this research has tried to find most proper leadership styles based on a approved model to direct hospital manpower appropriately. the main objective of this research was the comparison between manager’s existing leadership styles and suggested styles to them in order to direct existing styles toward suggested ones. in this cross- sectional study all qom province hospital managers participated....

background and objective: thyroid function problems are often present with prematurity disorders. thyroid hormones regulate growth and distinguish body organs; especially they affect central nervous system and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, and vitamins. thus, these hormones should be evaluated. the present study aims to determine the mean level of thyroid hormones among premature infants...

OBJECTIVES To describe demographic and clinical characteristics of patients with hospital-onset seizure (HOS) and to explore current practices in their management. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. SETTING Academic, tertiary care, private (New York University Langone Medical Center) and municipal (Bellevue Hospital Center) medical centers. PATIENTS Patients aged at least 18 year...

The need for an effective transition to practice program in nursing has been documented for more than 80 years (e.g., Townsend, 1931). Yet, comprehensive study of transition to practice in nursing did not begin until the 1970s. Marlene Kramer published her seminal work, Reality Shock, in which she proposed and assessed strategies to ameliorate that shock (Kramer, 1974). Patricia Benner also beg...

This study aims to assess the prevalence of falls, understand their consequences, identify causes and analyze intervention strategies to prevent them. This is a descriptive longitudinal study, from 2007 to 2009, in which nurses recorded patients' falls in a medicine ward, using a scale developed for this end. Most falls occurred with partially dependent patients, with a mean age ranging from 64...

AIM AND OBJECTIVE This study was done to see the incidence, epidemiology , clinical profile of eclamptic patients and the effect of current intervention strategy for Eclampsia on maternal and perinatal outcome. METHODOLOGY Analysis of case records of all Eclampsia cases from mid-April,2000 to mid-April,2001. RESULTS Incidence of Eclampsia has was found to be 2.9 per 1000 deliveries. Eclamps...

From 1968-1985 a series of thirty-seven patients with primary hepatocellular carcinoma was collected from the tumor registry of the Fairfax County Hospital, in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area. These patients were found to have a mean age at diagnosis of sixty-two (males) to sixty-six (females). Thirty per cent of patients were previously cirrhotic and nineteen per cent had a history of v...

200 cases of Hypertension were studied in hospital to document its clinical features, biochemical profile and complications. 168 (84%) were diagnosed as Primary hypertension and 32 (16%) as secondary hypertension. The male female ratio in the two groups was similar. The ages were 50.2 ± 7.56 and 48.5 ±6.52 for males and females respectively in the Primary hypertension group and 44.3 ± 5.10 and ...

primary and specialty care facility with a long and distinguished past. First established in 1849 for the county's sick and poor, the locally owned and governed TGH has pioneered numerous medical firsts. In 1856, it was the first in the State of California to offer physicians a managed care contract. TGH remains the only hospital in Tuolumne to partner with major medical centers in order to off...