PURPOSE The aim of this study was to analyze net income of a surgical nursing ward in a general hospital. METHOD Data collection and analysis was conducted using a performance-based costing and activity-based costing method. RESULT Direct nursing activities in the surgical ward were 68, indirect nursing activities were 10. The total cost volume of the surgical ward was calculated at won 119...

Misconceptions about psychiatric wards frequently cause newly admitted mental patients to stay away from these wards despite their need for treatment. Although ward orientation is typically conducted by nurses in an attempt to help patients to adapt to the new environment, it is considered time-consuming, and the method of orientation and the explanations given may vary among different nurses. ...

Background – In the interest of efficiently using limited resources, it is important to optimize the throughput of cardiac surgery patients. Accordingly, the present study was performed to estimate the bed occupancy rate and throughput of patients in cardiac surgery departments using simulation models. Methods – In this paper, the typical Heart Surgery Department of Freeman Hospital in Newcastl...

We rederive the w∞ Ward identities, starting from the existence of trivial linearized gauge invariances, and using the method of canceled propagators in the operator formalism. Recursion relations for certain classes of correlation functions are derived, and these correlation function are calculated exactly. We clarify the relation of these results with another derivation of the Ward identities...

INTRODUCTION Analysts estimating the costs or cost-effectiveness of health interventions requiring hospitalization often cut corners because they lack data and the costs of undertaking full step-down costing studies are high. They sometimes use the costs taken from a single hospital, sometimes use simple rules of thumb for allocating total hospital costs between general inpatient care and the o...

On the lattice, for Wilson fermions, the chiral Ward Identity is only approximately true, due to discretisation effects. We have a finite renormalisation constant ZA(g) to determine by demanding that a Ward Identity is obeyed to O(a) (with n = 2 for O(a) improved fermions). The ALPHA collaboration [1] has found ZA for quenched fermions using the Schrödinger functional and PCAC; here, alternativ...

A system of surface treatment with an antibacterial agent and air recirculation through treated filters was set up in a 15-bedded surgical ward, using an adjacent 10-bedded ward as a control.Nasal, wound, and urinary cross-infection was studied in both wards for over one year.Total bacterial counts and counts of Staphylococcus pyogenes were made from settle plates and blanket sweep plates. Afte...

Aims and method To address the gap in qualitative research examining patients' experiences of ward rounds. In-depth interviews were conducted with five in-patients on an acute mental health ward. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results Data were organised into three first-order themes, positioned within an overarching theme relating to patients' perceptions of the use of power and c...