To enhance the value of care provided to Americans, the American Board of Internal Medicine and Consumer Reports launched the Choosing Wisely® initiative in 2012. Choosing Wisely educates providers and patients about high-frequency, low-value care practices that can be avoided to decrease cost and increase the value of health care. The Oncology Nursing Society collaborated with the American Aca...

The invitational working conference entitled “Informatics: The Infrastructure for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Nursing” followed the Fifth International Nursing Informatics Congress, which was held in San Antonio, Texas, June 19-22, 1994. Approximately 1,000 participants from more than 40 countries attended the Congress. Previous venues of the Congress have been London, England; Calgar...

The data in this article are focused on the use, covered charges, and Medicare program payments for skilled nursing services during calendar year 1987. Data for the period 1971-87 are included to show trends in the use and cost of skilled nursing facility services under the Medicare program. The impact of the Medicare prospective payment system on skilled nursing facility use is also discussed.

Marcia Stanhope, RN, DSN, FAAN, c Dr. Marcia Stanhope is currently Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, Lexington, Kentucky. She has been appointed to the Good Samaritan Foundation Chair and Professorship in Community Health Nursing. She has practiced community and home health nursing and has served as an administrator and consultant in home health, and she has been invol...

Most nursing home research has focused on predictors for placement, the placement decision-making process, or the effects of placement on the nursing home resident. Little research is available on family caregivers' experiences after placing their loved ones in a nursing home. The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify how family caregivers coped with the burden of post-nursing home ...

The School of Nursing at the University of KwaZulu-Natal has recently introduced the concept of nursing diagnosis within the Bachelor of Nursing Problem Based Learning (PBL) acute care nursing course. A descriptive survey was designed to evaluate a teaching strategy the researchers developed for Year III Bachelor of Nursing students in an acute care clinical practice course. All students in Yea...

Faculty in Canadian undergraduate nursing programs have come to rely on preceptorship as the primary model for teaching and learning during the final clinical course. A focused ethnography was completed in order to examine undergraduate nursing students' experience of rural hospital preceptorship in western Canada. Data analysis revealed that students perceive nursing faculty involvement and su...

Despite the continued use of borrowed theories in nursing, little attention has been given to determining whether theories developed in another discipline are empirically adequate descriptions, explanations, or predictions of nursing phenomena. In this article, we demonstrate how a borrowed theory can be placed within a nursing context by linking it with two different conceptual models of nursi...