: Increasing application and use of information systems and mobile technologies in the healthcare industry require increasing nurse competency in computer use. Computer literacy is defined as basic computer skills, whereas computer competency is defined as the computer skills necessary to accomplish job tasks. Inadequate attention has been paid to ...

OBJECTIVE: To investigate a possible association between the intensity of staff workload and intermediate adverse events, such as accidental extubation, obstruction of the endotracheal tube, and accidental disconnection of the ventilator circuit, during neonatal mechanical ventilation in high-risk neonatal units. METHOD: This prospective cohort study analyzed data of 543 newborns ...

AS PART OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF NEONATAL Network and the 10th Anniversary of the Academy of Neonatal Nursing, an honor wall was created for the national meeting held in September in Washington, DC. The list below, by no means exhaustive, features some of the neonatal nurses who have made ...

The New Jersey Nursing Initiative was publically launched in 2009 as a 5-year, $22 million program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation based at the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce Foundation. It was reauthorized in 2011 through 2016 for an additional $8.5 million. The initiative includes a faculty preparation program ...

A successful hospital network and university faculty collaboration offered 21 staff nurses and nurse leaders opportunities to develop clinical manuscripts that would be suitable for publishing their innovative ideas. This process prepared them to synthesize relevant literature and develop their ideas into manuscripts. Ten nurses submitted their final manuscripts to ...

When changes happen as rapidly as they do today, the literature is often absent. Although related literature may be available to substantiate a direction to take when faced with some issue to resolve, that literature may be vague in terms of its applicability within health care. The idea of a ...

This descriptive study explores the concept of emotional competence in practicing registered nurses. Registered nurses were asked to identify interactions of emotional competence that they experienced on the nursing unit. Content analysis revealed deficits in emotional competence in the following themes: self-awareness, mood management, self-motivation, empathy, and managing relationships. Results ...

Although an increasingly popular form of online communication and social interaction, social network sites have to be used with caution by district nurses. In common with all health professionals, the scope of a district nurse's accountability extends to their online presence, and inappropriate remarks or pictures posted online can call ...

This article traces the funding priorities of the John A. Hartford Foundation-the largest private philanthropy in the United States dedicated to aging and health-to increase the competence of the health care workforce (physicians, nurses, and social workers) to care for our aging society. A review of the Foundation's 15-year and ...

RWJF's Aligning Forces for Quality initiative helps nurses target quality nationwide.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The behaviour of individuals is affected by the social networks in which they are embedded. Networks are also important for the diffusion of information and the influence of employees in organisations. Yet, at the moment little is known about the social networks of nursing staff in healthcare settings. ...

THE GROWTH AND MATURATION OF THE NEONATAL NURSE PRACTITIONER (NNP) over the past three decades has been nothing less than inspiring and prolific. When Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing (NN) was first published, the NNP was not commonplace in most neonatal services throughout the U.S. Early on, NN ...

manthorpe j. (2011) Nurse champions of older people: a national audit and critical review. International Journal of Older People Nursing doi: 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2011.00276.x Aims.  This paper aims to equip nurses working with older people with an understanding of the roles and activities of Champions for Older People. Background.  The position of Older ...

The purpose of this study was to develop a prototype wireless local area network (LAN)-based tracking system and evaluate its efficacy. A wireless LAN-based tracking system was developed with a personal digital assistant (PDA) having a simple text messaging function and a prototype stand-alone tracking device. Evaluation of the effectiveness ...

Current health reforms in Australia will establish local health networks of public hospitals each with a governing body. The establishment of these governing bodies, particularly in states like NSW where these entities do not currently exist within the public hospital system, provides opportunities for nurses, midwives and other clinicians to ...

The purpose of this paper is to describe the ongoing evolution of a nursing terminology that involves users in all aspects of the terminology lifecycle. A terminology will not succeed until and unless it benefits users and contributes to improved client outcomes at the point of care. Since the release ...

This chapter uses the structural and relational dimension of social capital theory (SCT) as a lens for examining the impact of the supervisor-subordinate relationship on nurses' perceptions of the usefulness of their workplace networks, sociability, and affective commitment. A survey was used to collect data from 1,064 Australian nurses. The ...

