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Midwives from the European Union are registering with the NMC, enabling them to work in the UK, as their Midwifery training programmes meet the minimum standards required. It has become apparent that although midwives were previously eligible to practise in the UK, they often found it hard to secure...
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PMID: 21739731
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Pakistan's maternal and neonatal mortality rate compares unfavourably with the UK and much of the world (McIntyre 2010). The high rates of maternal and neonatal mortality in Pakistan are due to inadequate maternal, neonatal and child care, too few skilled birth attendants, insufficient competent midw...
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PMID: 21739735
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The concurrent nursing and faculty shortages continue to be critical issues for the nation's health care system. As academic nursing programs struggle with maintaining and increasing enrollment in the midst of a faculty shortage, one solution is to expand the faculty's capacity through innovative aca...
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PMID: 21534501
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Incorporating health promotion strategies in practice, and in particular within healthy public policy based on the Ottawa Charter, is widely recognized as within the mandate of nursing, although evidence suggests that nurses are reluctant to take on this role. An innovative strategy was developed to...
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PMID: 21417191
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There is a proliferation of educational technologies. Many nursing faculty want to incorporate new methods but lack information on best practices. The authors describe the course revision of an onsite course to move all unidirectional content transmission to an online course environment, thereby free...
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PMID: 21366167
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With diversity increasing in the United States, educators are struggling to find the most effective methods to prepare nursing students to care for diverse populations. This study's purpose was to determine the impact of immersion experiences and cultural classes on nursing students' transcultural co...
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PMID: 21323246
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While the goal of professional nursing programs is to ensure that students have a basic level of competency to care for older adults in a variety of care settings, the greatest challenge is to garner students' enthusiasm about caring for older adults in nursing homes. To increase and strengthen the p...
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PMID: 21261238
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The heightened focus on health information technology deployment, specifically the electronic health record, has magnified the need for the knowledge and skills of informaticians. The clinical informatician is frequently confused with system analyst and project management roles. In this article, the...
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PMID: 21157241
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This department highlights change management strategies that may be successful in strategically planning and executing organizational change initiatives. With the goal of presenting practical approaches helpful to nurse leaders advancing organizational change, content includes evidence-based project...
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PMID: 21157236
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Because nurses deliver care to patients on behalf of hospitals, hospitals have to enhance first-line nurses' patient-oriented perception and spontaneous organizational citizenship behaviors for the sake of higher patient satisfaction and better patient care.
The purpose of this study was to investig...
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PMID: 21160366
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The objectives of this study were to test a model of the factors that influence exercise activities among a group of older adults living in a continuing care retirement community with a wellness center that features a pool, exercise room, and exercise classes. This was a correlationa...
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PMID: 21473560
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In Canada, psychiatric nursing care is provided by two kinds of nurses. East of Manitoba, it is provided by registered nurses who may or may not have specialized psychiatric nursing education. In the four western provinces, a distinct professional group, registered psychiatric nurses...
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PMID: 21329147
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While providers, consumers, and administrators recognize the need to attract and retain nurses, recruiting, transitioning, and retaining new graduate nurses (NGRNs) remains problematic. The first 3-12 months of NGRN employment is a perilous and stressful time, with experiences during the transition p...
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PMID: 21667675
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This pilot study was undertaken to determine whether an educational intervention called Reigniting the Spirit of Caring (RSC) from Creative Healthcare Management would enhance perceptions of caring behaviors among nurses. A pretest/posttest within-subjects research design was used to evaluate the ed...
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PMID: 20672757
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Knowledge of the warning signs of stroke may reduce the incidence of having a second stroke by receiving medical intervention in a timely manner. The need for stroke education is paramount to empower stroke patients to recognize the signs and symptoms of an impending stroke. The purpose of this pilo...
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PMID: 21207769
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Culturally diverse refugee and migrant groups under-utilise health services in New Zealand and cultural barriers are cited as reasons for not using health services. According to the Nursing Council nurses are required to demonstrate competency in culturally safe practice, yet cultural safety is dete...
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PMID: 21188912
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Nursing faculty perceptions of teaching undergraduate nursing students documentation skills using either paper-based or electronic health record systems were explored in this study. Twenty-five nursing faculty in a large urban public school of nursing were interviewed using a 13-item survey question...
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PMID: 20509587
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To provide a critical review of research on clinical handover between the ambulance service and emergency department (ED) in hospitals.
Data base and hand searches were conducted using the keywords ambulance, handover, handoff, emergency department, emergency room, ER, communication, and clinical ha...
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PMID: 20869662
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We explore the origins of the current preoccupation with risk. Using Pickstone's historical phases of modern health care, the paper explores the way maternity services changed from a social to a medical model over the twentieth century and suggests that the risk agenda was part of this process.
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PMID: 20719418
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The Midwifery 2020: Delivering expectations vision is that midwives will be members of a highly skilled workforce, acting as lead professionals and coordinators of care as they deliver innovative, cost-effective, quality care across integrated health and social care contexts. They will embrace an ev...
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PMID: 21138128
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With the growing population of older adults, nurses will need to address age-related cognitive declines. Evidence demonstrates that cognitive remediation training is effective in improving neuropsychological abilities in older adults, which can translate into improved functioning in instrumental act...
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PMID: 20968221
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This case study aimed to identify the Nursing diagnoses, addressing physiological aspects according to Roy's Adaptation Theory, of a baby with meningomyelocele hospitalized at a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and to elaborate pertinent nursing actions for these aspects. The study was developed...
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PMID: 20964047
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: Assessment, charting, and communicating were the most frequent activities, consuming 18.1%, 9.9%, and 11.8% of nurse time, respectively. The duration of 40% of the activities was less than 10 seconds. Timelines revealed that nurses constantly switch activities and locations in a seemingly random pa...
