Care coordination models have developed in response to the recognition that Australia's health and welfare service system can be difficult to access, navigate and is often inefficient in caring for people with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) and complex care and support needs. This paper explores how the Australian Government's establishment of the Partners in Recovery (PIR) initiat...

Child abuse and neglect happens across all social, economic and cultural groups. All of us including government, community and public need to play a part in ensuring that children are protected from harm. Suspected child abuse cases are reported to the Child Protection Service or the Police. Inquiry to confirm the report is indeed child abuse and the level of protection required will be activat...

abstract background: the broad spectrum of problems caused by multiple sclerosis (ms) imposes heavy responsibility to caregivers in caring of their patients. therefore, they encounter many issues and challenges in this situation. the purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and challenges of ms family caregivers. materials and methods: a qualitative design, based on a thematic analy...

An especially dynamic area of discussion within nursing ethics is the philosophy of caring. The work on moral development by Harvard educator Carol Gilligan in her book, In a Different Voice, is pivotal in this discussion (see IV B, Cooper 1989). Jean Watson, a nurse at the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring, also has written extensively on the philosophy of caring. She states that ...

The London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) peritoneal dialysis (PD) service is an active PD unit caring for approximately 100 patients. The service strives for optimal patient outcomes and, in doing so, regularly analyzes infection rates. In 2003, the LHSC peritonitis infection rate was one episode in 56 patient months (1:56). Peritonitis rates remained acceptable in 2004 (1:41) and 2005 (1:57). ...

The Chronicles in Preservation project, being led by the Educopia Institute, is undertaking research to evaluate the degree to which several of the current digital preservation standards in use today (e.g., OAIS, TRAC, PREMIS, METS, etc.) can be applied to the diverse and at-risk content genre of digital newspapers. Institutions need guidance on incremental, skilled approaches and lightweight t...

W e owe Bowen (1996) a debr. Her question, "Should occupational therapy adopt a consumer-based model of service delivery [for the sake of increased collaboration with patients]" (p. 899), warrants deep consideration. The question presses past semantics to challenge the ethos of our profession. It is thus, for me, a question of substance. My inquiries into the nature of the patient-therapist rel...

This article reports the economic analysis of a study on the implementation of case management in the Community Psychiatric Nursing Service (CPNS) caring for chronic schizophrenic clients in Hong Kong. The purpose of the study was to compare the outcome of case management service with the conventional practice CPNS. Sixty-two subjects participated in the analysis. Cost-effectiveness analysis sh...

Patients' risks from medication errors are widely acknowledged. Yet not all errors, if they occur, have the same risks for severe consequences. Facing resource constraints, policy makers could prioritize factors having the greatest severe-outcome risks. This study assists such prioritization by identifying work-related risk factors most clearly associated with more severe consequences. Data fro...

A focus group study was conducted to develop an understanding of the experiences of mothers who are trying to balance employment with caring for an adolescent with developmental disabilities. Mothers reported facing considerable difficulties balancing work and caregiving responsibilities because support services rapidly declined when their child reached adolescence. Service cuts were related to...