OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of massage therapy in reducing physiological and psychological indicators of stress in nurses employed in an acute care hospital. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Acute care hospital in Queensland. SUBJECTS Sixty nurses were recruited to the five week study and randomly assigned to two groups. INTERVENTION A 15 minute back massage on...

This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of mental disorders caused drug dependency and substance abuse in hospitalized patients of Farabi Hospital in Kermanshah City. The study method was retrospective descriptive. The research population and statistical sample consisted all of patients with mental disorders and hospitalized drug abuse in Farabi Psychiatric Hospital in 2012 which 359 pat...

PURPOSE To evaluate and compare the attitudes of ophthalmologists and gynecologists in suggesting appropriate approach to pregnancy in different ocular conditions. METHODS Specialty-specific questionnaires on delivery mode and abortion indications for ophthalmic patients (refractive, vascular, oncologic, retinal, glaucoma, postoperation, posttrauma, and infectious) were designed and distribut...

BACKGROUND Nurses play a crucial role in patient-care. Therefore, assessing nurses' clinical competence is essential to achieve qualified and safe care. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the competence assessments made by head nurses and practicing nurses in a university hospital in Iran in 2009. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted to make comparisons of both self-...

Introduction: Nasolacrimal duct obstruction at the junction of lacrimal sac and nasolacrimal causes acute or chronic dacryocystitis. Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is treatment choice has a high success rate. Objective: To analyze rate external DCR surgery its influencing factors our hospital. Methods: It hospital-based descriptive study cases that underwent from June 2016 to February 2017 Biratna...

A qualitative research design that is explorative, descriptive and contextual in nature was employed in order to understand and describe the professional nurses' perception of the implementation of a quality circle programme in a public hospital in the Eastern Cape Province. The data-collection techniques were individual semi-structured interviews and field notes. The sample was drawn from a po...

Aggressive behaviour of inpatients in mental health facilities occurs globally and is a serious nursing problem. Consequently, there insufficient research studies conducted among nurses regarding the types aggressive displayed by patients psychiatric institutions. The purpose this study was to determine nurses’ perceptions selected hospital Lesotho. A quantitative descriptive survey used collec...

The researchers document the individual and workplace characteristics associated with decreased work productivity and intent to stay in nursing for nurses employed in direct patient care in the hospital setting. Factors associated with decreased work productivity were age, total years worked as a RN, quality of care provided, job stress score, having had a job injury, and having a health proble...

Aims and objectives. To identify what nurses experience as barriers to ensuring adequate nutritional care for undernourished hospitalised older people. Background. Undernutrition occurs frequently among hospitalised older people and can result in a variety of negative consequences if not treated. Nevertheless, undernutrition is often unrecognised and undertreated. Nurses have a great responsibi...