To enhance nurses' continual learning, knowledge updating, and professional competence, we suggest that nursing managers should practise internal marketing.
Factors contributing to program success included: (1) mentors' ability to establish trust, (2) promotion of team-based assessment and problem solving, (3) continual strengthening of nurses' clinical skills, and (4) support for use of case sheets.
Low-level residential care (also referred to as 'hostel care' in the Australian system) provides help and housing to older people who do not need continual, high level access to nursing care but have physical, medical, psychological or social care needs that cannot be met through living in the community [ 2].
The continual, acutely felt need for nurses to integrate knowledge, technical skills and ethical conduct in their practice has become ever more evident [ 11], particularly so in response to the challenges facing nurses over the last few years.
To better adapt to continual human resource reduction and to improve nursing service quality, wider applications of multimedia with printed nursing guides in patient education may be worthwhile.
The intervention program will take place in Falun, Gävle or Uppsala, and be conducted by specially trained nurses who will receive continual supervision.
By continual proximity to the patient, the nurse is well positioned to understand diverse problems, intervention effects, and disease progression and therefore to link all concerned individuals.
Nurses at trusts which have continual financial trouble are worried their employers' focus on finances may mean they struggle to keep delivering high-quality care, added Dr Peter Carter, chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing.
To ensure that nurses are equipped with the necessary ability to adapt to technological and environmental change, nursing managers should provide staff with continual education and training.
