Approaches to Improving Nursing Handoffs in Surgical Wards

Iranian Nursing Student–patient Health Communication in Medical Surgical Wards

Background Health communication (HC) is considered an important task of nurses to provide high quality and holistic care as well as to improve patient health. The nursing student-patient HC is an abstract concept and needs to be clarified. Therefore, this study was conducted to increase the knowledge about nursing students' HC with patients by considering various participants' viewpoints. Mat...

Nursing Graduates’ Self-assessment of their Clinical Skills Acquired in Medical-Surgical Wards

Introduction: In order to have the most efficiency, nursing students should acquire the knowledge and skills needed for their future profession. This study was done with the goal to determine acquiring clinical skills in medical-surgical wards, through nursing graduates’ self-assessment. Methods: In this survey 50 new graduated nurses, employed in medical-surgical wards of governmental hospit...

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

Mental Nursing in Observation Wards

" What can there be more fascinating to the intelligent man and woman to-day than the study of disorders of the mind? What can there be more thrilling than the power to grasp the inner meaning of a mental disorder, to know why the intricate mental machine has jumped the rails?what more exciting than to exercise knowledge and skill to raise it gently into position again and once more restore its...

barriers to nursing care in emergency wards

background: caring is the essence of nursing. since care is influenced by cultural, economic, and social factors, various diverse barriers exist in the realization of care. the aim of the study was to clarify barriers to caring in emergency patients based on experiences of nurses and patients and their relatives. materials and methods: a qualitative design of content analysis was used to identi...