Background: Effective and skilful communication is crucial and an important element in the quality of nursing care. This enables nurses to assess patients' needs and provide them with the appropriate physical care, emotional support, knowledge transfer and exchange of information. However, nurses find it difficult to communicate effectively and therapeutically with their patients. Aim: To ident…
Family members of traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients have commonly experienced high level of stress and uncertainty due to the patient's condition. To alleviate stress of family members, it requires providing care to fulfill family needs. Unfortunately, nurses often rarely assess the needs of family members. As a consequence nurses rarely provide the appropriate nursing care, and as a result…
Health care providers (HCP) who work in the operating room (OR) or post anesthesia care unit (PACU) have a greater opportunity to cross contaminate patients because of high workloads and frequent patient contact events. The current prevalence of health care-associated infections (HCAI) is a major health concern and patient contact in the OR and PACU can be a contributing factor due to microbial…
Introduction: The quantity of unfulfilment of self-care in patients with physical immobilisation can decrease the quality indicator of nursing care. Self-care for physically immobilised patients is affected by basic condition factors. The study aimed to analyse the factors that can affect the fulfilment of self-care needs in patients with physical immobilisation. Methods: The study design was d…
Introduction: Critical patients are patients who potentially get reversible dysfunction in one or more life-threatening organs and require care in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Methods: The objective of this research is to analyse the physical function-tardive dyskinesia in critical patients with sedation in the ICU. The design of this research is cross-sectional. The population is all of the …
Introduction: Safety is a global issue in hospitals. Unexpected events or errors related to health services occur in children, and about 75% are associated with medical procedures. Parental involvement becomes one of the strategies used to improve patient safety. Families who know patient safety can educate themselves to prevent and detect errors that occur during treatment. Education can impro…
Introduction: Patient safety is one of the demand of people who need health services. The hospital is required to fulfill the patient's safety goals. Nurses as health care providers have a risk of making mistakes and it can result in harm to the patient. The purpose of this research was to develop model of supervision based on experiential learning in the implementation of patient safety goals.…