Nursing residents may experience physical and emotional exhaustion from the daily life of attending the Program. The aim of this study was to determine the Burnout incidence among Nursing Residents. An investigative, descriptive, analytical, longitudinal-prospective study was conducted with 16 Residents over two years. The Maslach Burnout Inventory was used, translated and validated for Brazil,...

This study identifies workplace stress according to the Job Stress Scale and associates it with socio-demographic and occupational variables of nursing workers from an emergency hospital. This is a cross-sectional study and data were collected through a questionnaire applied to 388 nursing professionals. Descriptive statistics were applied; univariate and multivariate analyses were performed. T...

BACKGROUND A lack of authentic learning opportunities influence the quality of emergency training of nursing students. The purpose of this article is to describe how the step-up action research model was used to improve the quality of trauma-related educational practice of undergraduate nursing students. OBJECTIVES To reduce deaths caused by trauma, healthcare workers should be competent to p...

OBJECTIVES Emergency departments (EDs), similar to other health care environments, are concerned with improving the quality of patient care. Older patients comprise a large, growing, and particularly vulnerable subset of ED users. The project objective was to develop ED-specific quality indicators for older patients to help practitioners identify quality gaps and focus quality improvement effor...

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. Conflict of interest: there are no conflicts of interest to declare. Abstract Objective: To analyze the challenges for the management of care in a hospital emergency department, based on the perspective of nurses. Methods: A qualitative, descriptive and explora...

There are multiple interpretations of the nurse practitioner role which appear to be shaped by discourses within and outside the profession and its regulatory body. This study aimed to explore and clarify the role and scope of practice of emergency nurse practitioners in a region in the United Kingdom and determine if they fulfil the proposed criteria for Advanced Nurse Practitioners. A survey ...

a survey on viewpoints of emergency ward staff in teaching   hospitals of qazvin university of medical sciences   n. peiravi [1] , sh. shams [2] , b. delgoshai [3]     abstract:   introduction: without having an active emergency and trauma center, no hospital can serve effectively because the effectiveness of other hospital services depends on the function of this part. the current study has be...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of chronic illness and multimorbidity rises with population aging, thereby increasing the acuity of care. Consequently, the demand for emergency and critical care services has increased. However, the forecasted requirements for physicians have shown a continued shortage. Among efforts underway to search for innovations to strengthen the workforce, there is a heightened...

BACKGROUND OPTIC is a mixed method Partnership for Health System Improvement (http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/34348.html) study focused on improving care for nursing home (NH) residents who are transferred to and from emergency departments (EDs) via emergency medical services (EMS). In the pilot study we tested feasibility of concurrently collecting individual resident data during transitions acro...