Action checklist 1. Meet and discuss with colleagues, nurses and resuscitation trainers. Nurses are most important as they are the staff who make the most of these calls. 2. Use the attached 2222 PowerPoint presentation at meetings if you wish. 3. Discuss with patients groups / representatives if available 4. Discuss with / Send letter to Hospital Medical Director / Management (see Draft letter...

BACKGROUND Improving safety in care homes is becoming increasingly important. Care home residents typically have multiple physical and/or cognitive impairments, and adverse events like falls often lead to hospital attendance or admission. Developing a safety culture is associated with beneficial impacts on safety outcomes, but the complex needs of care home residents, coupled with staffing pres...

The research and practice literature was examined to determine whether community support programs are responsive to ethnocultural issues and to derive strategies for developing culturally relevant programming. Great variation exists across cultures in family practices, conceptions of mental illness, stigma attributed to mental illness, and expectations of the provider system. Ethnic minority cu...

Abstract Introduction Myocardial injury is defined as an elevation of troponin due to ischemic causes, with or without clinical signs. In the myocardial after noncardiac surgery (MINS), usually occurs signs ischemia. The etiology this perioperative pathology, in most cases based on a mismatch between oxigen supply and demand. Recently, expert consensus european guidelines suggest implementation...

"RED light on " . '" . the Dakota vibrated as it lost speed for its run in and, with the sandbanks, receding beneath us, ,the dropping zone came in,to view through the open door. The ground chosen for the landing was a narrow tongue caught between the icy waters of the Kabul River and the Indus where they converged just above the fort at Attock. It was January and the night was cold, but a half...

background universities, like any other organization, are working in a variable and dynamic environment. in order to empower these organizations to deal with constant change, they should focus on organizational learning. objectives this research aimed to study the relationship between organizational learning and employees' empowerment among the headquarters staff of shiraz university of medical...

introduction: one of the managers' main concerns in maintaining and preserving human resources is developing job satisfaction. job satisfaction enhances the staff's productivity and efficiency. in this study, staff's job satisfaction in one of the largest training hospitals was investigated. methods and materials: it was a cross – sectional study in which 142 people working in different wards w...

background: today, patient safety is an important issue in providing hospital services. any failure in this area can cause undesirable consequences. objective:  the present study evaluated the status of patient safety culture in educational hospitals of tehran, iran. methods: this cross-sectional study surveyed 205 therapeutic and diagnostic personnel of three tehran hospitals selected using th...