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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Quality patient care"”.
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Investigating the challenges of delivering basic quality patient care in selected Gauteng government hospitals
… research question "What currently prevents basic quality nursing care in Government hospital institutions?" a scientific investigation was undertaken. The main goal was to investigate obstacles that hinder nursing personnel to deliver basic quality patient care in these institutions. Two district …
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ANDROID MOBILE APPLICATION FOR HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES
… and most complex organizations where health care is provided. Safe and effective patient care services in hospitals depend on the efficient decisions made by hospital executives. The main task of hospital executives is to ensure the hospital can provide high quality patient care and services. …
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Agent Modeling In Decision Support System: A Case Study In A Base Hospital System
… are studying different techniques to provide quality patient care and to prevent injuries in the hospitals, which motivate the ground work to model such a complex system with the objective to understand the chief social factors leading to injury. The underlying social factors such as …
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An Exploration of Work Related Mental Health Issues Experienced by Rural Emergency Nurses
… pain, and suffering on a daily basis. They care for members of their community, including friends and neighbours in an unpredictable environment with limited resources. These contextual factors not only have a negative impact on provision of quality patient care, but also create very …
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Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices
Effective communication is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in Canadian adult Intensive Care …
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The Perceived Gameful Experience of Undergraduate Nursing Students Engaged in a Virtual Interactive Puzzle Escape Room Focusing on a Complex Clinical Intervention
… In response to challenges in delivering quality education within the virtual environment, the need to expand learning opportunities within the digital environment has never been greater. Methods: The purpose of this study is to investigate nursing students’ experience using gamification …
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A Descriptive Study of the Organizational Attributes of Exemplar Tennessee Hospitals.
… hospitals were identified as exemplars of quality patient care, organizational policy, and administration. Their Chief Nurse Executive's were surveyed utilizing a Hospital Characteristics Questionnaire and the Organizational Support Subscale from the Nursing Workforce Index Revised (NWI-R). …
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Nurses' attitudes toward computers before and two months after training
… 1. More time for nursing tasks, less time for quality patient care, and threat to job security questions were found to be statistically significant. This study found no statistical significance between attitudes and demographic variables. Younger nurses a~d nurses with fewer years of computer …
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Physicians in 21st century healthcare: developing physician leaders for the future
… While physicians are generally educated to care for patients in their specialty area, reforms necessitate the need for physician leadership involvement in metric tracking by healthcare organizations in order to provide a focus on quality patient care and safety. Participants indicated …
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Staff Nurse Leadership: Leading at the Point of Care
<p>As health care undergoes pervasive transformation, the need has become acute to develop leadership at all levels of nursing. Decision-making by staff nurses at the point of care has significant impact on patient care outcomes and quality of health care in today's decentralized institutions. …
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HOW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION, HUMAN BEHAVIOR, AND COST EFFICIENCY INFLUENCE HOSPITAL TASK ALLOCATION: A RESOURCE-BASED VIEW AND TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT PERSPECTIVE
… and cost constraints, including reduced Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement levels, pressure hospitals to balance financial sustainability with delivering high-quality patient care. In response, hospitals are increasingly investing in Artificial Labor (AL) technologies to optimize operations. …
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Improving Unit Dynamics: Incorporating Lead Nurse Program on a Medical-Surgical Unit
… a key professional competency that will assure quality patient care and efficient work processes. The medical-surgical unit (MSU) at VA Mather has had high turnover rates and low staff satisfaction surveys for the past two years, which has led to a decline in staff morale. Lead nurses are in key …
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Managing Postoperative Pain for Timely Discharge of Total Hip Replacement Patients
… good fiscal stewardship is a condition of quality care, 2) Essential 3: Quality Improvement and Safety, practice guidelines are based on evidence, and 3) Essential 4: Translating and Integrating Scholarship into practice, client-centered practice is intra- and interdisciplinary. The purpose …
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Creating a Healthy Work Environment: Empowering Nursing Staff
… nurse retention and ultimately the delivery of quality patient care and patient satisfaction. Empowerment is a concept that embodies opportunity, support, autonomy and communication. Previous studies suggest empowered nursing staff improve patient outcomes. This study utilizes responses from …
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Reducing Mortality from Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: A Macro System Approach
<p>Healthcare organizations must be able to provide quality patient care from arrival to disposition that is both expedient and safe. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranks septicemia as the number one most expensive condition treated in U.S. hospitals, resulting in aggregate costs of …
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Narrowing the QSEN Competency Gap in New Graduate Registered Nurses
… is an evidence based, change of practice, quality improvement project that evaluates achievement of the six Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) competencies of new registered nurse graduates. No intervention with a similar focus was found in an extensive review of the literature. …
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The relationship between nurses educational background and the safety and quality of patient care in surgical units in private hospitals in Gauteng
… seems to agree that nurses are the backbone of quality patient care and safety. Moreover, the appropriate training of nurses is vital to providing high quality and safe patient care. South Africa has a dual healthcare system and different categories of nurses. The perceptions of the safety and …
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Retention Of Knowledge By Nurses After An Online Ecg Monitoring Course
… to have sufficient knowledge to carry out high quality patient care and to produce good patient outcome. Preliminary study of the PULSE Trial has shown that nurses' ECG monitoring knowledge can improve after taking the online ECG course. This study aims to determine the retention of knowledge …
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THE ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD FUNCTIONALITIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS WITH REGARD TO NURSING PRACTICE
… health record functionalities of acute care hospitals in the state of Kansas with regard to nursing practice. From the perspective of the Chief Nursing Officer, what was the nurses' role in implementation of the electronic health record, what nursing documentation was in the electronic …
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The Role of a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner as Part of a Mobile Health Unit for the Homeless Population
… gaps in services, resulting in poor healthcare outcomes and readmission to the hospital setting. They often present in crisis through the emergency room, contributing to an already overburdened healthcare system. Increased spending and overutilization of healthcare services continues to …
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