scholarly journals The Relationship Between Nursing Workload, Quality of Care, and Nursing Payment in Intensive Care Units

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. e8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li-Yin CHANG ◽  
Hsiu-Hui YU ◽  
Yann-Fen C. CHAO
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Nursing Workload ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Effect of Evidence-Based Nursing Care Guidelines on the Quality of Care of Patients in Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Zahra Tayebi Myaneh ◽  
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Maryam Azadi ◽  
Seyedeh Zahra Hosseinigolafshani ◽  
Farnoosh Rashvand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Neurosurgical Intensive Care ◽  
Care Guidelines ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Evidence Based Nursing

Background: Evidence-based nursing care guidelines are important tools for increasing the quality of nurses’ clinical work. Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of implementing evidence-based nursing care guidelines on the quality of care of patients admitted to the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Units (NICUs). Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study on 54 nurses in NICUs of hospitals affiliated to Qazvin University of Medical Sciences selected using a convenience sampling technique and divided into two groups of intervention and control. The intervention included the teaching of evidence-based nursing guidelines and their implementation by the nurses. Before and two months after the intervention, the demographic characteristics and the quality of nurses’ patient care in both groups was evaluated by using a demographic form and a standard checklist with 37 items designed based on the standards of practice for All Registered Nurses (ANA). Data were analyzed in SPSS software using descriptive statistics (Mean±SD), and paired t-test, independent t-test and chi-square test. Findings: The mean score of nursing care quality in the two groups was not significantly different before intervention (P>0.05). After intervention, the mean score was 25.11±6.2 in the intervention group and 20.29±5.3 in the control group, and the difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion: Implementation of evidence-based nursing care guidelines can improve the quality of nursing care. Therefore, it is recommended that the teaching of evidence-based nursing care guidelines should be on the agenda of the hospitals’ education unit and related departments.

scholarly journals Investigating the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Social Support with Burnout in Nurses in Intensive Care Units

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sadegh Safa'i Kochaksaraei ◽  
Mohammad Ali Heidari Gorgji ◽  
Tahere Yaghoobi ◽  
Jamshid Yazdani Cherati ◽  
Hedayat Jafari
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
The Relationship

Background and purpose: Since job burnout affects the patientschr('39') quality of care, it is useful to identify more effective factors in improving the quality of services. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and social support with job burnout among nurses. Materials and Methods: This was a descriptive and cross-sectional study conducted in the winter of 2018. The research population included 214 nurses of intensive care units in the medical and educational center of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences by census sampling method. Data were gathered using Bradbury and Graveschr('39') social intelligence, Philips et al.’s social support, and Maslach and Jackson’s burnout questionnaires. For analyzing the research hypotheses, Pearson correlation, linear regression, and Sobel test were used.   Findings: Two of the nurses exhibited low emotional intelligence (%0.93), while two of them had average (%0.93) and 210 had high emotional intelligence (%98.13). 18.22% had low burnout, 73.36% had average and 8.41% had high burnout rate. The correlation between emotional intelligence with social support was 0.125, and the probability was greater than 0.05. The correlation between emotional exhaustion and perceived social support, personality deprivation, individual performance, and job burnout were found to be 0.012, 0.07, -0.045, and 0.015, respectively; whereas probability values for all of these relationships were more than 0.05. The correlation between emotional intelligence and emotional exhaustion, personality deprivation, individual function, and burnout were -0.263, -0.125, -0.313, and -0.335, respectively. The probability values except for the personchr('39')s depersonalization variable, for other relationships, were also less than 0.05, and the relationship was documented to be significant. Conclusion: There was a significant and inverse relationship between emotional intelligence and job burnout, but there was found not a significant relationship between social support with job burnout, and emotional intelligence with social support.

scholarly journals Examining the Relationship between Cost and Quality of Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Beyond

Children ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Lauren Culbertson ◽  
Dmitry Dukhovny ◽  
Wannasiri Lapcharoensap
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Relationship

There is tremendous variation in costs of delivering health care, whether by country, hospital, or patient. However, the questions remain: what costs are reasonable? How does spending affect patient outcomes? We look to explore the relationship between cost and quality of care in adult, pediatric and neonatal literature. Health care stewardship initiatives attempt to address the issue of lowering costs while maintaining the same quality of care; but how do we define and deliver high value care to our patients? Ultimately, these questions remain challenging to tackle due to the heterogeneous definitions of cost and quality. Further standardization of these terms, as well as studying the variations of both costs and quality, may benefit future research on value in health care.

Understanding articles comparing outcomes among intensive care units to rate quality of care

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne G. Randolph ◽  
Gordon H. Guyatt ◽  
Jean Carlet
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Intensive Care Units
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