Falls in hospitals remain an ongoing concern, despite world-wide recognition of this persistent problem [1]. Rates vary widely across hospitals globally and typically range from 3 to 11 falls per 1000 bed days [2,3,4]. Around 25% of hospital falls are injurious, and result in fractures, s...
Introduction: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a patient fall prevention program on nurses' knowledge and number of patients falls in one of the teaching hospitals in Mashhad, Iran. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was conducted on 600 nurses working in a hospital ...
Staff training is an essential part of the responsibilities that are assigned to advanced practice nurses since it provides the opportunity to educate nurses and improve care services.
Five of them were currently teaching on an osteoporosis patient education program. Most of them had participated in both the development and implementation of the programs. The three health professionals at hospitals were nurses and had experience with osteoporosis patient education: two of them were ...
Patient safety studies in Ghana have found that teamwork and organisational learning are viewed as important dimensions to achieving patient safety culture [26]. While one study [5] found that management support had a significant relationship with patient safety culture in a teaching hospital in ...
through direct patient surveillance Significance: Patient falls need to be minimized or eliminated within any health care setting Strategy and Implementation: Nursing staff realized patient falls were on the rise and identified the need for vigilant patient surveillance in order to prevent patient falls....
Hospital case mix was excluded from the models owing to its collinearity with patient volume. Other variables highly associated with volume (location, region, and teaching status) were forced into the final models, with subsequent subgroup analyses performed. Marginal probabilities of each outcome at ...
By teaching patients better coping strategies and altering reactions to trauma-related experiences, CBT aims to instill positive changes [19]. Supported by a systematic review of 15 randomized control trials, perioperative psychotherapy—including CBT and relaxation therapy—showed moderate-quality evidence...
to the ability of alkalis to penetrate deeply into the ocular tissue. On the other hand, acids denature proteins, forming a barrier to prevent further penetration. Concurrent chemical and mechanical injuries are possible, and it is important not to overlook chemical exposure during t...
In a prospective study, 46 patients discharged from a teaching hospital to a "teaching unit" nursing home, where primary medical care was provided by facul... DW Jahnigen,AM Kramer,LJ Robbins,... - 《Journal of the American Geriatrics Society》 被引量: 33发表: 1985年 Examination of the ...