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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Care environment"”.
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Light Image Therapy in the Health Care Environment.
<p>Use of positive distraction in the built healthcare environment to assist in alleviating stress in a patient was investigated. A backlit light image was mounted in the ceiling of an examination room to create a positive distraction for patients in the ETSU Pediatric Clinic in Johnson City, TN. …
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Job Satisfaction Among Psychologists in a Managed-Care Environment
<p>The problem. The efforts of managed care to balance resources, cost, and quality of services have created new issues among mental health professionals, affecting their careers and having the potential to affect their job satisfaction. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to investigate how …
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Predictor Variables Related To Falls In A Long-Term Care Environment
… burden to elders residing in long-term care facilities. It has been stated that 75% of deaths due to falls in the United States occur in the 13% of the population age 65 and over. The first objective of the study was to identify which fall-predictor variables acknowledged in the research …
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Instructional Designers' Perceptions Regarding Preparation For Practice In A Health Care Environment
… themselves able to practice ID in health care industries. Questions central to this study focused on how instructional designers perceive their preparation to practice, usefulness of professional development organizations or affiliations in which they participated while practicing ID, both …
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
… and the nursing profession within the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a private South African hospital. Global nursing migration and local skill shortages have created a workplace context in which English is the dominant language of a linguistically diverse site. This research explored how …
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Cardiology Implications of ED COVID-19 Patients in an Underserved Rural Health Care Environment
… were negatively associated with the standard of care, more so in COVID-19 negative patients than positive patients. This study revealed pivotal points for future research on the incidence and management of COVID-19 cardiac sequalae for highly underserved communities.</p> …
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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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Enhancing The Assessment Of Suicidal Ideation In The Long-Term Care Environment: A Quality Improvement Project
… assessment of suicidal ideation in the long-term care setting. Although studies examining suicide in the long-term care setting are lacking, the prevalence of suicidal ideation is high. This DNP quality improvement project addressed this problem by creating a suicide assessment and management …
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The Perspectives of the Woman/Nurse/Executive Working in the Managed Care Environment of Southern California
… the woman/nurse/executive working in the managed care environment of Southern California. This research was extremely timely because (a) Southern California leads the nation in managed care market penetration, (b) changes in health care financing have resulted in a prolific expansion of nurse …
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Public-private partnerships : a qualitative approach to prospects for pharmacy in the South African health care environment
… dependent on public and private sector health care service delivery, in relation to the proportion of pharmaceutical service providers in the different sectors. OBJECTIVE: The main objectives of this qualitative research investigation were to examine the prospects for PPP development in the …
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Creating A Welcoming, Inclusive, And Affirming Primary Care Environment For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex And Asexual Patients
… community has long faced disparities in healthcare which have had significant consequences including increased cancer risk factors and poorer health outcomes when compared to the cisgender, heterosexual community. Interventions are needed to increase the knowledge and cultural competency of …
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An Interpretive Ethnography: Nursing Culture for People with Dementia and Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia in the Acute Care Environment
Objectives: Acute care nurses care for people with dementia (PWD) who suffer from behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in care environments that may worsen BPSD. The purpose of this study is to understand the nursing culture of care that exists for PWD with BPSD, and align this …
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Exerting Capacity: A Grounded Theory Study of the Perspectives of Bedside Registered Nurses about Patient Safety in the Adult Acute Care Environment
… safety has become a priority focus in healthcare research since 2000 following the release of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) (1999) report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Despite the development and implementation of patient safety initiatives, there continues to be an …
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A Comparison of the Utilization of Health Services in the Presence or Absence of Prescriptive Drug Insurance in a Managed Care Environment
… identify differences in utilization of primary care providers, urgent care centers, emergency departments and hospitals. Using measures of central tendency to evaluate expenditures, utilization of the relatively lower-cost health services such as visits to the primary care provider and urgent …
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The relationship between the amount of training and education of teachers of three to five-year-old children and attitudes and quality of the child care environment
… study was to illuminate one dimension of child care quality by examining whether the teacher's attitudes and the quality of the child care environment are related to the amount of training and education of the teacher. Specifically, the intent was to examine how the training and education of …
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Staff Perceptions Of Risk Factors For Violence And Aggression In Ambulatory Care
… acts by patients and visitors in the ambulatory care environment is an important issue that research has not addressed. This report utilizes research conducted in inpatient healthcare settings regarding violence, patient and visitor risk factors for violence, staff characteristics that increase …
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Multimedia profiles as external personalities to support people with dementia and their carers
… a result of this disease, individuals reside in care homes. Care staff can find it difficult to get to know a person with dementia as they have limited time to spend with each person. In addition, communication difficulties can make it difficult to learn important social information and …
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