This article reports the findings of a structural analysis of the field of academic nursing in Ireland and considers the implications of the field's current structure for its present status and future trajectory in the academy. Six years after preregistration nursing education transferred to the higher education sector, tensions continue to exist concerning the status and legitimacy of academic...

OBJECTIVES To describe the evaluation of a nursing home medical directorship curriculum for geriatric medicine fellows. DESIGN Six first-year geriatric medicine fellows from the University of Hawaii program participated in this educational intervention. INTERVENTION A medical directorship curriculum based on the American Medical Directors Association's description of the roles and responsib...

Objective: to understand the knowledge and actions of the nursing team about humanized care in a Neonatal Intensive Care Center. Methods: qualitative research carried out with 14 nurses and 20 nursing technicians working in a public institution. Semi-structured interview and content analysis were applied. Results: three thematic categories emerged: Humanized care to the newborn; Welcoming the n...

The Nursing Process is a care technology that guides the sequence of clinical reasoning and improves the quality of care. This article reports the development of a Computerized Nursing Process (CNP) for the Intensive Care Unit. The study was conducted in three main steps: discussion and understanding of the International Organization for Standard 18104; theoretical expertise regarding the ICNP®...

Nursing programs have done a commendable job keeping pace with the rapid advances in disease management. Yet, spirituality has received far less attention in nursing curricula (Keefe, 2005) and nursing students often do not have a strong foundation in this area. The purpose of this project was to integrate spirituality into the undergraduate nursing curricula and measure student outcomes relate...

Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of structured education on knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among nursing students. Participants and setting: A pre – experimental one group pretest – posttest design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in Chandana School of nursing, suryapet, Telugana, India. The investigator selected 60 nursing students who fulfilled the inclusion criteria were s...