Nurses have been involved in the management of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) well before the era of Florence Nightingale. Their role has varied from that of the technician, almoner, counsellor, and doctor's assistant, to one in which they are able to provide first line management of STIs in nurse led clinics. However, changes to the role of the nurse have not been entirely through choi...

In today's complex health care system, leader behaviors are critical for all nurses. The undergraduate teaching assistant (TA) program empowers students to develop leadership behaviors through a collaborative mentoring model. This successful program enables undergraduate students to collaborate with faculty and graduate TAs in co-teaching large classes. The collaborative mentoring, structured c...

©2016 American Association of Critical-Care Nurses doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4037/ajcc2016625 Teri M. Kozik is a nurse researcher and George S. Charos is an electrophysiologist and director of Cardiology at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Stockton, California. Salah S. Al-Zaiti is an assistant professor at the Department of Acute and Tertiary Care Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. M...

The relationships between hospital Magnet® status, nursing unit staffing, and patient falls were examined in a cross-sectional study using 2004 National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) data from 5,388 units in 108 Magnet and 528 non-Magnet hospitals. In multivariate models, the fall rate was 5% lower in Magnet than non-Magnet hospitals. An additional registered nurse (RN) hour p...

SEVERALLS Hospital has 1,825 beds, and fairly recently was divided into a geriatric unit, and five units consisting of two wards and two villas each, with a total of some 750 beds. In spite of repeated advertisements for trained psychiatric social workers over several years, no applications had been received. At the end of 1960 the hospital authorities decided to appoint untrained social worker...

Does untreated cancer equal death? Does having a registered nurse versus a licensed practical nurse versus a medical assistant affect diabetes quality outcomes? Do physicians caring for stressed patients experience vicarious traumatic stress? Oregon presents an operationalized definition of a patient-centered medical home for their state. Lots of important clinical topics in family medicine--ad...

We examined US nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) outpatient antibiotic prescribing. Antibiotics were more frequently prescribed during visits involving NP/PA visits compared with physician-only visits, including overall visits (17% vs 12%, P < .0001) and acute respiratory infection visits (61% vs 54%, P < .001). Antibiotic stewardship interventions should target NPs and PAs.

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) can improve symptoms in well-selected patients with Parkinson's disease. Primary care physicians must take into account many important issues when considering referral for DBS. The Florida Surgical Questionnaire for PD (FLASQ-PD), a 5-section screening tool that can help primary care providers identify appropriate DBS candidates, can be filled out and scored by a ge...

145 Coretta M. Jenerette, PhD, RN, AOCN®, is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mention of specific products and opinions related to those products do not indicate or imply endorsement by the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing or the Oncology Nursing Society. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/09.CJON.145-146 Effectiveness of th...

Amanda J Ullman (also corresponding author) Senior Research Assistant; NH&MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised Patients, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia Clinical Nurse Researcher; Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Royal Children’s Hospital, Herston, QLD, Australia Contact details: Email: [email protected] Phone: ...