...Emmanuel E. Baro; Loveth Ebhomeya Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the information needs of nurses in two hospitals in Nigeria and the ways in which they went about attempting to meet those needs. Design/methodology/approach The study is a descriptive survey of nurses...

...Irma Mikkonen; Marja‐Anneli Hynynen Purpose The aim of this study was to describe nurses' and other health care professionals' views about their patient education skills and how to develop them. Design/methodology/approach The data for the study were collected from the participants...

... smokers themselves and whether they had received training on helping patients to quit smoking. About half of the 269 patients surveyed reported seeing someone smoking inside the hospital, and 22.3 percent had seen physicians and/or nurses smoking. Among the 758 medical students surveyed, 26.5 percent...

...Han Zao Li; Han Zao Li; Yu Zhang; Karen MacDonell; Xiao Ping Li; Xinguang Chen Purpose The main purpose of this study is to determine the cigarette smoking rate and smoking cessation counseling frequency in a sample of Chinese nurses. Design/methodology/approach At the time of data collection...

...Sally Robinson Purpose The paper comprises an evaluation of the inclusion of art‐related education within a health promotion course for student nurses, which ran for four cohorts from 2001 to 2005, and a description of a project to introduce art into a clinical skills laboratory as part...

...Beth R. Crisp; Pam Green Lister Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore nurses' perceptions of their current skills and knowledge and training needs to identify cases of child abuse and their understanding of their roles and responsibilities in relation to child abuse. Nurses, including...

...Helen Chalmers; Peter Aggleton; Paul Tyrer Purpose Alongside teachers, community nurses have been identified as having an important role to play in the provision of school‐based personal, social and health education (PSHE) and sex and relationships education (SRE). However, there currently exist...

...Terhi Saaranen; Kerttu Tossavainen; Hannele Turunen; Paula Naumanen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the baseline results of a school development project where the aim was to improve school community staff's occupational wellbeing in co‐operation with occupational health nurses...

... transfer Nurses Mass screening Even though any or all of these information sources might be available to any given woman, there is no guarantee that any or all will completely satisfy her expectations as to the information services which she considers necessary or desirable. For some women...

...Kerttu Tossavainen; Hannele Turunen; Sirkka Jakonen; Minna Tupala; Harri Vertio Describes how school nurses estimated their goal attainment in view of the contents and methods of health counselling and their roles and possibilities as health promoters in the school community. Data were collected...

...Diane DeBell; Gil Everett Reports on a detailed study of a school nursing service which has revealed the untapped value of the service and a generally poor understanding of what, precisely, school nurses do, and the nature of their skills and experience. Focuses on one aspect of this study...

...Pippa Bagnall Summarizes the difficulties facing today’s adolescents and data on the prevalence of risk‐taking behaviour which threatens their health. Describes how the school nurse is in a unique position to influence the health of school age children, and is often perceived by them as a caring...

... policy and existing legislation. Concludes that education and health services need to work in collaboration to ensure that sex education and sexual health services for young people are developed in conjunction with each other, as either one on its own is not sufficient. Confidentiality Nurses...

...John Anthony; Sue Williams Describes the development and organization of a sex education programme in a Cambridgeshire comprehensive school, from the perspectives of a teacher and a school nurse. Provides a breakdown of which topics pupils cover in different years and describes how tuition...

...Carol Bailey Explains how school nurses in California have a much higher professional status than that of their counterparts in the UK. They have a defined career structure within schools, which also employ them, so that they have similar salaries, terms and conditions of employment...