An outreach service from a post-acute metropolitan teaching hospital delivered an intensive, multidisciplinary and coordinated allied health service, and achieved both early hospital discharge and the prevention or delay of nursing home placement. This article reports on three types of cases which illustrate how the service assisted ward teams, families and patients to determine whether nursing...

Nursing is a dynamic profession that is subject to rapid changes in health care provision, hence the need for in-service training programmes for nurses. Newly employed registered nurses require in-service training in order to update them regarding the latest developments in nursing practice. The researcher noted that some newly appointed registered nurses were not competent in all aspects relat...

TOPIC Partnership building to prepare nursing students to respond to domestic violence through service learning. PURPOSE To describe an innovative approach to preparing nursing students to respond to domestic violence. SOURCES Clinical practice and experience, published literature, partner organizations. CONCLUSIONS This community partnership has prepared nursing students to respond effec...

a quasi experimental study was made to determine the effect of in-service education on knowledge, attitude and behavior for controlling hospital infections among nurses aids working in teaching hospitals supervised by the ministry of medical sciences and health care services (tehran,1994).   the sample consisted of 75 randomly selected nurses aids who answered the pre and post in service educat...

Imogene King is universally recognized as a pioneer of nursing theory development. Her interacting conceptual system for nursing and her theory of goal attainment have been included in every major nursing theory text, are taught to thousands of nursing students, form the basis of nursing education programs, and are implemented in a variety of service settings.

Employment of geriatric nurse practitioners (GNPs) is one strategy to improve nursing home care. The effects of GNPs on costs and profitability of nursing homes and on costs of patient medical service use outside the nursing home are examined. Employment of GNPs does not adversely affect nursing home costs or significantly affect profits. There is some evidence of cost savings in medical servic...