September 03, 2010
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| A theoretical examination of the rights of nurses - Nursing Ethics |
| Kangasniemi M et al. – Nurses' rights can be divided into: human and civil rights, rights based on health care legislation, professional rights, and earned rights. In this context, professional rights relate to nursing and also to tasks shared with other health care professions. Analyzing nurses' rights will help to promote these rights, improve nurses’ position both nationally and internationally, and provide possibilities for enhancing patient care.... |
| Influencing Leadership Perceptions of Patient Safety Through Just Culture Training - Journal of Nursing Care Quality |
| Vogelsmeier A et al. – Evidence suggests that an organization's actual safety performance is more closely reflected in staff perceptions suggesting that frontline staff may be more aware than the leadership of actual patient safety challenges within their organization. Closing the perception gap between healthcare leaders and staff is critical to aligning the resources and strategies required to create a true culture of safety.... |
| Feature Articles Developing a Statewide Medication Technician Pilot Program in Nursing Homes - Journal of Gerontological Nursing |
| Randolph PK et al. – There were no differences in patterns of medication errors before and after the introduction of medication technicians, and structured interviews revealed that participants viewed the role favorably, with reported increased role satisfaction on the part of delegating nurses. Efforts are underway to extend the program statewide.... |
| Battlefield conditions: Different environment but the same duty of care - Nursing Ethics |
| Kelly J – Using an interpretative research approach to ethical and legal literature, it is argued that nursing in the battlefield is distinctly different to civilian nursing, even in an emergency, and that the environment is so different that a duty of care owed by military nurses to wounded soldiers should not apply. Such distinct differences in wartime can override normal peacetime professional ethics to the extent that the duty of care owed by military nurses to their patients on the battlefield should not exist. It is also argued that as military nurses have legal and professional obligations to care for wounded soldiers on the battlefield, this obligation conflicts with following military orders, causing a dual loyalty conflict. ... |
| Designing Nursing Excellence Through a National Quality Forum Nurse Scholar Program - Journal of Nursing Care Quality |
| Neumann JA et al. – Closing the knowledge gap for current practicing nurses in the Institute of Medicine (IOM) core competencies is critical to providing safe patient care. The National Quality Forum (NQF) nurse scholar program is one organization's journey to close the gap in the IOM core competencies in a large teaching organization. The NQF nurse scholar program is positioned to provide a plan to assist current nurses to accelerate their learning about quality improvement, evidence–based practice, and informatics, 3 of the core competencies identified by the IOM, and focus on application of skills to NQF nurse–sensitive measures. ... |
September 02, 2010
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| Mentoring overseas nurses: Barriers to effective and non-discriminatory mentoring practices - Nursing Ethics |
| Allan H – The data collected showed that overseas nurses are discriminated against in their learning by poor mentoring practices; equally, from these data, it appears that mentors are ill–equipped by existing mentor preparation programmes to mentor overseas–trained nurses from culturally diverse backgrounds. Recommendations are made for improving mentoring programmes to address mentors' ability to facilitate learning in a culturally diverse workplace and thereby improve overseas nurses’ experiences of their supervised practice.... |
| Ethical vulnerabilities in nursing history: Conflicting loyalties and the patient as 'other' - Nursing Ethics |
| Lagerwey MD – The article concludes with suggestions for more ethical approaches to the other in current nursing practice. The past may be one of the most fruitful sites for examining enduring ethical vulnerabilities of the nursing profession. First of all, professional identity, which includes moral identity, comes in part from knowledge of the nursing profession’s past. Second, looking to the past to understand better how events and ideologies have brought vulnerabilities to the fore raises questions about ethical nursing practice today.... |
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