PURPOSE This study was conducted to examine the effects of simulation-based education regarding care in a cardio-pulmonary emergency care as related to knowledge, clinical performance ability, and problem solving process in new nurses. METHODS An equivalent control group pre-post test experimental design was used. Fifty new nurses were recruited, 26 nurses for the experimental group and 24 nu...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between safety attitude and practices of nurses at emergency departments, in hospitals. Study samples: A total of 251 nurses working in the emergency department at 18 hospitals, which have over 300-beds in K-do and C-do (province) from May to July, 2014. Methods: A descriptive research study using a survey questionnaire on safet...

BACKGROUND The purpose of triage is to identify patients needing immediate resuscitation, to assign patients to a pre-designed patient care area, and to initiate diagnostic/therapeutic measures as appropriate. This study aimed to use emergency severity index (ESI) in a pediatric emergency room. METHODS From July 2006 to August 2010, a total of 21 904 patients visited the International Departm...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This research aimed to evaluate the use of aromatherapy massage and music as an intervention to cope with the occupational stress and anxiety that emergency department staff experience. The study also aimed to compare any differences in results between a summer and winter 12-week massage plan. BACKGROUND Emergency nurses are subjected to significant stressors during their ...

DR NADIMPALLI: Probably the most common surgery that we do is the C-section. [I]f it was more accessible, [it] would save thousands of women’s lives a year. In conflict zones, in disasters, acute surgery is a huge need. We are able to set up a surgical unit very quickly, within days, and this includes not just the surgeons but the whole surgery team: anesthetists, scrub nurses, [and] surgical n...

background: care of brain dead donors is complex, critical, and sensitive and has a direct and positive impact on the end result of organ and tissue transplantation process. this study describes the nurses’ experiences of care of brain dead donors in intensive care units (icu). materials and methods: this research was performed by phenomenological method that is a qualitative approach. purposiv...