Clinical nursing handovers for continuity of safe patient care in adult surgical wards: a best practice implementation project.

Objectives: The objective of this evidence-based quality improvement project was to improve clinical nursing handovers between registered nurses.

Introduction: Clinical nursing handovers transfer critical information about the patient's care to oncoming shift nurses. Nurses use structured handover tools to handover patient information.

Prevalence of depression among nursing students: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objectives: To examine the global prevalence of depression among nursing students and the variation in depression rates influenced by demographic and educational factors.

Background: Depression affects approximately 350 million people worldwide and is the world's leading cause of disability. Nursing students struggle to cope with not only stressors common in higher education institutions but also anxiety towards clinical placements.

Educational efficacy of objective structured clinical examination on clinical training of traditional Chinese medicine - A qualitative study.

Objective: We propose applying objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) and discuss the educational efficacy of such examinations regarding the clinical competence of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners.

Design: TCM OSCEs were implemented for evaluation and instruction from 2011 to 2013. Trainees received feedback from clinician-educators and standardized patients.