The purpose of this study was to develop a case management program for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and to test the effects of the developed program on patient length of stay in the hospital, medical costs, disease knowledge and level of satisfaction with nursing care received. This quasi-experimental study focused on a group of 50 COPD patients (24 in the control ...

Nursing and other health professionals are increasingly using simulation as a strategy and a tool for teaching and learning at all levels that need clinical training. Nursing education for decades used simulation as an integral part of nursing education. Recent studies indicated that simulation improves nursing knowledge, clinical practice, critical thinking, communication skills, improve self-...

CONTEXT Although advance directives are commonly used in the community, little is known about the effects of their systematic implementation. OBJECTIVES To examine the effect of systematically implementing an advance directive in nursing homes on patient and family satisfaction with involvement in decision making and on health care costs. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial conducted June 1,...

Successfully solving the nephrology nursing shortage will require multiple strategies on national and local levels. Retaining current nephrology nurses is a key strategy. In addition, we, as a specialty, must help recruit people into nursing, and recruit student nurses and graduate nurses into the field of nephrology nursing. This article will describe the national nursing shortage and discuss ...

Nursing leadership development is important in today's changing health care climate. Nurse leaders affect staff satisfaction, patient outcomes, and the fiscal status of most health care organizations. This article delineates why leadership development is important to nursing, how to strengthen nursing leadership, how to design a methodology for building an internal nursing leadership developmen...

BACKGROUND:The concept of „quality nursing care‟ is widely used in health care with ambiguity and subjectivity. Evaluating and measuring quality is often a factor of an individual‟s knowledge and awareness, expectations and recognizable standards of quality (Chamber of nursing, 2000). Quality is attributed to material production, people and characteristics. Quality achievement and determination...

BACKGROUND Group living homes are a fast-growing form of nursing home care for older people with dementia. This study seeks to determine the differences in job characteristics of nursing staff in group living homes and their influence on well-being. METHODS We examined the Job Demand Control Support (JDCS) model in relation to 183 professional caregivers in group living homes and 197 professi...

Background & Objective: Patient satisfaction is the main indicator of the quality of healthcare systems. Usually in pediatric works parents are questioned due to lack of appropriate scale. Therefore, this study was done to assess the children’s satisfaction themselves by drawing which is an applicable scale for them.Patients & methods: This study was done with 20 hospitalized children aged 6-12...

abstract background & aim: evaluation and measurement of mother’s satisfaction from postpartum cares is so important in the quality of health care indexes. the purpose of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the postpartum satisfaction nursing care questionnaire (jpsnq). material & methods: this study was a methodological research. at the first, the english version of questi...