19(35.85) Use Nursing Process in their professional practice 50(94.34) Use Nursing diagnosis as step of Nursing process

background : in spite of much literature written about the theory-practice gap in the international nursing journals, there is evidence that indicates this subject has not been probed comprehensively since nursing education was transferred to universities in iran.  in the recent years, the public and the government have criticized iranian nurses because of poor quality of patient care. although...

Background:Learning the key issues in providing nursing care requires new instructional strategies that prevent superficial learning of students and improve meaningful and high level learning in them. The aim of this study was to determine effect of teaching the nursing process in composing method on nursing students and their clinical learning. Methods: In a quasi-experimental study with two g...

BACKGROUND Although using the nursing process improves nursing care quality, few studies have evaluated nursing performance in accordance with nursing process steps either nationally or internationally. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to audit nursing care based on a nursing process model. PATIENTS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which a nursing audit checklist was d...

The nursing process consists of five interrelated steps: assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation. In the nursing process, the nurse collects a great deal of data and information. The amount of data and information may exceed the amount the nurse can process efficiently and correctly. Thus, the nurse needs assistance to become proficient in the planning of nursing care, due...

The aims of the study were to describe nurses' positions on nursing process and their perception of power; and to analyse associations between positions on nursing process, power perception and selected variables. One thousand six hundred and five nurses (86.9% female, mean age=44.12 years, SD=9.55) participated in the study. Mean score on the Positions on Nursing Process (PNP) tool was 112.37 ...

The health care industry is increasingly becoming a knowledge-based community that depends critically on knowledge management (KM) activities to improve the quality of care. Utilizing knowledge management systems (KMS) to manage medical information and health care knowledge to support the full spectrum of knowledge needs in the nursing process has become an important issue for nursing professio...

OBJECTIVES To analyze when the nursing process began to be used in the public and private healthcare centers of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country), and when both NANDA-I nursing diagnoses and the NIC-NOC terminologies were incorporated into this process. METHOD A retrospective study was conducted, based on the analysis of nursing records that were used in the 158 studied centers. RESULTS The specifi...

Background. Nursing process is considered as appropriate method to explain the nursing essence, its scientific bases, technologies and humanist assumptions that encourage critical thinking and creativity, and permits solving problems in professional practice. Objective. To assess the application of nursing process and it's affecting factors in Mekelle Zone Hospitals. Methods. A cross sectional ...

nursing management from retired nurses' perspective     nobahar m [1] , ahmadi f* [2] , alhani f [3] , fallahi khoshknab m [4]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : managers are one of the effective factors in improvement of the organizations efficacy, effectiveness, and productivity. nursing managers' efficacy has an important role in hea...