Children with single ventricle anatomy are among the most complicated and challenging patients encountered in pediatric cardiology. Current management involves staged surgical procedures, beginning with neonatal palliation and followed by a bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis in infancy and culminating in the Fontan procedure. The Fontan procedure, despite separating the circulation, remain...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected various aspects of life, one which is education. Direct face-to-face contact needs to be reduced prevent transmission COVID-19, while educational institutions must continue organize learning courses. This study identifies the effect blended model on outcomes level II students in child-nursing courses during pandemic. used a pre-experiment, one-group pre-test p...

This exploratory-descriptive study was performed with a qualitative approach, aiming at finding indicators for the measurement of nursing personnel in adult emergency services. Data were collected using nursing work observation and a semistructured interview with nurses; data were analyzed based upon the theory of working process, originating the following categories: working process and nursin...

Georgina Gethin is Research Fellow, Clinical Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Nursing, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland, and Sligo General Hospital, Sligo Wound measurement provides baseline information while continuous measurement helps to predict healing and aids monitoring of treatment efficacy and evaluation. It is also objective and can be useful in cost-benefit analysis. Method...

On March 1-2, 2010, a state-of-the-science invitational conference titled "Ambulatory Care Registered Nurse Performance Measurement" was held to focus on measuring quality at the RN provider level in ambulatory care. The conference was devoted to ambulatory care RN performance measurement and quality of health care. The specific emphasis was on formulating a research agenda and developing a str...

evaluation of nursing student's perception toward the use of audience response systems (ars) in the classroom teaching process     baghaei r [1] *, zareie f [2] , rasouli d [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 4 apr , 2013 accepted: 2 jun, 2013  abstract  background & aims : the use of innovative learning methods in nursing schools is necessary to improve the educational process. using audien...