Heat stroke is an acute, life-threatening emergency characterized clinically by elevated body temperature and central nervous system dysfunction. Nursing care for patients with heat must prevent complications optimizes patient outcomes. Aim: The aim to evaluate the effect of educational program on outcomes regarding stroke. Design: A quasi-experimental research design was used conduct this stud...

a bstract background: spiritual care should be considered an important part of holistic and multidisciplinary care and it has not been given much importance so far. we should begin with student nurses, who will soon be clinicians, to fi nd out about potentiality of the nursing profession to put spiritual care into practice. little has been known about spiritual well-being, spirituality, and spi...

BACKGROUND the medical and dependency characteristics of UK care home residents have not been well described. This undermines care commissioning, development and regulation. Data to inform policy and practice are needed. OBJECTIVE to survey the dependency and clinical diagnoses of 16,043 people resident in the 244 care homes distributed across the UK managed by the largest provider of care in...

quality of nursing care in chronic heart diseases: concept analysis based on hybrid model    gholami m [1] , mohammadi f [2] *, fallahi m [3] , seyed bagher maddah s [4] , ahmadi a [5] , rafii f [6] , khankeh h r [7]     received: 22 jan, 2013 accepted: 9 apr, 2013    abstract  background & aims : quality of nursing care as a concept is subjective, multidimensional, ambiguous, neutral, related ...

conclusions the effectiveness of nursing education on self-care behaviour of hf patients was clearly demonstrated. methodological differences in development and implementation of education programs, made the comparison between the results of the studies difficult. results the findings of the reviewed studies showed that self-care behaviour of patients who received nursing education improved sig...

this is a descriptive study. the purpose was to determine how children with leukemia receives nursing care. a sample of 40 children with leukemia from six hematology wards in three hospitals was selected. data were gathered by observation, children's documents, and then filling an observational check list. results showed that nursing care in 65 percent of cases was intermediate, and in 35 ...

prolapsed mitral valve syndrome is a common, benign disorder with prevalence of %0.3-6 in population. this syndrome also is known as barlows syndrome and flaapy mitral valve syndrome. prolapsed mitral valve is the dropping of one or two mitral valve leaflet(s) into the left atrium during ventricular systole. this malformation leads to incomplete closing of mitral valve and regurgitates the bloo...