Background: In addition to a global shortage of nurses, there is also a shortage of academically qualified faculty available to teach in schools of nursing. Methods: A systematic review examined proposed solutions to the global shortage of nursing faculty. Metasynthesis was used to compare and critically appraise strategies offered for solving or ameliorating the global nursing faculty shortage…
Purpose: The study objective was to understand the meaning of evidencebased management for senior nurse leaders in accredited, public hospitals in the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Design and Method: A phenomenological approach was used to analyze interviews conducted with 10 senior nurse leaders between August 2011 and March 2012. The analytic method was developed by the Brazilian phenomenologis…
Purpose: Several literature reviews have been published summarizing objective knowledge about older patients with heart failure (HF). Although of vital importance to the treatment and diagnosis of HF, these reviews fail to explicate and summarize older patients’ subjective and lived experience of the condition, which restrains us from providing a complete picture of the illness trajectory. Th…