Effective communication by nursing home staff is related to a higher quality of life and a decrease in verbal and physical aggression and depression in nursing home residents. Several communication intervention studies have been conducted to improve communication between nursing home staff and nursing home residents with dementia. These studies have shown that communication skills training can ...

background critical thinking is one of the most important concepts in the field of education. despite studies published on nursing students’ critical thinking skills (cts), some suggest that there is not enough evidence supporting the relationship between content of nursing education programs and nursing students’ cts. conclusions the students were low skilled in critical thinking and their cts...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To review qualitative and quantitative research studies measuring religious and spiritual variables published in American oncology nursing journals from 1990-1999 and the types of measures used. DATA SOURCES All research studies published from 1990-1999 in Oncology Nursing Forum, Cancer Nursing, and the Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing. DATA SYNTHESIS A higher percen...

BACKGROUND Reviews of nursing research have suggested that most is descriptive; with no more than 15% providing strong evidence for practice. No studies have examined this from the perspective of nursing research conducted in Europe. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to review reports of European clinical nursing research in the top 20 nursing journals in 2010 to establish a baseline of nur...

AIM To describe key findings of Global Nursing in empirical nursing studies. DESIGN A literature review using descriptive data synthesis of peer-reviewed articles in the field of nursing education and practice. METHODS This review of Cinahl Complete, PubMed, PsycINFO and Scopus was undertaken using the search strategy "global nursing". Independent title/abstract and full-text screening was ...

Background: Despite progression of knowledge of nursing researcher about importance of psychometric principles of instruments of studies but it seems that this subject is not used correctly in nursing studies. This study is designed to critically assess the validity and reliability of instruments applied in studies published in Iranian nursing journals Methods: This study is a critical review o...