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Showing 1 to 20 of 207 for “"hospital setting"”.
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Exploring challenges in records management in a public hospital setting
Background: Record management has been reported to be a problem in health facilities in South Africa. Several studies have assessed the magnitude of the problem and came up with varying strategies to combat this challenge, but the problem persists. Aim: The present study aimed to explore practices …
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Caring for patients with dementia in a general hospital setting
… review, considers the experiences of general hospital staff caring for patients with dementia. 14 papers were included in the meta-synthesis. Five key themes were constructed from the analysis: the unknown and undesirable; constraints of the environmental and organisational context; …
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Caring and anxiety among registered nurses in an acute hospital setting
… are due to multiple factors including the setting in which the nurse works. Nurses experience high levels of anxiety when caring for patients in acute settings. Despite an abundance of published studies on caring there is a dearth of research available that focuses on the relationship …
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Opportunities to measure and improve antimicrobial stewardship in the Irish hospital setting
… programmes are well established in the Irish hospital setting but it is important that they continue to respond and evolve to the threat of AMR. This can be achieved by investigating new interventions and adopting new diagnostics methods to support hospital AMS programmes and other …
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A Behavioral Evaluation of the Transition to Electronic Prescribing in a Hospital Setting
The impact of Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE) on the dependent variables of medication-order compliance and time to first dose of antibiotic was investigated in this quasi-experimental study of a naturally-occurring CPOE intervention. The impact of CPOE on compliance and time to first …
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The cost of providing consultative palliative care services in a tertiary hospital setting
… was to determine the costs and cost drivers for hospital based consultative palliative care service (HBPCS) in South Africa adopting a providers' perspective. Methods In this empirical costing study, we developed and utilised a costing tool that employed a mixed bottom-up and top-down costing …
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Measurement and prediction of inpatient case manager workload in a tertiary hospital setting
… needs often extend past discharge from an acute hospital setting. At Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), inpatient case managers, acting in a discharge planning capacity, help develop and coordinate the execution of plans, specifically tailored for a patient, to ensure these care needs are met. …
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A Mathematical Model for Antibiotic Resistance in a Hospital Setting with a Varying Population
… preventive measures to slow its spread within a hospital setting. The majority of these models have assumed a constant total hospital population with the admission and discharge rates being equal throughout the duration. But a typical hospital population varies from day to day and season to …
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What obesity interventions, if any, are provided by paediatric nurses in the hospital setting?
… utilised/implemented by paediatric nurses in NZ hospitals, and to survey those nurses for their ideas around potential utilisation of obesity prevention/weight loss intervention services. The research question was ‘What obesity interventions, if any, are being provided by paediatric nurses in New …
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The expectations of the role of the nurse in the medical-surgical hospital setting
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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UNDERSTANDING NURSES’ EXPERIENCES OF PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE UNITED STATES HOSPITAL SETTING
… and families at end-of-life in the inpatient hospital setting offer understandings regarding this important phenomenon. The hermeneutic phenomenological methods of Max van Manen guided data collection and analysis. Three main themes described the participants’ experience of nursing care at …
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Registered Nurses' attitudes towards, and experiences of, aggression and violence in the acute hospital setting
… aggression and violence within the acute hospital setting. This study aimed to respond to this gap, providing New Zealand based data on Registered Nurses' attitudes towards and experiences of aggression and violence within the acute hospital setting by: determining the incidence of …
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Who Cares? A Case Study to Explore Health Care Assistants' Jurisdiction in a Hospital Setting
… and RNs in adult general care in one acute NHS hospital. The thesis makes use of an interactionist perspective to frame the study's examination of the micro-social processes surrounding the daily negotiation of HCAs' work. In doing so, connections are made to the wider (macro) processes that …
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Rapid sequence intubation: a survey of current practice in the South African pre-hospital setting
… airway skill commonly performed in the pre-hospital setting globally. In South Africa, pre-hospital RSI was first approved for non-physician providers by the Health Professions Council of South Africa in 2009 and introduced as part of the scope of practice of degree qualified Emergency Care …
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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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Relationship of a Healthy Work Environment to Retention of Direct Care Nurses in a Hospital Setting
… of retention of direct care nurses in a hospital setting.</p> <p><strong>Design</strong>: A non-experimental descriptive predictive design was used.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Data were collected from a convenience sample of direct care nurses in an acute hospital in the …
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A survey of clinical research education and perceptions among research staff within an urban hospital setting
<p>Health centers are uniquely positioned to address the growing need for uniform clinical research training, which leads to scientific advances in improving overall population health outcomes. This study surveyed 44 clinical research professionals for their current baseline of research competency …
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What are the barriers and enablers to using the focus charting format in the hospital setting?
… In a review of nursing documentation at a large hospital in New Zealand, it was noted that there was sparse patient focused information and a fragmentation of the nursing process. A Nursing Practice Development (NPD) team set up a project to identify and implement a documentation framework that …
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