Skincare, a fundamental component of basic patient care, reflects on the overall quality of care that a patient receives in hospital. Quality care aimed at preventing and minimising skin breakdown and pressure ulcers has been identified as a nursing research priority. During the past 5 years, we have undertaken a large research utilisation effort focused on skincare and pressure ulcers involvin...

On-shift napping can benefit night workers regarding sleep loss, synchronization of circadian rhythms, and alertness. However, few studies on napping can be found in the literature focused on possible health benefits. This cross-sectional study has investigated the role of on-shift napping on the association between night work and BMI in 409 night-shift nursing professionals. The number of work...

Projections of a substantial nursing workforce imbalance in the coming decade have galvanized policymakers, providers, private foundations, nurses, and others to proffer aggressive and sustainable strategies to ameliorate the looming shortage. The solutions are largely ones that seek to increase supply. Analysis of the 1992-2000 National Sample Surveys of Registered Nurses shows that increasing...

Whether there are enough practice placements and if they are of a high enough quality are questions that continue to come up and their resolution is vital for the future of the nursing workforce as a whole. In view of the vast increases in student numbers expected over the next few years, innovation, rather than traditional solutions, seems the only option. The priorities for future preregistra...

Public Health nursing is complex because it incorporates an expectation of empowerment and advocacy on behalf of the public health nurse (PHN) in three functions: curative engagement, health promotion, and political advocacy (Cawley and Mannix McNamara 2011). Indeed, the mission of public health nursing calls for the health promotion approach (DOH 1997) and PHNs have a unique opportunity in the...

The United States is increasingly ethnically diverse. To provide culturally congruent care to this changing population, nursing programs must attract and support ethnically diverse students through to successful completion of the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses. Critically examining the literature on this topic revealed three themes: need for a diverse nursing workf...

This qualitative study describes the perspectives of diploma nursing students and staff nurses on the student-staff relationship and the impact this relationship has on student learning. Staff and students, working in a clinical practice model setting in a large urban hospital, participated in focused interviews following a 15-week clinical practice assignment. Findings revealed there were seve...

Skincare, a fundamental component of basic patient care, reflects on the overall quality of care that a patient receives in hospital. Quality care aimed at preventing and minimising skin breakdown and pressure ulcers has been identified as a nursing research priority. During the past 5 years, we have undertaken a large research utilisation effort focused on skincare and pressure ulcers involvin...

This study is a theoretical approach to different care and management measuring tools used to determine the severity of patients' illnesses, to quantify patients' care demands, and to estimate the actual need for Nursing professionals and the costs of intensive care, which makes them management facilitators. This article presents several measuring tools that are focused on the classification of...