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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Hospital wards"”.
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Wireless remote patient monitoring on general hospital wards.
… to improve quality of patient care on general hospital wards is proposed. Patient care is a labour-intensive task that requires high input of human resources. A Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) system is proposed which can go some way towards improving patient monitoring on general hospital …
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MedLAN: Compact mobile computing system for wireless information access in emergency hospital wards
… useful in point-of-care areas such as hospitals, because of their ease of use, low cost of installation and increased flexibility. This thesis presents an integrated system called MedLAN dedicated for use inside the A&E hospital wards. Its purpose is to wirelessly support high-quality …
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Qualitative explorations of talking therapies with CSA survivors and therapeutic relationships discussed by people experiencing dissociation : what are the experiences of therapeutic relationships on hospital wards of people who experience dissociation?
… alongside the inconsistent relationships on the wards, the difficulties of having differing interpersonal needs at varying times and the importance of working with alters, not around them. The findings reaffirmed the importance of therapeutic relationships for the purposes of feeling safe, being …
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A framework for the assessment of nursing taks and environmental demands
… how the architectural design features of NHS hospital wards could be improved to create a better fit between ward nurses and their work environment, by applying the Person-‐ Environment Fit theory. The Nursing Tasks and Environmental Assessment Framework (NTEA Framework) consists of two …
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Paediatric High Dependency Care in West, North and East Yorkshire
… episode data (n = 24,540) collected in 14 hospitals in West, North and East Yorkshire in 2005. The PHDC measurement tool was subsequently applied to the inpatient episode data (n = 24,540) to estimate the amount and location of PHDC by hospital ward type (District General Hospitals, (DGHs), …
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Co-design of a patient and family-initiated escalation of care intervention to detect and refer patient deterioration in the acute adult ward setting
… are not always identified by staff on acute hospital wards. Patient and family-initiated escalation of care schemes have shown some benefit in assisting early recognition, but are not used widely in many clinical practice areas and there is lack of robust evidence examining this area, …
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Learners' and Patients' Experiences of Disgust in Academic Medicine
… in the anatomy lab, the operating room, or the hospital wards, medical school is often the first time that future doctors see human suffering manifested in bodies that elicit embarrassment, disgust and fear. Over the course of training, seeing such bodies goes from exceptional to commonplace as …
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Transitioning from Curative Care to End-of-Live Care in the Acute Care Hospital: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
… of multidisciplinary teams in two urban acute hospitals when transitioning from curative care to end-of-life care with a patient. With so many people continuing to die in acute care hospital wards (Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, 2016; Cavaye & Watts, 2012; Grande, 2009), it is …
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Experiences of the Older Person with Cancer: A qualitative study of medical and specialist ward settings
… and health care professionals in two contrasting hospital wards (specialist and medical).<br/>This study considers how cancer patients manage their psychological and social needs. It also explores the challenges for health care professionals. Purposive sampling captures diversity of patient and …
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Enacting patient safety on the frontline: an ethnographic study of rescue work with acutely illpatients
… over ‘failure to rescue’ acutely ill patients on hospital wards have led to the widespread implementation of rapid response systems. Despite these system level changes, management of deterioration in such patients’ conditions remains problematic. Rescue is a complex process and only partially …
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What influences Registered Nurses to have the influenza vaccine?
… by virtue of illness, congregate in and around hospitals. Annual vaccination is also attributed to the reduction in upper respiratory tract infection, in physician visits and in sick days off work for staff. The aim of this research was to explore what influences Registered Nurses to have the …
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Kangaroo Care in the NICU: A Practice Guideline
… was developed out of necessity, because the hospital wards for low birth weight infants were often overcrowded, and there were limited financial as well as human resources to care for these infants (Johnson, 2005). This method was developed as an alternative to the conventional method of …
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An investigation into the light inactivation of medically important microorganisms
… continuous exposure in occupied rooms, such as hospital wards. Consequently, HINS-light may prove to be an effective, non-harmful method for the control and prevention of MRSA transmission within the health-care environment.
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An investigation into what influences nurses' practice to not take and record respiratory rate
… interviews with ten RNs working in three hospitals within New Zealand. The interviews aimed to investigate their experiences around the practice of taking and recording patient respiratory rates. The analysis of the data was guided by Thomas’s (2006) general inductive approach to thematic …
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Exploration and development of bereavement care for older people.
… roles in general practice and community nursing, hospital wards and care homes, as well as a small sample of bereaved older people. Thirty nine participants took part in in-depth interviews that yielded four key themes: bereavement care depends on a relationship between healthcare staff and …
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The onset and alleviation of learned helplessness in older hospitalised people
… During the first stage a sample of older hospitalised people were randomly assigned to experimental and control conditions. Interventions included exposing participants to disempowering (non-contingent) and empowering (contingent) circumstances during a mealtime event as a means of …
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Perceptions of change to the hospital nurse's role: a gounded theory.
… to explore the changes affecting the role of the hospital nurse from the perspectives of nurses and doctors working on, and patients receiving treatment in, hospital wards. The aim was to examine their perceptions through qualitative methodology using the systematic method of grounded theory. …
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Oxygen Therapy in Malawi: Revising Oxygen Concentrator Filtration and Use for Improved function in Low-Resource Hospitals
… One prevalent problem among low-resource hospitals is the functionality and longevity of medical equipment. A large percentage of all medical equipment in Malawian hospitals is donated, resulting in a wide spectrum of models, necessary spare parts, and functionality. These machines can …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… reconstruct the history of Chitokoloki Mission Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of Africans …
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A history of Chitokoloki mission hospital in Zambezi district of the North-Western province of Zambia, 1914-2014.
… reconstruct the history of Chitokoloki Mission Hospital in Zambezi District of the North-Western Province and determine its significance in the history of mission hospitals in Zambia. While the Zambian medical history has tended to focus on the role of Western medicine in the health of Africans …
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