Workplace violence is increasing across the nation's Emergency Departments, and nurses often perceive it as part of their job. Reporting processes were inconsistent, and nurses often did not know what acts constitute violence and underreported it. A staff nurse-led workgroup developed an initial survey and a reporting tool, and education was provided. A posteducation survey documented the repor...

A total of 729 inpatients were surveyed using the MISSCARE Survey-Patient. Missed timeliness, patient reports of the time it took for them to receive care from nursing staff, was negatively associated with total nursing staff hours of care per patient-day (r = -0.09, P = .015), registered nurse (RN) hours per patient-day (r = -0.14, P = .0002), and RN skill mix (r = -0.13, P = .0004). RN skill ...

BACKGROUND Nurse caring has been linked to many clinical outcomes, including patient satisfaction, well-being, and healing. In addition, it is valued by nursing staff and viewed as being essential to clinical practice. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this program evaluation study was to determine the difference in patient satisfaction with overall nursing care and perceived nurse caring when a nurs...

MEDSURG Nursing—December 2008—Vol. 17/No. 6 429 clinical nurse specialist led to the development of an evidenced-based approach to reduce falls. A review of the literature was performed, and one study was found that validated the use of frequent nursing rounds as a strategy to decrease falls and call light use (Meade, Bursell, & Ketelsen, 2006). The interventions proposed in this study seemed t...

AIM The aim was to assess emotional support given to mothers of children in intensive care units (ICUs) and make recommendations to nurse managers regarding family-centred nursing care in paediatric ICUs in South Africa. BACKGROUND Family-centred care is an essential component of paediatric care. Nurse managers should enhance implementation and sustainability to ensure quality care. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Previous researchers have shown that non-medical endoscopists can perform lower gastrointestinal endoscopy as safely and effectively as medical staff. However, it is not known if upper gastrointestinal endoscopy performed by medical and non-medical endoscopists in clinical practice yields similar results in terms of performance, patient discomfort, and satisfaction. AIM To determin...

Nurse workload is all activities, actions taken by a nurse while the on duty in hospital service unit. The purpose of this literature to identify which method more effective and efficient measure nurses. Article review was carried out through several electronic databases including Google Scholar, Pubmed with keyword "nurse workload", inclusion criteria included articles published between 2015 2...