Two studies tested the impact of alternative communication in accommodation strategies. Nursing home staff and residents (and community-residing seniors in Study 2) rated nurse-resident conversational scenarios in which a resident responded passively, directly assertively, or humorously (indirectly assertively) to a patronizing nurse. The nurse then either maintained a patronizing manner or acc...

A nurse-led prescribing scheme in a children's hospital has resulted in children receiving the drugs they need more promptly and greatly reduced nurses' reliance on verbal prescriptions from medical staff.

Background: Lack of sleep and poor quality contribute to fatigue, decreased productivity, increased risk accidents errors at work. Aim: The aim the current study is further investigate relationship between daytime sleepiness demographic work environment characteristics among nursing stuff. Method Material:A cross-sectional was performed on staff, in Athens, from July 2018 June 2020 focused rela...

BACKGROUND The nurse practitioner is a growing clinical role in Australia and internationally, with an expanded scope of practice including prescribing, referring and diagnosing. However, key gaps exist in nurse practitioner education regarding governance of specialty clinical learning and teaching. Specifically, there is no internationally accepted framework against which to measure the qualit...

Elements identified by student nurses as impacting learning in the clinical learning environment were explored. A significant element identified by participants was the staff nurse. Strategies for improvement and increasing learning opportunities are included in the discussion.

Alzheimer Scotland's first nurse consultant Colin MacDonald has audited dementia care in three Edinburgh hospitals and supported staff to improve care and make wards dementia-friendly. There are now 'no hiding places' for poor care. he says.

AIM This paper presents an evaluation of a career development policy in South Australia which increased the number of senior staff nurse positions and provided senior registered nurses with time away from clinical duties to undertake agreed projects. We use Kanter's model of structural power and commitment theory to understand the dimensions of this policy. BACKGROUND Development strategies f...