extract interested me very deeply: "It [the suggested hospital] should provide a Training School for Nurses, for the employment of trained nurses only, while not increasing efficiency, would raise unduly the cost of nursing." Herein, I contend, lies the whole difficulty of the progress of nursing as a profession. The primary object of a training school for nurses is, it would seem, not to suppl...

context: choosing a career is an important decision for each individual, which is affected by many different factors. the process of entering nursing, as one of the pivotal healthcare discipline, certainly affects quality of care, and retention of nurses in the profession. aims: exploring factors affecting the students’ decision to enter nursing. setting and design: this qualitative content ana...

To reduce burnout in the nursing profession, we must aim at the causes of burnout which include excessive workloads, understaffing, and general stress nurses feel. Burnout is defined as a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. California stepped forward to change that problem through state mandated nurse to patient ratios ensuring that unde...

Nurses need to identify themselves through a true revolution. Nurses should be treated as equals with physicians, and nursing as a profession that is capable of independent practice. For this very reason, the term "Nurstry" was invented by the authors to refer to the science and caring art of nursing. Nurstry includes nursing knowledge developed by nurstrists and nurses in the global nursing vi...

Hospitals, nurses, the media, Congress, and the private sector are increasingly concerned about shortages of registered nurses (RNs) and the impact on safety and quality of patient care. Findings from a growing number of studies provide evidence of a relationship between hospital nurse staffing and adverse outcomes experienced by medical and surgical patients. These findings have policy implica...

Introduction: Nursing is highly demanding and stressful profession. Negative consequences of job demands were widely discussed throughout the literature like; poor quality of care, poor health, burnout, greater intent to leave and lower level of job satisfaction. Job dissatisfaction among nurses also has been discussed exhaustively in the literature in regards to its negative outcomes represent...

background the traditional roles of managers are insufficient in today’s evolving healthcare market. therefore, they need to improve management practices through playing new roles. so the present study aimed to explore the roles of nurse managers in the context of iranian health care system. methods a qualitative content analysis with semi-structured interviews was used in this study. the study...