The health care system can play a significant role in the decision making family and directing them toward satisfaction of donating organs. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the attitude of employed nurses about organs donation, brain death and its related professional factors. This study was conducted in 2015 that samples were selected through the systematic random sampling ...

The acute illness of 1 family member can then negatively affect all family members and lead to the disruption of family functioning and integrity. During the patient's hospitalization, nurses are in a key position to support family members, maintain family integrity, and ready them for assuming the role of caretaker during the patient's recovery and management of health at home. This article re...

background : based on the literature review that was conducted, no research study has been found in australia to provide a detailed understanding of why nurses differ in their perceptions about cancer patients’ quality of life (qol) when they  communicate with patients in oncology wards. methods : this descriptive exploratory qualitative study was completed in 2007 in two major public hospitals...

a bstra ct   background: family burden is defined as the problems, concerns, and unpleasant events affecting the patients undergoing coronary arteries’ surgery, and is associated with these patients physical and psychological improvement. nurses are in a good position to provide appropriate intervention. this study aimed to investigate the effect of family-focused nursing interventions on the b...

ABSTRACT Objectives: to analyze the nurse’s educational practice in Family Health Strategy. Methods: descriptive study with a qualitative approach, whose data production used World Café group technique, two meetings, 26 nurses of health district Manaus-AM. The technique was Categorial-Thematic Content Analysis. Results: generated units analysis: Political and Organizational Configuration Educat...

Ronda Drahozal is a staff nurse in the medical ICU in the Department of Nursing and Patient Care Services at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa. lead to deterioration in hemodynamic or intracranial pressure indices. Nurses, as patient advocates, desire to limit potentially detrimental stimuli. Studies have found a decrease or no significant change in heart rate, blo...

Specialist nurses are one way of providing support for family carers of people with dementia, but relatively little is known about what these roles achieve, or if they are more effective than roles that do not require a clinical qualification. The aim of this review was to synthesise the literature on the scope and effectiveness of specialist nurses, known as Admiral Nurses, and set this eviden...

A cross-sectional study among a convenience sample of nurses in China was conducted to understand the factors affecting Chinese nurses' willingness to report to work in a disaster. A total of 946 questionnaires were collected. Nearly 90 percent of nurses regarded disaster self-help information, an evacuation plan, and contingency measures a must in preparing for disaster care. Many nurses indic...