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Background: This study examines the phenomenon of arrangements limiting terms of office for directors of nursing (DONs) as a policy change in the Israeli public healthcare system since nursing is a major component of the healthcare system's personnel, and DONs have a crucial influence on achieving the organization's goals in a changing and developing environment with limited resources. Aim of Article: To understand how senior role-holders in the Israeli public healthcare system view arrangements limiting terms of office for directors of nursing as a policy change in the Israeli nursing system. Methods: Qualitative design comprising face-to-face interviews with sixteen purposefully sampled senior managers at three medical centers in central Israel. Data were analyzed thematically. Findings: Five themes emerged: ambivalence concerning the need for arrangements limiting terms of office, arrangements limiting terms of office as an organizational change, arrangements limiting terms of office as a method of career management, arrangements limiting terms of office – where they are headed, and length of the term of office. Conclusions: This study shows that the answer to the question whether to perpetuate the past or shape the future is not unequivocal; it is evident from ambivalent attitudes towards the option of instituting arrangements limiting terms of office.

Background: This study examines the phenomenon of arrangements limiting terms of office for directors of nursing (DONs) as a policy change in the Israeli public healthcare system since nursing is a major component of the healthcare system's personnel, and DONs have a crucial influence on achieving the organization's goals in a changing and developing environment with limited resources. Aim of Article: To understand how senior role-holders in the Israeli public healthcare system view arrangements limiting terms of office for directors of nursing as a policy change in the Israeli nursing system. Methods: Qualitative design comprising face-to-face interviews with sixteen purposefully sampled senior managers at three medical centers in central Israel. Data were analyzed thematically. Findings: Five themes emerged: ambivalence concerning the need for arrangements limiting terms of office, arrangements limiting terms of office as an organizational change, arrangements limiting terms of office as a method of career management, arrangements limiting terms of office - where they are headed, and length of the term of office. Conclusions: This study shows that the answer to the question whether to perpetuate the past or shape the future is not unequivocal; it is evident from ambivalent attitudes towards the option of instituting arrangements limiting terms of office. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Documentation tasks comprise a large percentage of nurses' workloads. Nursing records were partially based on a report from the patient. However, it is not a verbatim transcription of the patient's complaints but a type of medical record. Therefore, to reduce the time spent on nursing documentation, it is necessary to assist in the appropriate conversion or citation of patient reports to professional records. However, few studies have been conducted on systems for capturing patient reports in electronic medical records. In addition, there have been no reports on whether such a system reduces the time spent on nursing documentation., Objective: This study aims to develop a patient self-reporting system that appropriately converts data to nursing records and evaluate its effect on reducing the documenting burden for nurses., Methods: An electronic medical record-connected questionnaire and a preadmission nursing questionnaire were administered. The questionnaire responses entered by the patients were quoted in the patient profile for inpatient assessment in the nursing system. To clarify its efficacy, this study examined whether the use of the electronic questionnaire system saved the nurses' time entering the patient profile admitted between August and December 2022. It also surveyed the usability of the electronic questionnaire between April and December 2022., Results: A total of 3111 (78%) patients reported that they answered the electronic medical questionnaire by themselves. Of them, 2715 (88%) felt it was easy to use and 2604 (85%) were willing to use it again. The electronic questionnaire was used in 1326 of 2425 admission cases (use group). The input time for the patient profile was significantly shorter in the use group than in the no-use group (P<.001). Stratified analyses showed that in the internal medicine wards and in patients with dependent activities of daily living, nurses took 13%-18% (1.3 to 2 minutes) less time to enter patient profiles within the use group (both P<.001), even though there was no difference in the amount of information. By contrast, in the surgical wards and in the patients with independent activities of daily living, there was no difference in the time to entry (P=.50 and P=.20, respectively), but there was a greater amount of information in the use group., Conclusions: The study developed and implemented a system in which self-reported patient data were captured in the hospital information network and quoted in the nursing system. This system contributes to improving the efficiency of nurses' task recordings., (©Kana Kodama, Shozo Konishi, Shirou Manabe, Katsuki Okada, Junji Yamaguchi, Shoya Wada, Kento Sugimoto, Sakiko Itoh, Daiyo Takahashi, Ryo Kawasaki, Yasushi Matsumura, Toshihiro Takeda. Originally published in JMIR Nursing (https://nursing.jmir.org), 25.09.2023.)

In Bangladesh, shrimp post-larvae (PL) are mainly produced in hatcheries. From 2000s shrimp PL are reared in nurseries containing small earthen ponds by relatively poor people for a few days before stocking into the shrimp farms. This study assesses the physical and chemical parameters of five such nurseries at Satkhira district, Bangladesh using scientific instruments and semi-structured questionnaire. The nursing process involved stocking of PL (4151.8 ± 1581.35 PL/m2) in small earthen ponds (<18m2 area/pond) and raring for up to 10 days with feeding. Most of the physico-chemical parameters were within the suitable range recommended for shrimp culture. The survival rate of PL ranged from 80% to 90%. The nursing system was profitable as the average Benefit-Cost Ratio (BCR) was 1.19. The establishment and operation of these nurseries do not require any expensive equipment or complex technology and can be run by less educated and poor people. However, constraints like lack of credit and continuous water supply are hindering the scaling up of these nurseries in size and number. By providing means to overcome the constraints these nurseries can be an excellent income generating source for the poor entrepreneurs as well as contribute in increasing shrimp production in Bangladesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hospitals that admit patients with COVID-19 face the challenge of not only dealing with these patients but also balancing normal medical care and hospital management to cope with the challenges posed by the new post-epidemic era. Over the past two years of responding to COVID-19 as a front-line clinical nurse, my colleagues and I have fully appreciated the need to establish a nursing system that is appropriate for the new post-epidemic era. The following four aspects should be emphasized: i ) the continuation of thorough infection control measures; ii ) exploring new approaches to training for new recruits; iii ) ensuring nursing workforce and improving the nursing capacity to cope with patients critically ill with COVID-19; and iv ) teamwork and team care to provide nurses with timely psychological assistance., Competing Interests: The author has no conflicts of interest to disclose., (2022, National Center for Global Health and Medicine.)

Organization, work and work reactions: a study of the relationship between organizational aspects of nursing and nurses' work characteristics and work reactions This article describes a quantitative, correlational study of the relationship between organizational aspects (such as the predictability of the care), work characteristics (autonomy and workload) and work reactions (work satisfaction and health complaints) in nursing work. The variables have been measured by questionnaires. Subjects were 155 nurses from nine units in two general hospitals in the Netherlands. Several organizational aspects seem to be correlated with work characteristics and work reactions. Organizational aspects particularly influence work characteristics and play, therefore, a mediating role in the relationship between organizational aspects and work reactions. Job satisfaction is not only correlated with the autonomy, but also with workload. Health complaints appeared to be mainly correlated with the workload. It is concluded that for an improvement of job satisfaction and reduction of health complaints, it is not only necessary to improve autonomy and reduce workload, but also to pay attention to organizational aspects because these may influence the work characteristics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]