Care of Chronic Sick

The care of the chronic sick.

The transfer of responsibility for the care of the chronic sick in hospital from Local Authorities to Regional Hospital Boards has raised two important questions. First, Regional Hospital Boards have to decide on the location and number of beds to be provided for this class of patient. Their waiting lists indicate that more accommodation is needed, but more accommodation of the existing type wo...

Working sick: lessons of chronic illness for health care reform.

Postresuscitation/Pretransport Stabilization Care of Sick Infants

The S.T.A.B.L.E. Program is the first neonatal continuing education program to focus exclusively on the post-resuscitation/pre-transport stabilization care of sick infants. Neonatal Resuscitation Program provides the requisite education for healthcare providers to safely and systematically resuscitate neonates. However, those infants who require resuscitation also require ongoing care to decrea...

The younger chronic sick: how many beds?

The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act (1970) is an expression of the increasing attention being paid to the needs of the handicapped in our society. The most severely physically handicapped represent only a small proportion of the total who are physically disabled (Harris, 1971) but their degree of dependency often makes it necessary to care for them in institutions, either in the form ...

Sick Building Syndrome in Nurses of Intensive Care Units and Its Associated Factors

Introduction: Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is a set of undesirable physical and psychological conditions whose symptoms appear when entering the building and disappear after leaving it. The most well-known symptoms of SBS include problems of nervous and respiratory systems and skin. Since nurses spend many hours in the hospital and enclosed spaces, they are exposed to many factors related to th...