Current Issue : October - December Volume : 2015 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 6 Articles
Background: Hand washing with soap has been viewed as one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing the global infectious disease\nburden. Proper hand washing technique is easy to learn and can significantly reduce the spread of infectious diseases among children.\nAim: the study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a training program on improving the hand washing among children in\nprimary schools.\nMethods: quasi experimental design was used in the study. The data was collected from 450 students, aged 6 to 12 years. The study data\nwere collected by a self-administered questionnaire sheet and observation checklist, the field data was collected in Port Said city elementary\nschools in six months periods.\nResults: The study concluded that there were highly significant statistical differences in total knowledge and practice score of the studied\nsample after implementation of educational program. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the current study, it is concluded that, the\nhand washing practices of children in primary schools was improved after the program implementation....
Background: The traditional journal subscription model restricts access to scholarly information since proprietary fee-based databases\ncharge high subscription fees, do not provide access to all journals in the same geographic region, and include minimal access to research\njournals from other countries. This practice insulates nursing knowledge, causes duplication rather than replication of research, and results\nin a lack of breadth and depth to our science.\nObjective: Describe the state of nursing participation in the Open Access (OA) movement.\nMethods: Using a descriptive, exploratory approach, all nursing journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) data warehouse\nwere extracted, tagged, and analyzed.\nResults: Sixty-two nursing journals from 23 countries have registered as Open Access. Brazil publishes the largest number of OA nursing\njournals (14), followed by the U.S. (9) and Spain (9). Two countries publish four OA nursing journals (Canada, Iran), while the remaining\n18 countries publish one or two OA nursing journals. Fifty percent publish in either Spanish, Portuguese, or Spanish/Portuguese,\nwhile another one-third (32%) publish in English. Importantly, 82% of OA Nursing journals do not require article processing charges; of\nthose who do have APCs, the majority (66%) are $300 or less.\nConclusions: Although nursing participated early in the OA movement, growth has been consistent but sluggish. Neither the size of the\ncountry nor economic status seem to have a strong influence on decisions to produce OA nursing journals. Encouraging participation in\nOA will advance the science of nursing by allowing broader and more coordinated access to information to the global community....
Background: It is known that stress related to clinical training among nursing students could contribute to many physical and mental\nproblems. However, little empirical evidence about the influence of stress in nurse students� clinical performance\nObjective: The objective of this study was to assess the association between perceived stresses, stress related factors, and students� clinical\nperformance.\nMethod: Using the perceived stress scale, 539 Jordanian nursing students from 2 public universities in Jordan participated in the study.\nResults: The results showed that the mean of stress perceived by students was 45.9. Students� assignment were perceived as the main\nsource of stress (M= 10.7, SD= 4.5) followed by stress related to patients� care (M= 10.5, SD= 5.5) and stress from teachers and nursing\nstaff (M= 9.6, SD= 5.3). The lowest source of stress is from students� lack of professional knowledge and skills (M= 3.96; SD= 2.8). The\nmean of students� clinical performance is 73.4%. Students� perceived stress has a significant negative correlation with students� clinical\nperformance (r= -.09; p <.05). The results also showed significant negative correlation between stress related to lack of professional\nknowledge and skills, and stress related to patient care and students� clinical performance.\nConclusion: This study expanded on students� stress in clinical settings, and warrants further research in assessing its impact on their\nperformance. Teachers should be aware of and help students to overcome and cope with said stress related factors in the clinical settings\neffectively...
Background: Acute psychiatric wards manage patients whose actions may threaten safety\n(conflict). Staff act to avert or minimise harm (containment). The Safewards model\nenabled the identification of ten interventions to reduce the frequency of both.\nObjective: To test the efficacy of these interventions.\nDesign: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial with psychiatric hospitals and\nwards as the units of randomisation. The main outcomes were rates of conflict and\ncontainment.\nParticipants: Staff and patients in 31 randomly chosen wards at 15 randomly chosen\nhospitals.\nResults: For shifts with conflict or containment incidents, the experimental condition\nreduced the rate of conflict events by 15% (95% CI 5.6ââ?¬â??23.7%) relative to the control\nintervention. The rate of containment events for the experimental intervention was\nreduced by 26.4% (95% CI 9.9ââ?¬â??34.3%).\nConclusions: Simple interventions aiming to improve staff relationships with patients can\nreduce the frequency of conflict and containment....
Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) was introduced in 1974 as a tool to standardize the assessment of the level of consciousness of patients.\nSince it was introduced and used, GCS was considered to be the gold standard method for this purpose. Despite plenty of strengths GCS\nhas (i.e. objectivity and easy communication on the results between the health care providers); GCS was considered to be ambiguous and\nconfusing for nurses and infrequent users. Moreover, lack of knowledge and training about GCS might affect the accuracy and inter-rater\nreliability among health care professionals. The purpose of this paper was to simplify the use of GCS step by step for the beginner health\ncare professionals.\nThis literature review was done by searching the following search engines: Pubmed, Midline, CINHAL, Ebsco host, and Google Scholar\nfor the key words of: Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), flow chart, nurses, and consciousness.Types of articles included: original research,\nliterature review and meta-analysis. This review included the following sections:\n1) Definition of the related concepts\n2) The historical development of the GCS\n3) How to score the GCS\n4) Recommendation for clinical settings, and\n5) Conclusion...
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