background and aims: in order to plan for preventing and decreasing the rate of nursing errors, understanding of nurse’s perception of nursing errors could be very helpful. this study was thus designed to examine the critical care nurses perception of nursing errors from view point of critical care nurses. methods: this study was conducted in 9 hospitals in qazvin province located in north of i...

" skipper, " coordinating patient care and case flow of the surgical suite. This role gives nurses autonomy and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team. Other perioperative nurse roles are: certified registered nurse first assistant (CRNFA), specialty service leader, and perioperative nurse specialist. With perioperative nursing, the nursing process is used to assess, plan, and im...

Objectives The Nurse Researcher Project (NRP) was initiated to support development of a nursing research and evidence based practice culture in Cancer Care Services (CCS) in a large tertiary hospital in Australia. The position was established and evaluated to inform future directions in the organisation. Background The demand for quality cancer care has been expanding over the past decades. Nur...

OBJECTIVE To develop the Standardized Nursing Care Process format amongst patients in a prison. MATERIAL AND METHODS Observational, descriptive study, conducted on a sample of thirty patients in Soria Prison between March and June 2011. We collected information via a review of medical records and conducted an interview of nursing assessments using functional patterns. Subsequent nursing diagn...

OBJECTIVES To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. MATERIAL Twenty records from each of three hospital wards were collected and audited. The auditors were registered nurses with a knowledge of nursing documentation in accordance with the VIPS model--a model designed to s...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the effect of Kenya's Emergency Hiring Plan for nurses on their inequitable distribution in rural and underserved areas. METHODS We used data from the Kenya Health Workforce Informatics System on the nursing workforce to determine the effect of the Emergency Hiring Plan on nurse shortages and maldistribution. The total number of nurses, the number of nurses per 100,000 po...

BACKGROUND Many nursing home fall injuries are believed to be preventable. Little is known about the fall prevention activities nursing homes are using. METHODS We conducted a census of all nursing homes in 6 Wisconsin counties by mailing a needs assessment to administrators and directors of nursing. Later we mailed a report of the results, an information intervention (an annotated list of fa...

Background: Although there were many cautions about a probable pandemic, the health organizations have not prepared to deal with COVID-19 pandemic. Coronavirus outbreak is dangerous threat humanity. An essential concern control this pandemic outline an action plan, set evaluation frame, identify monitoring techniques, detect measures, and recognize key performance factors investigations providi...