ABSTRACT: The Annual Legislative Update describes the legislative issues that have the most impact on nurse practitioners and other advanced practice nurses across the country.

Cowden T.L. & Cummings G.G. (2012) Nursing theory and concept development: a theoretical model of clinical nurses' intentions to stay in their current positions. Journal of Advanced Nursing00(0), 000-000. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05927.x ABSTRACT: Aim.  We describe a theoretical model of staff nurses' intentions to stay in their current positions. Background.  The ...

Social justice is asserted as a responsibility of the nursing profession. However, a reliable conception of social justice that can undergird practice, research, education, and policy endeavors has proved elusive. We discuss this as a problem for the profession and propose Powers and Faden's model of social justice as useful ...

This study proposed an evaluation model, derived from the Technology Acceptance Model and Information System Success Model, to explore factors influencing the acceptance of hospital information systems by nurses. Although many healthcare institutions have applied hospital information systems, relatively few studies have investigated the perceptions of nurses regarding the usefulness, ...

Diabetes is a common chronic illness among school-age children. The school nurse collaborates with the student, parents, and teachers to help the child manage their diabetes effectively. Very little is known about the relationship between school nurse interventions and parent/teacher perceptions of the child's self-management. We examined this relationship in ...

Staggering statistics highlight the impact of chronic illness globally on the health of individuals and communities and in the global arena. Despite nursing's potential role to ameliorate this situation, nursing curricula is traditionally weak in this area. This article highlights one nursing program's third year baccalaureate chronic illness courses that ...

Many new nursing leaders assuming deanships, assistant deanships, or interim deanships have limited education, experience, or background to prepare them for the job. To assist new deans and those aspiring to be deans, Jana L. Pressler, PhD, RN, and Carole A. Kenner, PhD, RNC-NIC, FAAN, the editors of this department, ...

Increasingly, stakeholders in the health care community are recognizing nursing as key to solving the nation's health care issues. This acknowledgment provides a unique opportunity for nursing to demonstrate leadership by developing clinical nurse leaders to collaborate with the multidisciplinary care team in driving evidence-based, safe quality, cost-effective health care ...

Development of a portfolio is an effective strategy used by clinical nurse leaders (CNLs) to inform prospective employers of their specialized skills in quality improvement, patient safety, error prevention, and teamwork. The portfolio provides evidence of competence relative to the role of clinician, outcomes manager, client advocate, educator, information manager, ...

Beginning January 1, 2011, as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act healthcare-reform law that was signed in March 2010, Medicare requires that all patients entering their third or later hospice benefit period must have a face-to-face encounter with a hospice physician or nurse practitioner (NP) to ...

Many challenges face vascular access nurses as technology improves and patients require more numerous and lengthy intravenous therapies. Nurses began placing peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) at the patient bedside in an effort to defray costly interventional radiology procedures and provide for patient comfort. In recent years, the numbers of ...

Nursing preceptors are important resources for nursing education programs. Preceptors provide guidance to help nursing students make the transition to novice nurse, which can reduce frustration and increase nurse retention. Traditionally, student nurse preceptors are not financially reimbursed for their dedication, time, or expertise. The purpose of this article was ...

This descriptive study obtained survey data that explored the perception of staff nurses regarding their clinical competency, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to identify nursing professional development issues, data that can then be used to develop evidence-based educational programs.

Hospitals routinely provide orientation for the new nurses they hire. The evolution of nursing practice is not reflected in the current teaching methods of nursing orientation. The authors examine the past 60 years of nursing department orientation and assert the need to move toward more effective and innovative teaching strategies.

To examine the worklife experiences of physicians, to further the exploration of the worklife experiences of nurses with disabilities, and to discover how the two healthcare professions compare with each other with regard to these experiences. This study employed the research tradition of interpretive naturalistic inquiry and used constant comparative ...

Globally and nationally approximately a quarter of neonatal deaths and an unknown number of intrapartum stillbirths are attributed to intrapartum complications known as birth asphyxia. Simple stimulation and resuscitation can save many of these lives. To describe the capacity of the Ethiopian health system to provide neonatal resuscitation with bag ...

