Efficient, accurate, and timely communication is required for quality health care and is strongly linked to health care staff job satisfaction. Developing ways to improve communication is key to increasing quality of care, and interdisciplinary care teams allow for improved communication among health care professionals. This study examines the patient- and family-centered use of structured inte...

Understanding the determinants of patient mortality can lead to the development of strategies that reduce mortality and prevent unnecessary death. This paper synthesizes the body of published research that explores determinants of mortality for patients who have experienced acute care hospitalization. Fifteen research manuscripts were found to meet the selection criteria through an electronic s...

BACKGROUND Nurse-physician collaboration may be related to outcomes in health care-associated infections. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between nurse-physician collaboration and health care-associated infections in critically ill adults. METHODS A secondary analysis was done of 5 years of nurses' perception data from 671 surveys from 4 intensive care units. Ventilator-associated pneum...

AIM Automated, daily Home Monitoring (HM) of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) patients can improve patient care. Yet, HM introduction to routine clinical practice is challenged by resource allocation for regular HM data review. We tested the feasibility, safety, workload, and clinical usefulness of a centralized HM model consisting of one monitor centre and nine satell...

abstract background: effective patient–professional communication can be of crucial importance to long-term psycho-social outcomes in patients with cancer. a cross sectional study was conducted to examine cancer patients' satisfaction with regard to various aspects of communication and information given by nurses. methods: a proportional stratified sampling method was done and data collect...

The physician has the duty to obtain a patient’s informed consent for surgery. This duty does not apply to a hospital, even if the surgeon uses one of the hospital’s operating rooms. A doctor’s nurse does not have the legal duty to obtain a patient’s informed consent for surgery. If a nurse assists in a procedure where informed consent has not been given, the physician, but not the nurse, can b...

study the performance of nurses communication with patients in special education and non- teaching hospital, urmia     hemmati maslakpak m [1] * , sheikhbaklu m [2] , baghaei r [3] , sheikhi n [4]     received: 21 dec, 2011 accepted: 4 feb, 2012     abstract   background & aims : acceptable communication performance is essential for safe, effective, and suitable care . proper communication is e...

"Good" relationships between nurses and physicians are important to high-quality patient care. Five different types of nurse-physician relationships exist on clinical units. What are the differences in the nurse-physician climate between magnet and comparison hospitals? What are the organizational structures and best leadership practices that help nurses develop collegial and collaborative rela...

Abstract Background and purpose:Now-a-days, patient satisfaction is increasingly receiving the attention of health-service providers, which is a necessary step to enhance the quality of health services. The present study aimed at exploring patient-physician communicative patterns, physicians’ job satisfaction, and patients’ satisfaction at Isfahan, Iran. Materials and Methods:This s...

Introduction Nurses and physicians are 2 key players in a well-functioning high quality healthcare system. The relationship between these two professions is continuously evolving. Combining the social identity theory (SIT) self-categorization theory, this review explores physician-nurse from perspective. Methods Screening of PubMed, Web Science, Cinahl Cochrane Library on keywords ‘Physician’, ...