Children and young people who manage diabetes with injection therapy are at risk of using a poor technique. This may have serious consequences, including poor glycaemic control, leading to the longer term complications of diabetes. The Forum for Injection Technique (FIT) is an international body that promotes best practice in injection technique. This article summarises the forum's UK-specific ...

AIM This account, based on the experience of the first author, aims to describe an example of practice from a hospital in South Sudan. The example illustrates a cross-cultural encounter and the challenges that a Sudanese nurse and an expatriate nurse face in sharing knowledge when providing patient care. CONTENT The constructed practical example between nurses with different knowledge bases a...

AIM This paper describes the establishment of the first Japanese nurse practitioner graduate programme and legislative activities to institutionalize nurse practitioners in Japan. BACKGROUND To address the super-ageing population, Oita University of Nursing and Health Sciences initiated the first academic graduate level nurse practitioner programme in Japan, based upon the global standard def...

Registered nurses (RNs) have, according to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, the overall responsibility for the medical care in the ambulance care setting. Bringing RNs into the ambulance service are judged, according to earlier studies, to lead to a degree of professionalism with a higher quality of medical care. Implicitly in earlier studies, the work in the ambulance service ...

Authors’ Note: This document was developed through collaboration of members of The american academy of Nursing expert Panel on global Nursing and Health and The Transcultural Nursing Society, with participation by members of The american academy of Nursing expert Panel on Cultural Competence. Sharon M. Weinstein, MS, CRNI, RN, FaaN, Larry Purnell, PhD, RN, FaaN, Cheryl Leuning, PhD, RN, and Rut...

Aids to Medical Nursing by Margaret Hitch is a valuable and essential addition to the series. It gives just the information on medical subjects that nurses need, with concise details of nursing care. This pocket-sized book should prove most helpful, both as a reference for those on duty, and for study for'the final examination. I shall have no hesitation in warmly recommending this book to both...

Moral resilience is the ability to deal with an ethically adverse situation without lasting effects of moral distress and moral residue. This requires morally courageous action, activating needed supports and doing the right thing. Morally resilient people also have developed self-confidence by confronting such situations so they can maintain their self-esteem, no matter what life delivers. Fin...

Aim The RCN Clinical Leadership Development Programme was set up in 1995 and sought to identify how clinical nurses in recognised leadership positions could improve the quality of patient care. Method The programme was tested on four senior nurses and 24 ward sisters in four acute hospital trusts in England over an 18-month period. The primary research question was whether the intervention impr...

Aim The aim of the study, being part of a Norwegian evaluation project of the RAFAELA system, was to explore nurse managers' perception of the RAFAELA system as a management tool in a Norwegian hospital setting. Design We applied an explorative qualitative design using focus group interviews. Methods Two focus group interviews were performed with 12 nurses in different management positions ...

The purpose of this paper is to inform the nursing community of the extraordinary progress that the Canadian National Nursing Quality Report (NNQR(C)), the Canadian Health Outcomes for Better Information and Care (C-HOBIC) and the Nursing Quality Indicators for Reporting and Evaluation (NQuiRE) have made to date, and to share our commitment to continue working together to build a strong nursing...