While nursing activities represent a significant proportion of inpatient care, there are no reliable methods for determining nursing costs based on the actual services provided by the nursing staff. Capture of data to support accurate measurement and reporting on the cost of nursing services is fundamental to effective resource utilization. Adopting standard terminologies that support tracking ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To redefine the practice of rural nurses and describe a model that conceptualises the capabilities and characteristics required in the rural environment. BACKGROUND The way in which the practice of rural nurses has been conceptualised is problematic. Definitions of rural nursing have been identified primarily through the functional context of rural health service delivery....

introduction: since nurses are the largest group of health care providers playing an important role in responding to disasters, evaluating the state of nursing and nursing knowledge about common patterns of disasters is undeniable in importance and necessity. however, based on studies conducted by researchers, there are few models for nursing that show nurses’ disaster readiness. this study was...

BACKGROUND The most important and contested element of nursing identity may be the patient-centredness of nursing, though this concept is not well-treated in the nursing identity literature. More conceptually-based mapping of nursing identity constructs are needed to help nurses shape their identity. The field of computational text analytics offers new opportunities to scrutinise how growing di...

INTRODUCTION TOWARDS the close of 1947, it was my privilege to read a paper on Public Health Nursing in the Province to student Health Visitors at the College of Nursing in Belfast, and to follow this some weeks later with an outline of the Midwifery Services at the College of Midwives. This, the third and final talk, seeks to cover briefly the development of the whole field of our Nursing Serv...

the relation of shock index (si) and revised trauma score (rts) with trauma patients mortality after first 24 hours of admission at khatam-al anbia hospital in iranshahr heydarikhayat n[1], rezaee hematabadi ma[2], rasouli d[3], kalbali a[4] received: 11 ay , 2012 accepted: 5aug, 2012abstract background & aims: trauma is one of the most important health problems and a leading cause of death in ...

High priority is at present being given to the expansion of health visiting and home nursing services as part of the change of emphasis from institutional to community care. The aim of this study was to provide nurse managers in two regional health authorities with basic information about community nurses with could be used for service planning and development. The results of the study emphasis...

A sample survey (N = 2660) was conducted at eight acute care hospitals in New Jersey during an 11-month period between 1979 and 1981 in order to develop a client-focused, case-mix sensitive measure of resource use for the allocation of inpatient general nursing costs. Using general linear modeling techniques, the direct and indirect effects of age, length of stay, multiple diagnoses, multiple p...

In Cambodia, the number of nurses is insufficient and details of nursing services are unknown and undocumented. This research explored who provides nursing service activities in Cambodia. The study was conducted at nine hospitals in Cambodia. Findings indicate that non-invasive medical care such as vital signs taking was designated to nurses. In performing more complex medical interventions, nu...