PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe patients' perspectives concerning the use of humor in their care and recovery. DESIGN Descriptive. SETTING Community-based. SAMPLE Nine women with a diagnosis of breast cancer. METHODS Open-ended interviews were conducted with participants to identify their use of humor, its influence on spirituality, and their perceptions of how nurses use humor in caring...

Introduction: There has been a growing rate of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) despite the successful implementation of VAP bundles. Objectives: Objectives were to assess the knowledge and oral care practices of nurses and the clinical outcomes related to poor oral care practices on ventilated patients before and after education on ‘oral care practices’; to identify the effect of educatio...

Despite the potentially very significant role of nurses in mitigating against the negative effects of hospitalisation on children, the attitudes and behaviour of paediatric nurses towards patients have been largely ignored within the literature. This study, therefore, aimed to consider paediatric nurses' attitudes and their interactions with patients and, in particular, to investigate the relat...

BACKGROUND Although patient engagement is internationally recognized as a core quality indicator of healthcare systems, no report has yet explored patient engagement in Saudi Arabia. Thus, we explored patients' experiences of engagement with healthcare services and assessed physicians' and nurses' perceptions of this engagement. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study on patients and the...

Objectives To explore patients’ perceptions of the features of personal care and how far these are shared by healthcare providers; whether a continuing relationship between a health professional and a patient is essential for personal care; and the circumstances in which a continuing relationship is important. Design Qualitative analysis of semistructured interviews using the “framework” approa...

The importance of the nurse/patient relationship is a central concept for psychiatric nursing. The present research provides a model of the nursing process identifying aspects of the nurse/patient relationship that influence treatment compliance. Five expert nurses and 15 patients participated in the study. Data collection included participant observation, field notes, memos, demographic questi...

Introduction: Leadership style is a way, system of methods influence the leader on subordinates. This one most important factors effective work institution, full realization potential capabilities people in team. style, as an individual way carrying out management activities, mostly associated with person manager. The formed under relationship between manager and team process making implementin...

This literature review forms a background element of a comparative study of two acute psychiatric wards in the East End of London. The research focused on ward rules as a means of investigating the relationship between the flexibility/inflexibility of ward nursing regimes and patient outcomes. Previous studies identified a relationship between ward rules and patient aggression. Other studies id...