The use of therapeutic communication contributes to nursing care quality, mainly in procedures that cause fear and anxiety in patients, such as the installation of endovenous therapy. This study aimed to identify how nurses perceive therapeutic communication during the installation of endovenous therapy, as shown in a filmed simulation. This exploratory-descriptive and comparative study was dev...

Until 1996 the practice of traditional healers was outlawed in South Africa and not afforded a legal position in the community of health care providers. In 1978 the World Health Organization (WHO) identified traditional healers as those people forming an essential core of primary health care workers for rural people in the Third World Countries. However in 1994 the new South African government ...

Although nurse educators have designed many techniques for enhancing critical-thinking skills in clinical and seminar settings, lectures also remain an integral part of nursing education. The author offers practical active learning strategies for promoting critical thinking in large classroom instruction.

PURPOSE Although the nursing facility transition literature is growing, little research has analyzed the characteristics of individuals so assisted or compared participants to those who remain institutionalized. This article describes an analytic method that researchers can apply to address these knowledge gaps, using the Arkansas Passages nursing facility transition program as a case study. ...

We report about the experimental use of wireless networks and portable devices by medicine and nursing students during training sessions in a University Hospital. In particular, we describe our research activities aimed to improve the usability of the portable devices and to enhance the connectivity through the use of seamless handoff techniques among heterogeneous networks.

BACKGROUND In Germany, the number of people with dementia living in nursing homes is rapidly increasing. Providing adequate care for their special needs is a challenge for institutions and their staff members. Because of the growing number of people with dementia, changes to the conceptual orientation of nursing homes have occurred. These changes include specialized living arrangements and psyc...

This study aims to reduce anxiety in hospitalized children through drawing and coloring techniques. Drawing aim make happy fearless can be used as entertainment when hospitalized. research method uses a descriptive design case with nursing process approach consisting of assessment, diagnosis, planning (intervention), implementation (implementation), evaluation, documentation. Data collection te...

background: considering the school nursing standards, which is the most important and vital element of the school health team, can be a fundamental step toward solving the current and future problems of the school and society health. the present research was done with the goal of determining the current situation of the standard of the school health nursing process in elementary schools of kerm...