Responding to the call for globalization in nursing education: the implementation of the transatlantic double-degree program.

Increased demand for nurses worldwide has highlighted the need for a flexible nursing workforce eligible for licensure in multiple countries. Nursing's curricular innovation mirrors the call for reform within higher education including globalization of curricula (E. J.

Nursing admissions process redesigned to leverage EHR.

Among the challenges facing nurses in acute care facilities are duplicate documentation, complex rules for coordinating care, and pressure to accelerate patient discharge. Christiana Care, a two-hospital, 900-bed health system in Delaware, redesigned its nursing admissions process to address these issues and provide a centralized source of assessment information. An interdisciplinary team redesigned the assessment process to leverage the clinical documentation, decision support, and workflow tools of Christiana Care's evolving electronic health record.

Assertiveness and caring: are they compatible?

Background: Findings from numerous assertion studies suggest that nurses are generally non-assertive. This study examines the role of caring as an important determinant of adaptive assertive behaviour.

Aim And Objectives: The aim of the investigation was to explore the relationship between assertion and caring skills.

Effects of nurses' sex-role orientation on positive and negative assertion.

The present paper examines how the sex-role orientation of the nurse can affect both positive and negative assertion. The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BRSI) and the Assertion Inventory (AI) were used to collect self-reported data from a convenience sample of 94 subjects. Behavioral data were obtained by directly sampling 50 nurses' responses within role-play situations.