At this stage in the development of diagnosis­ related groups (DRG 's), there is an imperfect record of the value and amount of nursing resources used by individual patients during a single hospital stay. Previous attempts to isolate the costs of nursing care in relationship to DRG's are reviewed. A research strategy to attain such relative measurements is proposed. Such inquiries are necessary...

The nursing practice environment is currently in the midst of change as nurses undergo the shift in documenting care from the historical print paradigm to the contemporary digital paradigm. As the electronic health record becomes a working reality, educators are faced with the challenge of preparing graduates of the pre-registration programmes for the digital world of practice. Although student...

At this stage in the development of diagnosis-related groups (DRG's), there is an imperfect record of the value and amount of nursing resources used by individual patients during a single hospital stay. Previous attempts to isolate the costs of nursing care in relationship to DRG's are reviewed. A research strategy to attain such relative measurements is proposed. Such inquiries are necessary i...

background: we studied the possible advantages of feed-forward control nursing model in the treatment of placenta previa. methods: we enrolled 60 pregnant women who were receiving treatment for expectant placenta previa between january 2010 and january 2016 and randomly divided them into the control group and the observation group with 30 cases in each group. in the control group, we offered sp...

This study analyzed what nurses wrote in narrative nursing notes for nursing outcome of cardiac-surgery patients. The nursing notes of 46 patients were decomposed into phrases and analyzed based on the nursing process. Eight patterns were extracted according to different combinations of nursing-process components, of which 29.2% have nursing outcome phrases. The content of the nursing notes was...

The aim of this project was to describe hospital nurses' work activity through observations, nurses' perceptions of time spent on tasks, and electronic health record time stamps. Nurses' attitudes toward technology and patients' perceptions and satisfaction with nurses' time at the bedside were also examined. Activities most frequently observed included documenting in and reviewing the electron...

perceptions of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession: a qualitative study    zamanzadeh v [1] , valizadeh l [2] *, nasiri kh [3]     received: 2 jul , 2013 accepted: 9 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims: nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. it seems that researches on ...

background: accurate and complete documentation of nursing records is one of the preconditions of the evidence-based cares and is considered as one of the most important professional tasks in nursing. the aim of the present study was to audit the nursing reports in intubated neonates admitted in neonatal intensive care unit of ayatollah rouhani hospital, babol. methods: in this cross-sectional ...