Introduction: Despite the progress made in perinatal medicine over the past two decades, the problem of preterm labor continues to frustrate satisfactory reproductive outcomes and its prevention still awaits needed improvements.
Background: In the current healthcare environment, education for technical skills focuses on quality improvement that demands ongoing skill assessment. Objectively assessing competency is a complex task that, when done effectively, improves patient care.
This exploratory study examined the relationship between virtues and indicators of work satisfaction and engagement, perceptions of hospital functioning and quality of nursing care, and psychological well-being of nursing staff. Working in Turkish hospitals.
Aim: The aim of the current study was to develop a scale to measure the attitudes of nursing students towards simulation-based education.
Background: loneliness, a common feature among elderly people, can affect health and quality of life. Objective: this article examined affective bond and marital status among elders in "Barra do Garcas", municipality, Mato Grosso State, Midwest Brazil.
The study sample was composed of 200 individuals with hypertension who were admitted to the emergency department of a government hospital. Of the participants, 36.5% presented to the emergency department.
This exploratory study examined the relationship between the experience of flow at work and indicators of satisfaction, engagement and psychological well-being of nursing staff working in Turkish hospitals. This emphasis was consistent with emerging trends in both psychology and organizational studies, termed positive psychology or positive organizational scholarship respectively, to focus on strengths and excellence rather than dissatisfaction and pathology.
Technology has conquered the world and also heath care as a part of it. It has stated that patients' needs and expectations have not been taken into account when using technology. From caring science point of view it is a problem to leave patients' experiences without attention. By summarizing the past qualitative studies of patients' experiences of technology in caring, the aim is to highlight the patients' perspective and increase knowledge of their experiences of technology in caring science and care as a basis for theory development.
