Nurses lack adequate pain management knowledge, which can result in poorly managed postsurgical pain. This study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate pain management education and operational guidelines to improve nursing knowledge and pain management. This quality improvement project employed convenience samples of surgical oncology nurses and postoperative patients. The intervention invo...

Nursing administration requires a large volume of wide-ranging information, and nurse administrators are limited in their ability to compile and analyze information for nursing administration. The purpose of this study is to create methodology for developing a nursing administration analysis system to aid nurse administrators in performing outcome analysis. In this methodology, information requ...

It is only after considerable hesitation and, indeed, with some trepidation that a mere hospital administrator ventures to write upon such a subject as the position of nursing in hospitals. The author of this article was, however, emboldened to accept |he Editor's invitation to do so for two compelling reasons. The first is the intrinsic importance of the subject. The second is that all those c...

evaluation of predisposing factors of nursing errors in critical care units of urmia medical science university hospitals     bagaei r [1] *, nadari y [2] , khalkhali hr [3]     received: 1 mar, 2012 accepted: 6may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : p atient safety is an important part of the nursing management. but with this huge amount of nursing errors, patient safety seems out of reac...

Factors which contribute to hospitalization of nursing home residents are multiple and complex. They include dimensions of the policy setting as well as patient management practices. In seeking interventions to reduce such hospitalizations, most research has focussed on changing patient management. But provider reimbursement policies may also influence the decision to hospitalize nursing home r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Due to physical impairment, cerebral palsy (CP) children have pain related to several hospital admissions and multiple knowingly painful procedures. This study aimed at identifying in the literature aspects related to pain in CP children and at evaluating implications for nursing practice and research. CONTENTS: The keywords nursing, pain, children and cerebral palsy ...

AIM To review research in the literature on nursing shift scheduling / rescheduling, and to report key issues identified in a consultation exercise with managers in four English National Health Service trusts to inform the development of mathematical tools for rescheduling decision-making. BACKGROUND Shift rescheduling is unrecognised as an everyday time-consuming management task with differe...

AIM Social exchange theory is used as the framework to examine the interaction between supervisor-subordinate relationships, training and affective commitment for Northeast Brazilian public sector nursing professionals. BACKGROUND There are continuing challenges to nursing management worldwide in terms of the supply of nursing professionals, their work relationships, nurse training and commit...

Quantum organizations are referred where stakeholders know how to access the infinite potential of the quantum field. Viewing healthcare organizations from perspective of quantum theory suggest new approaches into management techniques for effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services. This research is aimed to determine the quantum skills, quantum leadership characteristics and funct...

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