BACKGROUND Relatively ignored in the literature on quality improvement (QI) in health care is the question of who defines the issues in quality of care and decides how those issues will be addressed. METHODS In late 1992, 669 hospital administrators, quality assurance (QA) coordinators, physicians, and nurses in 72 hospitals in six states were surveyed by telephone. Respondents were asked to ...

Aim: Ethical climate is an important organizational characteristic that affect employees' thoughts, attitudes and behaviors. The voice of the nurses, one fundamental employees hospitals, very valuable both in terms organizations they work safety their patients. However, relationship between hospital ethical behavior remain unclear. aim this study was to investigate effects on oncology nurses’ b...

purpose: to report the result of limbal autografting in primary and recurrent pterygium. methods: in this case series, all patients who were referred to our clinic at farabi hospital, isfahan, iran for treatment of pterygium were included. indications of surgery included chronic ocular irritation, impaired or threatened vision, ocular motility problem and cosmetic reasons. under subconjunctiona...

purpose : to determine the efficacy of fibrin glue in corneal perforations up to 3 mm in diameter methods : a case series study was performed on corneal perforations up to 3 mm who were admitted at farabi hospital- tehran. age, visual acuity, presence and size of corneal thinning, corneal epithelial defect, size and depth of corneal infiltration, site and size of corneal perforation, corneal va...

PURPOSE Oncology nurses in ambulatory settings are at increased risk for unintentional chemotherapy exposure due to the large volumes of agents delivered and the absence of regulatory enforcement. Given the limited data regarding the correlates of exposure, the authors sought to identify the relationship between the organisational structures and processes of care in ambulatory oncology settings...

BACKGROUND Many insulin infusion protocols are available for clinical use. We developed a Web-based, online intravenous insulin infusion calculator (IVIIC) for use in our intensive care and medical-surgical units. METHODS In September 2006, we implemented a quality improvement project: an online survey to evaluate the acceptance of this protocol by the nursing staff. Of the 103 registered nur...

OBJECTIVE this paper explores the experiences of registered nurses working with Spanish nursing students within the hospital. METHODS a qualitative phenomenological approach was followed. Purposeful sampling was employed. Twenty-one registered nurses, from a public hospital located in Spain, were included in the study. Data were collected by means of unstructured and semi-structured interview...

introduction: aim of current study is determination of optimal number of nurses in the emergency department of shiraz ali asghar hospital. method: current study is an applied study and belongs to operational research (or) studies. the population has been studied in this research, includes records of referred patients to the emergency department of hospital in 2008. sampling was performed in the...