Nurses spend much more time dealing with patients compared with other healthcare personnel. This group has a significant role in identification of threatening complexities of patients, removing medical errors and in keeping patients safe, on the other hand, a considerable amount of human errors is committed by nurses (1). Therefore, nurses have to face with many occupational risks compared with...

BACKGROUND We studied the possible advantages of feed-forward control nursing model in the treatment of placenta previa. METHODS We enrolled 60 pregnant women who were receiving treatment for expectant placenta previa between January 2010 and January 2016 and randomly divided them into the control group and the observation group with 30 cases in each group. In the control group, we offered sp...

BACKGROUND Considering that many nursing actions affect other people's health and life, sensitivity to ethics in nursing practice is highly important to ethical leaders as a role model. OBJECTIVE The study aims to explore ethical sensitivity in ethical nursing leaders in Iran. METHOD This was a qualitative study based on the conventional content analysis in 2015. Data were collected using d...

Good morning Madam Chair, Commissioners, and Members of the,Panel. I am Pamela Cipriano, PhD, RN, FAAN, Chief Clinical”‘Off&-, U&e&y of Virginia Health System and am representing the American Academy of Nursing and the American Organization of Nurse Executives. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss our concerns regarding patient safety and medical errors. The American Academy of Nursing, a s...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to demonstrate the association between nurse staffing and adverse events at the shift level. BACKGROUND Despite a growing body of research linking nurse staffing and patient outcomes, the relationship of staffing to patient falls and medication errors remains equivocal, possibly due to dependence on aggregated data. METHODS Thirteen military hospita...

BACKGROUND English-as-a-second-language (ESL) nursing students fail to graduate from programs at alarming rates. For many of these students, academic failure results from poor performance on multiple choice examinations, which frequently contain linguistic errors. A remedy for these errors is to linguistically modify examination questions. This study assessed the effects of linguistic modificat...

I have read your Commentary entitled‘Signposting the causes of medication errors’ (2011) published in the last issue of International Nursing Review. Surely, it will improve international knowledge on the important subject of patient safety. However, I find it necessary to make the following comments on the Commentary. In the Commentary, you stated ‘with the precise number and types of errors a...

We discuss the affective aspects of tutoring dialogues in an ITS -called INESthat helps students to practice nursing tasks using a haptic device and a virtual environment. Special attention is paid to affective control in the tutoring process by means of selecting the appropriate feedback, taking into account elements of the student’s character, the harmfulness of errors made, and the emotional...

investigates complaints incoming to the medical council of west azarbaijan province during 1385 to 1389     hemmati maslakpak m [1] , baghaie r [2] , yosefi m [3] ,ghavami h [4] *     received: 9 dec , 2012 accepted: 18 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : increased complaints from the medical team and medical staff, and increased risk of therapeutic measures in recent years, was the ...