abstract background: ethical caring is an essential in nursing practice. nurses are confronted with complex situations in which they are expected to autonomously make decisions in delivering good care to patients. although a wide range of studies have examined ethical behavior of nurses, there are still many issues requiring further investigation. the aim of this article is to describe the ethi...

OBJECTIVE Successful disease management is heavily influenced by access to care issues and patient behavior. Screening tests to detect chronic complications are part of diabetes management and may be influenced by access to care or patient decisions. The objective of this research was to examine how strongly access to care and patient behavior predict screening practices. RESEARCH DESIGN AND ...

The need for nursing home care will increase for the next several decades. Rural areas will be impacted in particular, as many older adults live in rural areas. Daily oral infection control changes when a person moves from independent living to institutional living. Oral care to dependent individuals is influenced by many factors. The purpose of this study is to determine the association of ora...

background: according to who and unicef emphasison breastfeeding as an essential strategy in child growth and survival,nevertheless, there is a significant space in breastfeeding and whorecommendation in iran yet. this study aimed to assessing the effective factorsof breast feeding behavior based on health belief model constructs among womenin third trimester of pregnancy referee to health care...

blood and body fluid exposure is a major occupational safety problems for health care workers. therefore, we conducted a descriptive and retrospective study to identify the characteristics of blood exposure accidents in health care settings which lasted five years (2005-2009) at the two university hospitals of sfax. we have 593 blood exposure accidents in health care settings 152 (25.6%) health...

This paper investigates the dimensions of sustainable behavior, with a particular focus on aspects self-care, caring for others, and environment. Its aim was to test assumption that behavior not only encompasses pro-social pro-environmental actions, as current research acknowledges, but also behaviors are directed toward self-preservation care. A subscale self-care specifically developed this a...