ABSTRACT
Background and Aims: Therapists and especially nurses -who spend lots of their time with patients, frequently need to communicate with them. However, many nurses don't use these skills in clinical practice and in communication with patients because of some barriers. Recognition of the barriers to effective nurse-patient communication from their point of view could facilitate the actions need to be taken in order to removing them. This study aimed to evaluate barriers to effective nurse-patient's communication from nurses and patients' viewpoints
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive analytic study and total participants of 08nurses and 80 patients participated from two educational hospitals of Sabzevar city in 2011. Study participants were selected by convenience sampling. Data were collected through a researcher made questionnaire. Total of 23 benchmarks in three main parts, with general titles of: barriers related to nurses, patients and environment were determined
Result: Barriers to communication related to nurses such as "overload of nursing works in wards", "lesser number of nurses than patients", "correct duties not to be done by other hospital staff", "being uninterested in learning communication skills", "lack of nursing information and skills about effective nursing - patient communication", were the main barriers to effective communication. Important barriers to communication related to patients were such as "Anxiety", "physically concerns", "interventions" and the most important barriers related to environment were "a crowded environment" and "unsanitary patient's room "
Conclusion: This study showed that barriers to effective nurse-patient communication include barriers to nurses, patients and environment. Thus, health managers should put their attempts on eliminating or modifying the most important barriers announced in these three fields [nurses, patients and environment]
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Background and Aims: Hospital infection is on of the most important problems which is considered by health care centers. In one hand interventioal methods saved people's lives in recent years but on the other hand a lot of resistent nosocomial infections caused numerous deaths.The purpose of this study was to Evaluate of the level of infection control among nurses in Vasei Hospital of Sabzevar
Materials and methods: This cross-sectional study includes 78 nurses working in surgical wards in teaching hospitals in Sabzevar in 2012. Conduct and practice of infection prevention workers investigated through questionnaires and ckecklists by self-reported method. Data analysis was performed using descriptive statistics
Results: The average age of nurses was 89/4 +/- 43/30 years old. 7/50% of the performance of standard precautions and proper hand washing and the performance was good
Conclusion: According to research findings based on limited performance and training needs, more attention is necessary to provide conditions to promote nurse's knowledge about infection control