Hospital readmissions contribute significantly to the cost of medical care, and may reflect unresolved problems at discharge or a lack of resources in post-hospital care. The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of patient characteristics at discharge, the need for nursing care, discharge planning program, post-hospital care arrangements, and caregiver characteristics on readmissions ...

background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

Stroke is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. In the United States, it was estimated that approximately 750,000 patients had a stroke annually. Denmark, with a population of 5.5 million, had about 12,500 cases of hospitalizations from stroke in 2009. Despite the patient's obvious need for complex nursing care and a common recognition of the nurse's central role in rehabilitat...

www.thelancet.com Vol 386 July 4, 2015 7 Prevention of stroke is, of course, the ideal scenario, but with more than 10 million major strokes every year worldwide, acute treatment and rehabilitation should also be optimised. Organised acute stroke care within dedicated stroke units reduces death and dependency after stroke, but which elements of such care confer this benefi t is uncertain. Syste...

Data on 515 consecutive patients registered with the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project were used to compare the characteristics of those patients who were admitted to hospital within one month after their first stroke with those who remained in the community during that time. Twenty eight patients had their stroke while in hospital for other conditions, and of the remaining 487, 266 were adm...

extract: most people have breathing blessing but some patients are who have struggling terribly for this breathing. this article is the first part of three section's series that tells you how diagnose and treat the breathing disorder of these patients. the situation which known to all is that you inter to patient's room and see that he/she is breathing tribally. such situation for you...

this descriptive and analytical study was conducted to evaluate quality quality of nursing care by nurses in hemodialysis patients and their knowledge of peritoneal dialysis in hospitals affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences.   in this study , 40 nurses graduated with bachelor , master and associae degree were participated. data gathering was accomplished by questionnaire consists...