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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"Microsystem"”.
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A framework for distributed Web-based microsystem design
The increasing complexity of microsystem design mandates a distributed and collaborative design environment. The high integration levels call for tools and generators that allow exploration of the design space irrespective of the geographical or physical availability of the design tools. The World …
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Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors in the Microsystem
… evaluation, and documentation processes. The microsystem consists of a telemetry/medical-surgical unit as well as a small intensive care unit consisting of ten beds.</p> <p>The prospectus details a project implemented to reduce medication errors within the microsystem. The steps for …
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AN INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEM FOR BACTERIAL BIOFILM DETECTION AND TREATMENT
… respectively. Furthermore, an integrated microsystem was demonstrated as a single platform of the sensor with the treatment method. The sensor was based on the surface acoustic wave (SAW) detection mechanism, which isn extremely sensitive for biofilm monitoring (hundreds of bacterial …
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Microsystem Based on CMOS Multielectrode Array for Extracellular Neural Stimulation and Recording
… verification, and post-fabrication steps of a microsystem based on a fully integrated high-density multielectrode array (MEA) chip for extracellular stimulation of neural activity. The active MEA is implemented in a standard 0.25 μm CMOS technology with 65,536 non-Faradaic electrodes in an …
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Characterization of a Viscoelastic Response from Thin Metal Films Deposited on Silicon for Microsystem Applications
Understanding the mechanisms that control the mechanical behavior of microscale actuators is necessary to design an actuator that responds to an applied actuation force with the desired behavior. Micro actuators which employ a diaphragm supported by torsional hinges which deform during actuation …
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Reducing Patient Supply Waste Through Nurse Education to Improve Quality of Patient Care in the Clinical Microsystem
… to reduce patient supply waste in the clinical microsystem by 50% by the end of the second quarter of 2017. The project was conducted in a 19-single-room adult surgical/orthopedic unit in a community hospital. I completed a through microsystem analysis with 5 P’s, SWOT analysis, and hospital …
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The Patient's Care Experiences in a Team-Based Clinical Microsystem Model of Care: Accountable Care Unit
… inpatient care into interprofessional clinical microsystems such as the Accountable Care Unit. However, findings on healthcare outcomes are mixed, and studies that explain how patients experience care within this team-based care model remain limited. This dissertation responds by synthesizing …
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A model for managing the variability of care processes – A quality improvement method for introducing Enhanced Recovery after Surgery (ERAS) within an orthopaedic elective care clinical microsystem
… to ERAS care processes within clinical microsystems performing hip and knee replacement. Methods – The model to manage variability was adapted for use as a QI method and then deployed within two orthopaedic elective care clinical microsystems. An improvement replication programme was …
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Switching to Celsius to Improve Patient Outcomes
… of this project is to change the way the microsystem of the Surgical Services department takes, communicates, and documents patient body temperature. Currently when a healthcare provider takes or documents a patient’s body temperature, it is left to the healthcare provider’s preference …
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Preventing Surgical Site Infections by Utilizing CHG Wipes for Preoperative Skin Preparation
… a 106-bed community hospital in Washington. The microsystem has five operating rooms where they provide outpatient, and inpatient surgical procedures. The goal of this project is to reduce and sustain a near zero number of surgical site infections by implementing the use of a no rinse 2% CHG …
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CNL as Educator: Justifying the Need for a Certified Diabetes Educator on the Medical Surgical/Telemetry Unit
… unit of a rural community hospital. A microsystem and gap analysis indicates lack of comprehensive, efficient and effective diabetes care education. The clinical nurse leader (CNL) conducted a learning needs assessment and pilot education project to integrate tasks of a CDE into the …
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Pursuing Equity in Diabetes Population
… is over a 2-year period completed at a microsystem that is focusing on health equity practices to reduce disparity gaps.</p> <p><strong>Project aim</strong></p> <p>KP Riverside, microsystem selected has a large population of Hispanic/Latino KP members, with focus on health equity. The …
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Well-Being And Academic Performance In Immigrant Students: The Role Of Inequality Of Country Of Origin And Resilience
… factors: Macrosystem, exosystem, mesosystem and microsystem. The results revealed that higher PWB was predicted by mesosystem variables (lower perceived stress, lower acculturative stress) and microsystem variables (higher resilience, higher ethnic identity, being older), whereas better academic …
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The Role of Physical Appearance in the Peer Acceptance of Emerging Adults Undergoing Chemotherapy
… male models. A positive association between microsystem exposure to cancer and peer acceptance ratings was also found. Clinical applications to foster more microsystem influences and future directions, such as use of video vignettes, are provided.
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The concerns of foster children in their foster homes
… the concepts of developing person and the microsystem of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological model. In this study, there was one research question: What are the concerns of foster children in their foster homes? Ten former foster children participated in a semi-structured interview that occurred …
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A modular approach to high throughput microsystems
A modular high throughput microsystem was developed using microfabrication technology and nucleic acid analysis. The purpose of developing this microsystem is to identify acute infectious disease and prevent contagious outbreak in a matter of time. This microsystem included three major components, …
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An ecological perspective on the role of nondisclosure in urban african american adolescents exposed to community violence: Using mediation and moderated mediation approaches
… that form his or her environment, such as the microsystem (i.e., a system in which the adolescent has direct contact). Particularly, this study tested conceptual models in which adolescents’ nondisclosure to adults (a microsystem occuring at the interpersonal level between adolescents and …
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Standardized Blood Transfusion Documentation
… to improve health care outcomes. The selected microsystem is a medical/surgical/telemetry unit, which has 38 beds with 38 registered nurses (RNs). When surveyed, 39% of the RNs were confident administering blood products and 48% were aware of what is necessary to document regarding blood …
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Homecare Portacath Protocol in IVIg Administration
… gap that was discovered while evaluating my microsystem for system improvements. My microsystem is a medium sized Home Health Agency with a specialty of in home infusion therapy. While evaluating protocols for immunoglobulin (Ig) infusion I found that there was no protocol for the …
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Delirium Education for Nurses on a Medical-Surgical Unit
… level I trauma center and teaching hospital; the microsystem is a 28-bed medical-surgical telemetry unit.</p> <p>An audit of microsystem data collected over four months in 2014 revealed that delirium was consistently underidentified (10% in September, 26% in October, 34% in November, and 22% in …
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