Task shifting is an approach to meeting population health needs in developing countries that is encouraged by the WHO and increasingly embraced by Ministries of Health. Task shifting has been implemented formally and informally for years in areas of human resource shortages. Whi…
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There is a chronic shortage of Saudi health professionals, especially nurses. The solution to the present nursing shortage is complex, but if we identify those factors that professional nurses perceive as negative, because they contribute to dissatisfaction and turnover, possibl…
This Descriptive study sought to investigate nurses' knowledge, feelings beliefs, and thoughts about ionizing radiation as no other study, to this author's knowledge, had done so. To this end, 600 surveys were sent to registered nurses in the New York metropolitan area. A total …
In healthcare encounters, patients communicate wide-ranging concerns relating to their health and illness experience, treatment or wider psychosocial world. This research draws upon a normative understanding of patient centred approaches which recognise the clinical and psychoth…
Healthcare organisations are using Health Information Technology (HIT) to improve efficiency, reduce cost and reduce medical errors. This study focused on the factors that influence the acceptance of HIT among nurses in Saudi hospitals. This research used a 6 stage mixed-methods…
This thesis is a conversation analytic investigation of the social organisation of talk in telephone and computer-mediated calls to NHS Direct, a telephone health helpline in England. The data represent fifty-six routinely audio recorded telephone consultations between nurses an…
Background. A significant proportion of the physician and nurse workforce in the US is constituted of professionals from other countries. These health professionals play an important role in the US health care system, but emigration can place significant strains on their home co…
In Saudi Arabia, genetic practice is growing due to high consanguinity and incidence of genetic diseases in the Saudi population. Nurses and physicians must be competent in providing genetic services and aware of their implications in clinical practice. The purpose of this study…
Internationally-educated nurses come from a wide range of educational programs around the world and bring a variety of skills and abilities to Canada. This study used grounded theory method to explicate the experiences of internationally-educated nurses as they began their journ…
Accreditation is recognized worldwide as a tool to improve health care quality. In developing countries, the interest in attaining international accreditation is growing despite the considerable resources the accreditation process consumes and the lack of information about its i…
Amaç Araştırma hemşirelerde meslektaş dayanışması ve iş stresini belirlemek amacıyla yapıldı. Gereç ve Yöntem Tanımlayıcı nitelikteki araştırma İstanbul ilinde bulunan hastanelerde çalışan 297 hemşire ile gerçekleştirildi. Veri toplama aracı olarak tanıtıcı bilgi formu, meslekta…
Postnatal protocols are standardized evidenced-based health care routines that describe what providers should do in caring for women, infants and their families after the birth of a baby. Guided by the "Integrated and Compensatory Implementation Framework" (ICIF) by Fixen and co…
Background: Occupational stress in nursing is common worldwide; with rates of 9.20%-68.0% of nurses suffering from stress being reported in the worldwide literature. This thesis reports an investigation into stress among hospital nurses in Gaza Strip-Palestine. The purpose of th…
The H1N1 influenza pandemic (pH1N1) in 2009 was the first opportunity in history toadminister vaccine on a grand scale. In Alberta, Canada public health nurses (PHNs)were the primary administrators of pandemic vaccine through mass immunization clinics.This paper describes what t…
Introduction: A significant number of nurses are overweight and obese, which poses a risk to their health and wellbeing. This study uncovered a theory illustrating how nurses who are obese manage their weight and how the process was influenced by personal, contextual, situationa…
This thesis spans the first half of the 20th Century, charting the progress and challenges of the voluntary hospital system in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The voluntary hospitals were the key sites of acute medical care for the working-classes from their foundations in the l…
Recognizing and attending to patients’ spiritual and religious needs are identified as high priority in end-of-life care by the Joint Commission (2010), the National Coalition for Hospice and Palliative Care (2018), the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (2020), a…
The purpose of this study was to explore the Saudi patients', physicians', and nurses' perceptions of and lived experiences with patients' rights in Saudi Arabia. The patient's bill of rights as a written document may not be available in most Saudi healthcare organizations, and …