Changes to physician and nurse time burdens when caring for patients under contact precautions.

Comparison of the importance of caring behaviours as perceived by nurses and patients

Caring is the essence of nursing and is a universal phenomenon, not only essential for effective therapy also for self actualization and for human survival. Since research and information about caring has implications for improving maintenance of the quality of caring performance, this study was inducted to compare the importance of caring behaviours in professional nurses and in- patients in m...

Management of the patient with a multidrug-resistant organism in the home: standard precautions vs. contact precautions.

Supporting family caregivers at the end of life: "they don't know what they don't know".

Even for patients receiving complex, intensive medical care for serious and life-threatening illness, family caregiving is typically at the core of what sustains patients at the end of life. The amorphous relationship between physicians and the families of patients at the end of life presents both challenges and opportunities for which physicians may be unprepared. Families play important roles...

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  Introduction & Aim: "Caring" is the central concept of nursing role, but in the current health care systems with huge advances in technology and scarce resourses as well as the issue of nursing personnel shortage, this aspect of nursing role would be questionable. Accordingly, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between nurse caring behaviors from patients’ perspectives and p...

Effects of contact precautions on patient perception of care and satisfaction: a prospective cohort study.

OBJECTIVE Contact precautions decrease healthcare worker-patient contact and may impact patient satisfaction. To determine the association between contact precautions and patient satisfaction, we used a standardized interview for perceived issues with care. DESIGN Prospective cohort study of inpatients, evaluated at admission and on hospital days 3, 7, and 14 (until discharged). At each point...