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Showing 1 to 20 of 17987 for “"Care"”.
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Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Skin-Care Team
… than stage two in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). Pressure injury prevention was not a high priority for the nursing staff; nurses were unaware of current PI prevention protocols or the PI prevalence in the PICU.<strong> </strong>The goals are to reduce PIs by 20% in 3 months, …
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Considering Care: Infant Teachers, Reflective Function and the Care Environment in Child Care Centers
… of the mental states of the infants in their care in child care centers. The goal of the study was to examine whether reflective function could be assessed through semi-structured interviews with infant teachers and whether the care environment of the center was</p><p>influential in supporting …
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Cat_ch&Care
This TFG is an Augmented Reality video game for Android that, through its use, tries to raise awareness about the difficulties that wild cats experience to survive on the streets of our cities and the work that animal shelters and anonymous people carry out in that regard. The game is presented in …
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Perpetual Care
Cemeteries are spaces where life and death are rendered materially. Despite death’s omnipresence, American burial customs are rooted in outdated traditions that push burial spaces to the outskirts of our cities and the grievers into spaces of isolation. Attitudes toward death have changed …
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Texas primary care and the Affordable Care Act : implications for the primary care physician workforce
Primary care physicians are the first point of contact for patients entering the formal health care system. A shortage of primary care physicians in the United States has left approximately 60 million people without adequate access to a physician, resulting in lowered health care outcomes and …
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Organization of primary care; Impact on avoidable secondary care
Contains fulltext : 159483.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Creation of a care coordination tool to streamline care for children with complex medical care needs
Children with complex medical care needs require extensive resources, and their families face significant challenges in coordinating care, managing insurance, and integrating various care plans. Pediatric Palliative Care has proven effective in filling gaps in care coordination, but access to …
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Eliminating waste in US health care: evaluating accountable care organizations as a model for quality sustainable care
… the United States spent $2.7 trillion in health care expenditures, accounting for 17.9 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Health care spending increased by 3.9 percent in 2011 and is expected to surpass 20 percent of GDP by 2020. An investigation of national trends in health spending …
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Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices
… is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in Canadian adult Intensive Care Units (ICU). …
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Palliative care : needs and expectations in a HIV Care Centre
… needs and expectations for the palliative care of a homeless community in an HIV Care Centre, located in the inner city of Johannesburg.
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Self-care dependency among elders in long-term care settings
… use of an additive method of determining self-care dependency and need for long-term care. This traditional method of determining ADL levels is convenient, and it is practical to the extent that individuals in a long-term care population do fit a scaled pattern of dependency. This research was …
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Children's Hospice Care
… makes us spend a lot of our time in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, hospices, and care homes. Unfortunately, in many cases, these facilities do not pay much attention to emotional and spiritual needs of their patients and are mostly designed around their own institutional and …
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Transition from institutional care to community care for residents of community care units in Greece: construction of the notion of “asylum” in community care units
… illness (SMI), who are residents of community care units (CCUs), by comparing and contrasting participants’ experiences of CCUs with their previous lives in institutions. Currently, there is a gap in the Greek context in the field of qualitative studies exploring the issues of …
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The Patient's Care Experiences in a Team-Based Clinical Microsystem Model of Care: Accountable Care Unit
Hospitals are reorganizing inpatient care into interprofessional clinical microsystems such as the Accountable Care Unit. However, findings on healthcare outcomes are mixed, and studies that explain how patients experience care within this team-based care model remain limited. This dissertation …
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Transitioning from Curative Care to End-of-Live Care in the Acute Care Hospital: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
… acute hospitals when transitioning from curative care to end-of-life care with a patient. With so many people continuing to die in acute care hospital wards (Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, 2016; Cavaye & Watts, 2012; Grande, 2009), it is important to understand how the members of …
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Understanding Home Care Aides’ Roles in Health Care for Older Adults
… support from various individuals, including home care aides (HCAs). Home care aides provide personal care (e.g., bathing) and housekeeping (e.g., laundry) and are not considered part of medical care. Mounting research demonstrates that HCAs encounter older adults’ medical problems and may have …
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