Registered nurse Kathleen Hunthausen, coordinator of Saint Alphonsus's School Health Program, brings health education to youths in five Catholic schools in Idaho. A s proof it has done its homework, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, I D , is receiving good grades for a partnership with five local Catholic schools designed to meet students' health and spiritual needs. The School ...

Tamadon MR1, Toussy J2, Soleimani AR3, Moghimi J1, Malek F1, Moradi A4, Shahvarani A5, Tavasoli M5 1. Assistant Professor, Department of Internal, Digestion and Hepatology Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences 2. Statistics Counselor, Digestion and Hepatology Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences 3. Assistant Professor, Department of Internal, Kashaan Universit...

OBJECTIVES To determine the association of hospital nursing skill mix with patient mortality, patient ratings of their care and indicators of quality of care. DESIGN Cross-sectional patient discharge data, hospital characteristics and nurse and patient survey data were merged and analysed using generalised estimating equations (GEE) and logistic regression models. SETTING Adult acute care h...

Aim We aimed to clarify how stress among psychiatric assistant nurses (PANs) differed from Registered Nurses (PRNs). Design Cross-sectional survey study was conducted with PRNs and PANs working in six psychiatric hospitals in Japan. Methods The Psychiatric Nurse Job Stressor Scale (PNJSS) and the job stressor and stress reaction subscales of the Brief Job Stress Questionnaire measured stres...

For the past three years, I have written this column on green healthcare, but this will be my last one. My work now has moved on – or back, to be more precise – to focus on public health services, away from green healthcare. In this final column, I want to reflect on the progress we have made and the challenges ahead. When we began the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care in 2000, the topic...

PURPOSE The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a nationwide study to evaluate the federal paid feeding assistant (PFA) regulation that allows nursing homes to hire single-task workers to provide feeding assistance to nursing home residents. Organizers designed the PFA regulation to increase the number of staff available to pro...

" skipper, " coordinating patient care and case flow of the surgical suite. This role gives nurses autonomy and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team. Other perioperative nurse roles are: certified registered nurse first assistant (CRNFA), specialty service leader, and perioperative nurse specialist. With perioperative nursing, the nursing process is used to assess, plan, and im...