INTRODUCTION The transfer of patient care between the intensive care unit (ICU) and the hospital ward is associated with increased risk of medical error and adverse events. This study will describe patient transfer from ICU to hospital ward by documenting (1) patient, family and provider experiences related to ICU transfer, (2) communication between stakeholders involved in ICU transfer, (3) ad...

BACKGROUND Suicide prevention by mental health services requires an awareness of the antecedents of suicide amongst high risk groups such as psychiatric in-patients. The goal of this study was to describe the social and clinical characteristics of people who had absconded from an in-patient psychiatric ward prior to suicide, including aspects of the clinical care they received. METHODS We car...

aim and background: educational programs design to providing learners’ educational needs. regarding to rapid development of science boundaries, nurses need to new skills. so identifying educational needs of nursing staff is important and effective step for promoting their strengths. the aim of present study has been to determine educational needs of nursing staff in psychiatric wards.   methods...

abstract background: understanding how novice nurses perceive their career in the psychiatric ward can be helpful for nurse educators and managers to gain insight into psychiatric nursing care and adding applicable knowledge to the development of support strategies for this group. the aim of this study was to describe and illuminate experiences of new graduated nurses working at a psychiatric w...

background satisfaction evaluation is a good way to assess hospital conditions. in health care system, parentscan be also as children's main supporters, thus they may act as patient's viewpoints' representatives.this study aimed to evaluate mother’s satisfaction of hospital care in hematology – oncology ward in dr sheikh hospital. materials and methods a cross-sectional descriptive analytic stu...

Fractured neck of femur accounted for more than 1.7 million bed days in 2003 (Department of Health, 2003). This article discusses how the role of the ward manager on an older persons' trauma ward was modernised to provide a specialist service for outlying patients while maintaining ward management responsibility. This project is well established and has been successfully applied to coronary care.

We rederive the w∞ Ward identities, starting from the existence of trivial linearized gauge invariances, and using the method of canceled propagators in the operator formalism. Recursion relations for certain classes of correlation functions are derived, and these correlation function are calculated exactly. We clarify the relation of these results with another derivation of the Ward identities...

Background – In the interest of efficiently using limited resources, it is important to optimize the throughput of cardiac surgery patients. Accordingly, the present study was performed to estimate the bed occupancy rate and throughput of patients in cardiac surgery departments using simulation models. Methods – In this paper, the typical Heart Surgery Department of Freeman Hospital in Newcastl...

BACKGROUND Patients with heart failure (HF) presenting to the emergency department (ED) can be admitted to care settings of different intensity, where the intensive care unit (ICU) is the highest intensity, ward admission is intermediate intensity, and those discharged home are of lowest intensity. Despite the costs associated with higher-intensity care, little is known about disposition decisi...