PURPOSE Effective pain management remains a serious problem in the nursing home setting. Barriers to achieving optimal pain practices include staff knowledge deficits, biases, and attitudes that influence assessment and management of the residents' pain. DESIGN AND METHODS Twelve nursing homes participated in this intervention study: six treatment homes and six control homes, divided evenly b...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to document the prevalence of hepatitis C among MMT patients, hepatitis C virus (HCV) knowledge of patients and MMT staff members, and the barriers preventing them from receiving or delivering HCV-related services in MMT clinics of China. METHODS Data were collected from 240 MMT patients and 58 staff members in Shanghai MMT clinics. Structured question...

Aims: Nurses with sufficient knowledge are effective in improving the quality of nursing cares especially in critical units. Knowledge is one of the most features of critical care nurses. The aim of this study was evaluation of nurses’ knowledge in critical care units. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, one hundred cardiac and intensive care units' nursing staff working in hospitals a...

The study was aimed to assess the knowledge and practice on Partogram among staff nurses in Mahatma Gandhi Medical College And Research Institute at Pondicherry. Non-experimental descriptive design was used .30 Staff nurses were selected as samples by random Sampling Method. A structured questionnaire on knowledge, and checklist for practice was administered to assess the knowledge. The major f...

adverse drug reaction (adr) is one of the most life threatening problems, and the economic burden of adr is considerable. the main objective of this study was to assess the attitude of the kerman health system staff, to evaluate their knowledge of the spontaneous reporting system and to identify the reasons for low reporting rate. in this descriptive study, a persian translated questioner was u...