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A psychiatric service at a community hospital
… an attempt to use the facilities of a general hospital with minimal psychiatric cover to deal with acute psychiatric conditions. This is in keeping with current psychiatric opinion in South Africa as expressed by Dr. C.W. Allwood and Dr G.A.D. Hart. This dissertation will examine the needs …
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Personality Types of Registered Nurses Employed in a Rural Community Hospital
… types of registered nurses in a rural community. An extensive literature review revealed that no studies, utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to identify personality types, had been conducted with rural nurses. Jung's Psychological Type Theory was the theoretical framework …
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Characterization of monitoring alarms in a community hospital intensive care unit
… to alarms, and physiological data from a community hospital ICU. In order to suggest opportunities for suppressing irrelevant alarms, we examine monitoring device coverage across patients and analyze the alarms observed by device, priority, and type. On average, we observe 196.3 alarms per …
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Utilization of research technologies within a local community hospital in Ann Arbor
… of those technologies are being utilized at a community hospital. A survey was designed, developed, and disseminated to principal investigators and co-investigators of research within the hospital. The results showed that few of the technologies included in the assessment are being utilized by …
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Improving the Patient Experience by Implementing Patient-Centered Care in a Community Hospital
<p>Health care is a complex business currently undergoing extensive reform. These changes require new methods of care deliver and ways in which health care organizations are operating. At the forefront of this change effort is the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is …
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The clinical nurse specialist in the community hospital : impact on hospital-acquired pressure injuries
Problem: Hospital-acquired pressure injuries (HAPIs) are a significant challenge, leading to adverse outcomes such as pain, infections, and prolonged hospital stays. Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) play a key role in preventing these injuries by promoting and carrying out evidence-based practices. …
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The Utilization of Outpatient Laboratory Resources at Ireland Army Community Hospital After Implementation of Tricare
… after implementation of TRICARE at Ireland Army Hospital in Fort Knox, Kentucky. It was determined that there was a dramatic decrease in the utilization patterns of the retiree population. The mean age of the year 2 group was much younger, and changes in enlisted personnel utilization were noted. …
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Baseline Prevalence Study of Hendrich II Fall Risk Assessment Tool at a Local Community Hospital
… per the request of the fall committee of a community hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hendrich II assessments were completed on 106 patients (<em>n </em>= 106) between September 2017 and November 2017. In addition, assessments by registered nurses on those same patients were obtained …
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Baseline Prevalence Study of Hendrich II Fall-Risk Assessment Tool at a Local Community Hospital
… to 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in hospitals; 30%–35% of those sustain injuries, and 20% of falls will cause serious traumatic injuries. Yet, research shows that close to one-third of these falls could be prevented. This paper presents the analyses of two fall-risk tools, Hendrich II …
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Development and Implementation of a Succession Plan for the Nursing Department in a Community Hospital
… identifies nursing leadership vacancies in a community nursing department and assisted in the planning and implementation of a succession framework to fill the gaps in the nurse leadership population. Aging nurse leaders are leaving the profession and thus are creating gaps which need to be …
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Third Party Collection Program: case study of Naval Hospital Oakland and Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula
… (TPC) for inpatient and outpatient care at Naval Hospital Oakland (NHO), its implementation and its comparison with a civilian counterpart. The implementation is in accordance with DoD Instruction 6010.15 and the comparison is conducted with the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula (CHOMP). …
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The clinical pharmacy program in a community hospital setting : an integral part of the educational process
The intent of this work is to emphasize that the concept of clinical pharmacy is no longer an innovation or an educational experiment, but rather is a reality which requires national recognition, professional as well as legislative support, and clearly planned educational preparation.
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An Observational Investigation of On-Duty Critical Care Nurses' Information Behavior in a Nonteaching Community Hospital
… critical care nurses in a 20-bed critical care hospital unit. The researcher used open, in vivo, and axial coding to develop a grounded theory model of their consistent pattern of multimedia interactions. The resulting Nurse's Patient-Chart Cycle describes nurses' activities during the shift as …
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Defining Practices, Outcomes, and Barriers to Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Screening at a Large, Urban Indian Community Hospital
The general metadata -- e.g., title, author, abstract, subject headings, etc. -- is publicly available, but access to the submitted files is restricted to UT Southwestern campus access and/or authorized UT Southwestern users.
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Retrospective evaluation of the rockall risk scoring system in patients with nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage at a community hospital
… hemorrhage (UGIH), the majority of hospitals do not risk-stratify patients with UGIH. One of the major challenges in triaging patients with nonvariceal UGIH is identifying patients’ who are at low risk. We retrospectively identified Rockall scores of 160 patients and the proportion …
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The Role of the Clinical Nurse Leader in Reintroducing and Sustaining a Successful Cancer Risk Assessment Program in a Community Hospital Setting
… (CRA) program prompted the evaluation of a community-based breast center microsystem and previous CRA program for feasibility and sustainability. The development of a value proposition by the Clinical Nurse Leader student highlights the role in the advancement of the nursing profession as an …
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