BACKGROUND Examining the quality of nursing care from the patient's perspective is an important element in quality evaluation. The extent to which patients' expectations are met will influence their perceptions and their satisfaction with the quality of care received. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted among admitted patients at King Khalid Teaching Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia....

PURPOSE This study aimed to explore older adults' perceptions of their daily lives in South Korean nursing homes. DESIGN We employed a qualitative descriptive study using semistructured interviews. METHODS We conducted individual, semistructured interviews with 21 older adult residents from five nursing homes in South Korea and analyzed the data using thematic analysis. FINDINGS Five them...

There is a pervasive effort to reform nursing homes and improve the care they provide. Many people are trying to educate and inform nursing homes and their staff, practitioners, and management about what to do and not do, and how to do it. But only some of that advice is sound. After more than 3 decades of such efforts, and despite evidence of improvement in many facets of care, there are still...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to describe the advice that expert holistic nurses gave to nursing students regarding the theory and practice of holistic nursing and to describe nursing students' experience and perceptions of their interaction with the experts. DESIGN This was a qualitative descriptive study. METHODS Nursing students who attended the 2008 and 2009 conferences of the...

BACKGROUND Individualized care is a cornerstone of patient-centered nursing care. To foster individualized care, influencing factors should be known. The aim of this study was to identify the individual and organizational factors influencing hospitalized patients' perception of individualized care. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted of 606 patients from 20 wards from five hospitals...