Within the United Kingdom, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requires that Nurses and Midwives are of 'good character' at the point of registration. This paper sets out how good character has been conceptualised within one UK Higher Education Institution and presents a model of "Values Based Enquiry" which aims ...

tramm r., mccarthy a. & yates p. (2011) Using the Precede-Proceed Model of Health Program Planning in breast cancer nursing research. Journal of Advanced Nursing00(0), 000-000. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05888.x ABSTRACT: Aim.  In this article, we discuss the use of the Precede-Proceed model when investigating health promotion options for breast cancer survivors. Background.  ...

Discussing sexual issues with consumers is considered a nursing role, yet it is commonly avoided. Research suggests that sexual issues and difficulties are particularly evident in mental health settings, and failure to address these issues represents a significant gap in care and treatment. Specific models for raising sexual issues have ...

Nurse education in Viet Nam is undergoing substantial reform. In order to facilitate the change, in 2007 the Viet Nam Nurses Association formed a collaborative partnership with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at an Australia university. This collaboration gave rise to the Viet Nam Nursing Capacity Building Project under ...

Contemporary healthcare policies tend to imply that successful leadership can be attributed to a single leader. Such an understanding of leadership ignores the significant contribution followers make to successful leadership and their influence on leaders. In reality, followers rarely simply follow leaders. Following is a complex process that depends on ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the applicability of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) reference terminology model for nursing to describe the terminological value domain content regarding the entities and attributes of the detailed clinical models (DCMs) used for nursing assessments. The first author mapped 52 DCM ...

ellenbecker c.h. & cushman m. (2011) Home healthcare nurse retention and patient outcome model: discussion and model development. Journal of Advanced Nursing00(0), 000-000. ABSTRACT: Aim.  This paper discusses additions to an empirically tested model of home healthcare nurse retention. An argument is made that the variables of shared decision-making and organizational ...

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY: •  Mothers' milk is the best source of nutrition for infants. Infant benefits from receiving mother's milk include neurological and cognitive development, as well as physical, physiological, immunological and emotional development. •  Although approximately half of the schizophrenic women become mothers today, the issue of breastfeeding in this ...

This study gains insight into the role of the breast care nurse specialist through an analysis of thank you letters written by women with breast cancer in a tertiary hospital in Israel. Descriptive content analysis was used to analyze 125 thank you letters. The findings revealed three aspects of the ...

hoare k.j., mills j. & francis k. (2011) The role of government policy in supporting nurse-led care in general practice in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: an adapted realist review. Journal of Advanced Nursing. ABSTRACT: Aim.  This article is a report on a review that examined the role of ...

Despite many efforts on the local and national levels to improve compliance with hand hygiene practices such as hand washing, compliance among healthcare workers remains low. This article will discuss the clinical nurse specialists' use of a collaborative governance structure to provide peer-to-peer education and accountability for hand hygiene compliance ...

Many new nursing leaders assuming deanships, assistant deanships, or interim deanships have limited education, experience, or background to prepare them for the job. To assist new deans and those aspiring to be deans, the authors of this department, 2 deans, offer survival tips based on their personal experiences and insights. ...

Further evidence supports an expanded role for nurses.

mefford l.c. & alligood m.r. (2011) Journal of Nursing Management19, 998-1011 Evaluating nurse staffing patterns and neonatal intensive care unit outcomes using Levine's conservation model of nursing Aims  To explore the influences of intensity of nursing care and consistency of nursing caregivers on health and economic outcomes using Levine's Conservation ...

: The roles of the nurse educator in the long-term care setting, including mentoring and nurse consultant, during regulatory surveys are explored in this article. A model to illustrate the roles of the nurse educator in a long-term care setting also is introduced.

Objectives. To profile Australian nurse practitioners and their practice in 2009 and compare results with a similar 2007 census. Methods. Self-administered questionnaire. Results. A total of 293 nurse practitioners responded (response rate 76.3%). The majority were female (n=229, 81.2%); mean age was 47.3 years (s.d.=8.1). As in 2007, emergency nurse ...

With the use of a university-service partnership to introduce mentoring and shared governance, the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of these interventions on nurse perceptions of the supportive culture of the workplace environment, professional skill development, decisional involvement, and retention and vacancy rates. A nonequivalent pretest-posttest, ...