Symptom control is fundamental to the nursing management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, symptom control can be problematic for individuals with IBD, which could result in symptom burden. Symptom burden is an evolving concept in the discipline of nursing and to date little is known about how the defining ...

Person-centredness as a concept is becoming more prominent and increasingly central within some research literature, approaches to practice and as a guiding principle within some health and social care policy. Despite the increasing body of literature into person-centred nursing (PCN), there continues to be a 'siloed' approach to its study, ...

The Nursing Research Education Committee, part of the Nursing Research Council in a large tertiary care healthcare system, was developed to engage direct care nurses in research activities. This article describes several programs undertaken to meet this goal and details the most current: the development of a Web-based service, the ...

Magnet hospitals were surveyed to determine the processes used to promote the integrity of nursing research conducted in clinical settings. Results indicated that four central processes, institutional review board review, nursing research council review, nursing research mentorship, and reliance on personal and professional values, were used to educate, monitor, and ...

Promoting nursing research participation is challenging. Since the creation of an internal fund for research and innovation, 11 projects have received funding with a doubling of staff participation. The success of this novel funding opportunity highlights the need for this type of support and demonstrates success in promoting nursing research.

This paper is a report of a study to translate one Swedish and three English instruments into the Persian language, and to estimate their validity and reliability. The Sense of Coherence Scale, Health Index, Brief Religious Coping Scale and Spiritual Perspective Scale are all well tested instruments for use in ...

Conducting human sexuality research continues to be a challenge for nurse researchers and may seem daunting to nursing students interested in conducting human sexuality research. The purpose of this paper was to conduct a comprehensive review of the literature to appraise the factors that have influenced human sexuality research for ...

This bimonthly department, sponsored by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE), presents information to assist nurse leaders in shaping the future of healthcare through creative and innovative leadership. The strategic priorities of AONE anchor the editorial content. They reflect contemporary healthcare and nursing practice issues that challenge nurse executives ...

The focus of this column is to describe a body of research on palliative care and end-of-life that has been the focus of Dr. Betty Ferrell's career and her work at the City of Hope. The impact of this work on the nursing workforce is described and research resources for ...

This study explores the nurses' views on need for professional development and barriers in Nepal. This is a qualitative content analysis study conducted among nurses from different health institutes. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were used to obtain their views on need of professional development and major barriers against ...

The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of Native American nurses working in their tribal communities to address retention. An interpretive phenomenological study guided by a Native American research agenda and a Native American nursing practice model. In-depth interviews with nine Native American nurses were conducted. Data ...

To generate changes in nursing practice introducing an evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP) model through a participatory process. To evaluate the effectiveness of the changes in terms of nurse-sensitive outcome (NSO). For international nursing science, it is necessary to explore the reasons for supporting EBCP and evaluate the real repercussions and ...

From the perspective of scholars, to describe a contemporary view of the development, facilitators of and barriers to nursing scholarship in Taiwan, to enhance policy-making about research, education and practise development. Nursing scholarship in the Asia-Pacific region is in different stages of development, depending on in-country resources and socio-economic conditions. ...

Despite many safeguards, nurses make the majority of medication administration errors. The purpose of our research was to investigate the perceived causes for such errors and to better understand how nurses deal with them. We performed an interpretive analysis of 158 accounts by nurses who made self-identified medication errors. We ...

Although bibliometric analysis affords significant insight into the progression and distribution of information within a particular research field, detailed longitudinal studies of this type are rare within the field of nursing. This study aimed to investigate, from a bibliometric perspective, the progression and trends of core international nursing journals over ...

BACKGROUND: Asia-Pacific nursing education and research is growing but little is known about the nature and development of nursing scholarship in the region. AIM: This qualitative study explored the perspectives of 14 leading Thai scholars about the development, facilitators and barriers relating to Thailand's nursing scholarship. METHOD: In-depth interviews were ...

Evidence-based nursing practices using the latest knowledge require nursing education and further education based on the latest research findings. Anyhow, research utilisation by nursing teachers is poorly known. The aim of this study was to assess research utilisation by nursing teachers and connections of teachers background, further education and research ...

