Doctor Sheikh Hospital won Golden Statue of National Patient Festival (24-28 July). Also, Omid and Ghaem Hospitals were honored, WEBDA reported.

The festival focused on top experiences of patient training and self-care in treatment centers supported by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences as well as at Doctor Sheikh Hospital as the first hospital providing top experience in this respect.

The festival focused on policy-making and establishing self-care programs in Iran, public-health training, preventing various levels of and managing diseases, mental health improvement, logical prescribing antibiotics and anti-pain medications, training patients, the role of special scientific societies in non-governmental organizations, nursing models and theories, criticizing self-care programs in macro level, and, finally, top experiences in training patients and self-care.

A training program called “Instructor at the bedside of Hospitalized Children” was performed at Doctor Sheikh Hospital for the first time in Iran.

It was focused by Deputy for Education at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences following successful implementation of a research paper by Tayebeh Reihani, Faculty Member at Nursing and Midwifery School at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

It titled “Effect of Instructor’s Presence on Bedside of Hospitalized Children at Hospitals in Reducing Stress level and Increasing Satisfaction of Parents and Children.” After several months, the project was formally implemented at Doctor Sheikh Hospital.