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PubMed1989

Collaboration by consortium.

Recognizing that collaboration is essential for the continuing development of the nursing profession, nursing leaders in the St. Louis area organized the Nursing Consortium for Research in Practice, uniting four university schools of nursing and four large hospitals. The aim of consortium is to assist nursing faculty and nursing service personnel in the conduct of collaborative clinical research. The consortium also seeks to educate nurses about research as a component of professional nursing practice and to assist them in implementing research findings in clinical practice. The efforts of the consortium during its first four years are discussed.

Clinical Nursing Research↗
PubMed1982

Promoting research-based nursing: the nurse administrator's role.

As the practice of research increasingly becomes a part of the nursing profession, nurses must develop their ability to evaluate and incorporate the findings gained through the research process. This article reports the results of a survey aimed at determining problem areas existing among nursing staffs in understanding, accepting, and incorporating research findings. The report will help nursing administrators identify specific factors that inhibit the use of research findings and improve the conditions for incorporating research in their facilities.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1993

Nurse educators--a link to community ophthalmic care.

Ophthalmic nurses can do much in providing community education to various groups of people. A background in patient education and broad knowledge of ophthalmology allows nurses to be ideally suited for community education. This interaction can benefit both the community and the nursing profession. Nurses can use their abilities to interact outside of a traditional setting and to provide valuable ophthalmic information to the public.

Community Health Services↗
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The professional renewal program: aiding nurses in career change.

A professional renewal program gives nurses the opportunity to reflect on their current work situation and imagine the opportunities for change and growth in the nursing profession. Nurses return to work refreshed and re-energized, directly affecting their working environment. This article gives specific strategies for developing a professional renewal program.

Career Mobility↗
PubMed1998

Intervening in adolescent substance abuse.

Substance use and abuse is a major public health problem that affects adolescents of both genders and of every socioeconomic level. Because of the nature of the nursing profession, nurses are often trusted with confidential queries from family members and friends and clients concerned about substance use by teenagers they know and love. The purpose of this article is to provide nurses information and strategies for helping adolescents and their families with this problem. Specifically, this article includes information about current trends in teenage substance use and abuse, risk factors that influence use and abuse, and strategies for prevention, identification, and treatment.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2005

Kuwaiti high school students' perceptions of nursing as a profession: implications for nursing education and practice.

The shortage of nurses in Kuwait is attributed to low production of indigenous nurses, resignation and emigration of foreign nurses, and expansion of health care facilities. This study explored Kuwaiti high school students' perceptions of nursing as a profession, their sources of information about nursing, and factors that affected their choice of nursing as a future career. Questionnaires from 289 students attending seven all-female high schools in Kuwait were analyzed. The results revealed that all of the participants were knowledgeable about the functional aspects of the nursing profession, and 35% of them received this information through contact with nurses during hospital visits. However, only 19% indicated they might consider nursing as a future career. The implications of the study for nursing education and practice, and strategies to attract and retain indigenous high school graduates into nursing programs in Kuwait are discussed.

Adolescent↗
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[A reading journey for the profession: indicators for nursing. II].

The paper outlines the scenario where the nursing profession develops in Italy on the basis of few key indicators: training, professional associations, salary, lack of personnel, relationships with the woman role and with the society. The situation which emerges is highly articulated and complex, and provides grounds to better understand both the progresses which have been made by the profession and the struggles, the problems and the prejudices which must still be faced.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed2003

Keeping nurses in nursing: the profession's challenge for today.

Urologic nurses and the nursing profession face incredible challenges in caring for patients and their families after a trend of the continued decline in nursing school enrollment, the nursing shortage, and increasing staff nurse dissatisfaction with the current workplace environment. Is it possible to retain staff nurses during this current crisis? Many factors contribute to nurse dissatisfaction and subsequent turnover and burn out. In light of the current nursing shortage, it is essential and cost effective to retain nurses in their specific jobs and within the profession. There is no single, simple reason or solution for professional staff nurse turnover. Some of the current contributing factors to staff nurse dissatisfaction and satisfaction will be discussed in an effort to discern ways to promote staff nurse retention.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗
PubMed2006

[Reflections on nursing teaching and students' first contact with the profession].

Nursing teaching has been characterized by constant discussions on pedagogical proposals and implementation of curricular changes. The aim of this study was to reflect on nursing students' experience related to their first contacts with the profession, considering traditional perspectives and current tendencies that imprint values and attitudes in learning and practice. Nowadays, the complexity of human beings and the environment they live in is considered within a biopsychosocial, economic and cultural context, constituting resources that allow for the formation of competent professionals in order to deal with the challenges of the XXIst century. Thus, nursing schools have to follow a teaching philosophy to form trained people to attend to local and regional demands and are socially committed to change. What is aimed for is participative learning, in which teacher and student, articulated in the knowledge improvement process, do not forget about humanitarian views.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed2005

[Nursing: the meaning of this profession to nurses. A first approach].

