BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Nursing knowledge and skills are required to sustain quality of care and patient safety. The numbers of nurses with Bachelor degrees in Malaysia are very limited. This study aims to predict the impact of nurse level of education on quality of care and patient safety in the medical and surgical wards in Malaysian private hospitals. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional survey ...

INTRODUCTION Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Minnesota. One strategy to reduce the burden of stroke is to implement systems-level improvements in the prehospital and acute care settings. Two surveys conducted in 2006 obtained information about current practices and capacities of emergency medical services and emergency departments in Minnesota. METHODS In 2006, the Minnesota Dep...

BACKGROUND Professional midwives have an important role to play in midwifery training to produce a competent midwife. According to the social learning theory, professional midwives act as role models for students. When allocated for clinical learning experiences in the training hospitals, students will have the opportunity to observe the well-trained, skilled, and experienced professional midwi...

BACKGROUND An emergency triage, assessment and treatment plus admission care (ETAT+) intervention was implemented in Rwandan district hospitals to improve hospital care for severely ill infants and children. Many interventions are rarely implemented with perfect fidelity under real-world conditions. Thus, evaluations of the real-world experiences of implementing ETAT+ are important in terms of ...

Nichols and Buser • Special Communication O of the biggest challenges facing the osteopathic medical profession is how to increase the number of osteopathic residency positions to accommodate the growing number of osteopathic medical school graduates. Although particularly grave in the “small” osteopathic states—states with new colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) or a limited number of medi...