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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Healthcare Worker"”.
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Healthcare Worker Factors Influencing Reports of Pain Judgments about Older Patients with Cancer and Delirium
Healthcare workers (HCWs) rely on behavioural cues to judge pain in older adults with cancer and delirium. This study identified HCW factors associated with pain judgments about older patients with advanced cancer who are cognitively intact or have delirium, including the hypoactive, hyperactive, …
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Inpatient psychiatric healthcare worker and administrator perceptions of workplace interventions for patient-on-staff assault
Psychiatric personnel as an occupational group are among the highest risk for experiencing assault at work. Existing literature is primarily quantitative with a descriptive focus on numbers and types of injuries and environmental factors associated with these assaults. A qualitative study using …
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Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Tuberculosis Video Directly Observed Therapy Program at Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services
… to take medications under the supervision of a healthcare worker in-person. Such a program is in place to increase medication adherence; however, it is labor-intensive, time-consuming, and costly. Alternatively, in the Video Directly Observed Therapy (VDOT), patients record and submit a video …
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Workforce Patterns and the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Option B Cascade in Côte d'Ivoire
… (odds ratios presented are for a difference of 1 healthcare worker per 1000 new antenatal care patients): total density (OR = 1.01, 95% CI 1.01-1.01), physician density (OR = 1.03, 95% CI 1.01-1.05), density of trained staff (OR = 1.09, 95% CI 1.08-1.10) and midwife density (OR = 1.10, 95% CI …
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Readiness for improving safe care delivery through web-based hospital nurse scheduling & staffing technology: A multi-hospital approach
… growing understanding of the negative effects of healthcare worker fatigue on patient outcomes (IOM, 2004; Stimpfel & Aiken, 2013). The impending nursing shortage has the potential to exacerbate the problem of high quality care delivery and could lead to devastating impacts to the profession as …
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Factors contributing to children missing doses of Expanded Program on Immunization in Vhembe District, Thulamela Municipality
… vaccine stock-outs, and negative attitudes of healthcare staff. These barriers collectively hinder timely access to immunisation services. The study concludes that improving childhood immunisation coverage in Thulamela Municipality requires multifaceted, context-specific interventions. …
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Educating Nurses on the Use of the Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool (BMAT) to Create a Culture of Safety
<p>Healthcare workers are more at risk for injury than workers in any other industry, the injury rate in hospitals is almost double that of the entire private sector put together (OSHA, 2013). This high rate of injury has led hospital administrators and policymakers to take a closer look at the job …
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Social factors influencing the education of physiotherapists around disability in Bangladesh
… education and the training of related healthcare workers. Sample Data from service users were collected using twenty-seven individual semi-structured interviews with disabled people who had accessed therapeutic services within the previous year. Data from provider groups were collected …
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Call-Shift Fatigue and Use of Countermeasures and Strategies by Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
… on performance, supports a relationship between healthcare worker fatigue and patient error, and adds to the scientific knowledge regarding the use of fatigue avoidance strategies and countermeasures. Fatigue awareness and education programs to promote healthy sleep and alertness should be …
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Hand hygiene barriers and facilitators in Vietnam
… hygiene programs that are appropriate for the healthcare settings in Vietnam that are different to middle to high resourced healthcare setting. Methods This mixed methods research is presented as a series of published peer-reviewed journal articles. Collectively, the publications describe …
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Exploration of women’s lived experiences and perspectives of maternal stakeholders on the utilisation of maternal healthcare services in Bauchi State, Nigeria
… of concern. From the literature reviewed, these healthcare centres' utilisation levels are not encouraging in rural areas, especially in northern Nigeria. Hence, this study explored the lived experiences of women of reproductive age and the perspectives of maternal stakeholders on utilising …
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A qualitative exploration of healthcare workers' perspectives on and experiences with colorectal cancer screening in the Western and Eastern Cape
… (FIT) is not currently offered in the public healthcare sector in SA. Before implementing any sort of screening test, it is important to address health system related factors that are specific to the South African context to better understand the potential feasibility and acceptability of a …
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Why healthcare workers don't wash their hands: a behavioural explanation
… of perceived threat. As patient contact by healthcare workers is frequently assessed by healthcare workers as not posing risk, healthcare workers omit much elective hand-hygiene, leading to potential cross-infection. Modelling responses of 754 nurses on the Theory of Planned Behaviour for …
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A Study of a Simulated Infectious Disease on Healthcare Workers' Reaction, Knowledge, Attitudes, and Performance Towards Hand Hygiene
<p><em>Problem Statement.</em> The high rate of healthcare worker-patient contact provides many opportunities for exposure to pathogens, which creates challenges in assessing healthcare workers' success at preventing healthcare associated infections caused by these dangerous pathogens.</p> …
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A Case Study of Project Management of COVID-19 Vaccination in Japan
… the potential savings of over 20 thousand healthcare worker recruitments without vaccination delay due to vaccine supply constraints and by a modified team structure in sites with the higher nurse–doctor ratio of 3 or more. For acceleration purposes, the model estimated limited …
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The Storytelling + Design Framework: Design Guidance for the Concept Phase of Medical Device Design
… methods to foster dialogue between engineers and healthcare workers. Although engineers are encouraged to follow a user-centered design (UCD) process to identify user needs (ANSI/AAMI, 2009; IEC, 2007), NORA (2009) warns that engineers may “fail to get the full range of healthcare worker input on …
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Evaluating pooled testing designs in community and healthcare settings for infectious disease management and in particular for epidemics
… a statistically significant effect on reducing healthcare worker infections. Pooled testing can effectively be incorporated into other measures such as mass-testing schemes and hybrid testing schemes to reduce com- munity infections and testing costs. Whether a policymaker should consider pooled …
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Alcohol and problem drinking as risk factors for tuberculosis
… episodes based on being informed by a healthcare worker. Alcohol consumption, problem drinking as well as selected explanatory variables were generated from similar questions from the adult questionnaire of the SADHS. The CAGE questionnaire was used to measure symptoms of alcohol …
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Choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA): an empathy digital training tool for healthcare workers in maternity settings
… to enhance empathy skills and support continuous healthcare worker education among healthcare workers in maternity settings. In the context of SH training, healthcare professionals are encouraged to participate in roleplay activities while simulating scenarios involving patients, observing their …
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The utilization of macroergonomics and highly-detailed simulation to reduce healthcare-acquired infections
… that 1 in 20 patients become infected with a healthcare acquired infection (HAI). Some of the complications of HAIs include increased morbidity and mortality, and drug-resistant infections. Clostridium difficile has replaced methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as the most …
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