For some time, nursing has been based on the structure of the nursing process and nursing models. However, in an age where the old order of science and medicine can no longer answer all of society's questions, can a nursing model, with its roots firmly based in the modernist structure of the nursing process, be post-modern?

OBJECTIVE To analyze what nursing models and nursing assessment structures have been used in the implementation of the nursing process at the public and private centers in the health area Gipuzkoa (Basque Country). METHOD A retrospective study was undertaken, based on the analysis of the nursing records used at the 158 centers studied. RESULTS The Henderson model, Carpenito's bifocal struct...

BACKGROUND The nursing process is a systematic method of planning, delivering, and evaluating individualized care for clients in any state of health or illness. Many countries have adopted the nursing process as the standard of care to guide nursing practice; however, the problem is its implementation. If nurses fail to carry out the necessary nursing care through the nursing process; the effec...

background: the first stage of the accreditation, process as the most important way of assurance and improvement of the quality of high education process is collection of standards. to describe present and desirable quality of nursing and midwifery postgraduate education via accreditation process in iran, we decided to compile applicable standards in this field, using available international st...