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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Care-experience"”.
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Defining Success: The Perspective of Emerging Adults with Foster Care Experience
<p>Youth with experience in the foster system are often more susceptible to negative outcomes in adulthood due to their high levels of cumulative risk. The present study sought out to re-define the concept of “success” from the perspective of emerging adults with experience in the foster care …
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Transition of chronically-ill youth to adult care: Experience of youth with hemoglobinopathy
… transition of the CIY from pediatrics to adult care continues to be an inconsistent process, especially for CIY with hemoglobinopathy (e.g. sickle cell disease, thalassemia). The transitioning experience to adult care may be interrupted by obstacles such as lack of transition support, limited …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Patient Care Experience as Perceived by Hispanic Patients Receiving Care at a Safety-net Facility
… patients seeking kidney and liver transplant care at a safety-net facility perceive and interpret the care experience with the goal of generating a grounded theory model to guide care delivery and improve perception of care for this population.</p> <p><strong>Background/Rationale: </strong>The …
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Predictors of paternal nurturance as a function of father's personal attributes, caregiving experience, and sociocultural factors
… development--Father's personality--Early child-care experience of fathers--Playfulness--Employment--Marriage status--Psychological support--Middle-class fathers.
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Predictors of paternal nurturance as a function of father's personal attributes, caregiving experience, and sociocultural factors
… development--Father's personality--Early child-care experience of fathers--Playfulness--Employment--Marriage status--Psychological support--Middle-class fathers.
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Racial Disparities in Self Reported Health and Health Care Utilization. Does Primary Care Matter?
… that provides evidence of the growing health care disparities among racial and ethnic groups in the United States. The literature suggests that Black adults share a disproportionate burden in death, disability, and disease. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine report, Unequal Treatment, showed …
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Study of the Basic Knowledge Level of Critical Care Nurses
… between the nurse's level of basic critical care nursing knowledge and the following variables: basic educational preparation, critical care nursing experience, cumulative nursing experience, specific critical care unit experience, and certification in critical care nursing. A convenience …
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Physician and Patient Satisfaction With Charity Care: The Case of Health Access Network in Utah
… play a significant role in providing health care to low-income, uninsured individuals. This deep-rooted tradition of charity care is consistent with the libertarian values that underlie the United States’ for-profit, capitalist health care system. Anthropological research is well-suited to …
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Racial/cultural identity development in foster children placed in transracial foster homes
… The research questions included how the foster care system addresses racial identity issues and how foster parents assign meaning to the transracial foster care experience. Another area of interest was the preparation by the foster care system for foster parents to manage issues of racial …
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An Employee-Centered Care Model Responds To The Triple Aim: Improving Employee Health
<p>Health care expenditures, patient satisfaction and timely access to care will remain problematic if dramatic changes in health care delivery models are not developed and implemented. To combat this challenge a Triple Aim approach is essential. Innovation in payment and health care delivery …
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Development and Validation of the Quality of Trauma Care Patient-Reported Experience Measure
To deliver patient-centered injury care, patient perspectives must be incorporated into quality measurement and improvement. Therefore, the purpose of this thesis was to develop and validate a measure of patient experience for use as a quality improvement tool in injury care. A draft survey measure …
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A closer look at self-image in male foster care adolescents
… exist between 58 male adolescents in foster care and their peers in the normal population and to establish if there are specific characteristics of the adolescent's background or foster care experience that are related to specific domains of self-image. Characteristics from foster care …
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Outcome study of former foster care youth
This is an outcome of study of former foster care youth who aged out of the child welfare system. These youth have been out of the foster care system for anywhere from six months to five years. This study consists of twenty respondents, ten male and ten female, taken from a larger study of 100 …
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A quién le importa? Exploring Latina Women's Diabetes Experiences at a Community Care Center: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study
… seeks to capture the diverse and often-unheard experiences of Latina women with newly diagnosed and poorly controlled type 2 diabetes in a patient-provider setting at the Community Care Center located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This study focuses on Latina women due to the lack of …
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HIV Continuity Of Care Including Mental Health and Risk Behaviors
… dissertation is intended to provide health care providers a way to connect, communicate, and understand barriers including adherence that potentially lead to behaviors that keep low income communities at-risk for contracting HIV infection. This knowledge can potentially lead to improved …
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Emotional Intelligence: How it Impacts Depression Levels and Perception of Role Fulfillment Among Caregiver Foster Parents
… and thus aid them in becoming more effective caregivers. A convenience sample of foster parents participated in this mixed methods study. There were 30 participants total recruited through a collaborative effort with a local Foster</p> <p>Family Agency (FF A). Participants were at least 25 …
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Critical care nurses' knowledge of cardiac rhythm strips
… Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) requirement that all institutions provide proof of competency of their employees. The purpose of this study considered whether critical care nurses who are ACLS-certified are able to accurately interpret cardiac rhythms. …
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Improving the Patient Experience by Implementing Patient-Centered Care in a Community Hospital
<p>Health care is a complex business currently undergoing extensive reform. These changes require new methods of care deliver and ways in which health care organizations are operating. At the forefront of this change effort is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is …
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The independence-dependence paradox facing youth aging out of care from transitional living programs
<p>Problem. Youth who age out of care experience poor outcomes, including high rates of mental health conditions, housing instability and homelessness, unemployment and poverty, and justice involvement. At particular risk are youth who exit semi-institutional care settings, including transitional …
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Lived experiences of mothers when providing Kangaroo mother care at the hospitals in Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… or hypothermic very quickly. Kangaroo Mother Care reduces mortality and if widely applied it could reduce deaths in premature newborn babies. The purpose of this study is to explore and describe the lived experiences of mothers when providing Kangaroo Mother Care at the hospitals in Vhembe …
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