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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Veterans health"”.
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Leadership Practices of Veterans Health Administration Nurse Executives.
… as a possible solution to the challenges in Health Care. The role of Nurse Executives (NE) has become an influential leadership position in Health Care Organizations (HCO) and a factor in improving HCO. The purpose of this research was to explore self-reported leadership practices of Veterans …
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Evaluation of teledermatology in the Veterans Health Administration
Telehealth technologies are being employed to increase access, quality of care, and cost containment. However, there are no widely accepted measures of telehealth performance and little information about long-term changes in access. The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is advantageous for …
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Enterprise architecture processes : comparing EA and CLIOS in the Veterans Health Administration
… industries including aerospace, transportation, healthcare case, defense acquisition and logistics. The CLIOS process, also developed at MIT, is designed to work with Complex, Largescale, Integrated, Open, Socio-technical systems, creating strategies for stakeholders to reach goals through …
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Identifying and analyzing the hiring process for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration
… the hiring process for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA). This model is a guide for understanding the current state of the process and shows that inadequate Position Descriptions (PD) are not the primary reason why the VA cannot meet the 80 day …
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Responding to traveling patients' seasonal demands for health care services in the Veterans Health Administration
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) provides care to over eight million Veterans and operates over 1,700 sites of care distributed across twenty-one regional networks in the United States. Health care providers within VHA report large seasonal variation in the demand for services, especially …
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A framework to improve enterprise-wide implementations : the case of the Veterans Health Administration Telehealth Expansion
… derived from enterprise systems thinking to the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Telehealth Expansion in order to characterize and evaluate the implementation methods used to expand Telehealth nation-wide. An in-depth, multi-disciplinary literature review was conducted to identify how …
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A Descriptive Study of Military Family Needs Following a Polytraumatic Injury
… well-being of the person with the injuries. The Veterans Health Administration is rapidly developing services to meet the needs of severely injured service personnel and their family members. The purpose of the present study was to test the feasibility of a method of assessment to identify the …
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Reasons for attrition from a smoking cessation program.
… program (QuitSmart) used by the North Texas Veterans Health Care Service (NTVHCS). The QuitSmart program utilizes the Stages of Change Model, with its focus on the last three stages (preparation, action, and maintenance). It was proposed that factors including shame-proneness, guilt, …
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Evaluating the Impact of an Academic Interdisciplinary Patient Aligned Care Team on Patients and Trainees within a Veterans Affairs Academic Medical Center
The Veterans Health Administration (VA), with the Office of Academic Affiliations, launched a pilot project, the Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education (CoEPCE), to create a training program focused in the primary care setting with multiple disciplines (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and …
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Veterans of the 1st Persian Gulf War: A Study of Medically Unexplained Symptom Models
… shortly after the Persian Gulf War, a number of veterans began complaining about a wide range of symptoms, the most common of which were; fatigue, headache, sleep disturbance, low mood, and memory loss. These symptoms were similar to those experienced by individuals with Medically Unexplained …
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Gender Considerations When Examining the Association Between Military Sexual Trauma and Chronic Pain Conditions
<p>Military sexual trauma (MST) amongst veterans is a growing concern for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). Veterans who screen positive for MST receive VHA care for any injuries caused as a result of MST, psychological or physical, free of charge. MST is difficult to track, can result in …
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The Impact of Military Sexual Trauma on Opioid Use Disorder and Related Outcomes in Men and Women Veterans
… (MST) and opioid use disorder (OUD) among U.S. Veterans enrolled in Veterans Health Administration (VA) care. Specifically, aims were to (1) assess the relationship between MST and OUD, (2) assess the relationship between MST and treatment for OUD among Veterans who have an OUD diagnosis, and …
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Implementation and Evaluation of an Oral Hygiene Program in Long-Term Care
… a staff education program developed by a Veterans Health Administration (VHA) dental committee was used to provide education to nursing staff. Competency validation was then done while the nursing staff performed oral hygiene care as part of their resident-care assignment. Finally, nursing …
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Determining Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the Resist Diabetes Intervention in Salem Veterans Administration Medical Center Patients
… (T2D), prevention of T2D is critical within the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) system (1). Resist Diabetes (RD), a Social Cognitive Theory-based resistance training program, has been shown to reduce the prevalence of prediabetes by 34% in prediabetic older adults (2). The RD program could …
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The effectiveness of cognitive processing therapy and prolonged exposure in the Department of Veterans Affairs.
… the effectiveness of CPT and PE at reducing veterans' self-reported PTSD symptoms as measured by total scores on the PTSD Checklist (PCL). This study involved a retrospective review of 2,030 charts. 750 veterans from 10 U.S. states who received CPT or PE in individual psychotherapy from the …
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Using prediction to facilitate patient flow in a health care delivery chain
A health care delivery chain is a series of treatment steps through which patients flow. The Emergency Department (ED)/Inpatient Unit (IU) chain is an example chain, common to many hospitals. Recent literature has suggested that predictions of IU admission, when patients enter the ED, could be used …
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Cardiovascular Risk Indicators and Health-Related Quality of Life in Women Veterans with PTSD
… one of the most prevalent disorders among women veterans treated at the Veterans Health Administration and is associated with a wide range of negative physical health outcomes, including the development of cardiovascular disease. In addition, PTSD has a negative impact on an individual's …
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Suicide Cognitions Among Veterans: A Construct for Assessment and Intervention
Military veterans represent a population that is more likely to be exposed to traumatic events and therefore diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) compared to civilian men and women. Military sexual trauma (MST) is a traumatic event endorsed by approximately 28% of women veterans and …
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An Investigation of Gender Bias in the Personality Assessment Inventory in a Sample of Military Veterans of the United States
… (PAI) as applied within the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA). A quantitative descriptive design was employed using preexisting clinical data obtained from the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) as accessed through the VA Informatics and Computing Infrastructure (VINCI) to …
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