Assessing clinical learning outcomes: a descriptive study of nursing students in Kuwait.

This study examined the perceptions of 202 nursing students, 14 faculty members, and 32 clinical instructors in the achievement of nursing students' clinical learning outcomes during their different clinical placements. The participants were involved in the bachelor of science in nursing and associate degree in nursing programs. Nine dimensions were studied using the Kuwait Clinical Learning Outcomes for Nursing Students tool.

Factors contributing to nursing task incompletion as perceived by nurses working in Kuwait general hospitals.

Background: Unfinished care has a strong relationship with quality of nursing care. Most issues related to tasks incompletion arise from staffing and workload.

Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the workload of nurses, the nursing activities (tasks) nurses commonly performed on medical and surgical wards, elements of nursing care activities left incomplete by nurses during a shift, factors contributing to task incompletion and the relationship between staffing, demographic variables and task incompletion.

Perceived adverse patient outcomes correlated to nurses' workload in medical and surgical wards of selected hospitals in Kuwait.

Aim: This study was carried out to identify the perceived adverse patient outcomes as related to nurses' workload. It also assessed nurses' perception of variables contributing to the workload and adverse patient outcomes.

Background: Several studies have been published on adverse patient outcomes in which a correlation was found between nurses' workload and some adverse patient outcomes.

Adverse nurse outcomes: correlation to nurses' workload, staffing, and shift rotation in Kuwaiti hospitals.

This study was conducted to identify adverse outcomes to nurses in relation to their daily patient load, nursing care activities, staffing, and shift rotation. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from medical and surgical nurses (N = 784). Skipping tea/coffee breaks (95%), feeling responsible for more patients than they could safely care for (87%), inadequate help available (86%), inadequate time to document care (80%), verbal abuse by a patient or a visitor (77%), and concern about quality of care (71%) were the major reported adverse outcomes related to short staffing, increased patient load, and increased nursing care activities.

Health-promoting lifestyle and body mass index among College of Nursing students in Kuwait: a correlational study.

This cross-sectional, descriptive survey of 202 nursing students in Kuwait assessed their body mass index and health-promoting lifestyle to determine any association between them. The body mass index was calculated by dividing the weight by the height squared (kg/m(2)). The health-promoting lifestyle was measured using Walker's Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II instrument.

Correlation of the health-promoting lifestyle, enrollment level, and academic performance of College of Nursing students in Kuwait.

This descriptive study of 224 nursing students assessed their health-promoting lifestyle profile and correlated it with the levels of enrollment in nursing courses and academic performance. The health-promoting lifestyle profile was measured by Walker's Health-promoting Lifestyle Profile II instrument. Academic performance was measured by assessing the nursing grade point average and general grade point average of the students.

Kuwaiti high school students' perceptions of nursing as a profession: implications for nursing education and practice.

The shortage of nurses in Kuwait is attributed to low production of indigenous nurses, resignation and emigration of foreign nurses, and expansion of health care facilities. This study explored Kuwaiti high school students' perceptions of nursing as a profession, their sources of information about nursing, and factors that affected their choice of nursing as a future career. Questionnaires from 289 students attending seven all-female high schools in Kuwait were analyzed.