One of the most urgent problems confronting the National Health Service is that of providing sufficient nursing staff. It will be possible to maintain the hospitals at the existing level of efficiency only if it is possible to provide enough adequately trained nurses in future years. To a large extent the quality and quantity of the nursing staffs, as of the Health Service in general, must depe...

BACKGROUND Australian national mental health strategy emphasises inclusion of people diagnosed with mental illness in all areas of mental health care, policy development and education of health professionals. However, the way this inclusion has translated to Australian universities is relatively unexplored. OBJECTIVES Explore views of nurse academics regarding service user involvement in nurs...

The first contingent of New Zealand Army Nursing Service sisters, with their Matron-in-Chief Hester Maclean (seated centre, left of the captain), en route to the war, on the Rotorua, in May 1915. Hester Maclean I n 1914, Hester Maclean was a highly influential New Zealand nursing leader – assistant inspector general of hospitals, matron-in-chief of a proposed army nursing service, and owner and...

In Cambodia, the number of nurses is insufficient and details of nursing services are unknown and undocumented. This research explored who provides nursing service activities in Cambodia. The study was conducted at nine hospitals in Cambodia. Findings indicate that non-invasive medical care such as vital signs taking was designated to nurses. In performing more complex medical interventions, nu...

This study aimed at developing an information system in nursing with the implementation of nursing care and management of the service. The SisEnf--Information System in Nursing--is a free software module that comprises the care of nursing: history, clinical examination and care plan; the management module consists of: service shifts, personnel management, hospital indicators and other elements....

There has been a shortfall in the number of nurses, so it is required to optimize the nursing service. Then, the authors proposed a new system design for automated time study of nursing to investigate nursing service easily. The system combines images from video monitoring and information from ambient sensing, and it analyzes them after combining. Besides the authors conducted video monitoring ...

BACKGROUND Nursing theory should provide the principles that underpin practice and help to generate further nursing knowledge. However, a lack of agreement in the professional literature on nursing theory confuses nurses and has caused many to dismiss nursing theory as irrelevant to practice. This article aims to identify why nursing theory is important in practice. CONCLUSION By giving nurse...