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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"Healthcare settings"”.
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Neuroaesthetics and its Efficacy Within Healthcare Settings
… tools and research in application to healthcare settings in general, with a focus on mental health counseling. Unlike art therapy, which involves guided creative expression within a clinical framework, neuroaesthetics is a scientific exploration of how the brain responds to sensory and …
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A Human Factors Approach for Identifying Latent Failures in Healthcare Settings
… for classifying observational data from various healthcare venues.</p> <p>METHOD: Three studies are presented to investigate the reliability of HFACS for classifying observational data. In Study I, HFACS was applied to observational human factors data collected from the cardiovascular operating …
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TAILORING SURFACES FOR POTENTIAL INHIBITION OF BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS
… from contaminated surfaces that contribute to healthcare-associated infections. Such coatings for use in healthcare settings should be durable with minimal cytotoxicity, and transparency would be essential for use with certain devices. In this thesis, surface-immobilized quaternized chitosan …
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Individual and organizational Uses of Evidence-Based Practice in healthcare settings
… outcomes. Through interviews with clinicians and healthcare administrators, I identify how providers and organizations use EBP in practice to clinical ends and in inter-professional relationships. First, I find that in contrast to the theoretical model, stakeholders vary in how they operationalize …
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Reducing Physician Burnout and Costs in Outpatient Healthcare Settings via Advanced Analytics
… consequences for physicians, patients, and the healthcare system itself, which makes it one of the top priorities to be addressed by healthcare leaders today. In parallel, electronic health record systems (EHRs) have become ubiquitous in most practices, changing profoundly the work of primary …
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A Mixed Methods Study on the Delivery of Green Health Interventions within Psychiatric Healthcare Settings
… adapting the practicalities for the psychiatric healthcare setting; and the impact the project had on promoting nature for wellbeing, encouraging NBA and mainstreaming the natural environment for therapeutic intervention. Suggestions for practitioners including adapting NBA to suit the abilities …
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Bringing public services to the public: interpreting and translating in healthcare settings for social cohesion
… communicate with their users in public service settings. In all the four states, the governments demonstrate their agency by mandating, recommending, or referencing the use of Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) to various extents, as influenced by the legislation about equality …
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Improving a Low-Cost Intravenous Infusion Flow Rate Monitoring Device for Paediatric Care in Humanitarian Healthcare Settings
… for monitoring is limited in humanitarian settings with shortages of medical supplies and personnel, and monitoring being reliant on manual counting or mechanical clamps without safeguards. This particularly poses risks to the health outcomes of paediatric patients. This work builds upon …
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Evaluating pooled testing designs in community and healthcare settings for infectious disease management and in particular for epidemics
… has become known of SARS-CoV-2 dynamics. The settings of a small town and a ‘typical’ English hospital are considered. In the community setting, pooled testing was found to outperform symptomatic individual testing for a range of metrics (including total and peak infections) when more than a …
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A Grounded Theory Approach to Healthy Work Environment: Its Impact on Nurses, Patient Safety, and Significance in Healthcare Settings
… to evaluate nurses’ perceptions in acute care settings. The study was carried out in a large city of Southern California and the participants consisted of a community-based purposive population of registered nurses (RNs) in a telemetry. A total of 10 participants with three years working …
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Using the health policy triangle framework to describe local, regional and national healthcare policy changes within Ireland's diverse healthcare settings
… health policy change within different Irish healthcare settings over the last decade with regard to (i) development processes, (ii) evidence generation, (iii) implementation, and (iv) outcomes using the HPT framework within the context of the current Irish Sláintecare reforms. Methods: Using …
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Social determinants of comorbid depression among patients living with diabetes and/or HIV at primary healthcare settings in Western Cape Province of South Africa
… living with HIV and/or diabetes accessing healthcare at the primary health care (PHC) level in the Western Cape province. Furthermore, it examines the variation in depressive symptoms attributable to individual, household, and community levels among this sub-population. Baseline data …
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Nurse Manager Caring and Workplace Bullying in Nursing : the Relationship between Staff Nurses' Perceptions of Nurse Manager Caring Behaviors and Their Perception of Exposure to Workplace Bullying within Multiple Healthcare Settings
… exposure to workplace bullying within multiple healthcare settings. It was based on the theoretical position that caring promotes reciprocal caring and healing for each other and for the larger universe as informed by Watson’s theory of human caring (1979, 2006, 2008). Results indicated a …
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Exploration of physiological, psychological, and behavioral outcomes after exposure to weight stigma in healthcare
This dissertation examines how weight stigma in healthcare settings affects the psychological, physiological, and behavioral health outcomes of people who live in large bodies. The dissertation consists of three studies. Study 1 validates the Portion Size Selection Task as a proxy measure for …
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The Psychosocial Well-being of Nurses and Psychologists in Africa: A Scoping Review
Introduction: Healthcare systems in Africa have prioritised healthcare recipients, and little emphasis has been placed on the well-being of healthcare professionals, as reflected in the limited available literature on the scope of healthcare professionals' well-being. The present study examines …
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Decision-making involvement, self-efficacy, and the relationship to transition readiness in youth with sickle cell disease
Transition from pediatric to adult healthcare settings poses significant risks to morbidity and mortality for adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease. Increasing transition readiness, the acquisition of disease-specific knowledge and self-management skills, has been proposed as …
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Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Off Policy Evaluation for Medical Decision Making
<p>Healthcare applications pose significant challenges to existing Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods due to implementation risks, low data availability, short treatment episodes, sparse re[1]wards, partial observations, and heterogeneous treatment effects (HTE). Despite significant interest in …
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Registered nurse engagement with youth about sexual health in primary healthcare
… 12 – 24 years. Youth prefer to access sexual healthcare from a primary healthcare provider. However, registered nurses practising in primary healthcare settings lack confidence engaging with youth about sexual health issues. AIM The aim of the study is to identify what would facilitate primary …
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Healthcare Providers' Experiences with Screening for Intimate Partner Violence Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworking Women : A Phenomenological Study
… resources than the general population. Although healthcare providers have the capacity to screen for IPV and provide resources to MSFW patients who have been victimized by IPV, most healthcare providers who work with MSFW patients choose not to screen for IPV. In order to develop a better …
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Investigating the co-relation between recruitment criteria and organisational performance : a case of Kitwe, Ndola teaching hospitals and Roan Antelope general hospital.
… organizational performance within the context of healthcare settings, specifically focusing on Kitwe, Ndola Teaching Hospitals, and Roan Antelope General Hospital. With a sample size of 100 participants comprising healthcare professionals, administrators, and support staff, the study aims to …
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