background: the implementation of patient education within a hospital is a difficult task that plays a key role in improving and controlling diseases and providing quality healthcare services. objective: the current study evaluated the effect of patient education on the quality of nursing care and inpatient satisfaction in surgical wards of selected hospitals in isfahan, iran. methods: this qua...

Candidemia acquired outside critical care or hematological areas has received much attention in recent years; however, data on candidemia in surgical departments are very scarce. Our objectives were to describe episodes of candidemia diagnosed in surgical wards and to compare them with episodes occurring in medical wards. We performed a post hoc analysis of a prospective, multicenter study impl...

this study aimed to estimate the rate of pressure ulcers in intensive care units (icus) and medical and surgical wards of iranian hospitals and compare the performance of methods of medical record review as well as direct observation for their detection.the research team visited 308 patients in medical and surgical wards of hospitals affiliated with tehran university of medical sciences and a f...

background managing and coping with occupational stress as a recognized problem in the modern era, is vital and important. nursing is by nature a stressful occupation. continuous and long-term stress can result in physical, psychological, and behavioral problems in nurses. we aimed to assess occupational stress in nurses working in surgical, internal and psychiatric wards in teaching hospitals ...

In a trial of 360 patients with hernia or varicose veins, day care surgery provided an economic alternative to the provision of surgical aftercare either in the surgical wards of a district hospital or in a convalescent hospital. There was only slightly more work for general practitioners. Most of the additional work for the community services was carried out by district nurses, with an average...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of Nosocomial Infection (NI) and type of bacteriological isolates among the patients admitted in the medical and surgical wards of a non-teaching secondary care hospital in north India. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional hospital based study conducted in the Wards of General Medicine, General Surgery and Orthopaedic of the hospital. The pat...

A survey of five-day wards serving medical and surgical specialties indicated that 30 such units were operating in England in 1979. Six mixed surgical specialty, eight mixed specialty (medicine and surgery), four medical investigation, and 12 single specialty wards had opened since 1969. There was a varied, and often low, use of these wards. Nurse-staffing levels and allocation of operating the...