Each of us has a spark of life inside us and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off the spark in one another. Introduction T he development of a competent future public health nursing workforce is strongly influenced by the nursing students' educational experiences. The responsibility for providing realistic, high quality public health nursing education is shared by both education and prac...

OBJECTIVE to assess patient knowledge of heart failure by home-based measurement of two NOC Nursing Outcomes over a six-month period and correlate mean outcome indicator scores with mean scores of a heart failure Knowledge Questionnaire. METHODS in this before-and-after study, patients with heart failure received four home visits over a six-month period after hospital discharge. At each home ...

background and purpose: clinical knowledge management (ckm) is considered as a dominant approach for information management and expansion of knowledge in clinical settings. health care executives have recently begun to focus on ckm. therefore, identification of challenges against proper ckm planning is of paramount importance. the aim of this study was to explore challenges in clinical knowledg...

Background: Child and adolescents growth and development knowledge is an essential part of Pediatric Nursing and it is also part of the nine essentials in Nursing Education. Although students find challenge to master this knowledge, limited literatures documented the knowledge deficit regarding child growth and development among nursing students. The purpose of this study was to assess senior n...

AIM A discussion on how informatics knowledge and competencies can enable nursing to instantiate transition to integrated models of care. BACKGROUND Costs of traditional models of care are no longer sustainable consequent to the spiralling incidence and costs of chronic illness. The international community looks towards technology-enabled solutions to support a shift towards integrated patien...

Knowledge development and research are generally embedded in cultural values and perspectives. This article examines the development of knowledge in nursing in a global context and addresses the degree to which Western values and the social environment in the United States shape nursing theory development. Three perspectives illustrate the influence of US values and contextual factors. Question...

In the midst of a faltering global economy, daunting technological change, an era of educated consumers, alternative therapies, genomics, increasingly complex care and one of the greatest shortages of nurses, the mandate of developing the professional potential of nursing presents a tremendous challenge. Charged with this responsibility, leaders in nursing education must find answers to some ve...

Develop critical, reflective and creative ability has become more important than the mere illustration or transmission of knowledge in nursing education and in this context, evaluation is set such an element essential to promote this thinking more critical. Stevenson and Gordon [1] consider that active learning can enhance critical thinking because the students share their experience, consideri...