Hospital Administration

This work was designed to study nursing care needs of long-stay patients in some general hospitals in Alexandria, the purposes of the study were; to investigate the extent to which acute general hospital beds are used by long-stay patients; to assess their; (a) personal and socioeconomic status; (b) medical condition and (c) nursing care needs. Five general hospitals were chosen namely the Main University Hospital, El-Goumhorrya hospital, Gamal Abdel-Nasser hospital, Karmouz hospital and El-Moussat hospital covering different types of governmental hospitals. LTPs were defined as cases hospitalized for twenty-one days or more. A sample size of 195 long-term patients were studied through surveying general medicine, general surgery and some specialties in the five hospitals for a period of one month in each hospital. An assessment sheet of nursing care needs for long-stay patients was constructed and validated.

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Dr. Fatma El Zahraa Hussein Abdel Rahman has over 30 years experience as a consultant & partner in training, education, developing & delivering training solutions, including Competency Based Training, Research Methodology, Thesis Writing, Review & Editing.An enthusiastic, committed & self-motivated individual who enjoys stretch & challenge.