nurses’ perception of importance of caring behaviors and its determinant factors     salimi s [1] *, azimpour a [2] , fesharaki m [3] ,mohammadzadeh sh [4] ,     received: 26 sep, 2011 accepted: 2 dec, 2011     abstract   background & aims : it is recognized globally that the theoretical foundations of nursing are based on an understanding of caring. the purpose of this study was to investigate...

Network-based services such as surveillance, chatbot and entertainment are becoming more popular, and service robot platform with mobililty can be used as human caring services in infant or elderly care. This paper presents developemnt of a service robot platfrom and its software with a cooperative server-client control ability for human care and edutainment. The experimental results show the f...

Organizational climate in healthcare settings influences patient outcomes, but its effect on nursing care delivery remains poorly understood. In this mixed-methods study, nurse surveys (N = 292) were combined with a qualitative case study of 15 direct-care registered nurses (RNs), nursing personnel, and managers. Organizational climate explained 11% of the variation in RNs' reported frequency o...

The aim of this paper is to discuss the development of a cultural care framework that seeks to inform and embrace the philosophical ideals of caring science. Following a review of the literature that identified a lack of evidence of an explicit relationship between caring science and cultural care, a number of well-established transcultural care frameworks were reviewed. Our purpose was to sele...

S hreeram Abhyankar was an influential mathematician and an inspiring teacher. His infectious enthusiasm for research and steadfast devotion to teaching have been truly inspirational not only for us, his students, but for all who came in contact with him. His attractive and accessible lectures, delivered in his inimitable style, presented their mathematical content with such clarity that the au...

complications and difficulties in modern nursing resulted in a need of continuing education and familiarity with new developments in biological and social sciences. this need is responded by participation in educational courses in organizations and high educational institutes. based on this trend and the observable and continually changes in nursing care methods providing a high level caring se...

Fig. 1 Taiwan government predicted that elderly population will take 20% in 2026 and 29.8% in 2050 toward total people in Taiwan. Abstract—In Taiwan, there are three types of caring patterns for elders, home care service, community care service and institution care service. In recent years, many syndicates have “advanced welfare park”, which purpose is to provide a perfect caring system thus, i...

This article investigates whether and how the stigma experiences of mental health service users relate to trust in the professionals caring for them, and how both stigma and trust relate to service user satisfaction. The study uses survey data gathered from mental health service users (N = 650 service users from 36 organizations) and applies multilevel regression analyses. The results show that...