introduction: providing high quality care in emergency room is highly critical. this research was planned to compare emergency room standards of the iranian ministry of health with those of iso9001 (version 2000) method: this descriptive study compared iso 9001 standards with items listed in booklet- a1 (iranian ministry of health standards for emergency departments). expert views were sought f...

To improve the healthcare environment where nurses work and patients receive care, it is necessary to understand the elements that define the healthcare environment. Primary elements include (a) the occupants of the room and what knowledge, skills, and abilities they bring to the situation; (b) what tasks the occupants will be doing in the room; and (c) the characteristics of the built environm...

OBJECTIVE The evaluation of outpatient treatment adherence among 140 Latina adolescent suicide attempters and their families. METHOD Sequentially, 75 attempters received standard emergency room care and 65 attempters received a specialized emergency room program including (1) training workshops for emergency room staff, (2) a videotape aimed at modifying families' treatment expectations, and ...

the quality of care for children and wants to eliminate these differences (the National Service Framework). 5 The framework allows adult nurses to care for children only within the limits of their knowledge and should be under direct supervision of a children’s trained nurse. Recruitment and retention of nursing staff is a problem in emergency departments. The Royal College of Nursing recommend...

BACKGROUND Emergency nurses play a pivotal role in disaster relief during the response to, and recovery of both in-hospital and out-of-hospital disasters. Postgraduate education is important in preparing and enhancing emergency nurses' preparation for disaster nursing practice. The disaster nursing content of Australian tertiary postgraduate emergency nursing courses has not been compared acros...

The Sultanate of Oman has a relatively young national health care system that could demonstrate its high performance at an international level. Emergency medicine as a specialty has developed rapidly in the country over the last decade. This has involved the parallel development of local emergency residency training, prehospital emergency care, and emergency nursing programs. This article revie...

Objective: Patients with cancer diagnosis often admit to emergency room with complaints that are directly or indirectly related to their current condition. We aimed to analyze what complaints the cancer patients admit with most, how long the cancer patients who are treated with antitumor treatment admit to the emergency room after the antitumor treatment, which departments were consulted with t...

This qualitative exploratory study was conducted in 2008, at a Municipal Emergency Care Center in Curitiba. Objective: to learn about the conception of the nursing team about emergencies in mental health, and analyze how the nursing team approaches users with mental disorders in cases of emergency. Participants were 6 nurses and 7 nursing technicians working in emergency and hospitalization. Da...

This paper assesses the quality and cost of a pregnancy care program based on explicit and achieved patient competencies. By using the USPHS Content of Prenatal Care (1989), key psychosocial/education elements of perinatal care were identified. The goal was a process of patient education that is competency based, integrated, and outcome oriented. Psychosocial assessment, patient education tools...

OBJECTIVES Although the increased risk of hospitalization and mortality during influenza seasons has been documented extensively, there is a relative paucity of research on the impact of influenza-related illnesses on other health care use indicators, such as physician use. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of influenza-associated respiratory illnesses on the Winnipeg health c...