background recently, global nursing experts have been aggressively encouraging nurses to pursue creativity and innovation in nursing to improve nursing outcomes. nurses’ creativity plays a significant role in health and well-being. in most health systems across the world, nurses provide up to 80% of the primary health care; therefore, they are critically positioned to provide creative solutions...

background: there are some challenges about the role of work- related stress on development of musculoskeletal complaints. the present prospective study was conducted on nurses of milad hospital in tehran (iran) to assess the role of work- related stress on development of neck and shoulder pain among nurses.   methods: from the 1,900 nurses who completed the registry forms, 1,450 nurses met the...

BACKGROUND This article reviews literature on developing the role of nurses in rehabilitation. It explains why the nurse's role in rehabilitation should be allowed to develop, and suggests ways that nurses might achieve their potential in this field. The author presents a meta-analysis of rehabilitation nursing, and uses this synthesis to make suggestions for the development of the service. Iss...

This paper, derived from The role and function of the rural nurse in Australia study, describes the effects of organisational change upon the rural nurses participating in the study. It appears that whilst change is an inevitable and regular feature of rural health service delivery, it does not necessarily benefit rural nurses or communities for reasons unique to rural life. Nurses in the study...

Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the current literature referring to the new roles of nurses in the modern resuscitation era. meThodS And mATeRiAl: For the present study, a systematic search of international bibliography from both the review and the research literature was performed to sort out articles mainly over the last several years from the Medline, Medscape and Science Di...

Nutrition is important in the management of chronic disease, and practice nurses in the Australian primary care setting are increasingly providing nutrition care to patients living with chronic disease. The aim of the present study was to investigate practice nurses' perceptions of their role and competency to provide nutrition care to patients living with chronic disease in Australia. Twenty p...

The nursing shortage in the United States has resulted in a need for newly graduated novice nurses to rapidly transition into the nursing workforce. Although some nursing schools provide clinical experience in the intensive care unit (ICU), many novice nurses are not confident about their skills in providing critical-care nursing. To assist novice nurses in rapidly transitioning into the ICU nu...

extractthis study have been done in the american university of beirut medical center for recognizing the skills of nurses in counseling for facilitating mental and physical rehabilitation of war disabled. this center was admitted veterans from ten years ago. this study showed important role of nurses in rehabilitation persons who were disabled from war conflict, terrible events related to war, ...

BACKGROUND/RATIONALE In the Republic of Ireland, the amount of clinical teaching expected of staff nurses has increased substantially in the wake of the transfer of nursing education to universities, and the advent of supernumerary status for students. A modicum of previous research noted that staff nurses are unclear about their role in relation to facilitating the clinical learning of supernu...