Background: In Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the premature infant is often placed under incubator, phototherapy and with several cords and tubing connected all over body. They are subjected both to highly stressful environment (noise, bright light, frequent care related handling) and are often deprived of tactile stimulation that they would otherwise experience in general mothering care....

background: adherence to prescribed therapeutic regimen is an important element of self-care behaviors in cardiac patients. awareness of disease may play an important role in patient adherence. thus, this study was conducted to examine the relationship between awareness of the disease and adherence to therapeutic regimen among cardiac patients admitted to selected hospitals in mashhad, iran. me...

background: although hemodialysis has a therapeutic effect on esrd, but these patients encounter many physical, psychological, and social stress full factors that lead to a decrease in their quality of life (qol). one of the factors that are effective on increasing of qol is self care ability. review of literature demonstrates that there have been done a few studies on different aspects of qol ...

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an important strategy for assessing the vast amounts of published data and applying them appropriately to our patients. However, in intensive care medicine, there is a shortage of "gold standard" randomized controlled trial evidence to support (or not support) therapeutic decisions. In addition, even when well-conducted randomized trials have been performed, we ...

BACKGROUND The Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System is widely used in both Western Europe and the United States to assess the level of patients' need for nursing care. Poland currently has 3 types of intensive care according to a territorial division of the country and the scope of medical treatment offered: poviat, voivodeship, and clinical. OBJECTIVE To determine the need for nursing car...