Online Journal of Cultural Competence in Nursing and Healthcare Vol. 1, No. 3, 2011 ABSTRACT The US Department of Labor has identified nursing as one of the fastest growing occupations in terms of growth through 2014, when over one million nurses will be needed to fill the nation‟s health care needs (Monthly Labor Review, 2005). In order to educate these and additional nurses, there need to be ...

Nursing research in the United States (US) spans several decades. Many of the priorities/trends have stayed through the years. Today, the goal of producing evidence to support nursing care interventions coupled with the drive for Magnet Recognition has encouraged academic nurses (faculty) to work with nurse clinicians to form research teams. Interdisciplinary research teams have also formed to ...

Numerous advances in technology during the past decade require that nurses not only be knowledgeable in nursing science but that they also become educated in information technology (IT). Perioperative IT has the potential to improve the quality of health care, reduce costs, decrease medication administration errors, reduce time spent on paperwork, increase management efficacy, and allow afforda...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to examine whether the position of 'after hours clinical support enrolled nurse' is embracing clinical skill extension in the acute surgical area. DESIGN Experienced enrolled nurses employed in a supernumerary capacity documented all activities with which they were engaged over a six-month period. SETTING Six surgical wards within a tertiary referra...

BACKGROUND Over the last decades, converging forces in hospital care, including cost-containment policies, rising healthcare demands and nursing shortages, have driven the search for new operational models of nursing care delivery that maximize the use of available nursing resources while ensuring safe, high-quality care. Little is known, however, about the distinctive features of these emergen...

The Dyslexia Information Site (DiS) is a live research project and results from an interdisciplinary partnership between the School of Nursing and Midwifery (SNM) and the Department of Information Studies. The design of the DiS site takes into account the problems of nursing students with dyslexia and specific needs that are not met elsewhere. Requirement analysis for the site included the iden...

AIM To identify the specialties from which trainee prescribers come and to determine their pre-training and post-training concerns about prescribing and how they are utilising their prescribing skills. METHOD A self-report profile questionnaire including open and closed questions, some Likert-type scales and a 24-item, self-report follow-up questionnaire were used. RESULTS Half of the nurse...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To identify the specific administrative, clerical, patient care, patient education, and research responsibilities that licensed nursing personnel perform in the field of radiation oncology. DESIGN Descriptive. SAMPLE 281 licensed nursing personnel employed in the field of radiation oncology in North America. METHODS Subjects completed a six-page, self-administered quest...