The difficulty recruiting and retaining an adequate mental health nursing workforce is acknowledged. The major in mental health nursing has been identified as a strategy to promote this specialist area of practice as desirable for students' future careers. Measuring its success requires the collection of detailed data about the structure, content, and uptake of these programmes. A survey was sp...

BACKGROUND Building capacity in a changing health care system is a challenge for advanced nursing education programs. Master-level nursing education is increasingly becoming the required education level for specialist nurses, and additional studies are needed to learn more about students' experiences and learning transitions while undertaking such education. This study aimed to explore nursing ...

Globally, children have been profoundly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic in many ways. While majority of with acute infection experience mild illness and fully recover, go on to Long Covid. Covid is clinically identified persistent (and sometimes different) symptoms for several months after (even who were asymptomatic). There currently no agreed consensus case definition Covid, but real-world ...

This paper describes the process of setting up and implementing a Teaching and Learning Observatory (TLO) in nursing practice. A TLO uses videoconferencing to connect learners in a classroom with others at a remote site and has been used successfully at the University of Nottingham to connect student teachers with teacher trainers. The model was adopted in the School of Nursing, building on our...

Abstract Background Hospital and university service providers invest significant but separate resources into preparing registered nurses to work in the emergency department setting. This results duplication of both curricula resource investment health higher education sectors. paper describes an evidence-based co-designed study with clinical-academic stakeholders from hospital settings. Methods...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to determine if simply providing nursing facilities with comparative quality performance information and education about quality improvement would improve clinical practices and subsequently improve resident outcomes, or if a stronger intervention, expert clinical consultation with nursing facility staff, is needed. DESIGN AND METHODS Nursing facilities (n...

There is a decrease in the number of new midwives, resulting from the shutdown of midwifery education program in hospitals due to a decrease in birthrate in the Republic of Korea. To solve this problem, the current medical laws on midwifery education system in Korea should be revised; nurse-midwifery specialist programs must be established in educational institutes with nursing programs. To sup...

We assessed the management of urinary incontinence amongst older people in residential and nursing homes and examined strategies for continence care in the homes. A random sample of local authority and private residential and nursing homes was drawn from an earlier census of long-term care. Strategies for continence care, the standard of care provided and the need for more help were determined ...