1Department of Midwifery, Maternal–fetal Medicine Research Center, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 2Department of Midwifery, Community Based Psychiatric Care Research Centre, Fatemeh Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Student Research Committee, Facu...

INTRODUCTION This paper describes a framework to facilitate collaboration between hospitals and third level universities and colleges in Ireland. The move to higher education for nurses and midwives in Europe heralded the development of partnership between organisations that provide nursing education. There is an increased risk of exacerbation of the 'theory-practice gap' phenomenon. Hence the ...

Investigations of mood and workload in health care settings have focussed primarily on nurses and junior doctors. Given the critical shortfall in the Australian midwifery workforce, and the specialised nature of midwifery as an occupation, it is important to understand how mood and workload are experienced by midwives. Twenty midwives (18F, 2M) in an Australian metropolitan hospital completed l...

The reform of nursing and midwifery is a key concern of health services in the CCEE/NIS. This major change will be impossible without accurate and up-to-date information made readily available to nursing leaders and to people helping them with the reforms. At present, however, such information is hard to come by and nurses remain statistically neglected--the case of the Invisible Nurse. The WHO...

BackgroundNumeracy skills are essential for patient safety; therefore, it is vital that registered nurses proficient in performing calculations, notably medication calculations. However, the literature indicates a large proportion of undergraduate nursing students and not competent numeracy. The manifestation numerical calculation errors thought to stem from failing comprehend key mathematical ...

Abstract Improving the rates of continuation and completion nursing students is a priority to ensure there are sufficient qualified staff deliver national healthcare services. In literature, which predominantly informed by research undertaken in traditional HE institutions with studying conventional academic programmes, development student identity course commitment identified as key components...

This paper analyses the history of the subordination of midwifery to medicine and nursing. With the important exception of Evan Willis' work on medical dominance and Annette Summers' work on the takeover of midwifery by nursing, other histories of Australian midwifery have taken a neutral approach to issue of power and control. The aim of analysing this period is to identify the strategies of p...

BACKGROUND Nursing and midwifery are demanding professions. Efforts to understand the health consequences and workforce needs of these professions are urgently needed. Using a novel electronic approach, the Nurses and Midwives e-cohort Study (NMeS) aims to investigate longitudinally Australian and New Zealand nurses' and midwives' work/life balance and health. This paper describes NMeS particip...

the relationship betweennurses' quality of work life and their clinical competency     habibzadeh h [1] *, ghorbanzadek [2] , khalkhali hr [3] , mohamadpor y [4]     received: 3feb, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : high quality of work life (qwl) is known as basic prerequisite for empowering human resources in health system. while nurses have a significant posit...