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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"healthcare practices"”.
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Investigating the Intersection of Chinese and Euro-American Healthcare Practices in Nevada from 1860-1930
… the intersection of Chinese and Euro-American healthcare practices through an investigation of medicinal artifacts located in seven Nevada archaeological collections -- Lovelock Chinatown, Old Cortez, Virginia City Chinatown, Island Mountain, Yeong Wo Mercantile, and sites 26LA3061 and 26LA4425 …
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The Impact of Culture and Language on Internal Communication and Patient Care in Small to Medium-Sized Black Immigrant-Owned Healthcare Practices in Texas.
… in small to medium-sized Black immigrant-owned healthcare practices in Texas affects internal communication and patient care. Through semi-structured interviews with nine clinical and administrative leaders in Dallas and Houston, five themes emerged: culturally competent leadership, intentional …
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Ethical and Clinical Concerns for Incarcerated Pregnant Women and their Children
… established the precedence of evaluating unjust healthcare practices and violation of Eight Amendment rights to prisoners with application of a test of deliberate indifference. Since this ruling, many more cases have emerged which present the complexity in application of the deliberate …
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Paramedic practice and the cultural and religious needs of pre‐hospital patients in Victoria
Religion and culture can impact profoundly on healthcare practices and health outcomes. The Australian community is rich and diverse in differing cultures and religions, and at times of medical emergency the paramedic increasingly will be required to respond to healthcare needs of this diverse …
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Measuring Engagement in Strategic Clinical Networks in Alberta: A Theory of Planned Behaviour Study
… safety, quality of care, and evidence-based healthcare practices. Stakeholder engagement plays a key role in quality improvement (QI) initiatives within SCNs. However, little is known about what factors affect engagement within SCNs. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) as a framework, …
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Quantitative biological Raman spectroscopy for non-invasive blood analysis
… Such a technology could greatly impact the healthcare practices for the entire population. This thesis presents advances in quantitative biological Raman spectroscopy along three avenues: instrument optimization, analyte-specific information extraction, and correction for sampling volume …
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Meeting Demands for Animal Health: Veterinary Medicine in Rural Southern Ontario, 1862-1939
This dissertation examines animal healthcare in rural southern Ontario from 1862, when animal health lectures were first delivered, to 1939, when the Canadian Army Veterinary Corps disbanded in the lead-up to the Second World War. By examining farmers’ access to experiential knowledge and …
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Indigenous Burn Survivors Experiences of Injury, Care, and Social Reintegration
… from this study revealed that preforming healthcare research with Indigenous people requires particular considerations to understand that what is heard by researchers may not reflect the whole story; stigma from scarring and lateral violence can significantly influence burn survivors …
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Design that Heals
… health, safety, and welfare. Ironically, healthcare facilities, whose programs focus on those elements, often seem to fall short of those basic design standards. The evolution of healthcare practices has brought us to a stage of design that focuses on the machine rather than the patient. …
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From hospital to home: a mixed methods exploration of post-discharge medicines management for older people living with long-term conditions
… must be coupled with key changes to current healthcare practices and policy, including better engagement with patients and carers, as well as pro-active post-discharge follow-up. Future work must carefully explore how these components can be tested pragmatically.
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Shadow Standards and the Logic of Costs: Care, Stewardship, and Data in U.S. Community Health
… populations at a distance by mandating that healthcare providers collect, produce, and report on patient data. Drawing from eighteen months of ethnographic research in Massachusetts clinics for the homeless and the frail elderly between 2014-2015, I argue that when marginalized patients are …
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Creating An Integrated Opioid Policy For Multi-State Hospice Practices: Improving Opioid Compliance And Patient Safety
… prescribing opioids for EOL pain management. Healthcare practices across the country are realigning their policies to the opioid prescription rule changes. It is imperative for hospice providers to translate federal and state opioid regulations into organizational policy to guide hospice & …
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Intercultural competence for public health nurses
… and limit understanding of preventative healthcare practices. The results of this study provide information and insight for the development of intercultural sensitivity training for public health nurses. A training program that demonstrates cultural training theory, methods, and suggested …
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Photonic crystal enhanced light emitters and their use in improving cancer screening and disease progression monitoring
… unique, calling for a personalized approach to healthcare. Early detection and correct treatment of cancer are critical for controlling disease progression and improving patient outcomes. This dissertation describes a photonic crystal-based detection and analysis system to improve cancer …
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The New Normal: A Bourdieusian Examination of Living into Young Adulthood being a Paediatric Heart Transplant Recipient
… 18 they will transition from paediatric to adult healthcare facilities. The study addressed young adults circumstances of existence and their competing interests within various social environments. This research project applied Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts of habitus, field and capital, …
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IBriS study: intervention supporting breastfeeding in substance dependency.
… associated with withdrawal and unsupportive healthcare practices. Evidence and theory synthesis resulted in an integrated breastfeeding support model founded on practical, informational, psychological, person-centred and environmental components. Phase 2 demonstrated that the intervention was …
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Does an objective laboratory measurement of platelet quality correlate with clinical efficacy?
… weak evidence base compared to many other modern healthcare practices. Diversity of platelet concentrate quality and deterioration of function during ageing is poorly understood and difficult to measure. No single test is currently suitable to assess concentrate quality for product development …
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Just Walk/Walk with a Doc: Organizing for Health
… project examines how participants and healthcare providers create meanings about health in an integrative healthcare program called, Just Walk/Walk with a Doc. Founded in 2005 by a local Cardiologist, JW is an organization that brings together healthcare professionals and community …
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Evaluation of Current Decision Rules and Healthcare Professional Practices for Detecting Osteoporosis Risk in the Young Adult Population
… citizen increases without early intervention. Healthcare professionals do not have access to validated survey tools to identify young adults in need of osteoporosis prevention education, although survey tools to identify postmenopausal women at high risk for low bone mass are available. The …
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Exploring the use of coaching for the development of Saudi Arabian healthcare managers through the perspectives of coaches, coachees and coaching sponsors
… questions that originated in my coaching and healthcare practices explores the use of coaching for developing healthcare managers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) through the perspectives of coaches, coaching recipients/ coachees, and coaching sponsors. The overall purpose of the research …
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