OBJECTIVE To compare quality of life (QoL) ratings of long term forensic psychiatric care patients with the ratings of psychiatric nurses, in which the nurses indicate how they think the patient would answer. METHODS Agreement on QoL-scores according to the Forensic inpatient Quality of Life Questionnaire (FQL) was investigated for seventy- seven pairs of patients and psychiatric nurses from ...

aims: in general, nurses who work in department of psychiatric are in fact interacting with emotional disorders of patients once providing their care services. higher levels of job motivation and satisfaction can markedly foster service improvement. the aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between anger and job motivation in nurses of a psychiatric hospital.   instrument & methods:...

BACKGROUND Based on the literature review that was conducted, no research study has been found in Australia to provide a detailed understanding of why nurses differ in their perceptions about cancer patients' Quality of Life (QoL) when they communicate with patients in oncology wards. METHODS This descriptive exploratory qualitative study was completed in 2007 in two major public hospitals in...

background the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and personality traits of nurses with patient’s satisfaction of nursing services in the hospitals of jundishapur university of ahvaz. material and methods the sample of this study was consisted of 352 nurses in the hospitals of jundishapur university of ahvaz, selected through simple random s...

background and objectives: workplace violence against female nurses is a significant and increasing problem. this study aimed to investigate workplace violence against female nurses in three general hospitals of ilam located in western iran and identify factors influencing it incidents.   methods: seventy seven nurses were randomly selected and surveyed. the data were collected using an author-d...