A thorough understanding of nurses' decision-making process could be useful to understand how nurses reason and make decisions in ethically laden situations.
This study created a thorough image of nurses' and doctors' behaviour regarding issues such as teamwork, the safety climate, stress at work, job satisfaction and management support in the selected regional hospitals.
But it was not the mammogram that picked up my tumor; it was the nurse's thorough physical examination given in conjunction with the mammogram that found a lump.
On average, 46 days after the blood sample collection by the nurses, a thorough home interview was conducted by trained psychologists to collect information on socio-demographic characteristics, habits, physical, social and recreational activities, and current drug use, use of health services over the past 12 months (hospital admission, emergency room, medical and instrumental investigations).
A confident nurse, with a thorough knowledge about the patients, could in many cases help the doctors to avoid unnecessary and sometimes harmful referrals to hospital.
It is important for nurses to have a thorough understanding of the biosciences such as pathophysiology that underpin nursing care.
As nurse-administered moderate sedation continues to advance in part because of advances in IR procedures, nurses will need thorough continuing education to ensure safe and quality care for their patients.
"We are proud of the excellent care our patients receive here, and we remain committed to providing compassionate health care to all in need". Before patients are discharged from the hospital, physicians and nurses "conduct a thorough medical evaluation that confirms the patient's readiness and ability to leave the hospital," he said.
In order to determine risk factors for and understand the underlying mechanisms of declining sleep quality among nurses, a more thorough examination of possible predictors of various sleep quality outcomes is needed.
Secondly, interviews were conducted by registered nurses with a thorough understanding of the clinical context and skills in qualitative interviewing.
Nurses were more thorough in the examination of stomach and oesophagus, carried out more biopsies than doctors, and omitted fewer items from reports.
