The Key to Confidence is Simulation-Based Learning
Knowledge of Workplace Violence against Nurses in the Emergency Department of Public Sector Tertiary Care Hospitals in Peshawar, Pakistan
Initiation of Nursing Education Services (NES) at Khalifa Gul Nawaz Teaching Hospital MTI Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Unleashing the Power of Transformational Leadership: Revolutionizing the Nursing Profession in Pakistan
Addressing the Issue of Nurses Leaving Bedside Jobs with Reasons
Cognitive Stacking: A Concept Analysis
Nightingale’s Theory and its Application to Pediatric Nursing Care
Academic Strategies that Facilitate Learning in Millennial Nursing Students
Transformational Leadership: A Strategy towards Staff Motivation
Awareness of Good And Bad Touch Among Children
Suicide Among Youth: A Preventable Public Health Concern
The Impact of Culture on Faculty Retention in Nursing Education
Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Nursing Student Success
Psychological and Cognitive Determinants of the Health Literacy on Soon-To-Be-Aged and Older Adults: a Systematic Review
It Takes a Village to Assure Nurse Professionalism
Lessons Learned: Employing Focus Groups as a Research Methodology
Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is an emerging issue in both developed and developing countries. The rate of spread of HIV has been dramatically increased recently in many developing countries including India. This spread is determined by various biological, behavioural and socio cultural factors. In addition, many factors like poverty, illiteracy and poor health is deteriorating the problem of HIV in this country, where there is a vast need for its prevention and control. This review will examine the extent to which comprehensive generalized epidemic of STIs/ HIV exist in the population of India and provide a brief impression of how economic, gender and religious variables can affect both in terms of incentives and obstacles for the prevention, control and management of STI/HIV status in India.
Change in any aspect of human life is often challenging and requires significant efforts for readjustment from the individual and could result in improving or worsening existing situation. Change in work-role is also significant event in person’s life. Present study attempts to analyse management of work-role transition from clinical nurse to nurse educator.
Values play an important role in an individual’s life. On the basis of individual values, person cultivates himself/herself and act accordingly in the environment. Nurses’ value system is therefore important to recognize because they are the one who serve patients and give a focused care to them. Nurses need to be self-aware of their own values in order to keep balance between personal values and professional values. Through an internalization of these values nurses can develop self-sacrifice and self-transcendence and divert their care towards patient need. A case study is therefore presented and analyzed according to the value system which could create positive nurse patient relationship.
Gender is a psychological component which is given by the society to a person, while sex is a biological component which is awarded by the God. However, there are certain conditions in which the biological aspects are put to challenge with the social and psychological aspects of gender. Hermaphrodites are a third gender role, who is neither male or female man nor woman but contains the element of both. One may question that if they are neither male nor female then who they are and whether they are equally treated in our society. Looking at the challenges faced by hermaphrodites, one need to question what choices these hermaphrodites have in our society. We being a responsible citizen of the society, how can we make their lives less miserable and make them respectable or functional members of our society. This paper raises several questions to us: do these neglected and deprived community has means of education or employment; what possible choices can be offered to them other than begging, prostitution or dancing at weddings or baby showers. It is our responsibility as a society to treat them as humans and provide them social and legal rights so that they can also become an acceptable member of the society and can benefit the society with more sense of security and less burden.
This study was carried out to determine the effects of life skills training program on third-grade middle school students in northeast Iran. In recent years life skills training program have become increasingly prominent in Iran educational area. Through this causal-comparative research, 310 thirteen to fourteen years old students (both sexes) have been chosen and divided into two groups of control and experimental. The instrument used for collecting the data was a questionnaire made by the researchers themselves, whose validity and reliability had been confirmed (a= 88.48%). Using t-tests and Chi tests, study results revealed that programmed used for life skills do not affect students’ life skills. However, there was a significant difference between the male and female students. In contrast to what had been expected, this study showed life skill program has not succeeded in improving levels of northeast Iranian secondary school students’ life skill. Therefore, more to material developers’ concern, more revision and reconsidering is needed in this field, since successful run of this program can lead to students’ development in every aspect of their lives, including educational, mental, and social development.
Throughout the world of healthcare, the impetus to engage in best practices using the latest evidence is paramount. With Institute of Medicine reports such as “To Err is Human” (2000) and “Crossing the Quality Chasm” (2001), the need for a health care system that is “safe, effective, patient centered, timely, efficient, and equitable” is vital (IOM, 2001, p. 5-6). To achieve optimal patient outcomes, and ultimately obtain reimbursement for care, strategies to implement evidenced based practices (EBP) in health care settings are occurring at rapid speed. While the interdisciplinary team model is important in management of patient care today, the role of the nurse is pivotal to achieve these aims. Educating the nurse while still in their nursing program, and throughout the curriculum, is an approach to make the use of EBP a routine practice, not a periodic occurrence.
To describe the devastating complications of MRSA based on a case study of a woman who at 53 was diagnosed with an aggressive arthritis in the right hip and underwent a hip replacement. She developed MRSA and has had numerous complications and now will be in a wheel chair the rest of her life. MRSA can cause death and she was near death twice. This case study should be an exemplar that meticulous infection control methods are needed and that it is necessary to intervene when infection control methods are not being followed.
There is a long history of the development of the artificial organ for heart failure patients. In 1966, DeBakey performed the first successful clinical implantation of a ventricular assist device (a pneumatically-driven paracorporeal diaphragm pump) in a 37-year-old woman from Huston, Texas. Scientists have developed sophisticate devices to help heart failure patients. In 1994, the FDA approved the pneumatically-driven HeartMate LVAD (Thermo Cardiosystem, Inc.) for a bridge to transplantation. This is the first pump with textured blood-contacting surfaces. The FDA approved the HeartMate VE LVAD for permanent use (Thoratec Corp) in 2002. Heart transplantation is a choice for end-stage heart failure patients; however, there is a shortage of organ donation. Development and use of VAD is utilized for recovery and destination therapy.
