Communication Skills among Nursing staff at Azadi Teaching Hospital

Smoking among nursing staff at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town.

A tobacco-free hospital environment sends an important signal to patients and visitors with regard to both safety and a healthy lifestyle. Today patients, staff and visitors increasingly expect an antismoking policy to be in place in hospitals and other venues where sick people are treated. Health care staff can play an important role in the implementation of an antismoking policy in their hosp...

The SBAR communication technique: teaching nursing students professional communication skills.

The Joint Commission and Institute for Healthcare Improvement have mandated healthcare organizations to improve professional communication. Nursing students lack experience in communicating with physicians. As a result, recent graduates may not be prepared to meet the demands of professional communication to ensure patient safety. The authors discuss the SBAR (situation, background, assessment,...

[Colonization by Staphylococcus aureus among the nursing staff of a teaching hospital in Pernambuco].

This study was performed with the objective to identify the prevalence of colonization by Staphylococcus aureus in nursing professionals from a teaching hospital in Pernambuco, and evaluate the resistance profile of these isolates. To do this, we performed a cross-sectional study where biological samples were collected from the hands and nasal cavities of the subjects. S. aureus was identified ...

A Study on Job Satisfaction among Nursing Staff in a Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital

Factors associated with knowledge of the nursing staff at a teaching hospital on blood transfusion 1

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