To increase nursing education capacity in New Jersey, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) awarded grants to prepare graduate nursing students to become clinically expert faculty. The purpose of this article was to describe the experiences of a collaborative partnership in preparing 14 scholars for ...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the St. Johns Mercy Medical Center (SJMMC)-Saint Louis University School of Nursing (SLUSON) dedicated education unit (DEU) project for partnership effectiveness. The DEU, an innovative and collaborative academic-service partnership, reconceptualizes the role of the faculty and staff nurse in the clinical educational ...

In light of declining NCLEX-RN first-write pass rates and the National League for Nursing call to transform nursing education, faculty at an associate degree nursing program in the southeastern United States began the process of intensive critique of its curriculum and program outcomes. Based on in-depth analysis and assessment of ...

This article examines literature on the role of the nurse caring for people with a dual disability (DD) of intellectual disability and mental illness. A search of the literature between 2000 and 2010 resulted in a total of 21 articles that met the inclusion criteria. Seven key categories of the ...

A nursing model selection team was created to evaluate the theoretical framework of the professional practice model for the department of nursing. The team's mission was to assess whether the present nursing model was congruent with the culture of contemporary practice of nursing within the organization. After a year of ...

BACKGROUND: The alarmingly high rate of illness-related absenteeism among nurses and recent reports of workplace violence and burnout are problematic for both the current workforce shortage and the recruitment and retention of new nurses. OBJECTIVES: To test a model derived from Leiter and Maslach's (2004) Six Areas of Worklife Model ...

The research was conducted with a descriptive and comparative design to determine how academic nurses (instructors-research assistants) perceive the mentorship relations among themselves. The research was carried out in 10 schools of nursing that offer graduate level education in Turkey, and the data were collected from those academics who are ...

Nursing leaders of today must be prepared for a nursing practice environment inclusive of local, national, and global work and issues. The educational preparation of nursing leaders should incorporate a fundamental curriculum that offers a broad preparation and basic leadership skills along with guidelines and experiences to support global outreach ...

The utility of a nursing model as a framework to understand and explain a health phenomenon is fundamental to guide nursing practice. In this article, the authors aim to provide an examination of the Roy adaptation model as a basis for the development of an instrument used for assessing the ...

This introduces the guest author's column on perspectives on leadership developed through a career as a nurse leader. Parse's essentials of leadership: commitment to a vision, willingness to risk, and reverence for others, are noted in tributes from other leaders and followers, which point to the rich legacy of a ...

Nurse leaders can positively influence practice environments through a number of empowerment strategies, among them professional practice models. These models encompass the philosophy, structures and processes that support nurses' control over their practice and their voice within healthcare organizations. Nurse-driven professional practice models can serve as a framework for collaborative ...

The nurse mentor is important in the personal and professional development of undergraduate nurses, ensuring that nursing students are competent and well prepared for practice at the point of registration. The importance of a rigorous evidence base for mentors and fellow nurse educators to use to inform education and practice ...

athlin e., larsson m. & söderhamn o. (2012) Journal of Nursing Management20, 90-101 A model for a national clinical final examination in the Swedish bachelor programme in nursing Aim  To describe the development and evaluation of a model for a national clinical final examination in the bachelor nursing education. Background  ...

ACCESSIBLE SUMMARY: •  Mental health nursing care is usually delivered in multidisciplinary teams within inpatient and outpatient settings. This team approach to care delivery is underpinned by an assumption of a common set of values and a common model of care delivery among disciplines. •  Mental health nurses appear to ...

Over the last few years, Australian interest in the part time employment status of nursing students has increased. International models of paid employment, that target undergraduate students to work in a specific student nurse capacity, have attracted interest. The aim of this action research study was to consider nursing student ...

The Synergy Model for Patient Care is a framework for professional nursing practice that emphasizes the unique relationship between patients and clinicians, which can result in optimal outcomes for both. Integrating this model into contemporary nursing practice at a freestanding children's hospital was accomplished by "backing into the model" and ...

Objectives.This study examines the influence of race on perceived similarity and conflict between nursing home staff and family members of residents. Despite evidence that the caregiving experience varies by race for both family and professional caregivers, little is known about how race plays a role in staff conflict with residents' ...