Orly Toren

• Professor
• Managing Director at Ono Academic College

Objective: Online Health Services (OHS) emerged in the last decade and currently encompass technologies that facilitate patient-practitioner communication in medical fields such as diagnosis, treatment, counseling, and monitoring, including for chronic patients. The current study aims to describe attitudes and behaviors related to OHS and identify...

improving team communication in general hospitals using a structured handoffs

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought forth numerous challenges for healthcare teams, highlighting certain vulnerabilities within the healthcare system that necessitate reform. This underscores the importance of enhancing nursing readiness to effectively address future crises. Research Purposes: 1. To comprehend and discern prevailing perce...

Background Promoting quality and patient safety is one of the health policy pillars of Israel's Ministry of Health. Communication among healthcare professionals is of utmost importance and can be improved using a standardized, well-known handoff tool such as the Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment, and Recommendations (ISBAR). This stud...

Background Food allergy can result in life-threatening anaphylaxis and is considered an increasing public health burden. Hospitalized patients are dependent on the hospital menu to meet their nutritional needs; thus, errors in the meals provided can have a substantial impact on patients’ health outcomes. In Israel, no specific policy protocol exist...

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected health care services worldwide due to lockdowns, prevention measures, and social distancing. During this period, patients, including older adults and those with chronic conditions, need ways to obtain medical attention other than going physically to the clinic, such as telemedicine services. The purp...

Objectives To determine the extent nurses reported near miss events; to describe the relationship between patient safety culture, professional seniority and intention to report near misses; and to determine predictors of intention to report near miss events. Design This was a descriptive cross-sectional correlational study.The sampling method was...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the willingness of Israeli registered nurses to work under threatening conditions, their perceived level of threat, and perceptions of peer willingness to report to work. Design: This descriptive study was based on a convenience sample of registered nurses working in four hospitals throughout I...

Background There is extensive evidence that the role of nurse coordinators is beneficial for patients. Nurse coordinators are more available to patients compared to general registered nurses, know better to control symptoms and work as team players with multiple care providers. Despite its significance, there is a dearth of literature on the subjec...

Purpose: To describe whether nurses fully implement their scope of practice; nurses' perceptions of future practice implementation; and the association between scope of practice implementation with professional autonomy and self-efficacy. Design: A descriptive correlational study was conducted using a convenience sample of 145 registered nurses...

The use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in health systems is increasing worldwide. While it is assumed that ICT holds great potential to make health services more efficient and grant patients more empowerment, research on these trends is at an early stage. Building on a study of the impact of ICT on physicians and patients in Isr...

Based on the experience of a Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) promoted by COST Net and developed in CIES/ISCTE-IUL (Portugal), this paper presents a reflection about the implementation of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) in the healthcare sector in Israel and Portugal. Specifically, we focus on the impacts of ICT or eHealth on pat...

Background: Medical and technological developments, financial constraints and a shortage of physicians have made it necessary to re-examine professional boundaries between physicians and nurses. Israel's manpower shortage in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) has changed the responsibility and authority of nurses. However, these changes have no...

There is an international nursing shortage. Improving the practice environment has been shown to be a successful strategy against this phenomenon, as the practice environment is associated with retention and job satisfaction. The Israeli nurse practice environment has not been measured. The purpose of this study was to measure practice environment...

Background Nurse managers are placed in a unique position within the healthcare system where they greatly impact upon the nursing work environment. Ethical dilemmas and moral distress have been reported for staff nurses but not for nurse middle managers. Objective To describe ethical dilemmas and moral distress among nurse middle managers arising...

In an era of global and local nursing shortages, nursing turnover has negative consequences in terms of diminished quality of care, increased costs and economic losses and decreased job satisfaction. To examine the turnover rate of registered nurses in Israel by assessing the varying degree of turnover between economic sectors, between hospital and...

Surveys of nursing supplies around the world have furnished a better understanding of the structure of the workforce, helped identify shortages, and plan professional training. This study aimed to examine the employment and workforce characteristics of registered nurses and the projected supply in Israel as a tool for planning. 1. A survey of a nat...

To examine the decision-making process and factors influencing nursing students when choosing a workplace. In view of the global nursing shortage, nurse recruitment strategies should address multicultural factors and students' expectations, which may influence their workplace preference. A combined study involving qualitative (focus groups) and qua...

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...

Rapid changes in the healthcare system obligate Israeli nursing leaders to reassess current nursing roles and to identify new paradigms that are in line with the demanding needs of acute care settings. The challenge of engaging nurses to achieve the desired changes in nursing role performance and perception can be accomplished by defining a compreh...

Hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients is a common severe condition leading to poor clinical results, extended lengths of stay, disability, and elevated morbidity. According to ADA and ACE recommendations, guidelines and protocols for efficient treatment of hyperglycemia should be developed. Recently, the Israeli National Diabetes Council acted on...

This article considers ethical dilemmas that nurse managers may confront and suggests an ethical decision-making model that could be used as a tool for resolving such dilemmas. The focus of the article is on the question: Can nurse managers choose the ethically right solution in conflicting situations when nurses' rights collide with patients' righ...

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. To assess patients' knowledge about their long term medic...

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. T...

In the last several years, many countries have experienced a shortage of registered nurses. This phenomenon is expected to escalate in the future. Recent studies have established significant relationships between the proportion of registered nurses and the quality of care, preventing health complications and achieving desired clinical outcomes. Thu...

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...