Pharmacist-Patient Relationship: Commitment to Care

The relationship between incidence of delay in offering care to the patient and nurses professional commitment

Background and Objectives: Delay in patient care is the most common error that threatens patient safety and increases mortality, and hospital costs. This study investigated the relationship between delay in patient care and nurses professional commitment. Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study. Through a stratified sampling method, 300 nurses were selected from...

Pharmacist Patient Care Services Selected Reference List

The article discusses how non-physicians can help address the increasing shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. As demand for primary care services is projected to increase, the supply of primary care physicians is continuing to decline. Authors propose that non-physician professionals such as pharmacists and nurses are essential towards saving time for physicians, providing ...

A concept analysis of nurses' commitment to patient care.

Commitment to the service of mankind has always been a key concept of professional nursing. However, very little effort seems to have been made to analyse the nature of commitment as a factor in nursing. This article explores the meaning of the concept 'commitment' as revealed by a review of the literature and the responses of a group of registered nurses in unstructured interviews. It goes on ...

Professional commitment, patient safety, and patient-perceived care quality.

PURPOSE To examine how professional commitment influences patient safety and patient-perceived care quality. DESIGN Investigators for this study used a cross-sectional design with questionnaires. A total of 348 pairs of nurses and inpatients were contacted at two medical centers in Taiwan during the period from August 2007 to January 2008, yielding 284 pairs of completed questionnaires. MET...

The commitment to care.