Background: Although nurses are legally and morally responsible for the quality of patient care, patients also have the right to receive high-quality and decent nursing care. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of education-based empowerment program on the nursing care quality in the dialysis ward. Methods: The present semi-experimental clinical trial study was pe...

The medical director is an important member of the healthcare team in a nursing home, and is responsible for overall coordination of care and for implementation of policies related to care of the residents in a nursing home. The residents in nursing homes are frail, medically complex, and have multiple disabilities. The medical director has an important leadership role in assisting nursing home...

BACKGROUND Performance measurement and benchmarking are common concerns in the delivery of long term care. It is common to measure the performance of providers and to publicly report these data. This paper examines selected technical challenges facing those who design, implement and disseminate health care quality performance measures. METHOD Review of the application of measures of performan...

Background and Objectives: Achieving high quality healthcare services and patients' satisfaction with the healthcare services represents an important issue in healthcare delivery systems. Moral distress is one of the effective factors on this issue. Regarding the significance of the nursing care quality, it is necessary to investigate association between moral distress and the nursing care qual...

BACKGROUND:The concept of „quality nursing care‟ is widely used in health care with ambiguity and subjectivity. Evaluating and measuring quality is often a factor of an individual‟s knowledge and awareness, expectations and recognizable standards of quality (Chamber of nursing, 2000). Quality is attributed to material production, people and characteristics. Quality achievement and determination...

satisfaction with nursing care and related factors in hospitalized cancer patients in shahid ghazi hospital in tabriz     mogadasiyan s [1] , abdolahzadeh f [2] , rahmani a [3] ,nikanafar ar [4] , firoziyan aa [5] *     received: 5 may, 2013 accepted: 3 aug , 2013     abstract   background & aims : patient satisfaction with nursing services provided as an indicator of the quality of nursing car...

ba ck g r oun d & aim: spiritual care is an integral part of a holistic nursing care. providing spiritual care has a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes. although nurses understand the importance of incorporating  patient’s  spiritual  beliefs  into the care practice,  understanding  their  spirituality before addressing the spirituality of patients is also important. therefore, the ai...

OBJECTIVE To explore the experiences and clinical challenges that nurses and nursing assistants face when providing high-quality diabetes-specific management and care for elderly people with diabetes in primary care settings. DESIGN Focus-group interviews. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Sixteen health care professionals: 12 registered nurses and four nursing assistants from nursing homes (10), distri...