abstractbackground: mothers with premature infants face certain challenges such as uncertainty on how to deal with their infant's condition and care for it after discharge from neonatal intensive care unit (nicu).methods: a qualitative design was used to explain mothers' challenges after their infant's discharge from nicus in isfahan, iran, 2015. purposive sampling was adopted to...

background: perceived self‑efficacy is a strong predictor for behavior. considering the importance of health‑promoting self‑care behaviors in increasing quality of life in the elderly, this study was aimed at defining the effect of nurse home visits on self‑care self‑efficacy of the elderly in rural areas. materials and methods: this is a pre and post quasi‑experimental study conducted on 33 ol...

A shortage of home health aides has forced the institutionalization of some consumers who could otherwise be cared for at home. Chief among the many factors that limit the supply of home health aides is the profession’s low rate of pay and scant benefits. Unionization could be a positive force in alleviating the labor shortage. To date the Service Employees’ International Union (SEIU) has achie...

BACKGROUND This review identifies the content of virtual visits in community nursing services to older adults and explores the manner in which service users and the nurses use virtual visits. DESIGN An integrative literature review. METHOD Data collection comprised a literature search in three databases: Cinahl, Medline, and PubMed. In addition, a manual search of reference lists and expert...

The new policy requires all long term Medicaid home care services to now be provided through home care agency contracts as part of managed care. The change presents a fundamental shift in service delivery, payment and regulation. It has included the state’s reshuffling of billions of dollars in reimbursement, a succession of new regulatory mandates, and transitioning nearly a hundred‐thousand p...

background & aim: nowadays, home health care services play significant roles in modern societies. such services allow the elderly and needy people to pass their treatment process at their own houses in a friendly environment. in this paper, weekly routing and scheduling problem of home health care personnel was investigated. methods & materials: insufficient number of expert personnel or overla...

background: population aging has social, economic and political consequences. most family caregivers prefer to care for their family member older person with chronic disease at home. despite traditional culture within iranian families, in some cases, hospitalization of the elderly in nursing home is inevitable, and this affects the old person and his/her family. the aim of this study was to exp...