Objective:The aim of this study was to determine the level knowledge nurses working in Emergency Departments (ED)and Intensive Care Units (ICU)about evidence-based practices prevention ventilator-associated pneumonia(EBP-VAP).
 Materials and Methods:This descriptive,two-center conducted on EDs ICUs two public hospitals city center Malatya.A total 199 who worked ED or ICU for at least one y...

 Objective: Triage refers to the evaluation and categorization of patients for better management to deliver services. A good triage system should be able to accurately specify the patients who require urgent care. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of emergency nurses in correct triage using Emergency Severity Index (ESI) triage. Methods: In ...

Introduction: Improving quality of care is one of the challenges in health care services. In this regard, human factor is one of the important factors that affect the quality of care. The aim of this study was to assess nurses’ clinical performance in Critical Care Units (CCU) in teaching and non-teaching hospitals non-teaching hospitals of Qazvin city based on the Synergy Model. Materials & Me...

BACKGROUND Use of a patient classification system particular to the unit, including size of nursing staff, is required for nurses to have adequate staffing and provide high-quality nursing care in oncology units. OBJECTIVES The study was conducted to create a planning system for nursing staff size for an outpatient chemotherapy unit at a university hospital. METHODS The study was conducted ...

The aim of this descriptive-exploratory study was to investigate the variability in the complexity of patients' nursing care needs during hospitalization and to identify the care indicators that most contribute to the transition between categories. The study was carried out at clinical and surgical inpatient units of a teaching hospital in the interior of São Paulo State. We included 80 patient...

Behaviors of patients with psychiatric illness who are hospitalized on nonbehavioral health units can be difficult to address by staff members. Instituting a rapid response team to proactively de-escalate potential volatile situations on nonpsychiatric units in a hospital allows earlier treatment of behavioral issues with these patients. The behavioral emergency response team (BERT) consists of...

In order to identify the stress level of nurses that provide direct care to critically ill patients, it was carried out a descriptive and exploratory study in five hospitals of the western region of the state of Paraná, Brazil, from May 2010 to July 2010. Fifty-eight intensive nurses participated in the study, whose stress level was evaluated according to the Domain D of Bianchi's Stress Scale....

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) knowledge of hospital nurses and emergency medical personnel in Kermanshah, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 330 hospital nurses and 159 emergency medical personnel working in educational hospitals and emergency medical centers in Kermanshah. Data were col...

OBJECTIVE Seattle-King County (SKC) Washington is at risk for regional disasters, especially earthquakes. Of 1.8 million residents, >400,000 (22%) are children, a proportion similar to that of the population of the State of Washington (24%) and of the United States (24%). The county's large area of 2,134 square miles (5,527 km2) is connected through major transportation routes that cross numero...

Integral to any discipline is its ethical foundation for practice. The AmericanNurses Association (ANA) describes theNursingCode of Ethics as the non-negotiable ethical standard of the nursing profession, serving as an expression of nursing’s commitment to society. The code consists of 9 provisions with interpretative statements (herein italicized under each provision). Each interpretative stat...