To identify self-reported perceptions of the barriers to research utilisation by Turkish staff nurses working in a university hospital and to ascertain whether involvement in research-related activities influenced their perception of the barriers. Research utilisation in nursing has been a prominent concern for the last 30 years. While investigators in ...

Historically, nursing students have questioned the value of a nursing research course and have not appreciated the research-practice link. These are important concerns in light of the increasing emphasis on evidence-based nursing practice. The purpose of this study was to develop innovative strategies for teaching undergraduate nursing research that engage ...

Theoretic interest in the nature of events and event identity is apparent across a wide range of fields. However, this interest has not yet made itself known in nursing. In this paper, it is asserted that nurse theoreticians and researchers should consider the problematic of events and event identity. It ...

Groups come together to create guidelines for pediatric population in EDs. One of the more creative proposals involves the establishment of two new positions in the ED: a physician coordinator and a nurse coordinator. The medical director, nursing director should be hospitalwide liaisons.

Nursing research in China is at an early stage of development and little is known about the practices of Chinese nurse researchers. This interview study carried out at a university in central China explores the informed consent practices of Chinese nurse researchers and the cultural considerations of using a western ...

AIM: To identify important information on the state of academic nursing and the characteristics of academic nursing publications in Turkey. METHODS: The study consists of retrospective bibliometric research. The selected sample of the research consisted of six Turkish nursing journals published between 1994-2003 from a total population of ten journals. ...

The term professional failure to thrive arose from descriptions of non-organic failure to thrive in infants and observations of nurses' behaviours. First coined by Stamler in 1997, subsequent unrelated research results have supported the theoretical construct. In an era when patient safety and high-quality care have never been more important, ...

The purpose of the present study was to explore the perceptions of Korean and Japanese nurses' about nursing in Australia. There are increasing numbers of overseas nurses entering Australian nursing. More nurses educated in Asian countries are arriving. Qualitative research methodology comprised in-depth semi-structured interviews with five registered nurses, who ...

The largest private hospital in Hawaii was recently awarded Magnet Recognition, partly due to its exemplary nursing research culture. The hospital fostered and sustained a strong research environment through the establishment of a nursing institute, nursing research council, and, most recently, a nursing research fellowship. The authors describe the fellowship ...

The purpose of this study was to describe the learner-centered teaching characteristics of nurse faculty who report using contemporary pedagogy. A secondary analysis of data collected by an international survey of nurse educators regarding pedagogical teaching approaches and strategies was used to answer the research questions. The study sought to: ...

To date, there is a paucity of research investigating nurses' perceptions of evidence-based practice (EBP) in nursing homes, especially in non-Western countries. This descriptive, quantitative study investigated attitudes toward and perceived barriers and facilitators to research utilization among 89 Taiwanese RNs. The majority of nurses expressed positive attitudes toward research ...

Hospital-based nurses are institutionally positioned at a nexus where numerous social structures interpenetrate, compelling the individual to simultaneously fulfill obligations from multiple rules systems. When these rules systems are incompatible, the individual's position is untenable. This article describes the phenomenon of structurational divergence (SD) identified in our previous research, wherein ...

Oncology nurses are increasingly recognizing the importance of chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) in the lives of their patients and are contributing to the state of the knowledge in this field of study. The Oncology Nursing Society has included treatment related changes in cognitive function as a priority in the 2009-2013 ...

The Association of Community Health Nursing Educators (ACHNE) Research Committee initiated a revision of the ACHNE Research Priorities for public health nursing practice in 2006, following those developed in 1992 and in 2000. The committee (a) reviewed public health nursing research abstracts (n=485) from 7 selected nursing journals to evaluate ...

AIM: To describe the development of a self-administered questionnaire to study the nursing research culture in a Spanish hospital. BACKGROUND: There is urgent need to promote nursing research in Spain. To do this, it is imperative to understand the Spanish nursing research culture. As no valid Spanish instrument was available, ...

The purpose of this article is to critique extant nursing research on nursing practice environments by juxtaposing it with critical sociological perspectives on nurses' work and to propose an alternative paradigm for future research based on these perspectives. The extant nursing/health services research on nursing practice environments is reviewed. Sociological ...