Nursing faculty who teach in clinical settings face complex situations requiring evidence-based educational and evaluative strategies, yet many have had limited preparation for these tasks. A convenience sample of 74 nursing faculty participated in a survey about clinical teaching in prelicensure nursing programs. Most faculty developed teaching skills through conferences (57%), orientation at ...

BACKGROUND: In view of the issues surrounding physical restraint use, it is important to have a method of measurement as valid and reliable as possible. We determined the sensitivity and specificity of physical restraint use a) reported by nursing staff and b) reviewed from medical and nursing records in nursing home settings, by comparing these methods with direct observation. METHODS: We samp...

The complexity involved in operationalizing the method for nursing staffing, in view of the uncountable variable related to identifying the workload, the effective working time of the staff, and the Technical Security Index (TSI) revealed the need to develop a software program named: Computerized Nursing Staffing (DIPE, in Portuguese acronyms). This exploratory, descriptive study was performed ...

INTRODUCTION Clinical education is an indispensible part of the nursing education. Clinical nurses play an important role in this teaching learning process. The quality and quantity of student-nurse interactions in the clinical area can either facilitate or hamper students' learning. The rationale of this research was to probe into staff nurses' attitudes toward nursing students within the cont...

OBJECTIVES Urinary catheters are used frequently, but the relative risks and benefits of different types of devices are not clear. We sought to determine the beliefs of both older male patients and nursing staff about the relative merits and problems of condom and indwelling catheters. DESIGN Patient and nurse survey using convenience sampling. SETTING A University-affiliated Veterans Affai...

The emergency department nursing workforce: Local solutions for local issues Christine M. Duffield RN, PhD, MHP, BScN (Professor and Director) , Lisa Conlon RN, BSc, MClincNurs, DNurs(c) (Lecturer, 3rd Year Undergraduate Coordinator) , Michelle Kelly MN, BSc, RN, PhD (c) (Lecturer, Project Manager) , Christine Catling-Paull MSc, RM, RN (Research Assistant) , Helen Stasa BA (Hons) BA (Hons) (Res...

The objective of this study was to describe the Supplemental Nursing Staff´s experiences at different hospital units. A qualitative phenomenological approach was conducted; a purposeful and theoretical sampling was implemented with supplemental nursing staff at Santa Barbara Hospital of Soria (Spain), to gain a more in-depth understanding of the Supplemental Nursing Staff ´s experience. Data we...

Faculty in Canadian undergraduate nursing programs have come to rely on preceptorship as the primary model for teaching and learning during the final clinical course. A focused ethnography was completed in order to examine undergraduate nursing students' experience of rural hospital preceptorship in western Canada. Data analysis revealed that students perceive nursing faculty involvement and su...

background: assessment is the process of systematic collection, analysis and interpretation of data to achieve the goals. the purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the quality of educational activities of departments of nursing and midwifery faculty of hamadan university of medical sciences. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 2009 at the faculty of nursing and midwifery...

effect of self management programs on dietary adherence and interdialytic weight gain in patients undergoing hemodialysis.    baljani es [1] *, habibzadeh h [2] , rahimi j [3] , azimpour a [4] , salimi s [5]     received: 1 mar, 2013 accepted: 21 apr, 2013  abstract  background & aims : poor adherence to dietary among dialysis patients is a common and serious problem among patients. despite of ...