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Showing 1 to 20 of 602 for “"Healthcare professionals"”.
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An investigation of musculoskeletal disorders in healthcare professionals.
The aims of the work within this thesis were to i) establish the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among hospital based nurses and physiotherapists and to establish both perceived and possible causes for these disorders, ii) obtain clinical diagnoses and prognoses of nurses and physiotherapy …
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Stereotypes about Healthcare Professionals, Emotions, and Mammography Compliance
… patients are more likely to report negative healthcare encounters with their health professionals [2; 3], which may result in less favorable cultural stereotypes about healthcare professionals and more negative emotional reactions. Guided by Betancourt’s Integrative Model of Culture, …
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Guidelines for Culturally Based Interventions with Healthcare Professionals
… culturally informed interventions with healthcare professionals that take into account the socially shared values, beliefs and norms that negatively impact breast and cervical cancer screening. These guidelines and proposed interventions utilize a bottom up approach and are based on …
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Narrative of Black Older Women Communicating with Healthcare Professionals
… older women, ages 67 to 87, communicating with healthcare professionals. The research questions that guided the study were: (1) what are the experiences of the study participants navigating interactions with healthcare professionals? (2) how does communication and transfer of information occur …
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Achieving Health Equity: Mitigating Implicit Bias Among Healthcare Professionals
… disparities. Research shows that health care professionals exhibit the same level of implicit bias as the larger population (Fitzgerald & Hurst, 2017). The presence of implicit bias among health care professionals affects clinical decision-making and health outcomes, but it especially affects …
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The Variations of Healthcare Professionals' Perceptions of Child Life Professionals
… as CCLSs by the Association of Child Life Professionals (2017a), CCLSs are able to adequately respond to the specific psychosocial needs of hospitalized children (Wojtasik & White, 2009). Child life specialists work alongside members of an interdisciplinary team, and depend on collaboration …
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Understanding Healthcare Professionals' Identification When Working Within A Stigmatized Organisation
… the effect of organisational stigmatisation on healthcare employees working in an acute NHS hospital. The findings suggest that members of recognised healthcare professions can tactically construct permeable identities to offset the negative evaluations associated with organisational stigma. …
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Management of cancer pain : knowledge and attitudes of healthcare professionals
The control of pain is an important aspect of patient care for physicians who deal with cancer and has significant impact on the quality of life of patients. With appropriate care, pain can be controlled in 90% of patients who have advanced malignant conditions.
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Differences Between Licensed Healthcare Professionals with Substance Use-Related Licensure Discipline
… of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare providers across the country. Healthcare providers who suffer from SUD are different from those in the general population who suffer from SUD, because the healthcare provider must be able to think and act appropriately to perform the …
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Nutrition-related knowledge and behaviors of healthcare professionals: A pilot study
<p>Background: Healthcare consumers have a plethora of resources of nutrition guidance available, yet many sources provide unreliable information. Healthcare professionals are expected to be the expert source of nutrition information and dietary guidance for their clients and patients.</p> …
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Approaches to Learming of Postgraduate Healthcare Professionals in an Outcomes Based Curriculum
… to learning of postgraduate students from the healthcare profession. Their experiences are placed within the perspectives of their lecturers and external examiner for the programme. I employ a phenomenological approach, through the lens of fourth generation evaluation, to gather student’ …
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Investigating staff morale and Batho Pele compliance of public oral healthcare professionals
… has made remarkable progress in transformational healthcare in an attempt to provide redress for those affected by the previous apartheid policies. A primary healthcare approach was adopted built on a framework of quality, accessible and affordable service delivery to all South Africans. Batho …
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Alcohol Misuse Among Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Military Healthcare Professionals
… has addressed alcohol misuse among military healthcare professionals despite the prevalence of alcohol abuse among civilian providers. This study explored whether military healthcare professionals involved with OIF/OEF operations have increased risk for alcohol misuse (i.e., problem drinking, …
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The challenge of e-learning for healthcare professionals: an exploration in rural Thailand
… the barriers and drivers of eLearning for healthcare professional students in rural Thailand. An initial deskstudy was undertaken to investigate the factors that had an impact on eLearning within a professional healthcare environment. This was followed by a pilot study in a university in …
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Exploring Engagement: A Grounded Theory Study of Young People’s Interactions with Healthcare Professionals
… the values and views of young people in their healthcare. The term “engagement” has become increasingly used in literature to recommend that healthcare professionals should involve young people in participatory methods and include them in their decision-making. Yet, the engagement of young …
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Improving Healthcare Professionals’ Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral Vascular Access Ability Utilizing Homemade Ultrasound Phantoms
… this quality improvement project was to improve healthcare workers' confidence, competence, knowledge, and skills in placing ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous catheters using homemade ultrasound phantom models.Background: Ultrasound guidance can reduce the number of attempts to gain …
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Healthcare professionals’ experience of interprofessional collaborative encounters in primary care: a descriptive phenomenological analysis
Interprofessional collaboration amongst healthcare professionals in Primary Care is becoming an important focus as a worldwide shift from secondary (specialist hospital care) to primary (first level of contact in general practice) healthcare delivery is being made. The establishment and development …
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Factors influencing burnout among healthcare professionals at selected hospitals in the Ehlanzeni District, South Africa
The healthcare profession has emerged as one of the professions that is mostly prone to burnout. Burnout is a major problem affecting healthcare professionals nationwide and abroad. When employees experience burnout, it becomes difficult to remain productive at work since this starts to impact …
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Analysis of healthcare professionals’ acceptance of service innovations in the German telemonitoring market for diabetes.
La diabetes mellitus supone una importante carga financiera y organizativa para el sistema sanitario alemán. Una forma de cibersalud (o e‐health) es la telemonitorización de los pacientes, que permite a los profesionales sanitarios controlar de forma remota las condiciones médicas y el estilo de …
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Factors and Attributes Related to Training Transfer in Healthcare Professionals Participating in Quality Improvement Training
… attributes related to QI training transfer in healthcare professionals who participated in the Clinical Safety and Effectiveness (CS&E) QI training program held at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) between 2005 and 2014; and to develop insight into how these factors and …
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