Introduction: Patient education is influenced by cultural factors. This studyaims to find out the role of culture in patient education.Methods: A qualitative study was conducted on 23 Iranian nurses. Inclusioncriteria were minimum 5 years of working experience in clinical nursing. Semistructured face to face interviews were used to collect the data. Interviews were taped, transcribed and analyz...

Patient education in emergency departments faces complexities and challenges due to the wide variety of clinical care provided in this setting. Despite widespread recognition of the value and benefits of education, we frequently see that patient education in hospital emergency departments is less than optimal and that emergency departments are not employed as venues conducive to providing suita...

background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

results there was a significant difference in follow-up rates at the due date between the intervention group (50.7%, 34of 67 participants) and the control group (17.5%, 11 of 63 participants) (or = 4.871, 95% ci = 2.172 to 10.924, p < 0.0001). in the control group, the call interviews significantly increased the follow-up rate from 17.5% to 66.7 % (42 of 63 participants) (p < 0.0001), although ...

Aims: Patient education is one of the most fundamental roles of the nurses. The nurse commitment is due to the nurse understanding of their education role, having preparation of patient education as an educator, and environmental factors. This study assesses the nursing education’s facing challenges in patient education field. Materials and Methods: This is a review article that is based on...

  Background: Patient education is widely recognized as a core component of nursing. Patient education can lead to quality outcomes including adherence, quality of life, patients' knowledge of their illness and self-management. This study aimed to clarify patient education process in teaching hospitals affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in Iran.   Methods : This cross-se...

OBJECTIVES The task force aimed to: (1) develop evidence-based recommendations for patient education (PE) for people with inflammatory arthritis, (2) identify the need for further research on PE and (3) determine health professionals' educational needs in order to provide evidence-based PE. METHODS A multidisciplinary task force, representing 10 European countries, formulated a definition for...