The impending wave of aging boomers heightens long-standing concerns for the quality and cost of nursing home care. As industry and policy leaders continue efforts to remedy substandard nursing home care delivery practices, development of a well-prepared and adequately supported workforce of directors of nursing (DONs) is essential to ensuring the industry's readiness for the aging wave populat...

Aims and objectives. To present the Careful Nursing philosophy and professional practice model which has its source in the skilled practice of 19th century Irish nurses and to propose that its implementation could provide a relevant foundation for contemporary nursing practice. Background. Nursing models are widely considered not relevant to nursing practice. Alarming instances of incompetent a...

The LGBTQIA+ community has a long history of marginalization, disenfranchisement, and structural violence within the healthcare sector. Sexual gender minority individuals may be wary disclosing sexuality-related information to providers, providers not have received education on creating therapeutic relationships with these individuals. This paper explores factors that shape individuals' daily l...

Aim: This study aims to determine the attitudes of undergraduate nursing students studying at a public university toward childhood vaccines and investigate whether change according sociodemographic characteristics, vaccination history, perceived level knowledge. Material Method: descriptive was conducted with 83 in Department Nursing Konya between May 2020 September 2021. The data were collecte...

This study examined whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) is associated with recurrent falls in older adults in nursing homes (NHs). We used data abstracted over a six month period from 510 NH residents with a history of falls. Thirty-five percent of the NH residents had CKD. In adjusted analyses, the incidence of recurrent falls was similar in those with and without CKD [fall rate ratio (FRR) 1...

Introduction: Patient-nurse relationship has been recognized as the key factor in nursing practice. Considering the importance of professional relationship in nursing discipline, and especially empathy and its professional role, the need to address this phenomenon in nursing education in Iran is profoundly felt. Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim to compare level o...

OBJECTIVES This report provides an introduction and overview of the National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS),the first national probability survey of nursing assistants working in nursing homes. The NNAS was designed to provide national estimates and to allow for separate estimates to be calculated for nursing assistants by geographic location of the agency and for workers by tenure at the samp...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to investigate anxiety sensitivity (AS) in female Chinese nurses to better understand its characteristics and relationship with nursing stress based on the following hypotheses: (1) experienced nurses have higher AS than newly admitted nurses; and (2) specific nursing stresses are associated with AS after controlling general stress. SETTING The cross-sectional surv...

As a historical era, postmodernism signifies transition from inflexible and logical positivism and entry into a new view to science. Postmodernism offers a number of nursing practice revise that including humanism, conditions, and borderless, multi-voice, view, and multicultural world, changes in meaning of knowledge, and life-long learning. Demographic changes, technological advances, ethnic a...