Background: Moral distress is a neglected issue in most palliative education programmes,
and research has largely focused on this phenomenon as an occupational problem for …

Communication between health care providers, patients and families has been identified as
the most important and least accomplished factor in quality of care in the intensive care unit (…

Purpose To evaluate chest computed tomography (CT) and pulmonary function test (PFT)
findings in severe COVID-19 patients after discharge and correlate CT pulmonary involvement …

Background and aim: Burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among frontline
nurses working with COVID-19 patients during the initial phase of the pandemic (2020) have …

Background An increasing number of professionals are challenged by the evolution of modern
healthcare and society, often characterized by more expectations with reduced resources…

Aim To explore the experiences of self-care of patients with urostomy and to identify the
influencing factors of self-care. Background The creation of a urostomy results in the loss of an …

Aims To describe self‐care in ostomy patients, to identify socio‐demographic and clinical
variables associated with self‐care and to identify the association between self‐care self‐…

Self‐care is a key concept for ostomy patients as much as for chronically ill patients. Many
studies describe how reaching a good self‐care level permits patient to perceive a higher …

BACKGROUND: Quantification of patient effort during spontaneous breathing is important to
tailor ventilatory assistance. Because a correlation between inspiratory muscle pressure (P …

Background: Since 1997, nursing ethics research has focused on solving ethical dilemmas,
enhancing decision-making strategies, and introducing professional education. Few studies …