BACKGROUND Patients with heart failure (HF) often worry about resuming sexual activity and may need information. Nurses have a role in helping patients to live with the consequences of HF and can be expected to discuss patients' sexual concerns. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were to identify whether nurses discuss consequences of HF on sexuality with patients and to explore their perceived...

BACKGROUND As nurses are the principal care provider in the hospital setting, the completion or omission of nursing care is likely to have a sizable impact on the patient care experience. However, this relationship has not been explored empirically. AIM To describe the prevalence and patterns of missed nursing care and explore their relationship to the patient care experience. METHODS This ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the attitudes nurses working at psychiatric hospitals in Turkey have towards forensic psychiatric patients and the associated factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study included 620 nurses working at 8 psychiatric hospitals in Turkey that completed ≥80% of the Nurses' Attitudes Towards Forensic Psychiatric Patients Scale (NAFPPS). Data were evaluated base...

INTRODUCTION The patients' families in intensive care units (ICUs) experience excessive stress which may disrupt their performance in daily life. Empathy is basic to the nursing role and has been found to be associated with improved patient outcomes and greater satisfaction with care in patient and his/her family. However, few studies have investigated the nursing empathy with ICU patients. Thi...

BACKGROUND A growing number of studies reveal that there are significant associations between a patient's perception of quality of care and a health professional's perceived quality of work life. Previous studies focused on the patients or on the workers. Alternatively, they center the discussion on either the negative or the positive effects, both on patients and care workers. This research wo...

This study aimed to explore the perspective of people who had experienced treatment as patients at acute mental health units, regarding an intervention model improve therapeutic relationships in which been previously designed by nurses. The participants were linked collectives for social activism health. Six focus groups held. results classified into three themes: (a) meaning a space enable est...

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels attitude and practice regarding sexual health care in patients with cancer among nurses.Methods: This used a cross-sectional descriptive design. Participants were 152 nurses who at general hospital Gangwon province. Data collected from November 7 10, 2016 using self-report questionnaire including each 17 item scale-practice att...

maintaining dignity and respect is among patients’ most fundamental rights. the importance of patient dignity, the status quo, patients’ needs, and a shortage of survey studies in this area were the underlying incentives for conducting this study. this was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which data were collected through patient dignity inventory (pdi). the questionnaire was completed by...