Medical Staff's Decision-Making Process in the Nursing Home

The Faculty Members' Contribution in Decision Making Process of Schools' Administrators in Medical University of Isfahan

Introduction: The faculty members' participation in the decisions made by administrators lies on a continuum with two extremes of thorough participation to no participation. A study on the process of these decision makings can illuminate the present situation in order to improve the participation status. The purpose of this study was to determine the mean of faculty members' participation rate ...

Improving the medical decision-making process.

Commentary: Improving The Medical Decision-Making Process

I want to argue the case for the evaluative clinical sciences and the need to support a national program to assess the outcomes of medical care. For too long, and at peril to the welfare of patients and the public as well, we have neglected that essential part of medical science whose job it is to establish the validity of clinical theory and help physicians and patients reach the right decisio...

Clinical Decision-Making: a Way to Professional Empowerment in Nursing

Background. The dynamic and uncertain nature of health care environment requires nurses to be competent decision makers and to respond to the clients needs. Recently, the public and the government have criticized Iranian nurses because of a low quality patient care. However, the nurses’ views and experiences concern- ing the factors affecting their clinical practice and clinical decision making...

Nursing Home Placement: The Process of Decision Making and Adaptation among Adult Children Caregivers of Demented Parents in Korea.

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to explore and describe the process of nursing home placement decision making and adaptation among adult children caregivers of demented parents in Korea and to generate a substantive theory grounded in their experiences. METHODS The participants were 16 adult children caregivers who had placed their demented elders into nursing homes. Data were collected by...