Nursing is feminized profession by its nature, and traditional development of its concept of caring to sick for centuries. Nursing has been stereotyped as a female dominated profession since the time of Florence Nightingale, worldwide [1,2]. Before the Crimean war, men had the responsibility to provide basic care to the wounded. However, from that war to the present, nursing profession began to...

background: examining the quality of nursing care from the patient's perspective is an important element in quality evaluation. the extent to which patients' expectations are met will influence their perceptions and their satisfaction with the quality of care received. methods:   a cross- sectional survey was conducted among admitted patients at king khalid teaching hospital, riyadh, saudi arab...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Nursing home residents are at high risk for colonization and infection with bacterial pathogens that are multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). We discuss challenges and potential solutions to support implementing effective infection prevention and control practices in nursing homes. RECENT FINDINGS Challenges include a paucity of evidence that addresses MDRO transmission du...

Nursing homes are the setting of care for growing numbers of our nation's older people, and adverse drug events are an increasingly recognized safety and quality concern in this population. Health information technology, including computerized physician/provider order entry (CPOE) with clinical decision support (CDS), has been proposed as an important systems-based approach for reducing medicat...

PURPOSE This paper aims to illustrate the process of theory-based nursing practice by presenting a case study of a clinical nurse specialist's assessment and care of a woman with type 2 diabetes. DESIGN Orem's self-care deficit theory and standardized nursing language, NANDA, NIC (Nursing Interventions Classification), and NOC (Nursing Outcomes Classification), guided assessment and the ident...

BACKGROUND Nursing homes are increasingly introducing electronic health record (EHR) systems into nursing practice; however, there is limited evidence about the effect of these systems on nursing staff time. AIMS To investigate the effect of introducing an EHR system on time spent on activities by nursing staff in a nursing home. METHOD An observational work sampling study was undertaken wi...

AIM This qualitative study explored clinicians' and educators' perspectives on how knowledge and skills about family assessment and family nursing are translated from student learning to clinical nursing practice, together with barriers and supports for family-centred nursing practice. BACKGROUND Previous studies have explored educational preparation for family nursing and indicated that fami...

N ursing informatics is an exciting nursing specialtydit affects learning environments, meaningful use, interprofessional collaboration, patient care settings, strategic planning, patient satisfaction, and, ultimately, patient outcomes. Simply put, nursing informatics is the practice of using nursing science and technology to enhance the pathway that data take to become knowledge to improve pat...