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PMID: 20798619
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: The nonpunitive MMPRC process was cost-effective and should be considered for other nurse-sensitive indicators to increase nurse accountability and improve outcomes....
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PMID: 20798620
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Demonstrating professional development outcomes, such as scholarly publication, is critical as nurse leaders guide organizations seeking recognition as centers of excellence. However, personal and situational barriers often prevent staff nurses from achieving scholarly publication. This project test...
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PMID: 20798622
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As the discussion on cardiovascular diseases is a relevant matter, this paper aims to analyze the perceptions of a group of hypertensive people about their sickness process related to King's conceptual models of personal and interpersonal systems. This descriptive and exploitative study was developed...
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PMID: 21574335
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Healthcare policy makers have advocated the introduction of work-based learning (WBL) methods to help improve care. Some healthcare professionals and academics do not support WBL, however, possibly because they experienced, and value, traditional learning methods. This article reports on one of the...
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PMID: 20945631
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Patient safety is enhanced when nursing staff recognize and respond to subtle changes in a patient's condition. In this quality improvement project, simulated clinical scenarios were conducted with staff nurses on a multi-specialty surgical unit. Scenarios were developed from actual patient situatio...
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PMID: 20666355
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We describe the development of a BScN (Honors) Program in a large Canadian university. We describe the elements of the program, including the application of a research apprenticeship model as the core of the program. We provide examples of student learning experiences culminating in the Honors proje...
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PMID: 20031283
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Emotions are inextricably bound with nursing practice. For that reason, we argue that much can be gained from raising emotions in a manner that helps nursing students - or indeed nurses and other practitioners - gain a deeper self-understanding. In turn, this can enhance therapeutic use of self.
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PMID: 20042254
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We do not integrate support for the relationship between the baby and parents into antenatal parentcraft. Neither do we provide enough focus on the relationship in basic and post-qualification training or support for practitioners to integrate working with the relationship into their practice. The S...
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PMID: 20722327
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Pap screening was low among the entire sample and nonexistent among women younger than age 30. The transtheoretical model only was partially applicable to the Taiwanese women in this study. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Reinforcement of self-efficacy was more important for women in the sample than empha...
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PMID: 20591792
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The Institute of Medicine, Office of Minority Health, and the Health Resources and Services Administration have called for culturally competent teaching methods to promote the success of Hispanic nursing students. The article responds to this call by analyzing an innovative clinical practicum teachi...
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PMID: 20210269
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The current study reports student use and perceptions of podcasted course lectures in an undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Prior to the current study, the majority of students were not familiar with the use of podcasts in education. Student use of the podcasts grew as they became...
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PMID: 20210270
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Rapid health care changes and increasing client complexity have begun to transform expectations for nursing care. This has prompted nurse educators to explore curriculum changes in an effort to prepare nurse graduates for the challenges they will face. Significant curriculum revisions within a colla...
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PMID: 20411860
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This article provides an overview of the national actions by key groups on recovery from psychiatric disability and how a shift is needed to transform health care service delivery in mental health. Fundamental components of recovery are outlined, and examples are provided from the literature in nurs...
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PMID: 20506972
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Few frameworks exist to guide home health nurses during the response and recovery phases of disasters such as flooding. The Double ABCX Model of Family Adaptation is offered as an example of a guiding framework for nurses in postflood management. Phases of the model are linked to the nursing process...
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PMID: 20694875
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Participants identified some deficiencies in training that led to feelings of inadequacy in areas such as spirituality and community nursing knowledge. Lack of role models and inadequate practice hours were challenges for role transition. Group activities during training and peer support were cited...
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PMID: 20411881
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The Texas Nurses Association initiated an Emerging Nurse Leaders Program as an approach to engaging new nurses in the leadership of the professional association. This article explains the program's origin, the commitment of the Texas Nurses Association to this process, the implementation of the plan...
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PMID: 20411880
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Ideally, quality health care should be accessible, affordable, and equitable. Working toward these goals in the OR necessitates examining and redesigning work processes and nursing workflow to make better use of the education and skills of perioperative nurses and assistive personnel. This article d...
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PMID: 20510948
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There are two main approaches to culture; the first focuses on the cognitive aspects of culture, the 'values, beliefs and traditions' of a particular group, identified by language or location such as, 'Chinese women' or 'Arabic speaking women'. This approach views culture as static and unchanging, a...
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PMID: 20138275
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Documents that standardise clinical care are part of the history of nursing as well as contemporary evidence-based care and expanded roles. Considering the proliferation and contested nature of protocol-based care, the dearth of literature about the contribution, experience and outcomes for nurses,...
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PMID: 20170915
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Nurse educators must continually improve their teaching skills through innovation. However, research about the process used by faculty members to transform their teaching methods is limited. This collaborative study uses classroom action research to describe, analyze, and address problems encountere...
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PMID: 20210268
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Nurse educators are charged with the responsibility of empowering novice nurses to become autonomous thinkers with the capacity to cope with the many challenges of modern day practice. Human patient simulation is a powerful technology-based educational tool ideally suited for the application of eman...
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PMID: 20210271
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Academic incivility is disruptive behavior that substantially or repeatedly interferes with teaching and learning. Incivility on college campuses jeopardizes the welfare of all members of the academy. Academic nurse leaders play a critical role in preventing and addressing academic incivility becaus...
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PMID: 20210272
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We describe our research process and provide details about how we used some of the methodological conventions of institutional ethnography. The early findings from this project provide an alternate knowledge of our evaluation practices, which demands that we question our taken-for-granted understand...
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PMID: 20411865
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