abstract background: nursing process is a scientific approach in the provision of qualified nursing cares. however, in practice, the implementation of this process is faced with numerous challenges. with the knowledge of the challenges associated with the implementation of the nursing process, the nursing processes can be developed appropriately. due to the lack of comprehensive information on ...

BACKGROUND the Mini Nutritional Assessment is a validated clinical tool for the assessment of nutritional status in older people. Moderate to severe malnutrition is common in elderly patients in hospital and is associated with a poor outcome. OBJECTIVES to determine whether the Mini Nutritional Assessment can predict the outcome of hospital stay in older individuals. SETTING a tertiary-care...

Two recent health technology assessment (HTA) reports published in Germany focused on non-pharmacological interventions for patients with dementia. One of the major results was the poor methodological quality of the studies in this field. This paper concisely presents the main quantitative and qualitative findings of the HTA report published by the German Agency for HTA at the Institute of Medi...

In parallel with developments in medicine much has been written in the nursing press, particularly over the past few years, on quality assurance and audit. In nursing early approaches focused on broad, proselytising statements about the nature of nursing, why quality was often not achieved, and the changes required.'1 Later, nursing practice was compared with pre-formulated standards and criter...

Objective Exploring urinary continence (UC) assessment and management practices in Australian nursing homes. Design Mixed method using a questionnaire and interviews. Setting Five nursing homes in Australian metropolitan cities. Subjects Participants 121 staff: mostly female (91%) with a range of roles including personal care assistants (PCAs) (63%), enrolled nurses (ENs) (11%), registered nurs...

Dual-qualification nursing teachers are nurses who both teach and practice. However, it is still an unresolved issue to recruit and select a high-quality dual-qualification nursing teacher. This paper sets up a comprehensive assessment system model for dual-qualification nursing teacher recruitment, which was built by analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The model includes four sides such as biogr...

a survey was made to determine the knowledge of nurses working in coronary care units regarding assessing paint and rendering nursing care to clients with acute myocardial infarction in hospitals affiliated with the ministry of health services and medical education (tehran, 1995).   a total of 120 nurses working in coronary care units were selected randomly to participate in this study. the too...

This article is to review literature from 2011 to 2015 on spiritual care in nursing using CINAHL. In this article, the keywords “systematic review,” “spiritual care,” and “nursing” were used to search the CINAHL database. Initially a total of 19 articles were identified; however, 11 papers were reviewed after excluding the inappropriate articles following six categories as the definition of spi...

BACKGROUND One of the elements influencing the assessment of nursing care quality is the assessment of the nurse's functions that determine the nurse's particular tasks. The aim of this work was to assess selected tasks involved in the nurse's caring function, which influence nursing care quality on neurosurgical wards, on the basis of patients' and nursing staff's opinions. MATERIALS AND MET...