Background Most healthcare professional training programs lack sufficient curricula on substance use[1-3], and even fewer provide students the opportunity to practice screening and brief intervention (BI) in a clinical setting. The University of Missouri-Kansas City Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (UMKC-SBIRT) training project educates baccalaureate nursing (BSN), doctor...

Nurses are accountable for their care. Understanding the physiology and process behind any intervention improves patient care, while also increasing nursing satisfaction and skill and IABP is no exception. An awareness of IABP will facilitate sound nursing care, ensure early identification of possible complications or patient compromise, and lead to patient and relative satisfaction. It will al...

Until now the quality of nursing care in the hospital still low, even though nursing higher education already started in 1983.In order improve the quality of nursing care in the hospital it was needed restructuring, reengineering, and redesigning of nursing care delivery system through the implementation of Professional Nursing Practice Model (PNPM).The study was aimed to evaluate the effect of...

aim: effective communication has a key role in nursing profession. furthermore, controlling emotions as a part of communication skills has an important role in initiating and maintaining healthy social communications. the meaning of emotional intelligence is also effected considerably by the importance of this aspect of social communications. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of...

Purpose: Purpose of this descriptive research is to examine the correlation of alexithymia and anger of university students to prepare for the basic data to develop nursing intervention which could be helpful to control anger and health. Method: Study subjects were targeting 412 university students and the correlation between alexithymia and anger was analyzed using Pearson‘s Correlation. Resul...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the utilization and financial outcomes of a telephonic nursing disease-management program for elderly patients with heart failure. DESIGN A 1-year concurrent matched-cohort study employing propensity score matching. SETTING Medicare+Choice recipients residing in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. PARTICIPANTS A total of 533 program participants aged 65 and older matche...

The Intervention Wheel is a population-based practice model that encompasses three levels of practice (community, systems, and individual/family) and 17 public health interventions. Each intervention and practice level contributes to improving population health. The Intervention Wheel, previously known as the Public Health Intervention Model, was originally introduced in 1998 by the Minnesota D...

background critical thinking disposition has been recognized as an essential feature in nursing. objectives we conducted this study to determine the effect of guided questioning on the disposition of critical thinking among nursing students. materials and methods in this quasi-experimental study, all the second year nursing students (n = 54) from tabriz nursing and midwifery faculty of iran in ...