background the use of long-term care services has risen and this trend is expected to continue as the population reaches old age. objectives this study was performed to assess the caring conditions in nursing homes. patients and methods this study was conducted with a qualitative approach using conventional qualitative content analysis. the study was conducted on 23 iranian participants includi...

background : clinical learning environment (cle) is an important factor in clinical education of nursing students. the cle of nursing students has been less studied in iran. therefore, the aim of present study was to investigate the viewpoints of nursing students in tabriz nursing faculty regarding cle. methods : in this descriptive study, 133 nursing students participated. for data collection ...

Despite the fact that computer use in health care and nursing is burgeoning, nurses often find that they have inadequate tools with which to manage information about complex phenomena. Family is one such complex phenomenon of interest to nurses. Commonly-used computer tools for managing information about families may not be congruent with the ways that individuals define their families and may ...

BACKGROUND There is wide recognition that, with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), large data sets are available for research. However, essential standardized nursing data are seldom integrated into EHRs and clinical data repositories. There are many diverse activities that exist to implement standardized nursing languages in EHRs; however, these activities are not co...

It is now ten years since the Ministerial Taskforce on Nursing released its report identifying the barriers that prevented nursing from realising its full potential. A key recommendation was the development of advanced clinical nursing roles that went beyond traditional and institutional boundaries. The constitution and work of the Taskforce is traced in this study, along with the struggle that...

background and purpose: of the significant processes for educational quality promotion is to evaluate the teachers' competency.this study has been conducted with the goal for designing and psychometric the measure for determining the professional competence of nursing faculty members. methods: the present research is the qualitative part of a sequential exploratory combined study of the co...

Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s National Clinical & Research Conference December 1–3, 2011 Hollywood, Florida S1 Oral Abstracts—Clinical S4 Oral Abstracts—Pediatrics S6 Oral Abstracts—Nursing S7 Oral Abstracts—Basic Science S12 Poster Presentations—Clinical S54 Poster Presentations—Pediatrics S63 Poster Presentations—Nursing S64 Poster Presentations—Basic Science S88 Author Index Volume 17 Numbe...

concept analysis of transition from nursing student to clinical nurse: rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis     rafieef [1] , sajadihezaveh m [2] *     received: 21 feb, 2012 accepted: 27apr, 2012     abstract   background &aims; : the transition from nursing student to clinical nursing is a major challenge.the aim of this study was to clarify concept of transition in new graduate nursin...

BACKGROUND Social media have become a popular communication system that has transformed communication from the traditional to the Web-based model. Because social media use has no limitations to place and time, it is now used extensively at clinical facilities. Social media useis becoming a popular activity amongst students at Nursing Education Institutions (NEI) in South Africa. However, lack o...

The development of standardised vocabularies within nursing has been an important research activity for a number of years. Current representations generally take the form of taxonomic vocabularies. These are seen as important as they provide a structure for retrieving and analysing data from automated systems. However, there is increasing evidence to show that traditional taxonomic vocabularies...