BACKGROUND Most nurse educators regard students who enter postgraduate studies as adult learners capable of self-direction and independent learner behaviour. Therefore, a mismatch between the nurse educator's expectation of adult learners and actual adult learner conduct may result in disappointment and even frustration for both educator and learner. PURPOSE This article is a report of a seco...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Evaluations of home visiting models have shown that they can reduce children's health care use in the first year of life. Models that exclusively use nurses as home visitors may cost more and be infeasible given nursing shortages in some locations. The goal of this study was to test whether a universal home visiting model employing a nurse-parent educator team as home ...

background public health nursing system, which is an accepted universal model for improvement of the community health, has not yet attained its rightful status in iran. the present study was conducted to evaluate the perceptions of the pioneers of health care about the public health nursing and the roles that a public health nurse can play in iran’s health system. methods this is a qualitative ...

BACKGROUND: The nurse will successfully apply high quality of care if maintaining their comptencies. nursing is dynamic, and competency needed to be adapted. Besides, presence clinical educator (CNE) able strengthen nurses’ knowledge skill in the setting. AIM: This study aimed explore benefits challenges CNEs. METHODS: A qualitative exploratory design was used this study. Data were collected by...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this work was to study the frequency of examining for diabetic eye and foot complications in an Australian population and to study factors associated with regular screening. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Australian Diabetes, Obesity, and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab) was a population-based study of 11,247 people from randomly selected areas of Australia. Participants identi...