Linda Olson Keller, MS, BSN, APRN, BC Linda Olson Keller is a Senior Research Scientist in Public Health Nursing Policy and Partnerships at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing. For the past 25 years she has focused on population-based community assessment, program planning, and evaluation. Linda’s public health nursing practice includes consultation and research with state and local h...

The development of a specialist intellectual disability workforce in independent Ireland by the Royal Medico-Psychological Association was influenced by nursing regulatory bodies and Catholic religious orders, the latter of which provided lay residential education to people with intellectual disabilities. Although the RMPA shaped curriculum and examinations, practice scope, clinical assessment ...

This paper begins by exploring the principles underpinning 'reflective practice'. The impact of reflection on the nursing profession is discussed, with particular attention being paid to nursing education. The value of reflective practice in nursing has been subject to considerable debate. This paper reviews both the claimed strengths and shortcomings of 'reflection', particularly in relation t...

The invitational working conference entitled “Informatics: The Infrastructure for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Nursing” followed the Fifth International Nursing Informatics Congress, which was held in San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 1994. Approximately 1,000 participants from more than 40 countries attended the Congress. Previous venues of the Congress have been London, England; Calgar...

OBJECTIVE To develop the Standardized Nursing Care Process format amongst patients in a prison. MATERIAL AND METHODS Observational, descriptive study, conducted on a sample of thirty patients in Soria Prison between March and June 2011. We collected information via a review of medical records and conducted an interview of nursing assessments using functional patterns. Subsequent nursing diagn...

OBJECTIVES To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. MATERIAL Twenty records from each of three hospital wards were collected and audited. The auditors were registered nurses with a knowledge of nursing documentation in accordance with the VIPS model--a model designed to s...

BACKGROUND Polypharmacy and inappropriate drug use is associated with negative health outcomes among older people. Various interventions for improving drug treatment have been evaluated, but the majority of studies are limited by the use of surrogate outcomes or suboptimal design. Thus, the potential for clinically significant improvements from different interventions is still unclear. The main...

The advent of the supercomputer and its capabilities for dealing with terabyte-sized data bases has provided a unique opportunity for nursing sciences to enhance and add to its theories. An interdisciplinary team has formed at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), to provide new tools and methodologies for analyzing large-scale data bases. Their first project is a study of infant mortalit...