Reflective practice has become part of the discourse of nursing education classrooms, conferences, and journals, and are popular features of nursing continuing education programs. Yet, the idea of reflective practice has become increasingly more disparate. This critical analysis examines data-based studies and provides an overview of reflective practice, discusses common themes that emerged fro...

nursing management from retired nurses' perspective     nobahar m [1] , ahmadi f* [2] , alhani f [3] , fallahi khoshknab m [4]     received: 9 sep, 2011 accepted: 20 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : managers are one of the effective factors in improvement of the organizations efficacy, effectiveness, and productivity. nursing managers' efficacy has an important role in hea...

Background: Indonesia is home to approximately 400 active volcanoes located on three different tectonic plates. Thus, the country frequently experiences natural disasters, and health care in emergencies and disasters is important. Therefore, the aim of this  study was to describe nursing students’ experiences of nursing education in disaster nursingat one university in Indonesia.  Materials an...

background: culturally specific care requires that nursing students know, understand, and identify cultural factors related to client care, and conduct their nursing practice accordingly. the aim of this study was to identify the cultural self-efficacy of baccalaureate nursing students in a greek university. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a transcultural self-efficacy too...

abstract introduction: critical thinking skills as thinking and judging self-regulation are purposeful and result in solving problems and making appropriate decisions. therefore, the importance of this subject and its role in the nursing profession and the clinical decision, this study was done to compare critical thinking skills of nursing students in continuous licentiate and bachelor- licent...

background : patients undergoing pacemaker implantation often experience anxiety and fear. as such, studies have focused on the mechanisms that relieve the negative emotions caused by the intervention. continuous nursing is a safe and effective nursing mode. in this study, continuous nursing intervention was provided for elderly patients undergo-ing pacemaker implantation and an empirical inves...

This is a descriptive study with the aim of examining the nursing diagnoses labels and actions prescribed by nurses in the clinical records of patients hospitalized in an Adult Intensive Care Unit. A sample of 44 clinical records was obtained and a total of 1087 nursing diagnoses and 2260 nursing actions were identified. After exclusion of repetitions 28 different nursing diagnoses labels and 1...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS nursing management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is highly relevant for patient care and outcomes. However, there is evidence of substantial variability in clinical practices. The objectives of this study were to develop standards of healthcare quality for nursing management of IBD and elaborate the evaluation tool "Nursing Care Quality in IBD Assessment" (NCQ-IBD) bas...