background: job satisfaction among nurses has consequences on the quality of nursing care and accompanying organizational commitments. nursing procedure measurement (npm) is one of the essential parts of the performance‑oriented system. this research was performed in order to determining the job satisfaction rate in selected wards of baqiyatallah (a. s.) hospital prior and following the npm. ma...

although delivering of oxygen to patients seems to be easy, but this procedure can include some risks. in this article, we try to show you how this procedure can perform in a safe manner.   have you ever worked in a medical-surgical ward, or emergency department, or also in intensive care unit?   perhaps you ever have the care of patients who have need for supplemental oxygen. oxygen therapy is...

OBJECTIVE To assess blood pressure measurement by health professionals of a public hospital in S o Paulo State. METHODS Semi-structured interviews and direct observation were performed with a verification list according to the criteria reported by Perloff et al. One hundred and five health professionals took part in the study. After measuring blood pressure, the level of concordance between t...

The automated linkage of nursing assessment, nursing interventions, nursing workload measurement, and outcomes supports the user in practice and increases the explanatory power of nursing data, e.g. in DRG systems. Practice relevant data should therefore be available for the different needs for information by policy, management, research and training. To this end, two projects have gradually li...

nursing time required to care for patients. However, time is not the only factor to consider when measuring nursing workload, a prerequisite for developing ambulatory care nurse staffing models. For this reason , when nurses, managers, and administrators ask about the method for determining the levels and numbers of nursing staff appropriate for delivering quality care in the ambulatory setting...

BACKGROUND The impact of nursing care on patients' outcomes has been demonstrated in adult and pediatric settings. However, limited attention has been given to standardized measurement of pediatric nursing care. A collaborative group, the Consortium for Congenital Cardiac Care Measurement of Nursing Practice, was formed to address this gap. The purpose of this study was to assess the current st...

This experiment* was designed to lay the foundations for a standard procedure for measuring the quality of scientific translations, whether human or mechanical. There have been other experiments on this problem [e.g., G. A. Miller and J. G. BeebeCenter, Mechan. Transl. , 3, 73 (1958); S. M. Pfafflin, Mechan. Transl. 8, 2 (1965)], but their methods for evaluating translations have been too labor...