In an attempt to understand, tell and, why not, participate a little in the history of Nursing, we proposed to study the prejudices and negative stereotypes that have permeated this profession over time. This is a before-after experimental type of study in a population of adolescents regularly enrolled in the eleventh grade of a Brazilian public school. The intervention took the form of a lecture about the profession and a questionnaire with closed questions which was applied before and after the lecture. Conclusions were based on the results of binomial and McNemar's non-parametric tests for the significance of changes. Although the statistically significant presence of prejudice and negatives stereotypes was not found, the results of the intervention were in line with expectations, since the changes(or tendency towards changes) took place exactly in those subgroups that showed a greater frequency of stereotypes.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2001

Strike action by nurses in South Africa: a value clarification.

The Labour Relations Act (South Africa, 1991) made provision for protected strike action by employees, subject to certain conditions, procedures and negotiated agreements. This led to the removal of the strike clause in the Nursing Act (South Africa, 1992). The labour rights of all citizens are entrenched in the Constitution of the country (South Africa, 1996). Participation in strike action by the nurse/midwife, regardless of the legal requirements and specifications, does, however, pose an ethical question. It is therefore necessary to conduct a value clarification on strike action by nurses in South Africa. The purpose of this research is to explore and describe the perceived values of participants from an accessible population on this phenomenon. A qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research design was deployed. The perceived values of nurses on strike action were collected by means of an open-ended questionnaire/sketch. Over a period of three years a purposive and convenient sampling method was used, involving all the enrolled post basic nursing/midwifery students/learners at a particular Nursing Education Institution. The justification of the sample was further enhanced by also collecting data on the participants' age and provincial distribution location. Although a 63% sample realisation (of the accessible population) was achieved, this represents only 1.5% of the registered nursing/midwifery population in the country. A descriptive analysis of the participants' age and provincial distribution was undertaken, as well as a content analysis of their perceived values on strike action. The mean age of the participants was 48 years, which could be attributed to the fact that most of them were enrolled for a post-basic Diploma in Community Nursing Science. Most of the responses (52.7%) were against strike action and 32.5% supported strike action by nurses as a constitutional and legal right. A fairly substantial number of participants (14.8%) expressed mixed views as to whether strike action by nurses is right or wrong. Some respondents (15.7%) also reflected confusion regarding the enactment of strike action and the removal of the strike clause from the nursing legislation. Although this study does not claim external validity due to inappropriate representation of the nursing profession, the nurse of today opposes strike action. It is recommended that the study be replicated at national level and that the values be entrenched and published in position papers of and by the regulatory and organised nursing profession.

Adult↗
PubMed1983

A time for reflection.

The nursing profession in the United Kingdom is faced with great opportunities for significant developments. To make best use of these it is necessary to reflect on the past, to meditate on key issues which are current, to plan wisely and well for the future and then to press ahead with determination. Key issues highlighted are in the spheres of education, management and practice; the need for research is emphasized. The pay structure can either support or impede developments, as can the attitude of the medical profession; the nursing and medical professions are complementary and interdependent, understanding between them is essential and effective communications are core to its realization. A general goal identified is the achievement of a more cohesive profession, a modification of the divisions between education, management and practice which, it is contended, have intensified as developments have taken place in each of these spheres. Objectives for development are put forward in the context of current circumstances which, it is argued facilitate their promotion. Signs that the nursing profession now recognizes the need for unified action to achieve its objectives are seen as encouraging, and confidence is expressed that the profession will exploit the opportunities now within its grasp.

Education, Nursing↗
PubMed2003

Recruitment, retention and matriculation of ethnic minority nursing students: a University of Mississippi School of Nursing approach.

According to Bednash (2000), the future of health care pivots on an adequate supply of appropriately educated and skilled professional registered nurses. Recognizing the long history of and the struggles by African-American (AA) nurses for education and equality in the nursing profession, it is essential that more African-American students be recruited, retained, and matriculated into the profession of nursing. African-American nurses have always contributed to the care of the poor and the sick and played a decisive role in the improvement of the health of their communities. The Bureau of Health Professions Division of nursing (March 2000) reported that 86.6 percent of the registered nurse population were white while 12.3 percent represented racial and ethnic minority groups. Given the current racial/ethnic background of the registered nurse population in the United States, there is an obvious disparity in the representation of minorities in the nursing profession, in spite of the increasing number of minorities represented in the general population. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to document strategies that are used to actively recruit, retain, and graduate ethnic minority students from the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) School of Nursing (SON).

Black or African American↗