OBJECTIVE To evaluate the levels of anxiety and ways of coping of family members of patients hospitalized in the Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit (NICU). METHODS The descriptive study was carried out with the families of 120 patients hospitalized in the NICU of a University Hospital in Turkey, between November 2005 and July 2006. Data were collected using a questionnaire for demographical inf...

conclusions according to the result of this study, the presence of families in a treatment plan could be essential to follow the treatment plan and subsequently reduced the complications of hemodialysis. results the mean ages of the patients in patient-centered and the family-oriented groups were 47.41 ± 10.31 and 48.16 ± 9.21, respectively. the result showed that some of the variables such as ...

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...

BACKGROUND Few studies, especially in Iran, have assessed the status of family participation in the care of the hospitalized patients. OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to assess why family members partake in caregiving of their patients in hospitals, the type of care that family provide, and the outcomes of the participation in the opinions of nurses and family members. PATIENTS AND METH...

OBJECTIVES Patient satisfaction surveys are important information sources for the evaluation of the quality and continuity of medical care. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the impact of patient's qualifications and the number of patient accompanists on the patient satisfaction and to find out whether there is a relationship between the number of patient accompanist and discharge statu...