background: human beings use different approaches to learning. thus the aim of this study is to explore the mechanisms of learning through the hidden curriculum in the perspective of baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students. methods: this qualitative study, involving 24 baccalaureate undergraduate nursing students, was done by purposeful sampling strategies. the data were collected using se...

An American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) policy on the role of the medical director, based on a position statement approved by the association in 2003, indicates that the medical director should review, respond to, and participate in federal, state, local, and other external surveys and inspections.1 Anecdotal discussions at annual AMDA symposia and state chapter meetings suggest that a...

Introduction: Patient satisfaction with health care indicates the organizational performance of a hospital. The level of patient satisfaction depends on factors such as ability of the physician, observance of the patientchr('39')s rights, and quality of treatment. The aim of this study was to investigate the level of patient satisfaction with the provision of inpatient services in selected ward...

Objective: The resilience is the ability to face and overcome the adversities of life. The first aim of the study is to explore this construct referring to ageing. The characteristics of resilience were assessed in older adults, the additional endpoint is to focus on the role of institutionalization in nursing home and on the influence of chronic psychiatric illness. Method: 197 patients (aged ...

Notifying medication errors is an important instrument in managing assistance quality and safety for the patient. The objective of this study was to verify with the nursing team their understanding that a medication error had been committed, and to observe how they notified responsible physicians of the event. To achieve this, researchers used a descriptive/exploratory survey with 89 profession...

Professor Jacobi's essay analyzes the various regulatory responses that are available to the government when crises in quality of care occur. These responses range from complete government involvement, i.e. "command and control" regulation, to a limited caretaker role in maximizing market forces. In responding to the recent IOM Report on human error in medical care, Professor Jacobi looks back ...

Background: Medication errors genuinely influence patient safety, staying cost in hospital and integrity of nursing job, because the nurses play a specific part managing medication for patients. The present study was done with aim to investigate factors associated nurses’ number medical institutes (Ministry Health) role clinical pharmacist these errors.
 Methodology: cross-sectional based ...

abstract background: intensive care unit is a center to provide comprehensive care for critically ill patients whose condition can be improved by receiving specialized care. the importance of accurate and rapid monitoring of patients at this precise moment is in recording patient data and its comparison with previous data. monitoring the patient by either devices or direct examination of the nu...

This article estimates the average amount of error variance in a typical Buckley, 1989). Commenting on the deleterious impact of health-care measure by reanalyzing published multitrait–multimethod measurement error on validity, Lowe and Ryan-Wenger (1992) (MTMM) matrices via the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) procedure. note that “the discipline of nursing needs to be more sophistiFor the s...