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1. Botswana, a developing country in Southern Africa, is leading the way to higher education in nursing and nursing research. 2. Clinical research studies are a recent addition; to date, only four involve perioperative nursing issues. 3. Nurses need advanced education within universities where practice can be examined in relation to rigorous scientific inquiry--to replace decisions made solely on the basis of culture, tradition, or economics.

1. The acronym PRODUCTS has been established to integrate into practice beliefs about perioperative nursing at Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia. 2. The nursing practice model used focuses on the essential components, interdependence, and crossover components of clinical practice, management, and education aspects of nursing. 3. An emphasis has been placed on valuing the expertise within the clinical team, and providing all nurses with a framework to further develop their nursing care and clinical competence.

1. Nursing science is a relatively new field of research in Sweden. Nursing research in Sweden is at an early stage of development and is scattered over different institutions, schools, and other centers. A systematic registration of research work is carried out only in certain areas. 2. Perioperative nursing care in Sweden is in a developmental stage. Some units have tried to introduce the perioperative nursing care model, but only the neurosurgical operation unit at Akademiska sjukhuset (Academic Hospital) in Uppsala, Sweden, has succeeded. 3. The perioperative nursing care model can be described briefly as follows: the operation nurse visits the patient at the ward and they have a structured conversation, the operation nurse is present when the operation is discussed and planned by the surgeon and anesthesiologist, and the operation nurse is responsible for the patient's care plan at the operation unit, visits the patient after the operation, and evaluates the experience in a structured conversation.

Prevention, as well as effective early treatment and intervention, provides an opportunity for both reducing financial costs and improving the quality of life for the patients involved. The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR), therefore, has developed clinical practice guidelines concerning the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. The Guidelines target four overall goals: Identify at-risk individuals who need prevention and the specific factors that place them at risk; maintain and improve tissue tolerance to pressure in order to prevent injury; protect against the adverse effects of external mechanical forces (pressure, friction, shear); and reduce the incidence of pressure ulcers through educational programs.

1. Cyprus health policies and strategies emphasize the value of the individual in a caring family and community framework, with the implication that health is the responsibility of the whole country and its citizens. 2. Operating room nursing has undergone many changes in the past few years, such as the introduction of the nursing process together with the team concept. 3. Many aspects of nursing care in operating theaters have improved greatly, but we face the future with aspirations for additional improvement.

1. The most common intraocular infection of persons with AIDS is cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, affecting an estimated 20%. Untreated, CMV retinitis is a progressive and destructive infection that results in blindness. 2. In approximately 20% of CMV retinitis patients, the lesions progress to retinal detachment. Surgical intervention is then recommended for retinal detachment complicating CMV retinitis. 3. Eighty percent of patients who have surgical intervention for CMV retinitis will not develop useful ambulatory eyesight. A great deal of psychological support will be required to help the patient cope with a severe visual deficit postoperatively.