This study has as purpose to analyse the implementation of the Nursing Care Systematization in a private hospital in medical surgical units. Results evidenced that the Horta's Conceptual Model was present only in part of nursing hystory instrument, that the remaining phases of nursing process were not inter-related and that there was a lack of coherence of the prescribed actions in relation to ...

BACKGROUND The clinical ladder system categorizes the degree of nursing professionalism and rewards and is an important human resource tool for managing nursing. AIM We developed a model to evaluate nursing professionalism, which determines the clinical ladder system levels, and verified its validity. METHODS Data were collected using a clinical competence tool developed in this study, and ...

AIM This paper is a report of the analysis of the concept of missed nursing care. BACKGROUND According to patient safety literature, missed nursing care is an error of omission. This concept has been conspicuously absent in quality and patient safety literature, with individual aspects of nursing care left undone given only occasional mention. METHOD An 8-step method of concept analysis - s...

This is a theoretical reflection, grounded in the ideas of 'revolution theory' and its influence on the nursing profession. According to authors, many nursing schools have assimilated progress theory and embraced the claim that nursing follows the same revolutionary developmental model as the other sciences analyzed by this model. Thus, this reflection addresses the thesis that the existence of...

The research to develop the Nursing Outcomes Classification (NOC) began with the formation of the outcomes research team in 1991. This work grew from previous language development focused on patient problems or nursing diagnoses by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association and the development of nursing interventions by the Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC) research team at Iowa...

comparison of the effect of concept mapping and nursing process on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy and cognitive strategies in nursing students     rezaei k [1] *, kouhestani h [2] , nejat n [3] , ebrahimi fakhar h [4]     received: 12 oct , 2011 accepted: 20 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : the success of nursing students depends on the understanding of complex concepts and...

PURPOSE It is imperative that public health nurses define their services and provide evidence supporting the effectiveness of interventions. The purpose of this paper is to examine the ex-tent to which two standardized nursing terminologies--Home Health Care Classification (HHCC) and Nursing Interventions Classification (NIC)--represent public health nursing practice according to core public he...

A surgical experience can be stressful for any patient. When the patient is an adolescent, however, the surgical experience can create significant stress, which is related to normal adolescent development. Perioperative nursing care should address what adolescent patients perceive as stressful and should provide a safe environment so that a successful surgical outcome can be achieved. To accomp...

self-confidence is a glorious feature of an effective administrator. their main goal is the organizational success. therefore, we approached this idea by evaluating the self-confidence of nursing administration in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) teaching hospitals and its relation to vocational satisfaction of the staff.in a cross-sectional study, we interviewed 200 nursing adminis...