A Model for Evaluating the Performance of Nursing Services

328 July/August 2011 • Vol 2 No 6 • The Veterinary Nurse Within human nursing, models of nursing care feature heavily, with many texts and research papers devoted to the subject. Pearson et al (2005) suggest an interesting trajectory in their use in practice, with the initial scepticism surrounding their introduction in the 1970s soon giving way to a widespread adoption of them in both practice...

BACKGROUND Nurses have a pivotal role in providing facilitating, advocating and promoting the best possible care and outcome for the client. To ensure decisions and actions are based on current standards of practice, nurses must be accountable for participation in ongoing education in their area of practice. AIM To present a description of the current state of Polish nursing education and spe...

Clinical nursing research is an emerging subspecialty that enhances nursing expertise. In an effort to provide a basic educational curriculum on cancer research and clinical trials, a major academic cancer center launched a novel program titled Clinical Research Nursing Grand Rounds that allowed nurses to receive continuing education units. The purpose of the current article is to describe the ...

BACKGROUND We studied the possible advantages of feed-forward control nursing model in the treatment of placenta previa. METHODS We enrolled 60 pregnant women who were receiving treatment for expectant placenta previa between January 2010 and January 2016 and randomly divided them into the control group and the observation group with 30 cases in each group. In the control group, we offered sp...

OBJECTIVE Recerntly, the role of the healthcare network, defined as a set of hospitals linked by patient transfers, has been increasingly considered in the control of antimicrobial resistance. Here, we investigate the potential impact of nursing homes on the spread of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens across the healthcare network and its importance for control strategies. METHODS Based on pati...

PURPOSE Worsening of health as well as raising disability in course of aging lead to the increase in the needs for medical and nursing services. The on-going reforms of the primary health care system has brought the organizational transformation in community nursing care into the forms of non-public community nursing units. The aim of the study was to describe the characteristics of community n...

Nursing theories are developed to provide a connecting frame work which focus on nursing practice. Dorothy Orem’s SelfCare Deficit Theory and Sister Callista Roy’s Adaptation Model are grand theories; both developed these to enhance nursing practice and education. Orem Model emphasizes on the individuals demands of self care which the nurse can accomplish through certain actions to promote heal...