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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Waiting room"”.
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Waiting Room
… and essays in this hybrid creative collection, Waiting Room, aim to add to critical conversations in both creative nonfiction and fiction about identity in relation to physical places and the body. In this collection, I particularly explore how notions of “home” shape one’s identity: grief, …
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Waiting Room Rounding to Decrease LWBS
… <p>Objectives: The department implemented waiting room rounding as an evidence based change in an effort to reduce LWBS. A goal was set to reduce LWBS to less than five percent in the month of April after rounding began.</p> <p>Methods: ED technicians assigned to triage round on patients …
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An environmental-behavior evaluation of pediatric clinic waiting room environments
… perceptions of the parents in pediatric office waiting room environments.
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FOOD Fits: A Pediatric Office Waiting Room Pilot Intervention Targeting Parental Nutrition Literacy and Child Health
… nutrition education videos viewed in a pediatric waiting room were effective at improving parent nutrition literacy. A secondary objective was to assess the feasibility of this intervention for future research. Methods: Parents of children aged 1-17 years were recruited from two pediatric clinics …
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What Matters, Not What is The Matter: A Novel Approach to Empathising and Understanding the Third Space of the Healthcare Waiting Room
… enablers of person-centred care with hospital waiting spaces. Following a comprehensive review of literature, an initial conceptual framework was developed. This was then tested, initially via a pilot study for feasibility, before a main study conducted through a novel two-stage exploratory …
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Forgiveness and Failure of the Heart
… of Others) scales to complete during their waiting room period. No significant correlations were found between the scales used in this study and angiogram outcomes. Suggestions for future research are given and possible reasons for the failure to find correlations are also discussed.</p>
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Consumer Satisfaction with Services in a Mental Health Center
… areas of discontentment were "wait in the waiting room," "improvement since starting therapy," and "involuntary treatment." In order to look at the individual areas of service and their effect on the general satisfaction levels, a Consumer Satisfaction Index was formed. Of the five …
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Improving Patient Medication Reconciliation Participation and Compliance Through Education
… ultimately, reducing their risk of emergency room visits or even death. An educational pamphlet was created, distributed as well as a visual poster that was placed in the waiting room as a visual cue. After implementing the project, medication reconciliation compliance increased from 38% to …
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Instant Conductors
… in the whispers of an elderly man sitting in a waiting room. These pieces are situated along the spectrum of narrative and lyric, between self and other, around various speakers and listeners. They flow through the sensors of Florida swamp, pray to the train ride of some nebulous god or lack …
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Reducing the Use of Antibiotics for Viral Upper Respiratory Infections in the Primary Care Setting
… and recommendations, visual aids in the waiting room and exam rooms, and reduce the number of antibiotics prescribed for viral URIs during a 4-week period. Methods: This project was a one group pretest-posttest design comparing data from September 2022 and September 2023 in a suburban …
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The CNL as a Systems Analyst- Standardizing Triage in Urgent Care
… Patients and families dread unnecessary waiting and perceive it as dissatisfying and a waste of valuable time. Triage assessment in the waiting room facilitates the provision of timely, personalized patient care. The patient is given the opportunity to relay their health concerns, while …
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Role of room size and interaction distance on stress-related feelings and social interaction of dyads
… to study reactions to stress as a function of room size and interaction distance. Two subjects (one male and one female) sat on stools either relatively close together (1.22m) or far apart (2.74m), in a waiting room relatively large 5.94m X 3.96m or small 2.44m X 3.96m. They completed a …
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Modelling the cost-effectiveness of strategies to treat end-stage heart failure using discrete event simulation
… without delay to the patient. Queues and waiting lists are commonplace in health care; for instance, patients in an emergency department waiting room or the waiting list for elective surgery. Not incorporating queuing theory into HTA is likely to be an issue if the consequences of delayed …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… Mary, and outside of the tent, in a comical waiting room where the anti-Southern belle becomes a powerful prophet and the main character’s moves towards grace coincides with a move towards disfigurement. For O’Connor, the chaste religion associated with the protestant ideal of the Southern …
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Tempered Tempos: The Politics of Waiting for Public Services in Contemporary Cape Town
This dissertation recognises that waiting for public services in South Africa is becoming an increasingly important point of contestation between the state and its citizens. Rather than exploring the spectacular expressions of this tension seen in ongoing service delivery protests, it foregrounds …
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Group medical play for reducing stress and improving mood in children going to visit the pediatrician
… together around a small child size table in the waiting area of a pediatric clinic. Each child received a tray with medical materials (e.g., tongue depressor, gauze, band aids, syringes without needles), medical tape or glue to attach the materials, and a sheet of paper. A child life specialist …
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The Effect of a Nominal Fee on Treatment Choices for Children Needing Dental Rehabilitation
… distributed to caregivers of patients in the waiting room of the Virginia Commonwealth University Pediatric Dental Clinic. Two different questionnaires were distributed randomly. Both surveys described a scenario with the need for dental treatment under general anesthesia (GA) or oral …
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Psychometric Testing of the Walker's Feelings and Thoughts About Weight Scale in Taiwan
… (September 2005 through February 2006). Setting: Waiting room of the well baby clinic which routinely takes place six days a week at a large Maternity Center in the Taipei metropolitan area, northern Taiwan. Human subjects approval was obtained through the University of San Diego as well as …
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Body Image Satisfaction in Infant and Pediatric Cardiac Transplant Recipients as Adolescents
… Control participants were approached in the waiting room of the Faculty Medical Offices’ General Pediatric Clinics and invited to participate in the study as they waited for their medical appointment. Comparisons between the heart transplant group and control group found no significant …
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Triage in Health Department of Western Australia accident and emergency departments
… two category priority system. The average waiting time to see nursing staff is too long in departments without TNs, 7.6 minutes, as compared to 3. 7 minutes in department with TNs. Nursing staff perceived that triage systems could be improved by having only experienced staff as the …
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