Nurse Solutions intends on providing highly qualified registered nurses ("RNs") from around the globe to alleviate the alarming and growing shortage of RNs and make...
The Director, Nurses' Registry job description template includes the following job summary: To maintain a registry of nurses qualified and available for private duty nursing care, assuring proper licensing, accreditation, and maintaining proper records of assignments and agency revenue following guidelines established by the state association for registered nurses. Additional...
The Licensed Practical Nurse job description template includes the following job summary: Works under the direction of a qualified professional nurse. Participates in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of nursing care, within the objectives, standards, and policies of the department and within the parameters of his or her preparation. Cooperates...
The Industrial Nurse job description template includes the following job summary: The industrial nurse is responsible for providing medical aid to employees and other personnel who become ill or are injured while on company property. Also conducts the company safety training and health training programs, and assists the personnel manager...
Previous studies on self-rated health among nurses have indicated an association of low job satisfaction and stress in relation to poor self-rated health. The relationship between self rated healths and the specific work characteristics and health related behaviors of nurses to our knowledge have not been adequately studied. The aim...
Older people living in nursing homes are at high risk of falling because of their general frailty and multiple pathologies. Prediction of falls might lead to an efficient allocation of preventive measures. Although several tools to assess the risk of falling have been developed, their impact on clinically relevant endpoints...
General practitioners GPs experience an overload of frequent attenders suffering from psychological problems. Problem Solving Treatment PST is a brief psychological treatment tailored for use in a primary care setting. PST is provided by nurses, and earlier research has shown that it is a treatment at least as effective as...
The objective of this article is to describe the design of an evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of systematic home visits by nurses to frail elderly primary care patients. The other objectives are to determine the feasibility of postal multidimensional frailty screening instruments; and to identify the need for home visits...
The inability to calculate therapeutic dosages for children accounts for the majority of pediatric drug errors. Most pediatric medication errors occur in the prescribing or ordering phase, usually dosing errors, followed by mistakes in administration of the drug. Because most medications are developed in concentrations for adults and do not...
The establishment and strengthening of primary health care is an important component of South African health sector reform. Nurse shortage is a multifaceted problem caused by factor such as inadequate production of nurses, migration and the impact of HIV and AIDS. While increased production and creating financial incentives to recruit...
The shift handover forms an important part of the communication process that takes place twice within the nurses' working day in the gynaecological ward. This paper addresses the topic of implementing a new system of bedside handover, which puts patients central to the whole process of managing care and also...
Intense and long-standing problems in burn centers have led nurses to burnout. This phenomenon has provoked serious responses and has put the nurses, patients and the organization under pressure. The challenge for managers and nurse executives is to understand the factors which would reduce or increase the nurses' responses to...
In the UK the health service is investing more than ever before in information technology IT and primary care nurses will have to work with computers. Information about patients is almost exclusively held in electronic patient records; and much of the information about best practice is most readily accessible via...
Of late, the healthcare sector is increasingly facing the problem of employee turnover. Researches indicate that hospitals are trying their level best to recruit the most talented nursing staff. However, if a hospital is not able to retain the talent, it is of no use. Recruiting and retaining talented nurses...
As U.S. health care facilities struggle to fill current registered nurse staffing vacancies, a more critical nurse undersupply is predicted over the next twenty years. In response, many institutions are doubling their efforts to attract and retain nurses. To that end, foreign nurses are increasingly being sought, creating a lucrative...
Predicted shortages and recruitment targets for nurses in developed countries threaten to deplete nurse supply and undermine global health initiatives in developing countries. A twofold approach is required, involving greater diligence by developing countries in creating a largely sustainable domestic nurse workforce and their greater investment through international aid in...
Nurses' practice takes place in a context of ongoing advances in research and technology. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision-makers in order to respond to clients' needs. The paper used Grounded theory methodology to analyze the participants' lived experiences and their...
There is probably no sector left which has not undergone the problem of employee turnover. The latest to join the bandwagon is the healthcare sector. Researches suggest that numerous hospitals are facing the problem of retaining nurses. Experts, however, suggest that the solution lies in the policies of hospitals itself....
So much for the absence of Tiger Woods making this the easiest Open in recent memory for his rivals. That particular force of nature may be back at home nursing his knee, but there seems to be another one brewing just in time to destroy the field at the Southport...
