Nursing Care: Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviors

Dear Colleagues,

Nurses are the largest group of regulated health professionals in almost every country in the world. The quality of nursing and patient safety depend on the knowledge, skills, opinions, and behaviors of nurses. Nurses develop their competencies, professional identity, and behaviors in the early stages of their study and thereafter through various forms of formal and informal education and work with patients. This Special Issue of IJERPH addresses phenomena, challenges, and difficulties related to nursing knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors in various nursing settings in primary, secondary, and tertiary human healthcare, including the educational process. New research, systematic, integrative, and literature reviews are welcome for this Issue.

The following are some examples of topics that might be covered in this Special Issue: 

1. Knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors of nurses and nursing students in academic and clinical settings;
2. Contribution of nurses' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors to: a) assessment of the patient's condition; b) planning and implementation of nursing care; c) patient safety; d) nurses' motivation and decision making during the provision of nursing care; 
3. Teaching, mentoring, management, and supervision in the function of changing nursing knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior; 
4. .Assessment and evaluation of nursing knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior;
5.  Challenges related to nursing knowledge, attitudes, and behavior.

Dr. Robert Lovrić
Dr. Boštjan Žvanut
Dr. Biljana Kurtović
Guest Editors

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