Introduction. In the current screening system, new admissions are based on general intelligence as measured by universities entrance examination. Considering the fact that an important function of medical graduates is to educate the patients how to restore and take care of their health, communicative competence and skills would be, at least, as important as general intelligence. To show that la...

Background: Critical thinking skills are one of the most important competencies in successful clinical performance of nursing students. Emotional intelligence is also one of the concepts related to critical thinking and can play an important role in the ability to think. Thus, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and critical thinking in nu...

Nursing focuses on meeting physical, social and emotional health-care needs of individuals, families and society. In health care, nurses directly communicate with patients and try to empathize with them. Nurses give care under emotionally intense conditions where the individual undergoes pain and distress. Research is aimed at analysing the correlation of self-compassion and emotional intellige...

BACKGROUND Nursing care is facing exponential growth of information from nursing documentation. This amount of electronically available data collected routinely opens up new opportunities for secondary use. OBJECTIVES To present a case study of a nursing intelligence system for reusing routinely collected nursing documentation data for multiple purposes, including quality management of nursin...

This paper describes the design of an experimental multi-level slow intelligence system for health care, called the TDR system, consisting of interacting super-components each with different computation cycles specified by an abstract machine model. The TDR system has three major super-components: Tian (Heaven), Di (Earth) and Ren (Human), which are the essential ingredients of a human-centric ...

Countries aiming to reduce their tuberculosis (TB) burden by 2035 to the levels envisaged by the World Health Organization End TB Strategy need to innovate, with approaches such as digital health (electronic and mobile health) in support of patient care, surveillance, programme management, training and communication. Alongside the large-scale roll-out required for such interventions to make a s...

The TDR system is an experimental multi-level slow intelligence system for personal health care. The TDR system can be used by a single user or a group of users who will interact to understand, maintain and improve each other’s state of health. In this paper, we simulate social networks by applying the Abstract Machine model. Two social network models are described: the Circulated Model and the...

objective: nurses are the most important staff in the health care system, thus, their job satisfaction is important in nursing management. the present study aimed at determining the impact of teaching spiritual intelligence on the job satisfaction of psychiatric nurses. methods: the participants were divided into 2 groups by random allocation. data were collected in 3 stages of before intervent...