birth attendants are among the most important persons who  can provide appropriate mother-infant relationship,immediately after birth followed by nurses who continue the task in the postpartum ward.on june 1995,using a data collection from prepared by the research group,staff behaviour toward childbearing mothers and their newborn infants(n=215) was observed in the delivery room and postpartum ...

the purpose of this study was to conduct a quantitative risk assessment for pah exposure forconsumers at a night market in taiwan. the major methods assessed potential risk under different exposure scenarios based on bap equivalent concentration (bapeq) and incremental lifetime cancer risk (ilcr) models. we performed experimental sampling at a night market from 27 october through 22 november 20...

In large university environments, a centralized academic computing organization is often responsible for providing campus-wide computing services. These organizations usually understand the need for system administrators and software developers, but the people they hire for these roles will often wind up managing service software as a secondary responsibility. This approach often results in poo...

Little information has been published on the staffing structures of anaesthetic departments, either for routine or emergency work. The routine work is normally predictable within certain limits, and time and appropriate staff can be allocated for it. Emergency calls on the personnel of anaesthetic departments, however, occur throughout the day and night and are very variable, both in occurrence...

BACKGROUND Stress, strain, and fatigue at the workplace have previously not been studied in relation to acoustic conditions. AIMS To examine the influence of different acoustic conditions on the work environment and the staff in a coronary critical care unit (CCU). METHOD Psychosocial work environment data from start and end of each individual shift were obtained from three shifts (morning,...

It is 2 am in the cardiac step-down unit. A nurse needs to set up a secondary infusion on a new infusion pump, a procedure that she has never done before. She had attended the in-service training session before the pumps arrived the previous month, but there was a great deal of information to absorb. Clinical nurse specialists, who provide assistance with technology-related questions, are not a...

Little information has been published on the staffing structures of anaesthetic departments, either for routine or emergency work. The routine work is normally predictable within certain limits, and time and appropriate staff can be allocated for it. Emergency calls on the personnel of anaesthetic departments, however, occur throughout the day and night and are very variable, both in occurrence...

Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are necessary if resuscitation, the default option in hospitals, should be avoided because a patient is known to be dying and attempted resuscitation would be inappropriate. To avoid inappropriate resuscitation at night, if no DNR order has been recorded, after-hours medical staff are often asked to have a DNR discussion with patients whose condition is deteriora...