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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Experience of care"”.
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The experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stage of life in residential aged care facilities
This thesis presents the results of a study that explores the experience of care assistants who care for residents in the final stages of life in residential aged care facilities in metropolitan Perth. Care assistants, with little formal training and no regulation, play a pivotal role in the direct …
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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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‘Through the patient’s eyes’: shadowing patients at the end of life
Background The priority given to patient-centred care in recent years has included a requirement for healthcare organisations to collect patient experience data, and to improve patients’ experience of care. Shadowing is an experiential technique intended to enable healthcare staff to collect …
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Patients' experience of and attitudes towards care in a lay caregiver run institution Tumelong Hospice, Winterveldt
… West Province, South Africa, is a residential care backup for a home based care program. It is unique in that it is run by a staff of lay caregivers trained in basic palliative care with the support of one professional nurse and a visiting doctor. The hospice experienced criticism from some …
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Digital health innovation & commercialization framework
Digital health is transforming healthcare by improving our ability to accurately diagnose and treat diseases, enabling innovating care models, and making healthcare services more accessible.,It holds the potential to deliver against the quadruple aim of healthcafre -- improving the health-of …
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Patient Care Experience as Perceived by Hispanic Patients Receiving Care at a Safety-net Facility
<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to understand how English- and Spanish-speaking Hispanic 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 …
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Self-harm and accident and emergency (A & E)
… and research has demonstrated that 20-25% of individuals who die by suicide have engaged in an act of self-harm within the 12 months before their death. A & E proves to be a crucial entry point for the engagement with services for those who self-harm. However, experiences of care have been …
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The caring experience of staff carers working with adults with learning disability and dementia
This Portfolio Thesis consists of three parts, the first being a Systematic Literature review entitled ‘A Systematic Review into the Factors that Affect the Experience of Residential Staff Caring for Adults with Learning Disability: a United Kingdom Perspective’; the second is an empirical paper …
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Designing A Care Delivery System Through Interprofessional Coordinated Care In A Medical Neighborhood Setting
… <p>The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010) has two significant aims: to improve the quality of healthcare and in doing so, to lower the cost of healthcare. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, …
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The role of shame in psychopathology and implications for therapeutic practice
… a cross-sectional design, a self-report measure of proneness to shame and guilt was administered to 86 patients with moderate to severe depression, with the prediction that there would be a positive correlation of shame with severity of depression. Contrary to other, non-clinical studies, it was …
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Behind closed doors – the lived experience of caring for patients in the perioperative setting
… can use to gain guidance and an understanding of the technical aspects of care in the perioperative setting. However, this focus can risk overshadowing the value of more subjective human ideas around care. This research aimed to better understand the lived experience of caring for patients in …
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Silent slips trips and broken hips: the recovery experiences of young adults following an isolated fracture of the proximal femur
… incidence and impact in adults under 60 years of age may be underestimated. The extensive literature almost exclusively focuses on the elderly, surgical interventions and relatively short-term outcomes. Young adults are also missing from the dominant societal discourse and healthcare policy on …
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Understanding experiences of diabetes care among patients with diabetic kidney disease
This research aimed to explore and understand the experiences and perceptions of diabetes care among patients with diabetic kidney disease and is driven by my research question “what are the experiences of diabetes care among patients with diabetic kidney disease?”. In order to achieve this I …
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DIGITAL HEALTHCARE: RETHINKING THE PATIENT ROLE IN TELEMEDICINE
In the recent decades, the healthcare system has undergone several transformations driven by digitalization and technological innovation. The advent of healthcare technologies has changed the way patients are cared for by healthcare professionals, offering new opportunities for continuity of care …
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A Phenomenological Study of Non-Muslim Nurses’ Experiences of Caring for Muslim Patients in Saudi Arabia
… objectives related to non-Muslim nurses’ experiences providing health care to Muslim patients in Saudi Arabian hospitals. These objectives included: first, understanding what it is like to care for Muslim patients considering both religion and culture; secondly, exploring what it is like …
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Understanding community end of life anticipatory medication care
The prescribing of injectable end-of-life anticipatory medications ahead of possible need has become established good practice in controlling distressing symptoms for patients dying in the community. The intervention aims to optimise timely symptom control, provide reassurance for patients and …
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Risk Indicators for Dental Caries in Three Scottish Prison Populations
One of the markers of the socioeconomic inequalities faced by prisoners is their experience of poorer health outcomes, including higher dental caries experience, when compared to the general population. Whilst, as a whole, prisoners are disparate there are also vulnerable sub-populations, including …
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L’expérience des soins et services en contexte de pandémie chez les personnes aînées vivant avec un trouble neurocognitif majeur du point de vue des proches aidants
… les défis courants liés aux soins et services offerts aux personnes aînées vivant avec un trouble neurocognitif majeur (TNCM) et aux proches aidants. Elle a causé la fermeture soudaine ou la modification radicale de certains soins et services. Les personnes aînées vivant avec un TNCM sont …