STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine whether an educational initiative could decrease rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a regional health-care system. SETTING Two teaching hospitals (one adult, one pediatric) and two community hospitals in an integrated health system. DESIGN Preintervention and postintervention observational study. PATIENTS Patients admitted to the four participating h...

Background: ICU patient tracheostomy care is a fundamental nursing procedure. The might result in difficulties and causes great deal of anxiety patients. A low level can have negative consequences such as longer hospital stays, slower recovery times, greater mortality rates. Aim: To evaluate nurses' knowledge practises Study Design: descriptive research study design was used. Methodology: 75 nu...

BACKGROUND Inter-hospital transfers are necessary for critically ill patients to improve their chance of survival. Rural and remote families experience significant disruption to family life when critically ill patients are required to undergo a transfer to a tertiary hospital. What is not known is how ICU staff can assist these families who are involved in an inter-hospital transfer to a tertia...

OBJECTIVE To determine the relationship between nurse workload and multiresistant bacteria colonization or infection (MRB+) in a neurology intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS We studied the relationship between nurse workload and MRB+ development in patients who were hospitalized in Dicle University Neurology Department ICU, Turkey during a 6-month period from November 15, 2003 to April 15, 20...

Results. A sample of 48 doctors and 136 nurses (47% response rate) from four ICUs responded to the survey. Nurses and doctors were found to have differing perceptions of interdisciplinary communication, with nurses reporting lower levels of communication openness between nurses and doctors. Compared with senior doctors, trainee doctors also reported lower levels of communication openness betwee...

Purpose : This study aimed to identify the factors influencing professional quality of life intensive care unit (ICU) nurses working in university hospitals.Methods A survey was conducted on 171 ICU hospitals B City, South Korea. used Professional Quality Life instrument, which consists three subscales, namely, compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. Data were analyzed...

Background: Intravenous (IV) injection of drugs is one of the most common methods of drug prescription in hospitals, which is a complex, potentially hazardous and erroneous method; accordingly, it requires control methods to reduce the potential risks. This study focused on determining the frequency and types of different medication errors while preparing and administering mostly used IV drugs ...

Background: Considering the religious and legal structures in Iran, the occurrence of euthanasia seems to be impossible; however, the attitude of nurses towards euthanasia and its related factors may also affect creating moral distress conditions for nurses. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate of the moral distress and attitude of Adult and Neonatal Intensive Care Units (AICU/ NICU) nurs...