Nurses' work process in an emergency hospital service

Modeling an Emergency Service System for a Hospital Network

In this paper we describe a service modeling project done at an IT department that provides IT services to a network of state owned healthcare providers in the state of Vaud in Switzerland. The goal of the project is to understand how to maintain business continuity in the case of a disaster affecting the IT department’s data center. We analyze how to precisely relate the business requirements ...

Sleep pattern in hospital nurses due to shift work

Background: Shift work is highly prevalent in industrialized societies. Work hours that displace sleep to the daytime and work to the night time will interfere with the circadian and homeostatic regulation of sleep. Such work hours has pronounced negative effects on sleep, subjective and physiological sleepiness, performance, accident risk as well as on health outcomes.Work hours that displace ...

Occupational Boundary-work between Emergency Room Registered Nurses

Title of Document: TIME MANAGEMENT & INTRAOCCUPATIONAL BOUNDARY-WORK BETWEEN EMERGENCY ROOM REGISTERED NURSES Vanessa Lopes Muñoz, Master of Arts, 2008 Directed By: Professor, Annette Lareau, Sociology Occupational boundary studies have addressed divisions among workers by examining the process of creating occupational groups and assigning certain attributes to these groups (boundary work). The...

[Nurses' social representations of work-related stress in an emergency room].

The aim of this study was to understand the social representations of nurses in the emergency room and their relationship to stress. This descriptive, exploratory study was performed using a qualitative approach, with Social Representations Theory being the prime focus. Research was conducted at a benchmark public hospital for emergency services in the municipality of Natal/RN. The sample consi...

Violence Against Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Service Personnel in Guilan Province, Iran: A Cross-Sectional Study