A Conflict of Values: Nurses' Willingness to Work Under Threatening Conditions.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the willingness of Israeli registered nurses to work under threatening conditions, their perceived level of threat, and perceptions of peer willingness to report to work.

Design: This descriptive study was based on a convenience sample of registered nurses working in four hospitals throughout Israel from internal medicine, surgical, emergency, and intensive care units.

Methods: A questionnaire designed by the investigators was administered to registered nurses while on duty.

The changing roles of community nurses: the case of health plan nurses in Israel.

Background: In Israel, approximately one-third of the country's nurses work in community settings - primarily as salaried employees in Israel's four non-profit health plans. Many health system leaders believe that the roles of health plan nurses have changed significantly in recent years due to a mix of universal developments (such as population aging and academization of the profession) and Israel-specific changes (such as the introduction of extensive quality monitoring in primary care).

Objectives: The main objectives of the study were to identify recent changes in the roles of health plan nurses and their current areas of activity.

Multi-faceted identities and interactions in mixed health teams.

The literature in the area of the health workforce and societies in conflict encompasses a wide range of studies and potential directions. Lately, Keshet and Popper-Giveon reported on a study based on interviews with 13 Arab Israeli nurses who work in Israeli hospitals. This preliminary study describes how being an Arab nurse in Israel is experienced and perceived by those nurses.

Cultural safety and nursing education in divided societies.

Aim: This research explores the experiences of cultural safety among nursing students from majority and minority groups in a divided society with implications for academic satisfaction and success.

Background: The study takes place in an academic nursing program in Israel, where Arab and Jewish students study together.

Methods: A researcher-developed questionnaire was used with 17 statements concerning social relations between students, faculty support, and the effects of social relations on academic satisfaction and outcomes.

Accepting responsibility for long-term care--a paradox in times of a global nursing shortage?

Unlabelled: Need for long-term care (LTC) is increasing globally, and nurses have a professional imperative to address the growing need for long-term care (LTC). The author reviews the effect of globalization and the epidemiologic transition upon the growing need for LTC. I also summarize the lessons learned in the developing world, as well as in the industrialized world, based on the existing research evidence.

Moral distress questionnaire for clinical nurses: instrument development.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to develop and test the psychometric properties of a culture-sensitive moral distress questionnaire among nurses employed in a variety of work settings.

Background: In the course of the last decade, there has been increased interest in capturing healthcare professionals' experiences of stress associated with ethical dilemmas. Ethical issues emerge in grey areas and are often blurred, and have thus received insufficient attention.

Current and future worldwide prevalence of dependency, its relationship to total population, and dependency ratios.

Objective: To estimate the number of people worldwide requiring daily assistance from another person in carrying out health, domestic or personal tasks.

Methods: Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study were used to calculate the prevalence of severe levels of disability, and consequently, to estimate dependency. Population projections were used to forecast changes over the next 50 years.

Home-based care in Botswana: experiences of older women and young girls.

In this exploratory and descriptive study we investigated the experiences of and impact on young girls and older women caring for family members living with HIV/AIDS and other chronic and terminal illnesses at home in three districts of Botswana. Using qualitative research methods, we conducted 70 interviews with family caregivers and key informants such as community home-based care (CHBC) team members and government officials. Older women reported feeling overwhelmed with the magnitude and multiplicity of tasks they had to perform.

[Worldwide view of health and home care].

Worldwide overview of health and home care. It describes the World Health Organization (WHO) in its historical background, pointing out the Brazilian participation in its foundation and some of the most relevant facts and events that preceded its creation. Also, it depicts the history of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) founded in December 1902 and its celebration of the first centennial.

Care of the frail elderly in developed and developing countries: the experience and the challenges.

Demographic and epidemiological changes will result in dramatic changes in the health needs of the world's populations. Everywhere there is a steep increase in the need for management of chronic diseases and for long-term care. Therefore, the search for effective policies to care for the frail elderly in general and long-term care (LTC) policies in particular, is one of the most pressing challenges facing modern society.