BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe the first attempts and performance of health system in Iran in training specialist nurses in the field of diabetes- related care and education. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a qualitative content analysis. Three diabetes management planners in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, three provincial executive authorities of diabetes ...

O The main reasons for the lack of faculty to meet the demand for more nurses include the increased age of the current faculty and the declining number of years ieft to teach, expected increases in facuity retirements, less compensation for academic teaching than positions in clinical areas for master's-prepared nurses, and finaiiy, not enough master's and doctoral-prepared nurses to fiii the n...

June 2008 • Volume 12, Number 3 • Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing Gail Wilkes, RN, MS, AOCN®, ANP, is an oncology nurse educator at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts. Wilkes is on the speakers bureau for Bristol-Myers Squibb Oncology. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or ...

Evidence from several studies suggests that general nurses and acute health care staff do not always have an adequate understanding of the needs of people with dementia. This has major implications for the quality of care that is delivered and the well-being of people with dementia and a concurrent medical or surgical condition. This article describes how the creation of the role of nurse educa...

BACKGROUND Co-curricular experiences provide an opportunity for learning outside of a university classroom. A co-curricular retreat was developed to engage students, faculty, and staff in learning about social justice. Through guided activities and deep discussions, participants explored privileged and oppressed identities in a safe environment. METHOD Pre- and postsurveys were collected. Qua...

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Kimberly Scherr is the nurse practitioner in internal medicine at Misericordia Community Hospital and Health Centre, Edmonton, Alberta. At the time this article was written, she was the nurse practitioner for the cardiovascular intensive care unit at University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton. Gayle Urquhart is the professional practice leader in nursing at Universit...

The hospital-based clinical nurse educator is pivotal to the integration of formal learning and clinical practice. Clinical nurse educators are generally considered to be expert nurses within a particular clinical environment; however, many of those who are expert clinicians suffer some loss of identity when assuming clinical teaching roles. It is necessary to facilitate the expression of ident...

Nurse educators assisted the director of professional nursing practice in a large healthcare system to implement a human caring program across 108 nursing units. These educators used transformational learning principles to reunite bedside nurses with the art of caring. Implementation included core content in a 30-minute training session, large-scale leadership conferences, and consistent educat...