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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Health care staff"”.
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Situating mHealth in the workplace: a coordination studies perspective
A central assumption of extant mHealth literature is that the technology empowers health care staff and leads to increased efficiency in service delivery. This assumption foregrounds the transformative potential of mHealth and the active appropriation of the technology, but obscures how it …
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It's a birth not a procedure: an ethnographic study of intrauterine fetal death in a labor and delivery unit of an american hospital setting
… event for women, their families, and the health care staff. The pregnancy loss (IUFD) process, staff caring practices, and meaning making can be anthropologically viewed as a ritualistic process. An IUFD is a unique rite of passage that is a juxtaposition of a birth and a death. Ten women …
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Patient Understanding of Medical Terminology
… was a significant difference between medical staff or patients' perceived knowledge and the patients' actual knowledge of medical terminology. A statistically significant difference was found between medical staff expected patient understanding and actual patient understanding. The independent …
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To Know Their Stories: Using Playbuilding to Develop a Training/Orientation Video on Person-Centered Care
This study explores the experiences of health care staff and family members who provide support for people living with dementia and traumatic brain injury. Using a playbuilding methodology (Belliveau, 2006; Norris, 2009; Perry, Wessels & Wager, 2013) in which theatre performers devised short …
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Understanding burnout and mental well-being in healthcare staff
… of two research projects exploring burnout among health care professionals. The first project is a systematic review focusing on the risk and protective factors associated with burnout, for staff working within palliative care. A combination of occupation and individual determinates were …
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Ethical decision making : advance directives and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
… understanding of advance directives in physical health care. Four themes emerged: ‘hope and fears for the family’; ‘the trust between the participant and the doctor’; ‘the communication of advance directives by health care staff’ and ‘hope and fears for the individual’s future. The findings are …
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Older adult gay & bisexual male veterans' perception of access and cultural competence within the health care system
Previous research has consistently identified health disparities among minority groups, including members of the LGBTQ community. The role of the health care system itself in creating, sustaining, or confronting these disparities has received only modest attention. This qualitative dissertation …
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Comfort: Voices of adolescents with metastatic cancer
… is where I belong. The caring behavior of the health care staff, their family and friends helped them cope with their disease. Positive coping behavior has been observed to promote hopefulness.
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An exploration of cultural issues affecting staff compliance with recommended infection prevention and control practices in a ‘ring-fenced’ acute hospital elective surgical ward
Healthcare associated infection (HCAI) poses a serious threat to patients admitted into hospital as well as health care staff. Whilst recommendations for preventing HCAI exist, many research studies, primarily quantitative in nature, have reported serious concerns about the suboptimal infection …
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An intervention study using a breastfeeding positioning and attachment tool
… success relies upon the support and skill of health care professionals. As advice is often inconsistent, a more systematic method of teaching breastfeeding skills may prove beneficial. This study investigated whether an intervention in the form of a positioning and attachment checklist for use …
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The experiences and emotion work of fathers in a neonatal unit
… ' tensions and control,' and 'the environment of care'. The researcher revealed some of the significant tensions and causes of anxiety for men as they seek to reconcile the demands and expectations of fatherhood in a neonatal unit. These men faced a situation where they were attempting to find a …
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Space, Place and Home: Lived experiences of hospice day care
… with hospices being the largest provider of this care in the UK. The high demand for CAM among UK cancer patients and increasing political pressure to develop CAM services has led to a more integrative approach to cancer care, though progress is hindered by a narrow focus on medical determinants …
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The subjective experiences of students who withdraw from a directed masters programme in psychology at a historically disadvantaged university : a case study
… place a great burden on the South African healthcare system. This burden is compounded by the shortage of integral human resources such as mental health care staff. Directed Masters programmes in Psychology can address this shortage as it is the practicing degree to qualify as a …
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Parental support in a changing society
… Swedish society there is increasing emphasis on health-promotive work among children, adolescents, and their parents. Knowledge is needed about why certain activities work better than others. It is important to study the parents' motives and experiences of participating in parental supporting …
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Perceptions of Patient Safety Culture amongst Health Care Workers in the Hospitals of Northeast Libya
… the perception of patient safety culture amongst health care workers in Libyan Hospitals. Study Design: The study adopted a mixed methods approach with 2 phases. Phase 1 was conducted prior to the Libyan revolution. This was a quantitative research study, which used the Survey of Hospital Patient …
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The role of the professional nurse in providing continuity of care for geriatric patients at Groote Schuur Hospital
Due to the fragmented structure of the health organisation in South Africa, there is often difficulty in assuring good co-ordination between in-patient and domiciliary health facilities. This results in the discharge of patients from hospital with poor prospects for the continuity of health care in …
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The development, initial implementation and support of a primary health care training programme in rational drug use
… to improve rational drug use among primary health care prescribers in the South African public sector. This thesis describes the development of the project and details the initial implementation study in 3 facilities in Region B of KwaZulu-Natal. This was a small before-after study, with no …
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Developing A Model of People’s Needs After Transient Ischaemic Attack
… from 59 of a possible 213 acute secondary care TIA services (some services provided more than one response). There was variability in access, content and personnel involved in TIA services across the United Kingdom. 97% were run by stroke specialist staff. Only 41% of sites offered routine …
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Journeys and experiences of life after tracheostomy: a case study of patients, their kin/friends and health care professionals.
Advances in critical care mean more people than previously reported are surviving critical care events such as stroke with the support of a tracheostomy. Research to date predominantly focuses on the clinical rationale for tracheostomy insertion or the technical and clinical problems associated …