BACKGROUND Pressure ulcers are a common, painful and costly condition. Results of a 1991 study into the knowledge among Dutch hospital nurses on the usefulness of measures to prevent pressure ulcers showed moderate knowledge. Results were confirmed by subsequent studies. In recent years, Dutch guidelines have been updated and the attention given to pressure ulcer care has been increased. This w...

. 12.00 background: medication therapy is one of the most complex and high-risk clinical processes that nurses deal with. medication error is the most common type of error that brings about damage and death to patients, especially pediatric ones. however, these errors are preventable. identifying and preventing undesirable events leading to medication errors are the main risk management activit...

we arrived we were met by the Warden of the Nurses Home who showed us our rooms and gave us our keys. We were soon to realise how important her keys are to a nurse in such a hospital. The day nurses were coming off, and the night nurses going on duty, and we had the system of duties explained to us. In this hospital the majority of the nurses were assigned to a particular Ward for at least a mo...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether the nursing practice environment at the hospital-level affects the job satisfaction and turnover intention of hospital nurses. METHODS Among the 11 731 nurses who participated in the Korea Health and Medical Workers' Union's educational program, 5654 responded to our survey. Data from 3096 nurses working in 185 general inpatient wards at 60 hospitals were analyze...

Aim: The purpose of this study was to explore clinician experiences of adopting quality improvement tools to standardise interprofessional (anaesthetist-to-nurse) handover communication when patients arrive in the post-anaesthetic care unit (PACU). Method: In this study, factors that impacted PACU nurses’ adoption of the quality improvement tools were explored using preand postimplementation, s...

The purposes of this study were to explore the relationships among family stress, social support and job stress in female married hospital nurses. Married female nurses had to face both paid hospital work and unpaid domestic work, and double workloads might lead to more stress of female married nurses. Most studies were limited to explore the correlations of job stresses caused from jobs only, ...

Abstract The paper assesses the effect of organisational power on structural empowerment hospital nurses. study also explores degree to which nurses are able take more responsibility in their work. Data were taken from 100 Algerian public hospital. model was tested by partial least squares path modelling. results showed that positively affected empowerment. In addition, have ability responsibil...

Background:Cirrhosis of the liver is end stage chronic disease. Nurses role very important to patient with cirrhosis. Aim:Assess nurses, knowledge and practice regarding nursing care patients Subjects Method:A descriptive research design was used. Setting: The study conducted  medical unit at Ismailia university hospital, general hospital Port-Said hospitals (Port-Said, Port-Fouad AL-Zehor cent...

background and objectives: medication error is the most important factor threatening patient safety. while the causes of medication error are extensively researched in the public hospitals, the corresponding data from the private heath settings is limited. to help fill this shortcoming, this paper presents and discusses the results of surveying the medication error factors as perceived by nurse...