PURPOSE The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to determine the prevalence of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in emergency department nurses throughout the United States and (b) to examine which demographic and work-related components affect the development of compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, and burnout in this nursing specialty. DESIGN AND METHODS Th...

Nursing turnover and shortage are acknowledged as worldwide issues: understanding the factors that foster nurses’ intention to leave (ITL) is essential in retaining them. The present study aims at providing insight into the factors influencing critical care and intensive care nurses’ ITL the unit, the hospital, and the nursing profession. The study was conducted in two hospitals, by a questionn...

Wellbeing of nurses is associated with patient aggression. Little is known about the differences in these associations between nurses working in different specialties. We aimed to estimate and compare the prevalence of patient aggression and the associations between patient aggression and the wellbeing of nurses in psychiatric and non-psychiatric specialties (medical and surgical, and emergency...

Many emergency departments offer the option of family presence during invasive procedures and cardiopulmonary resuscitation, but lack written guidelines to govern the practice. A lack of formal guidelines can place emergency nurses in a difficult position when a crisis occurs and family members confront nurses with requests to be permitted at the bedside. Without written policies for family pre...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the level of knowledge of health care professionals in an emergency situation related to tracheostomy tube displacement METHODS a descriptive and exploratory study was carried out with the intensive care unit health professionals of a university hospital in Salvador, Brazil, from July to September 2007. For this purpose, a questionnaire was tra...

Aim To identify what decisions nurses make in medical, surgical and critical care areas and compare the results. Method A clinical decision-making questionnaire (CDMQ) consisting of 15 statements was developed. A total of 60 nurses completed the questionnaire: 20 from each of three clinical areas. Results Most nurses, in all specialties, regularly made clinical decisions on direct patient care,...

background: nursing is a stressful job that has serious consequences to create physical and psychological disorders. the present study examined relation between job stress and resiliency with burnout among nurses in rasht state hospitals. methods: 124 experiensed nurses who have been working in emergency, surgery, gynecology, pediatric and cardiology wards were studied. data was collected using...

OBJECTIVE To confirm a new method for the research question, "How do different hospital unit layouts affect nurses' walking behavior and distance?" BACKGROUND Concern is renewed regarding nurses' long walking distances because of the trend toward larger patient rooms with family areas inside, resulting in a larger overall unit size. Studies have found unit design characteristics that support ...

OBJECTIVE In a previous study, we assembled a multidisciplinary Canadian panel and identified 37 International Classification of Diseases-10-Canada Diagnosis Groups (DGs) for which emergency department (ED) management may potentially reduce mortality (emergency-sensitive conditions). Before using these 37 DGs to calculate a hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) specific to emergency care...