OBJECTIVE To conduct an intervention trial of a "best practices" musculoskeletal injury prevention program designed to safely lift physically dependent nursing home residents. DESIGN A pre-post intervention trial and cost benefit analysis at six nursing homes from January 1995 through December 2000. The intervention was established in January 1998 and injury rates, injury related costs and be...

introduction: language teachers can help students improve their learning of english by employing different approaches and taking into consideration various learning styles of their students. this study is an attempt to reveal the effect of cooperative learning (cl) on enhancing nursing students’ english pronunciation. methods: twenty five nursing students and thirty midwifery students in yasuj ...

OBJECTIVES To test the effects of a multicomponent intervention program to reduce the use of belt restraints in psychogeriatric nursing homes. DESIGN A quasi-experimental longitudinal design. Study duration was 8 months. SETTING Twenty-six psychogeriatric nursing home wards in 13 Dutch nursing homes were assigned to intervention or control groups. PARTICIPANTS Seven hundred fourteen resid...

BACKGROUND Concerning the prevalence of test anxiety among nursing students and presence of stress in nursing education years, this study was conducted to determine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation method on test anxiety among nursing students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in 2013. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study conducted in three stages on 49...

BACKGROUND Pneumonia remains an important public health problem among elderly nursing home residents. This clinical trial sought to determine if a multicomponent intervention protocol, including manual tooth/gum brushing plus 0.12% chlorhexidine oral rinse, twice per day, plus upright positioning during feeding, could reduce the incidence of radiographically documented pneumonia among nursing h...

Objectives Several researchers have proposed the use of logical ontologies as 'reference terminologies'. However, there are a number of unresolved issues. This article describes the development of a logical ontology for nursing interventions and presents the results of evaluation. Methods Initially this study involved the development in GRAIL of two separate experimental ontologies: an ontology...

background & aim: with the implementation of incorrectly airway suctioning, many complications and risks can be followed. therefore, health care providers can expedite recovery of patients by increasing in quality of suction. this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of clinical audit process on the level of endotracheal tube suctioning skill in nurses and anesthesia technicians working i...

To analyze value of PDCA circulation mode combined with continuing nursing guided by WeChat on improving the quality patients gynecological inflammatory diseases during out-of-hospital treatment. 320 inflammation were equally divided into control group (routine guidance treatment) and observation (the implemented care services). Nursing score total efficiency compared. The patients’ average age...

Background Most health-care professional training programs lack educational curricula on substance use disorders and strategies for early intervention or referral to treatment. The University of Missouri-Kansas City Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (UMKC-SBIRT) training project educates baccalaureate nursing, advanced practice nursing, and master’s of social work students...