Professional characteristics and work attitudes of hospital nurses who leave compared with those who stay.

Aim: To compare characteristics and attitudes of nurses who resigned and those who remained in two Israeli hospitals and assess the reasons for leaving.

Background: Nurse turnover is a current global problem in health care system, especially given the severe nurse shortages. Retention of nurses requires an understanding of the characteristics of the resigning nurses, their attitudes and their reasons for leaving.

Attitudes toward expanding nurses' authority.

Background: In recent years, an increasing number of care procedures previously under the physician's authority have been placed in the hands of registered nurses. The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes of nurses towards expanding nurses' authority and the relationships between these attitudes and job satisfaction facets, professional characteristics, and demographics.

Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted between 2010 and 2011 in three major medical centers in Israel.

The difference between professional image and job satisfaction of nurses who studied in a post-basic education program and nurses with generic education: a questionnaire survey.

To compare nurses' perceptions of the contribution of post-basic education (PBE) programs to nurses' professional image, job satisfaction, and clinical practice between two groups, nurses who had participated in PBE programs and nurses who had not. This is a cross-sectional study. A study conducted with 419 nurses employed in two major hospitals in Israel.

Risk factors for hepatitis C virus infection among blood donors in Israel: a case-control study between native Israelis and immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

Background: The annual hepatitis C virus (HCV) seropositivity prevalence among blood donors (BDs) in Israel is 0.1 percent. Although only 10 percent of the BD population are immigrants from the former Soviet Union (FSUIs), they represent 80 percent of the HCV-seropositive cases.

Patients' knowledge regarding medication therapy and the association with health services utilization.

Background: Upon discharge from the hospital, patients are significantly deficient in their knowledge of their medications. Provision of information has been shown to have an effect on health measures such as compliance to medication therapy, quality of life, and utilization of hospitalization services.

Aims: To assess patients' knowledge about their long term medication therapy and to measure the association between knowledge and health service utilization in the community.

What do discharged patients know about their medication?

Patient's knowledge is a necessity for empowering patients to perform self-care, especially when dealing with new, ill-defined and unknown situations. The aim of this paper is to assess patients' reported as opposed to correct knowledge about medication therapy after discharge from hospital and to identify factors that increase correct knowledge. Three hundred and forty-one patients were interviewed 7-14 days after discharge from six internal wards in a large medical facility in Israel.

Characteristics of falls in hospitalized patients.

Background: The high incidence of patient falls in a hospital setting is a major concern in any health system. Research findings have reported the risk factors for these falls as age, gender, certain medications, mental status, chronic diseases and environmental factors. Falls may lead to fear, pain, slight or severe injuries, increase the duration of hospital stay, cause patient discomfort and affect quality of life.