Background: One way to improve hospital food provision is certainly by understanding the management of hospital foodservices, but there is limited detailed information about staff roles in food provision in many hospitals around the world. Objective: The hospital meal experience of patients, a part of the services provided by hospitals, is becoming import...

this descriptive study was aimed to identify how provided nursing care related to physical problems caused by traction and cast in patients with fracture and dislocation in cervical spinal cord in educational hospitals of tehran university of medical sciences. samples, including 46 patients were recruited from neurosurgery and orthopedic wards, and also from neurosurgical intensive care units d...

conclusions evidence-based post-insertion recommended care practices were not consistently and uniformly implemented in the intensive care units. establishment of a program for the surveillance of adherence to recommended guidelines is required for improving compliance by health professionals and the quality of preventive care. background healthcare-associated infections (hais) are acquired by ...

Rooming-in care is a method for the care of newborn infants in which the baby stays with the mother in the same room, the mother takes care of her baby by herself, and the nurses and doctors help her care for her baby in the room. The World Health Organization has emphasized the importance of rooming-in, saying that the pattern of nursing for the first 3 days after birth has a significant effec...

medication errors (mes) are the most common error in icus. in fact, 78% of all serious errors in icus are due to mes. therefore, detecting mes has vital significance. the goal of this study was to investigate the frequency, type and consequences of different types of errors including prescribing, transcribing and administration errors in an icu of a large teaching hospital. disguised direct obs...

introduction and objectives: annually one million newborns die due to the umbilical cord infection. thus, in this study, we aimed toevaluate the effect of topical aloe vera gel on umbilical cord complications. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed in maternity ward of ghaem hospital, mashhad, iran the samples were selected through convenience sampling and were randomly divided i...