Background: Patient education is taken into account as one of the key components of comprehensive care as well as one of the significant nursing functions in order to increase community health. In this respect, education materials and written texts can improve patient information up to 50% and consequently meet patient satisfaction. Readability is considered as an integral concept in patient ed...

Background: The implementation of patient education within a hospital is a difficult task that plays a key role in improving and controlling diseases and providing quality healthcare services. Objective: The current study evaluated the effect of patient education on the quality of nursing care and inpatient satisfaction in surgical wards of selected hospi...

effect of evidence-based nursing training on nursing students ability in executive skill of nursing process in urmia university of medical sciences, 2013     habibzadeh h [1] ,khajehali n [2] *,khalkhali hr [3] ,mohammadpour y [4]     received: 2 mar, 2013 accepted: 4 may, 2013    abstract  background & aims : nursing process is the important pivot of nursing, and it is an icon of the art and s...

BACKGROUND Printed health educational materials are commonly issued to prepare patients for hospital discharge. Teaching methods that engage multiple senses have been shown to positively affect learning outcomes, suggesting that paper materials may not be the most effective approach when educating new mothers. In addition, many written patient educational materials do not meet national health l...

The most important objective of heart failure (HF) treatment is to reach and preserve patients' clinical stability. Several studies have shown that programs aimed at systematic education, developed by multidisciplinary teams, are positive strategies to work with these patients. Nurses active in HF clinics play a fundamental role in the educational process and continuity of patient care. The obj...

background: enhancing nursing students’ critical thinking is a challenge faced by nurse educators. this study aimed at determiningthe effect of clinical concept mapping on discipline-based critical thinking of nursing students. materials and methods: in this quasi-experimental post-test only design, a convenient sample of 4th year nursing students (n = 32)participated. they were randomly divide...

OBJECTIVE Diabetic management process requires nurses with expert knowledge and patient care skills. This study was carried out to identify nurses' diabetic care approaches and their post graduate education needs in order to develop a "Basic Diabetes Patient Care Education Program" in a university hospital in Turkey. METHODS The descriptive study, using the survey technique, was carried out i...