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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Rural hospitals"”.
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Leadership in Extreme Contexts: An Emerging Typology
… and extreme contexts through the lens of rural hospitals facing environmental jolts. Rural hospitals offer a unique setting for this research, given their inherent geographic isolation, lack of resources, and the critical role these facilities play in their communities. Through a …
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From Bench to Bedside: Putting Practical Ethics on the Road in Rural North Carolina
… care, bioethics has a minimal presence in small rural and community hospitals, which serve nearly a third of the American population. Rural hospitals and rural professionals face a unique set of ethical challenges stemming from the characteristics of rural culture and limited access to …
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Interprofessional Roles Shoulder Dystocia: Maximizing Safety in Community Hospitals
… events have not been available to small, rural hospitals because of lack of talent and equipment, creating a gap in resources. Other than demonstrations by manikin companies, this author has currently been unable to sufficiently document the existence of active, non-academic resources for …
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The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s
… surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and models, in 1930, the colony’s new medical director formulated the first …
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Effective Design Features for the Management of Behavioral Health Patients In General Emergency Departments of Hospitals
… within the environment. The study involved three rural hospitals in eastern Texas that may not always have the proper resources to care effectively for this vulnerable patient population. The researcher administered a paper-based survey utilizing a Likert-scale response system to nursing staff …
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A Comparative Study of the Projections of Future Health Care Services by Registered Nurses, Advance Practice Nurses and Administrators
… Difference tests. All three groups agreed that rural hospitals will serve as points of entry into the health care system, APNs will play a major role in primary care in underserved areas, and community-based roles for nurses will increase. RNs, most APNs and Administrators agreed that health …
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How do patients view continuity of care in a rural hospital with significant medical staff turnover?
… relational (Kristjansson et al., 2013). Small rural hospitals in New Zealand are hard to staff with medical physicians and this poses a challenge to the health sector. Eighty percent of registered physicians practice in urban centres, raising a significant concern to rural areas being able to …
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Ethical imperative to health and epistemological distance : rural patients and advanced practice registered nurses
Rural populations have increased mortality, lower life expectancy, and less access to specialty care. Rural health disparities result from geographic, social, and epistemological barriers. In the wake of rural hospital closures, rural patients necessarily seek care from non-rural hospitals. These …
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Skills adequacy and service delivery among health professionals at Umphumulo public hospital
… quality service they need particularly in the rural areas. Therefore, this study examines the coping skills of health workers and rationalises whether the skills are adequately shared among health professionals in the quest to enhance service delivery in uMphumulo Hospital. The study adopts a …
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A Measurement of Readiness for Tennessee Hospitals to Implement “Meaningful Use” Criteria Resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009
… for monetary rewards for those acute-care hospitals that meet "meaningful use" computerization and reporting criteria.</p><p>The study used a descriptive, nonexperimental design to answer three research questions (1) What is the level of readiness to meet "meaningful use" criteria in the …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of Hospital Readmissions and Medicare Penalties
… in the United States, with Medicare penalizing hospitals whose readmission rates exceed benchmarks. This research examines factors associated with readmissions, identifies the types of hospitals most likely to receive penalties, and evaluates how hospitals respond to these penalties. The work is …
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An Integrated Delivery Model For Providing On-Site and Remote Radiology Services To Rural Midwest Hospitals
… delivery for providing radiology services to rural Midwest hospitals. A key priority was to investigate a model of delivery that ensured radiology services were available to rural Midwest hospital patients, similar to the level of quality and value patients could receive by traveling to larger …
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Association Between Clinical Decision Support System Use and Health Care Disparities in the Treatment and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Pneumonia
… process and outcome quality disparities between hospitals in rural/urban ZCTAs and racial/ethnic groups, controlling for other hospital and spatial characteristics. This analysis has presently yielded three manuscripts, and will yield seven additional manuscripts. Methods: We used secondary data …
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Determination of Nurses Awareness of Battered Women
… study of Registered Nurses, in Northwest Iowa rural hospitals was conducted to identify knowledge level of nurses regarding battered women. There was N= 229, or a 68.7% response rate, of usable questionnaires obtained. Factors analyzed were 1) a nurse's general knowledge level of battered …
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Clinical Decision Making of Rural Novice Nurses
… decision making by the novice nurse in a rural hospital setting. Interviews were guided by the following research questions: What cues were used by novice rural registered nurses in order to make clinical decisions? What were the sources of feedback which influenced subsequent decision …
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Healthcare Strategic Management: The Impact of State and Federal Funding Levels on the Implementation of Strategic Plans at Tennessee Hospitals.
… the strategic management systems of Tennessee hospitals. In particular, how did Federal and State funding restrictions (Medicare and TennCare) impact the strategic planning and implementation process of their hospitals? The study was also designed to gain insight regarding specific changes to …
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Essays on health economics and risk preferences
… analyzes the Medicare Flex Program which allowed rural hospitals with fewer than 25 beds to convert to "Critical Access Hospital" status and receive cost-based Medicare reimbursement. Converting hospitals decrease their inpatient capacity by 30 percent on average to satisfy the bed requirement. …
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Perioperative Nurses Perceptions of Moral Courage
… experience. Perioperative nurses from Magnet® hospitals were significantly more likely than nurses from non-Magnet® hospitals to stop a surgical procedure performed by a physician with alcohol breath (F = 7.99, p = .005). Urban perioperative nurses were significantly more likely to stop the …
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Transition to Practice of New Graduate Nurses in the First Year of Employment at a Rural Healthcare System
… of NRP effectiveness is limited, particularly in rural hospitals. Purpose: Determine practice readiness for NGNs attending a rural nurse residency program. Theoretical Framework: Duchscher's Stages of Transition Theory provides the theoretical foundation for the study. The theory emphasizes the …
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Pregnancy-Related Hypertension in North Dakota: Incidence, Outcomes, and Nursing Care Practices
… has been written on the incidence and trends in rural America and even less is known about incidence and trends in the rural Native American population. It is unknown how effective small rural hospitals are in the nursing care of the hypertensive pregnant women they encounter.</p> <p>This project …
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