ISBN-13: 9786200654090 / Angielski
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.