapter); and Janie Martinez, BSN, RN, CCRN, CNN (Alamo Chapter); ANNA members Emily Hodgin, BSN, RN, CNN, CPHQ (Cardinal Chapter); Carmen Mejias, BSN, RN, CNN (Heart of Texas Chapter); Betsy King, MSN, RN, CNN; (Northeast TriState Chapter); Darene Hall, MSN, RN, CNN (Chumash Chapter); and Glady...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between nurse staffing and patient outcomes in hospitals in mainland China. METHODS The study was conducted in 181 hospitals across all of the eight economic zones in mainland China using a four-stage sampling design. Two instruments, the China Nurse Survey and the patient satisfaction measurement from the Hospital Consumer Asse...

Nursing ethics is an essential part of nursing education, and ethical decision-making a critical competency that students must possess. This study aimed to investigate the ability in China identify factors affect this ability. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 500 from four universities China. The Ethical Decision-Making Ability Questionnaire (EDMAQ) used assess participants, demogra...

AIM To examine the job satisfaction of nurses who are caring for older adults in healthcare settings in Shanghai, and to explore the underlying factors in order to explain and predict nurses' job satisfaction. BACKGROUND China has the largest elderly population in the world, and its population is aging rapidly. Studies on job satisfaction of nurses providing care for the elderly in China can ...

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...