background: elderly population is increasing worldwide. the elderly are hospitalized more and have a longer stay compared to patients of all ages. nurse-elderly patient relationship has a key role in improving nursing care and increasing patient’s satisfaction of health care system. methods: this was a cross-sectional study conducted from june to august 2005. the sample consisted of 110 elderly...

The main challenge of Nurse Scheduling Problem (NSP)is designing a nurse schedule that satisfies nurses preferences at minimal cost violating the soft constraints. This makes NSP an NP-hard problem with no perfect solution yet. In this study, two meta-heuristics procedures: Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Tabu Search (TS) memory was applied for development automatic hospital scheduling system (GATS_...

background: medical and paramedical errors can cause  irreversible injuries and sometimes may lead to death. the reason of these errors can be intentionally or unintentionally.the present research has been done with the purpose of determining the frequency of nursing and midwifery errors in referred cases to the iranian medical council. methods: a descriptive study was conducted to evaluate all...

Objective: Our aim of this study is to assess prevalence hypertension and diabetes among Group C D staffs in a Rural Medical College Hospital West Bengal, India as well whether there difference these parameters two groups. Methods: After getting clearance from the Institutional Ethics Committee, cross-sectional observational unicentric was done with 44 Staffs 80 staffs. Results: The showed that...

background & aim: fear of death can cause death anxiety for everyone. in health care professions, death anxiety becomes a routine source of stress and may lead to unwanted consequences. coping strategies of nurses and different approaches to death can affect the quality of health care services. the aim of this study was to determine attitudes toward death in nursing staff in hospitals of rafsan...

AIM To explore patients' experiences of day surgery. BACKGROUND Therapeutic relationships are considered to be a core dimension of nursing care. However, in modern health care with short hospital stays the formation of these relationships may be impeded. A major theme to emerge from this study was the development of therapeutic relationships in the day surgery setting. DESIGN The Glaserian ...

Oral health among elderly people is commonly debated, and correlations between oral and general health are shown. The increase of life expectancy in our population causes changes in the need of oral health care. The requirements of performing the oral hygiene increase and cause higher demands on the staff working at the geriatric homes. Both private and communal geriatric homes were included in...