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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Public Hospital"”.
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Exploring challenges in records management in a public hospital setting
Background: Record management has been reported to be a problem in health facilities in South Africa. Several studies have assessed the magnitude of the problem and came up with varying strategies to combat this challenge, but the problem persists. Aim: The present study aimed to explore practices …
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Skills adequacy and service delivery among health professionals at Umphumulo public hospital
… in the health sector, and the case of uMphumulo Hospital has become of particular concern. In many organizations, skills adequacy and service delivery coexists and interlinks in order to produce quality service delivery. This depends on individual performance evaluations. However, the shortage of …
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Risk factors for deep vein thrombosis in a South African public hospital
… patients with confirmed DVT in a South African public hospital.
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Public hospital corporatization and innovation in Lebanon and Chile : agency and decision rights approaches
… scholars and policy makers interested in the public sector relates to incentives and institutions that are conducive to good performance. Recent developments in agency and contract theory shed some new light on old questions about public sector performance, of which I address three in this …
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Concerns and needs of chronically ill hospitalised children and carers in a Saudi public hospital
… information on the experience of carers of hospitalised chronically ill children is lacking. This study set out to explore the needs and concerns for wellbeing of carers of chronically-ill children in a Saudi public hospital. The Research was conducted in two phases. The quantitative phase …
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nalysing Change Resistance to an Information Systems-Supported Process in a South African Public Hospital
… on information technology (IT) investment among hospitals, its effect on the personnel, as well as how it influences patient care and financial performance. Consequently, little is known about users’ resistance to new technologies and the precedents of technology rejection in healthcare. …
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Invaluable and outsourced: experiences of private company cleaners working in the public hospital sector in Cape Town
In the hospital context, and in research on hospitals, cleaning staff often find themselves on the periphery. This peripheral status is exacerbated when cleaners are employed by private cleaning companies. The intersection of locations these cleaners find themselves in, as cleaners, outsourced …
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Experiences of community service nurses and unit managers in a rural public hospital in Zululand district, Kwazulu-Natal province
… remunerated community service for one year, in public healthcare facility. The period of transition from being a student nurse to becoming a qualified professional nurse is often stressful. The nurses surfing through this transition sometimes feel inadequately prepared for the clinical …
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Is contracting out an efficient means of delivering health support services? : a case study of a public hospital in Uganda
… is contracting out. The only national referral hospital Uganda has a long history of contracting out health support services, but there is hardly any empirical evidence of the resultant efficiency gains. To study the contractual arrangements in the hospital a theoretical framework based on what …
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Knowledge and practices of radiographers when imaging children with non-accidental injuries at a public hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Master of Health Sciences in Radiography degree at the Durban University of Technology, 2020.
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The mediating role of psychological well-being on mindfulness and job performance among public hospital-based nurses in Polokwane Local Municipality Area
… between mindfulness and job performance among public hospital-based nurses in Polokwane Local Municipality. The study followed a positivism paradigm. A quantitative approach was employed, using a cross-sectional design. The population of the study comprised 1287 nurses which include, …
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The governance schema of regional and rural public hospital nurses: how relevant are the dimensions of stewardship governance and trust in management?
This study broadly pertained to the issue of public health sector governance. The field of healthcare governance had been characterised as having challenges of greater intricacy and sensitivity than those found in any other sector (Philippon & Braithwaite, 2008). While increasingly regarded as …
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An evaluation of the culture of patient safety as a critical element of healthcare in a public hospital in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Health Sciences in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2016.
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“Language Barriers in the Emergency Centre (EC): A survey of secondary public hospital EC doctors on the perceived presence and impact of language barriers"
… by doctors in emergency centres in secondary public hospitals in Cape Town. Methods A quantitative on-line survey of full time doctors in the ECs of six urban secondary public hospitals in Cape Town was conducted in October 2019. Data was collected over a 5 week period and covered …
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A prospective evaluation of the feasibility of using enrolled nursing auxiliaries to triage patients in the emergency unit of an urban public hospital in South Africa
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-80).
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The use of inhaled nitric oxide to treat persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn in a tertiary public hospital in South Africa from 2010-2014: morbidity, mortality and cost
… of ECMO. Although neonates in some South African public hospitals have access to iNO, ECMO is not available. Oral sildenafil can be effective in settings where iNO is not available, but its effect on outcome and cost of treatment in this setting have not been described. The literature review in …
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The CNL as Information Manager
… improvement project was for an urban, safety net public hospital dedicated to ongoing medical and nursing education. The role of the clinical nurse leader was introduced to the comprehensive breast center radiology staff and physicians to support a new quality initiative to optimize screening for …
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The development, validation and testing of a vital signs monitoring tool for early identification of deterioration in adult surgical patients
… for general ward use from South Africa. In a public hospital in South Africa, the study aimed to develop, validate and test the impact of implementation of a modified early warning scoring (MEWS) system vital signs chart and training programme designed to improve hospital nurses’ performance …
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Untersuchung der medizinischen Infrastruktur für Touristen und Geschäftsreisende in Tunesien
… of the health supply: the private and the public sectors. The private sector is especially concentrated in the big cities and along the tunisian coast and offers european standards. The visited and analysed private medical institutions satisfy the TEMOS quality criteria in every evaluated …
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