Increasing care needs and a declining workforce put pressure on the quality and continuity of long-term elderly care. The need to attract and retain a solid workforce is increasingly acknowledged. This study reports about a change initiative that aimed to improve the quality of care and working life in residential elderly care. The research focus is on understanding the process of workforce cha...

The structure versus process approach to quality of care presented by Donabedian is one of the most cited ever. However, there has been a paucity of research into the empirical validity of this framework, specifically concerning the relative effects of structure and process on satisfaction with elderly care as perceived by the older persons themselves. The current research presents findings fro...

introduction: the scientific, technological and economic development of a society is closely related to its public health. therefore; improvement of health service quality along with increasing the number of health facilities is one of the main concerns of health care authorities in developed countries. this study was designed to compare accreditation models of health care organizations in euro...

background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...

introduction: the diseases and problems due to ageing can affect the quality of life (qol) in the elderly. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of self-care program education run by health volunteers and healthcare staff on the qol in the elderly. methods: in this experimental, field trial study, 150 elderly people living in mashhad were enrolled by multistage sampling in 2014. the ...

The quality of life (QOL) of the approximately 1.5 million nursing facility (NF) residents in the US is undoubtedly lower than desired by residents, families, providers, and policy makers. Although there have been important advances in defining and measuring QOL for this population, there is a need for interventions that are tied to standardized measurement and quality improvement programs. Thi...

Background: Nurses constitute the largest group of health care providers and play a fundamental role in continuing of care and health promotion and preservation at different levels of the health provider system. After new change in the health care system, society expects more from nurses. Researchers believe that in order to elevate the quality of nursing care, acting based on the evidence and ...

background: we aimed to analyze the effect of nursing strategies on patients with chronic renal failure (crf) undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) treatment by puncturing on arteriovenous fistula (avf). methods: ninety-two patients with chronic renal failure undergoing maintenance hemodialysis (mhd) between jan 2014 and jan 2015 were included in the study (all undergoing avf, dialysis for ...

investigation of nursing intervention and rehabilitation   programs on life quality of hospitalized patients   with stroke     p. amini [1] , h. khalilzadeh [2] , m. hemmat [3] i, m. kohankari [4] , a. mirmohammadi [5] , a. hagshenas [6]   abstract:   introduction: cerebro vascular accident (stroke) is the primary neurologic problem in the world. it is the third ranking cause of death. stroke c...

background patient participation in nursing has great application and values the humanarian values of patients. patient participation is an international golden standard in the modern nursing paradigm. despite the importance of patient participation and its routine use in professional care, this concept is not clear, especially in social and cultural context of iranian nursing. this study clari...