Background: COVID-19 is an unprecedented health crisis that has strongly shaken the whole world. There a paucity of studies comparing perception nurse practice environment in Philippines. Aim: To determine Filipino nurses' and compare respondents' perceptions according to socio-demographic profiles. Design: This study utilized descriptive-comparative design, using Practice Environment Survey- N...

BACKGROUND Conceptualisations of the nurse-patient relationship tend to view nursing as embodying an empowering approach to patients, one that places the service user perspective at the centre of decision-making. However, the relationship of nursing to public participation in health service planning and development has been under examined. AIMS The aim is to explore the relationship of the nu...

BACKGROUND Chronic condition management in general practice is projected to account for 50% of all consultations by 2051. General practices under present workforce conditions will be unable to meet this demand. Nurse led collaborative care models of chronic disease management have been successful overseas and are proposed as one solution. OBJECTIVE This article provides an interim report on a...

The inpatient setting is often a missed opportunity for the introduction of technology to promote health using behavioral techniques. Nurses are stakeholders in the implementation of technology for patients in the inpatient setting and are essential for the determination of feasibility and relevance. The objective of this study was to identify facilitators and barriers for introduction of healt...

BACKGROUND Thirty-four new graduate nurses participated in a critical care nurse residency program in preparation for opening a new intensive care unit. At the end of the program, multi-constituent focus groups were held to assess program effectiveness. METHOD Participants included 34 new graduate nurses, 18 preceptors and staff nurse partners, five clinical nurse specialists, and five nurse ...

The objective of this paper is to report the experience of implementing a model of advanced nursing practice that integrates a clinical nurse specialist into the nursing staff. The authors describe the concept of this model and the process of its implementation in a pediatric oncology reference institution in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The main result achieved in evaluating the clinical nur...

The restructuring mania of health care settings of the 1980s and 1990s was driven by the need to save money, with organizations emphasizing efficiency over patient safety. A common action that took place in the restructuring was the elimination of nurse manager positions and the perceived reduction in power of chief nurse executives.2 The nursing managers who remained employed in most health ca...

In rehabilitation nursing, the patient classification systems or acuity models and nurse-staffing ratios are not supported by empirical evidence. Moreover there are no studies published characterizing nursing hours per patient day, proportion of RN staff and impact of agency nurses in inpatient rehabilitation settings. The purpose of this prospective observational study was to describe rehabili...

The perceptions of nurse managers regarding cost containment issues in selected public hospitals in the Port Elizabeth metropole of the Eastern Cape were investigated. Results indicated that nurse managers required better preparation for their cost control responsibilities. Although the majority of the nurse managers realised that staffing issues affected cost containment efforts, they were rep...