BACKGROUND The nursing process is a tool that is recommended for use by all professional nurses working in Ghana, in order to provide nursing care. However, there is currently a limited use of this tool by nurses in Ghana. The purpose of this research study was to explore the various factors that influence the utilization of this nursing process. METHOD An exploratory descriptive qualitative-...

Widespread adoption of healthcare information systems has led to large amounts of patient care data with the potential for improvements in the cost and quality of patient care. However, extracting useful information from these large data sets using current systems is a cumbersome process and it is difficult to effectively utilize the data. This paper addresses is the creation of a multidimensio...

Nursing, like the NHS, is at a crossroads. The NHS Plan sets out two directions for nursing, midwifery and health visiting, which on first sight may seem to be contradictory. The Plan sets out firmly what patients want, which is to get the fundamentals of care right—dignity and privacy, proper food and drink, help with personal hygiene. They want a nurse to be with them when they are sick and v...

The Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science (CANS) Idea Festival (IF) produced important and timely recommendations (Henly et al., 2015a, b) for nursing science education and priorities for nursing science that should be incorporated into researchfocused doctoral programs. The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) supports the premise that doctoral research training needs to keep...

A computer-based nursing process documentation system was developed through NNN Linkage to create standardized nursing care plans and nursing records. The nursing care plan was developed by linking the nursing diagnosis, desired nursing outcome and suggested nursing intervention based on NNN linkage. The fetched sentences linked with each nursing activity supports nursing documentation. The mai...

We are presently undergoing a crucial period in the nursing profession and nursing education. Health care programs are overloaded, the role of the nurse has recently undergone important changes with the implementation of the directives of Bill 90 and the therapeutic nursing plan and in hospitals the time needed to formulate elaborate health care plans is getting rarer. Nevertheless, it is impor...

An essential outcome of professional practice environments is the provision of high-quality, safe nursing care. To mitigate the quality and safety chasm, nursing leadership at St. Michael's Hospital undertook a strategic plan to enhance the nursing professional practice environment. This case study outlines the development of the strategic planning process: the driving forces (platform); key st...

Public health and nursing leaders in Iowa identified a need to increase access to health occupations education and avert a projected shortage of qualified faculty. The Iowa Department of Public Health provided a competitive funding opportunity to create a strategic plan to accomplish these goals through the use of e-learning. Federal funding through the US Department of Health and Human Service...