this study was conducted about assessing the presented services by assistant nurses about admission, education, referral and follow up of women about family planning in health homes and tabriz rural areas and presenting assistant nurses’ service evaluation form about this subject. samples are 20 assistant nurses and data gathering tool was observation sheet. results showed that in general, pres...

The research profiled in this issue of CJNL provides important insights into contemporary issues for nursing in Canada. The papers individually and collectively deepen our understanding of why nurses enter nursing, relocate within Canada and remain in or leave their positions and the profession. Informed by the work and experience of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), this commentary explor...

A prospective study was conducted to find the incidence and clinical manifestations of influenza in 201 nurse assistant students of Faculty of Tropical Medicine during June 1998 to May 1999. There were 106 episodes of influenza-like illness (incidence 52.7%) of which only 33% were proven to be influenza (incidence 17.4%). Main clinical manifestations of influenza included headache, fever, malai...

OBJECTIVE Based on the research version of the Carers' Needs Assessment for Schizophrenia (CNA-S) a shortened clinical version was developed for routine assessment of interventions needed by the caregivers of schizophrenia patients in everyday clinical work. METHODS The development of this questionnaire (including a manual explaining its use) was based on results from earlier studies and sugg...

All authors are members of the ventricular assist device resource team at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. Shauna Andrus is assistant nurse manager in the cardiothoracic intensive care unit, mechanical assist device coordinator, and chair of the team. Janet Dubois is assistant nurse manager in the cardiothoracic telemetry unit. Chandra Jansen was a staff nurse in the ...