The Family’s Contribution to Patient Safety

Revista Brasileira De Enfermagem, 2020

Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2020

Framework: Considering that the current data on health care safety remain alarming, there is an overwhelming urge for the ongoing study of this topic and for recommendations and differentiated strategies which aim to promote health and which prove effective. Some recommendations have been taken into consideration, such as patient-centered care, and consequently the need for greater involvement of patient and family in this process. However, we have identified arguments for and against the involvement of family in the care process, and consequently a greater or lesser openness towards hospital visits. Objective: What are the implications of the presence of family for the safety of hospitalized patients? What does the science say about these implications? Methods: We conducted an integrative literature review by referring to the Web of Science, CINAHL, Medline, and Scopus databases, according to the recommendations of the Joanna Briggs Institute for scoping review. Results: We found 1...

2017

Objective: to understand the influence of family involvement in patient safety in neonatal units from the perspective of nurses. Method: a descriptive qualitative study, conducted in the intermediate care unit and in the neonatal intensive care unit of a public maternity hospital in Belo Horizonte-MG (Brazil), with fourteen nurses as research participants. Data were collected through semi-structured scripts and submitted to thematic content analysis. Results: nurses recognize the family’s participation in neonatal patient safety, however they have shown little understanding and unpreparedness in dealing with family in their daily work. Better reception/user embracement and orientation of family members were identified as significant strategies for safe care. Conclusion: it is believed that combining family as critical and active partners in professional health practices aimed at implementing safe practices is an important and promising strategy to promote health and patient safety. ...

2017

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-structured interviews, and transcripts were analyzed by conventional content analysis approach. Two themes were extracted from data analysis including “Patient-Centered Care” and “Organizational-Based Factors”, and eight categories delineated from participants' experiences with regard to the patient safety. Based on the results, complexity of patient centered-care is an obstacle for implementation in practice. Therefore, educating nurses for focusing on patient interaction and cooperation is essential for achievement to proper care and improving quality of care.Furthermore, improving facilities...

Revista Latino-americana De Enfermagem, 2010

The aim of this research is to know the barriers and opportunities that nursing professionals detect in their clinical practice in order to develop the culture of patient safety and to identify future research lines. This qualitative study is based on the DELPHI method, with a group of 19 nursing professionals from education and care practice, involving both primary and specialized care. Weaknesses and threats revolve around five categories: profession, organization and infrastructure; indicators; communication and safety culture; and safety training. Opportunities to improve safety cover six categories: organizational change; promotion of the safety culture, professional training and development; relationship with the patients; research; and strategic planning. Work is needed to improve safety and nursing should be ready to assume this leadership.

2017

Cercetări arheologice, 2024

Along with several other pre-Roman centers of power along the Lower Danube’s final section, such as Troesmis, Noviodunum, or Aegyssus, Axiopolis (Hinog Hill, Cernavoda, Constanța county) was one of the longest and most intensively occupied archaeological sites on the territory of Dobrudja in ancient times. It was initially a Hellenistic emporium, then an attested strategia of the client Odrysian kings, and later an important military and naval, commercial and religious center in Roman and Middle Byzantine times. During the Principate, the nautae universi Danuvii had their headquarters (collegium) there and it is very likely that a statio portorii of the publicum portorii Illyrici utriusque et ripae Thraciae was in place at Axiopolis during the 2nd-3rd centuries AD. During the Dominate, the city with Christian martyrs mentioned by the martyrologies was chosen seat for the pedatura superior of the Scythian legio II Herculia and subsequently raised to the rank of bishopric in the 6th century. Its chronology begins with the hypothetical foundation by Lysimachus and continues to the mid 11th century, under Constantine IX (1042-1055), at the time when the last known coin from Cernavoda dates. The Axiopolis site is located approx. 3 km S of the dobrudjan end of the “King Carol I” bridge at Cernavodă, next to Hinog island, more precisely on a triangular plateau on the right bank of the Danube, at the entrance to a deep valley. It was archaeologically investigated by Pamfil Polonic in 1898-1899 and the results of the excavations were briefly published by Grigore Tocilescu in 1903. Given its importance in ancient times, with its remarkable position on the Danube line and at the mouth of the Carasu valley, Axiopolis remained, unjustly, little known for well over a century. The article aims to systematize the available information and outline the most important moments in the history of the site, based upon the known archaeological data. It includes a systematic description and interpretation of the sequence of the three enclosures of the edifices and artifacts found here, including the numismatic evidence, but also of the limestone quarry that provided building material for the erection of defensive system in the Roman and Middle-Byzantine times.

Fazıl Ahmed Paşa Koleksiyonu ve İlimler Tasnifi: Karşılaştırmalı Bir Değerlendirme / The Fāżil Aḥmad Pasha Collection and Classification of Sciences: A Comparative Analyses, 2024

İslamî ilimlerin tarihini yazmanın yollarından biri de kütüphanelerde muhafaza edilen kitapları ilimler sınıflamasına göre incelemektir. Bu sayede tarih boyunca her bir ilme ait kitapların kütüphanelerde ne oranda temsil edildikleri ortaya çıkarılabilir. Yazma eser kütüphaneleriyle öne çıkan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun ilmî birikimi ve çeşitliliği de kütüphanelerin ilimler tasnifi açısından incelenmesi yoluyla ortaya çıkarılabilir. Kütüphane ve koleksiyon çalışmaları için yeni bir yöntem önerisinde bulunan bu makale, aynı zamanda Osmanlı ilimler tasnifi literatürüne de katkı sunmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaçla XV, XVI ve XVII. yüzyıllarda, her biri döneminin en muktedir şahıslarından biri tarafından kurulmuş üç kütüphane karşılaştırılmıştır. Mahmud Paşa, Habeşî Mehmed Ağa ve Fazıl Ahmed Paşa kütüphanelerinin ilimler tasnifi açısından karşılaştırılması, XV. yüzyıldan XVII. yüzyıla varıncaya kadar Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda kütüphanelerde temsil edilen ilimlerdeki değişimi gözler önüne sermektedir. Üçü de medrese kütüphanesi olarak kurulan kütüphanelerde tefsir, hadis ve fıkıh gibi alanlara ait ilimlerin çoğunlukta oldukları gözlemlenmekle beraber tarih ve edebiyatla ilgili eserlerin sayısında zaman içinde bir artış olduğu müşahede edilmiştir.