Housing lactating sows with piglets in a multi-suckling pen from around 14 days post-farrowing is common practice in Swedish organic piglet production. However, nursing-suckling interaction is less frequent in multi-suckling pens than in individual farrowing pens, thus affecting piglet performance, e.g., piglet growth. Moreover, piglet mortality is higher in systems using multi-suckling pens. T...

nursing students quality of sleep in dormitories of urmia university of medical sciences     ghanei r [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, rezaei k [3] , baghi v [4] , makki b [5]    received: 31 jan, 2011 accepted: 10 june, 2011   abstract  background & aims: sleep is a physiological and reversible phenomenon. one of its primary functions is to help organisms conserve their energy resources and it...

Background: New graduate nurses’ competence rarely meets the rigorous expectations of clinical settings. Researchers suggest that competency validation before graduation can shorten the length of clinical orientations for graduate nurses after they enter the workforce. The purpose of this study was to explore the difference in clinical competence between students in different types of nursing p...

OBJECTIVE This secondary data analysis explored factors influencing job satisfaction in a sample of nursing assistants employed in Maryland skilled nursing facilities. BACKGROUND Multiple factors have been shown to affect job satisfaction and turnover in nursing assistants (NAs), but the problem of turnover persists in skilled nursing facility environments affecting quality of care. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Although using the nursing process improves nursing care quality, few studies have evaluated nursing performance in accordance with nursing process steps either nationally or internationally. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to audit nursing care based on a nursing process model. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which a nursing audit checklist was d...