background: patient satisfaction has a key role in reducing side effects and patient complaints. it also increases the efficiency of treatment. this study was performed to investigate patient satisfaction from health services provided by educational hospitals in isfahan, iran. methods: in a descriptive study, 350 outpatients in educational hospitals of isfahan were non-randomly evaluated in 200...

This is the last in a series of reports to share key learnings from my 2005 sabbatical, when I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Western Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing services delivery. This report will focus on quality systems, interprofessional education and innovation. Many of the countries I visited were doing creative work in advancin...

Our practice comprises a partnership of two doctors with a list of about 5,500 patients during the first nine months of this year. The practice covers a radius of about 5 miles (8 km.). We were faced with a difficult situation at the beginning of the year, as it was obvious that a major outbreak of measles was imminent, in addition to the other common infections. There seemed to be three main p...

In 2001-2002, the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) committed 10 years of funding for the creation and implementation of three Regional Training Centres to build capacity in health services and policy research in the Atlantic, Ontario and Western regions of Canada and one training centre in Quebec to focus on the developme...

At this stage in the development of diagnosis­ related groups (DRG 's), there is an imperfect record of the value and amount of nursing resources used by individual patients during a single hospital stay. Previous attempts to isolate the costs of nursing care in relationship to DRG's are reviewed. A research strategy to attain such relative measurements is proposed. Such inquiries are necessary...

The American Nurses' Association in establishing a Commission on Nursing Research publicly reaffirmed the nursing profession's obligation to support the advancement of scientific knowledge toward the achievement of imporved nursing practice and better patient care. In taking this step the organization accepted a commitment to support two sets of human rights. One set is concerned with the right...

The metamorphosis of public opinion is notoriously slow. Although the last two or three decades must have done much to disabuse the public mind of its misconceptions with regard to mental hospitals, there is still some distaste felt by parents at the suggestion that mental nursing might be a suitable career for their daughters. Before an attempt is made to overcome this, the conditions and oppo...

What does nursing management mean to the average hospital doctor? The chances are that it means "Salmon," and my experiences of addressing doctors prompts me to say with confidence that the word tends to provoke a brisk reaction, especially among elder members of the medical profession, who remember with nostalgia the days of matrons and all powerful ward sisters. I propose to put the nursing m...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological research is seen by many to have immense value in helping to determine the health of populations and in helping to plan and determine health service policy. Despite this it seems to be poorly understood and greatly underused by the nursing profession. CONCLUSION Epidemiological studies can potentially offer considerable benefits to the way nurses incorporate health-...

The pilot study reported in this paper was devised to develop and compare service delivery models that would achieve the provision of high quality parenteral therapy care to patients in the Gold Coast District Health Service community. All data were collected on 113 patients for a 12-month period, January to December 1996. The study compared the provision of outreach nursing services and contra...