After reading this chapter you will be able to: • recognise the importance of research and evidence-based practice in nursing and midwifery • differentiate major philosophical approaches in the conduct of research and their use in nursing and midwifery services • understand developments in nursing and midwifery research in the context of society, politics and history • understand the links betw...

BACKGROUND Empirical studies show the value of mobile phones as effective educational tools to support learning in the nursing profession, predominantly in high income countries. PROBLEM STATEMENT The rapidly increasing prevalence of mobile phone technology in Africa nourishes hopes that these tools could be equally effective in lowly resourced contexts, specifically in efforts to achieve the...

OBJECTIVE To pilot test the reliability and validity of a newly developed tool measuring nursing and midwifery staff stress and burnout. DESIGN Descriptive survey. SETTING Public hospital, aged care facility and university. SUBJECTS For the pilot study a total of forty-nine (n = 49) nurses and midwives, selected by convenience sampling, were sent an initial pilot questionnaire. The return...

What are the strengths and limitations of existing Decision-Making Theories as a basis for guiding best practice clinical decision-making within a framework of midwifery philosophy? Each theory is compared in relation with how well they provide a teachable framework for midwifery clinical reasoning that is consistent with midwifery philosophy. Hypothetico-Deductive Theory, from which medical cl...

This editorial responds to a recent reminder from an Elder acknowledge and respect First Nations ways of knowing, doing, being as health professionals researchers. asked us critically reflect on our professional stance practices nurses, midwives researchers in the light fire that still burns at Aboriginal tent Embassy dialogues for Australia Day. In international Black Lives Matter movement 202...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of a national intervention to improve the postabortion care (PAC) content of midwifery education in Nigeria. METHODS A 3-part quantitative assessment was carried out during and post-intervention. The first baseline component developed and examined the intervention to improve teaching capacity and improve the PAC curriculum among 6 midwifery schools that were to...

This systematic review aimed to offer insight and understanding, through synthesis of findings from studies that report on perspectives student nurses/midwives, clinical instructors, nurses/midwives the challenges faced by in learning environment (CLE). All primary qualitative research published English language reported views instructors CLE were included. The electronic databases Medline EBSC...

The nursing process, upon introduction by North American Nurses Diagnosis Association (NANDA) has proved to be a means of standardizing nursing care and in maintaining professional autonomy. However, despite its benefits, many nurses are yet to fully understand and put to practice the nursing process. This may have led to poor patient care and outcome; and it is the basis for this study which e...

BACKGROUND With the proliferation of portable digital technology, mobile learning is becoming increasingly popular in nursing education and practice. Most of the research in this field has been concentrated on small-scale projects in high income countries. Very little is known about the ways in which nurses and midwives use mobile technology in remote and resource poor areas in informal learnin...

BACKGROUND: Foreign-trained nurse recruits exceeded the number of new British-trained recruits on the UK nurse register for the first time in 2001. As the nursing shortage continues, health care service providers rely increasingly on overseas nurses to fill the void. Which areas benefit the most? And where would the NHS be without them? METHODS: Using cross-sectional data from the 2004 Nursing ...