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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"health care setting"”.
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Circumstances Surrounding Contaminated Needlestick and other Sharp Object Injuries in the Acute Health Care Setting
… and other sharp object injuries in the acute health care setting.
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Therapeutic relationships with people experiencing psychosis within an acute mental health care setting: a critical discursive evaluation
… outcomes in various forms of therapy. Health care professionals (HCPs) utilise the therapeutic relationship within acute mental health settings (AMHS); however, little is known about how this is achieved, particularly with people experiencing symptoms of psychosis who have often …
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A prospective cohort study and evaluation of an end-of-life programme intervention in a primary health care setting
Context: Palliative care is the holistic care for patients, and their families, who are facing the end of their life due to a life-threatening illness. The Global burden of disease indicates that 65.5% of all deaths in 2010 were caused by non-communicable diseases. In South Africa, seven of the top …
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TQM : fad or fixture? Implementing total quality management in health care setting through the development and use of customer-supplier models
… study reviews the global advances made in health care quality assurance, tracing its origins from the manufacturing and service industries through to the context of the health care industry. The Total Quality Management (TQM) model, originally adopted by the industrial sector is …
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Wellness and Nutrition Education Program to Promote Improve Nutritional Practices and Decreased Body Mass in Individuals Working in a Health Care Setting.
… education program directed at employees of a health care facility would result in changes in weight, waist and hip circumference, BMI, and nutritional practices. Nine participants completed the five week program including final weight, measurements and post-program survey to determine …
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Civil servant and professional – understanding the challenges of being a public service doctor in a plural health care setting in rural South Africa
… Interactions are also shaped by the local plural health care system where public sector doctors, private general practitioners and traditional healers form complex networks that are largely informal and dependent on personal relationships. The study uses Lipsky’s street-level bureaucracy as a …
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LOST IN INTERPRETATION: THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF NURSE INTERPRETERS IN THE CLINICAL SETTING
<p>The use of language interpreters in the health care setting constitutes a vital part of provider-patient communication but remains a relatively unexplored phenomenon. Registered nurses (RNs) are often called upon to serve as interpreters when linguistically diverse patients constitute a large …
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Understanding the Patient Experience With Alternative Health Care: The Example of The Wholistic Health Center
… at and use of services in a (w)holistic health care setting. Although generally acknowledged to be increasing, there is little documentation of the patient experience and patient understanding in a whole person care setting. This research examines and describes the patient dimension …
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Perceptions Regarding Interdisciplinary Collaboration of Graduate Students in Health-Related Graduate Programs
… of interdisciplinary team collaboration in a health care setting as reported by graduate students in health-related programs at the University of Cincinnati. Bronstein’s (2002) model of interdisciplinary collaboration guided this study, through which five domains of interdisciplinary team …
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A Phenomenological Study to Describe the Pursuit of a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing by Associate Degree Registered Nurses
… in nursing is obtained in the community college setting and is designed to be completed in 2 years of full-time study. Approximately 70% of practicing registered nurses (RNs) are educated at the associate degree or diploma (vocational training) level with only 15% moving on to achieve a degree …
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"If I could properly understand and get the right information...": The sexual and reproductive health needs and rights of women newly diagnosed with HIV: A qualitative study in the Western Cape Province South Africa
… has been placed on the sexual and reproductive health needs of these women, particularly in South Africa, and other developing countries. This study, a sub-study of a much bigger study, explored the sexual and reproductive health needs of women newly diagnosed with HIV, and how these translate …
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Conversation between nurses and patients with aphasia : how to stay out of trouble
… with patients with aphasia in a rehabilitation health care setting. Six dyads, each comprising of a qualified nurse and an adult with moderate to severe aphasia, were videotaped conversing in the hospital, yielding an hour of data. The conversations were transcribed in detail and subjected to …
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Assessing the Impact of Electronic Health Record Systems Implementation on Hospital Patient Perceptions of Care
<p>The delivery of health care services has been impacted by advances in Knowledge Management Information Systems (KMIS) and Information Technology (IT). The literature reveals that Electronic Health Records Systems (EHRs) are a comprehensive KMIS. There is a wide recognition in the body of …
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The Future Of Leadership Training: An Immersive Web-Based Program Enhancing Nurse’s Critical Soft Leadership Skills In New Healthcare Contexts
<p>As the care of health shifts to a more decentralized model of care, it essential that the role of nursing facilitates new paths to meeting patients and communities where they are in the context of their lives, forging new partnerships outside of the traditional health care setting, and focusing …
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Application of Systems Engineering Science to the Healthcare Environment
… of systems engineering techniques to the healthcare environment. The portfolio consists of three final publishable articles submitted to meet the program requirements for the, Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing degree from the University of San Diego, Hahn school of Nursing and Health …
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Patients centred pharmacovigilance
… of all of the actors involved in the process of care (e.g. clinicians, general practitioners, patients). In particular, despite the many recommendations, patient participation can be considered as an exception in the health care setting: for this reason the project was developed with the …
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The application of effective facilities management techniques to best optimise the provision of community health services within the community health care premises
… theorganisational context of the Community Health Care National Health ServiceTrust. The thesis commences with an examination of corporate andorganisational strategy and how organisational philosophy and goals impactupon facilities management activity and effectiveness. This examination …
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Risk Factors Associated with Pressure Ulcers Among Older Adults in the Emergency Department
… lor preventing pressure ulcers (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2008). As part ol this effort, this study will review care processes for pressure ulcer assessment and prevention to adopt changes in care on admission at the Marin General Hospital.</p> <p>This study will review and …
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Journal Club: Encouraging Evidence-Based Nursing Practice at the Bedside
… practice had an increase in popularity, in the health care setting, because of concerns over the use of outdated practices. These practices can result in an increase of time the patient remains hospitalized, which generates higher health care cost and may lead to unfavorable patient outcomes. …
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Postnatal Clubs: Implementation Of A Differentiated And Integrated Model Of Care For Mothers Living With Hiv And Their HIV-Exposed Uninfected Babies
… period, linked to poor retention in care. To improve this retention, Post Natal Clubs (PNC) were created as an integrated, differentiated model of care providing psychosocial support and comprehensive care for the mother-infant pairs (MIP). We describe the implementation of PNC and …
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