In spite of emphasis on patient-centered care and promotion their quality, shortcomings have been seen in psychiatric due to lack compassion. To improve the quality caring nursing, it is important develop implement in-service education based Locsin’s Technological Competency as Caring Nursing (TCCN) theory. Objectives determine nurse managers' perception practice status a preliminary survey ser...

OBJECTIVE The study was conducted with the aim to construct a unified nurse appraisal format to be used at hospitals performing under different healthcare organizations in the Eastern Province in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODOLOGY The study included hospitals representing different healthcare organizations within the Eastern Province. The target population included Hospital head nurses ...

Hospital personnel scheduling deals with a large number of constraints of a different nature, some of which need to be satisfied at all costs. It is, for example, unacceptable not to fully support patient care needs and therefore a sufficient number of skilled personnel has to be scheduled at any time. In addition to personnel coverage constraints, nurse rostering problems deal with time relate...

-Solving the nurse scheduling problem properly has a great impact on nurses' working conditions which are strongly related to the level of quality of health care and recruiting of qualified personnel. In this paper, a multi-objective approach is shown to be a very flexible tool for modeling this problem. Hence, it could be used in several specific contexts. Three different solution techniques a...

To determine whether pinworm infections and head lice infestations spread among children in orphanages, 117 children from 4 orphanages in Busan-si and Ulsan-si, Korea, were examined for enterobiasis and head lice infestation between January and February 2014. The overall rate of Enterobius vermicularis egg positivity was 0.85%, whereas none of the children had head lice infestations. The rate o...

An intensive care nursery provides health care for critically ill newborn infants. During a typical shift, infants range from those needing only occasional care to those requiring constant attention. At the beginning of each shift, the head nurse groups the patients for assignment to staff nurses. Typically each nurse cares for one group of infants throughout the shift. The large variation in i...

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Paul Edwards Head of practice development, Bupa UK Care Services, Leeds Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Paul Labourne As...

Abstract This article focuses on the perception of nursing as a low-prestige occupation in 19th century. The history produced by professionals area supported this understanding. However, profile enfermeiro-mor (head nurse), position Santas Casas, demonstrates that profession was present throughout broader social spectrum. authors support hypothesis typical negative assessment is based only more...

T. Mäenpää1; P. Asikainen2; M. Gissler3; K. Siponen4; M. Maass5; K. Saranto6; T. Suominen1 1University of Tampere, School of Health Sciences, Nursing Science, Tampere, Finland; 2Administrative Head Nurse, Satakunta Hospital District, Pori, Finland; 3THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland & Nordic School of Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden; 4University of Oulu, Department of Math...