Aim In order to ensure patient safety and quality of care, it is important to consider factors
which may impact on nursing workloads. This study aimed to investigate the simultaneous …

Introduction: Physical restraint may seem to be a useful and simple procedure to help the
treatment but is a complex practice including physical, psychological, judicial, ethical and …

Aims and objectives The aim of this study was to explore the consequences of the nurse's
use of advanced assessment skills on medical and surgical wards. Background Appropriate …

The BKAT is a valid and reliable test of basic knowledge in critical care nursing. Validity was
established through a panel of nine experts in critical care nursing practice and education …

Background. Physical restraint is a common practice in the intensive care units which often
result in frequent skin laceration at restraint site, limb edema, restricted circulation, and …

Aims To establish what advanced physical assessment skills are being used by cardiac
nurses after they undertook a clinical patient assessment module; and to explore the factors …

BACKGROUND: Empirical studies in competence are lacking in the field of intensive and
critical care nursing. OBJECTIVE: To identify competence requirements, by soliciting the …

The purpose of this study was to obtain baseline data of Japanese nurses' knowledge, skills
and attitudes concerning physical assessment. The design of the study was survey research …

The Basic Knowledge Assessment Tool (BKAT), a test developed in the United States, has
been presented as a valid and reliable test of basic knowledge for critical care nursing …

2. Describe the relationship between patients' descriptions of nurses' skill and the 3 domains
of skill in nursing practice 3. Describe the extent to which nurses' attributes identified by …