BACKGROUND Pressure ulcer prevention is a critical patient safety indicator for acute care hospitals. An innovative pressure ulcer prevention care bundle targeting patient participation in their care was recently tested in a cluster randomised trial in eight Australian hospitals. Understanding nurses' perspectives of such an intervention is imperative when interpreting results and translating e...

OBJECTIVES To inform healthcare workforce policy decisions by showing how patient perceptions of hospital care are associated with confidence in nurses and doctors, nurse staffing levels and hospital work environments. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys of 66 348 hospital patients and 2963 inpatient nurses. SETTING Patients surveyed were discharged in 2010 from 161 National Health Service (NHS)...

The aim of the study reported in this article was to investigate staff nurses' perceptions and experiences about structural empowerment and perceptions regarding the extent to which structural empowerment supports safe quality patient care. To address the complex needs of patients, staff nurse involvement in clinical and organizational decision-making processes within interdisciplinary care set...

BACKGROUND Communication between patients, families, and healthcare providers is a central component of end-of-life care. Nurse communication during palliative care (PC) and end of life (EOL) is a phenomenon with limited research. It is unclear how the level of nursing experience influences the perspectives of nurses communicating during EOL. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the...

BACKGROUND Intensive care unit telemedicine is an innovative approach to providing critical care services for a broad geographic area, but its success may depend on acceptance by bedside providers. OBJECTIVES To determine critical care nurses' attitudes toward and perceptions about the use of telemedicine in critical care. METHODS A total of 179 nurses in 3 critical care units in 2 universi...

CONTEXT Vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) decreases risks of cancer and genital warts and the need for gynecologic procedures, yet nationwide vaccination rates are low. Previous surveys exploring this phenomenon have not included input from nurses and medical assistants, who play integral roles in HPV vaccine delivery. OBJECTIVE To understand perceptions of HPV vaccine delive...

BACKGROUND Nurses have a crucial role in patient education of children with type 1 diabetes, but they often exhibit lack of knowledge of the patient education process. This study aimed to describe an educational program to enhance empowering patient education process for the blood glucose monitoring education of school-age children and nurses' perceptions of using empowering techniques. METHO...

CARING BEHAVIORS Perceptions of acute care nurses and hospitalized patients with diabetes. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of caring behaviors that influence the patient experience in acute care nurses and hospitalized patients with diabetes. BACKGROUND Nurses are the caregivers who render most of the direct care patients receive while they are hospitalized....

INTRODUCTION Nursing care is considered as an essential component of health services. Patients' health improvement depends upon the quality of nursing care. As an important principle, perceptions of nurses as well as their active participation in decision-makings has an important role in the quality of services. This study aimed to determine the percep-tion of nurses toward the quality of nursi...

BACKGROUND Tight glycemic control is important in critically ill patients and involves insulin infusions and monitoring of blood glucose levels. Hourly measurements of blood glucose levels and adjustments of intravenous insulin doses require additional work by nurses. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the nursing work incurred with and nursing perceptions about tight glycemic control and blood glucose m...