Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Meeting Patient Expectations: Determinants and a Nurse’s Role

Each human being is unique and no two individuals are the same in their demeanor. This unproven fact becomes most evident when an individual becomes ill. In this current era of consumerism, people are highly conscious and knowledgeable about services they can expect from a merchant, and there are a number of public initiatives to make them understand what to expect, in a service or a product. Meeting such expectations, on the part of the merchant, results in customer satisfaction, which is the highest goal of a service or a product. This...

Thursday, 19 June 2014

Nursing As An Attractive Career Option For Men

Nursing, in modern times, has not been perceived as a profession to be pursued by men; as a vocation, perhaps, through a religious order. You may find it surprising, though, that until the late 1800s nursing was a service primarily rendered by men. It wasn’t until Florence Nightingale started advocating professional nursing care at the frontline, during the Crimean War (1853 – 1856), did women nurses start making their presence felt on...

Monday, 9 June 2014

Bringing Information Technology to Indian Nursing – Global Best Practices

Nursing is changing worldwide, as technology becomes more sophisticated and percolates into more practices within the nursing discipline. Having said that, there is an imperative need to introduce information technology in the Indian nursing system. At present, Indian nurses are unable to cope with work pressure due to the quantum of data generated in each of the cases they handle. This volume of data manifests itself in heavy paperwork,...