BACKGROUND In 1993, New Zealand (NZ) implemented policies aimed at controlling costs in the country's public health care system through market competition, generic management, and managerialism. The cost control focus was similar to reengineering efforts implemented by other countries struggling with escalating health care costs, particularly the United States. OBJECTIVE The study's purpose w...

PURPOSE To develop a Critical Thinking Skill Test for Nursing Students. METHODS The construct concepts were drawn from a literature review and in-depth interviews with hospital nurses and surveys were conducted among students (n=607) from nursing colleges. The data were collected from September 13 to November 23, 2012 and analyzed using the SAS program, 9.2 version. The KR 20 coefficient for ...

Objectives The aim of this study was to map information literacy (IL) skill development in the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) content; identify educational practices in courses to asses students’ information literacy (IL) skills; explore BN students’ understandings of their IL skill development; and explore students’ and academics’ understandings of the link between IL skills and life long learning. ...

Mentoring is an important teaching-learning process in undergraduate nursing curricula. There are relatively few studies specifically evaluating nursing students’ perceptions of mentorship. In the period 1999 – 2002, thirty-nine students were mentored during a year-long program. This descriptive, exploratory study used a quality improvement framework informed by the Deming Cycle of Plan, Do, Ch...

The objective of this study is to reflect on the knowledge, competencies and skill that must be promoted during the academic education of nurses for an effective professional practice in view of a multiple-victim incident (MVI). This is an integrative literature review regarding academic nursing education. The literature survey was performed on the BDENF, LILACS, SciELO, MEDLINE, Web of Knowled...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of organizational characteristics on physical restraint use for hospitalized nursing home residents. DESIGN Secondary analysis of data obtained between 1994 to 1997 in a prospective phase lag design experiment using an advanced practice nurse (APN) intervention aimed at reducing physical restraint for a group of hospitalized nursing home residents. SETTING E...

Mentoring is an important teaching-learning process in undergraduate nursing curricula. There are relatively few studies specifically evaluating nursing students' perceptions of mentorship. In the period 1999-2002, 39 students were mentored during a year-long program. This descriptive, exploratory study used a quality improvement framework informed by the Deming cycle of Plan, Do, Check and Act...

AIM To investigate the relationship between non-nursing tasks (NNTs), nursing tasks left undone (NTLU) and job satisfaction among professional nurses (PNs) in South Africa (SA). BACKGROUND This study adds to the international debate about the relationship between non-nursing tasks, nursing tasks left undone and job satisfaction by studying the variables at individual nurse and hospital unit l...

Background and Purpose: Communication has become a core topic in nursing care and investigations on this topic could have a significant impact on increasing nursing quality services. The present study aims to evaluate the communication skills and nursing staff component focusing on emotional management, others' perception and self-expression. Methods: This is a cross-sectional descriptive-analy...