Background: Caring is the essence of nursing practice, but has been understood in various countries in a different way. Analysis of nurses’ perception of caring behaviors provides the possibility to nursing teachers and administrators to be able to plan a program to meet all the patients’ needs with an inclusive view. Aim: to determine nurses’ perception about caring behaviors and the factors t...

Cost-effective healthcare has become a principal paradigm in all areas of medicine. In order to establish cost-effective care, clinical outcomes under various cost conditions have to be examined. Such a process cannot be static since it has to consider ever evolving treatments and outcome results. In infertility, the evaluation of cost-effective care should be simpler than in most other areas o...

Family-centred care as a way to care for children in hospitals has become ubiquitous in the world of paediatrics. It evolved from work of pioneers in theories of maternal and child attachment, and paralleled the evolution of paediatric nursing as an academic (and evidencegenerating) discipline. However, in the last decade, doubts have been sewn as to its efficacy and workability, due to the lac...