introduction: clinical education in critical care units is very important and promotion of quality of clinical education can lead to higher qualification and professionalism of nursing students in this area of practice . so, this study was conducted to evaluate the clinical skills of nursing students in icu , ccu and dialysis units . method & materials : this research was a cross sectional desc...

abstract background: during health care in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu), infants undergo extremely painful procedures, which may cause problems, if not controlled, such as changes in the pattern of respiratory rate, heart rate, and blood oxygen saturation. the present study aimed to find the effect of melody on the physiological responses of neonates’ heel stick pain. materials and m...

objectives the current study aimed to compare the two methods based on the perceptions of the nurses working in neonatal intensive care units (nicu). patients and methods a comparative-descriptive study carried out on 35 nicu nurses in taleghani and al-zahra teaching hospitals in tabriz, iran, in 2013. data were collected by self-administered questionnaire (13 items). data analysis, including t...

background: currently, the number of premature deliveries has been increasing, resulting in early postnatal discharge due to shortage of beds in the neonatal intensive care units (nicu). methods: this descriptive-analytical study was conducted through investigating the premature infants’ files for gestational age (ga), birth weight (bw) and duration of the first hospitalization. furthermore, th...

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Conflict of interest: there are no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To analyze the challenges for the management of care in a hospital emergency department, based on the perspective of nurses. Methods: A qualitative, descriptive and explora...

The number of drugs provided by the Emergency Departments (EDs) in the United States is as high as 212.1 million per year and the number of ED visits has increased by 32% between 1996 and 20061. Medication errors in EDs are associated with a higher rate of adverse drug events than those that occur in other levels of acute health care, such as intensive care units, surgical units and medical uni...

Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

Historically, there have always been medically unwell clients with eating disorders whose pathway of care involves presentations and admissions to emergency departments, intensive care units and/or medical/surgical units. At the Royal Melbourne Hospital there has been a noted increase in not only the number of clients requiring admissions to medial units, but also in the severity in medical acu...