This study assessed the factors influencing work-life balance of Nurses and challenges to their mental health in Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, (NDUTH) Okolobiri, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. adopted a descriptive research design. The objectives were: identify among nurses NDUTH; assess on NDUTH. A simple random sampling technique was used select total 96 participants which accor...

Purpose. To investigate sleep quality of hospital staff nurses, both by subjective questionnaire and objective measures. Methods. Female staff nurses at a regional teaching hospital in Northern Taiwan were recruited. The Chinese version of the pittsburgh sleep quality index (C-PSQI) was used to assess subjective sleep quality, and an electrocardiogram-based cardiopulmonary coupling (CPC) techni...

Background: ICU patient tracheostomy care is a fundamental nursing procedure. The might result in difficulties and causes great deal of anxiety patients. A low level can have negative consequences such as longer hospital stays, slower recovery times, greater mortality rates. Aim: To evaluate nurses' knowledge practises Study Design: descriptive research study design was used. Methodology: 75 nu...

NURSE UNDERSTAFFING IS ranked by the public and physicians as one of the greatest threats to patient safety in US hospitals. Last year we reported the results of a study of 168 Pennsylvania hospitals showing that each additional patient added to the average workload of staff registered nurses (RNs) increased the risk of death following common surgical procedures by 7%, and that the risk of deat...

The aim of this project was to describe hospital nurses' work activity through observations, nurses' perceptions of time spent on tasks, and electronic health record time stamps. Nurses' attitudes toward technology and patients' perceptions and satisfaction with nurses' time at the bedside were also examined. Activities most frequently observed included documenting in and reviewing the electron...

OBJECTIVES To inform healthcare workforce policy decisions by showing how patient perceptions of hospital care are associated with confidence in nurses and doctors, nurse staffing levels and hospital work environments. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys of 66 348 hospital patients and 2963 inpatient nurses. SETTING Patients surveyed were discharged in 2010 from 161 National Health Service (NHS)...

URINARY incontinence is a major problem in the nursing care of patients in psychiatric hospitals, and the tendency has been to regard it as an inevitable concomitant of old age or advanced mental illness. Now, however, there is a more dynamic and physiological approach to the condition (Vincent, 1959), and it is worthwhile to review the situation and assess the background against which the newe...

The Bianchi Stress Questionnaire was built and validated to assess the stress level of hospital nurses. The questionnaire is selfapplicable, composed of 51 items, and divided into six subscales, each receiving a score that ranges from 1 to 7. Subscales are composed of activities that involve nursing care and management. The use of this questionnaire highlights the most stressing subscale for ei...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether patient satisfaction with nursing care in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England is associated with the proportion of non-UK educated nurses providing care. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using data from the 2010 NHS Adult Inpatient Survey merged with data from nurse and hospital administrator surveys. Logistic regression models with corrections for ...

AIM To estimate the attitudes of hospital nurses towards computers and the influence of gender, age, education, and computer usage on these attitudes. METHODS The study was conducted in two Croatian hospitals where integrated hospital information system is being implemented. There were 1,081 nurses surveyed by an anonymous questionnaire consisting of 8 questions about demographic data, educat...