Background : One of the indices of health care development is the use of HIS, but it is not supporting the nursing process as a scientific method. So, this study was done in order to optimize Hospital Information System (HIS) in cardiac care unit with the approach of “nursing care using scientific method”. Materials and Methods: This study is a part of a participatory action research which w...

Objective: to analyze the perception of nurses about the systematization of nursing care in the perspective of professional autonomy. Methods: a descriptive and exploratory research, carried out with 24 nurses at five inpatient clinics of a large-scale public teaching hospital, through a structured questionnaire evaluated by experts. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Results: nur...

The nursing home industry has been thought to face many problems: low quality, high price, and limited access. This industry is heavily regulated by state governments. Supply is restricted by the certificate-ofneed (CON) laws and Medicaid reimbursement rates are usually set lower than the private-pay prices. The purpose of this paper is to construct a structural model that can examine the effec...

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OBJECTIVES We hypothesised that among nursing home decedents, nursing home for-profit status and poor quality-of-care ratings, as well as patient characteristics, would lower the likelihood of transfer to hospital prior to heart disease death. METHODS Using death certificates from a large metropolitan area (Tampa Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area) for 1998-2002, we geocoded residential st...

Hospital regulators use certificate-of-need (CON) licensing for multiple purposes and objectives. In an attempt to relieve financial distress of acute care hospitals in Florida, CON restrictions on skilled nursing home care were relaxed during much of the 1990s to allow hospitals to provide lucrative post-discharge care under Medicare. The consequences of this policy for freestanding skilled nu...

HOW TO OBTAIN CONTACT HOURS BY READING THIS ISSUE Instructions: 1.2 contact hours will be awarded by Villanova University College of Nursing upon successful completion of this activity. A contact hour is a unit of measurement that denotes 60 minutes of an organized learning activity. This is a learner-based activity. Villanova University College of Nursing does not require submission of your an...

Earlier (July, 1977) we had stressed the need for a change in the existing outmoded Lunacy Act of 1912. A ray of hope was visible with the introduction of Mental Health Bill, 1981 in the Rajya Sabha on December 14, 1981. The bill has recognised the existence of psychiatrists in the country. No psychiatric hospital or psychiatric nursing home can be established without association of psychiatris...

Instructions: 1.2 contact hours will be awarded by Villanova University College of Nursing upon successful completion of this activity. A contact hour is a unit of measurement that denotes 60 minutes of an organized learning activity. This is a learner-based activity. Villanova University College of Nursing does not require submission of your answers to the quiz. A contact hour certificate will...

CONTEXT Healthcare data suggest that the incidence and severity of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in hospitals are increasing. However, the overall burden of disease and the mortality rate associated with CDI, including the contribution from cases of infection that occur in nursing homes, are poorly understood. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, disease burden, and mortality rate ...