Patient's learning needs and self-efficacy level after percutaneous coronary intervention: A descriptive study.

Aims And Objectives: Identify and compare learning needs, levels of self-efficacy and their association among inpatients and outpatients of a cardiac care unit with coronary heart disease who have undergone percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in a Swiss university hospital.

Background: After primary PCI, 42% of patients will suffer a recurrent ischemic cardiovascular event. Although adherence to therapeutic regimen contributes to prevent recurrence, patient adherence remains low.

Which priority indicators to use to evaluate nursing care performance? A discussion paper.

Aims: A discussion of an optimal set of indicators that can be used on a priority basis to assess the performance of nursing care.

Background: Recent advances in conceptualization of nursing care performance, exemplified by the Nursing Care Performance Framework, have revealed a broad universe of potentially nursing-sensitive indicators. Organizations now face the challenge of selecting, from this universe, a realistic subset of indicators that can form a balanced and common scorecard.