This study is a non-equivalent control group pre-post test design in order to develop the emergency nursing simulation-based education program for hyperglycemia patients and to examine the effects of a simulation-based education program on self-directed learning ability and confidence in performance of nursing students. Study participants were recruited from 2nd grade nursing students who atten...

Objective: This research was to study the influence of the improved emergency treatment procedure on the therapeutic effect of thrombolysis on Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) patients. Methods: 52 AMI thrombolysis patients that our department received and cured through the improved emergency treatment procedure from May to December 2016 are selected into the observation group. 52 AMI thrombol...

OBJECTIVE to assess the knowledge of scholars on Nursing regarding simple hands hygiene (SHH), blood pressure measurement (BP), peripheral venipuncture (PV) with venous catheter and male urethral catheterization delay (UCD) procedures. METHOD quantitative study carried out between February and May 2014, with 186 undergraduate Nursing students from 5th to 9th period of a public university of R...

[Purpose] This study aimed to investigate the correlation between the cognitive level of the elderly and their attitude towards the living environment. [Subjects and Methods] A total of 80 elderly people hospitalized in a nursing home in K city, South Korea, participated in this study. Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the relationships between scores on the Mini Mental State Examin...

Intensive care units and well-qualified medical staff are indispensable for the proper functioning of every hospital facility. Due to demographic changes and technological progress having extended the average life expectancy, the number of patients hospitalized in intensive care units increases every year [9,10]. Global shortages of nursing staff (including changes in their age structure) have ...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is the most commonly used approach for evaluating healthcare efficiency (Hollingsworth, 2008), but a long-standing concern is that DEA assumes that data are measured without error. This is quite unlikely, and DEA and other efficiency analysis techniques may yield biased efficiency estimates if it is not realized (Gajewski, Lee, Bott, Piamjariyakul and Taunton, 20...

OBJECTIVE to produce a reflective essay on what has been produced in relation to bath as a procedure related to nursing care and diagnosis for dependent patients undergoing mediate and immediate rehabilitation processes after a traumatic event. METHOD discursive, reflective study supported by classical content analysis consisting of the following stages: a) reading of the texts in their most ...