Nursing home residents across the Unites States rely on quality care and effective services. Nursing homes provide skilled nurses and nursing aides who can provide services 24 hours a day for individuals that could not perform these tasks for themselves. Not-for-Profit (NFP) versus For-Profit (FP) nursing homes have been examined for utilization and efficacy, however, it has been shown that NFP...

A study was conducted to explore the views of villagers on the existence and functioning of local primary health-care (PHC) committees, village health workers (VHWs), skilled staff at government health facilities and their responsiveness to community health needs in Mkuranga district, Tanzania. Information was collected through separate group discussions with some members of households, local P...

In 1994 in order to improve educational opportunities for nurses in the Solomon Islands and to try the distance learning model as an educational method, the Distance Education Programme of the Ministry of Health implemented five post basic nursing certificate courses for health workers. This paper focuses on issues and experiences in the development of the Community Health course which in some ...

PURPOSE Recent studies have concluded that there is a lack of "patient-centered" care in nursing homes and subsequently a need for nursing home culture change. As a result, a variety of new, promising initiatives have been introduced, with most of these incorporating the use of "empowered" employees. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of empowered work teams--a work design sp...

Hospital workers are known to be at risk of physical assault. The objective of this study is to characterize injuries resulting from physical assault among hospital nursing staff and to identify associated risk factors. Workers' compensation reports linked to human resources data were used to identify a cohort of aides and nurses employed in acute care units at a major healthcare system from 19...

Cramer-Rao type integral inequalities where developed for loss functions w(x) which are bounded below by functions of the type g(x) = c|x|l, l > 1. As applications, we obtain lower bounds of Hajek-LeCam type for locally asymptotic minimax error for such loss functions.

Time-frequency reassignment is a relatively old but under-explored method for time frequency analysis. This report reviews previous research on reassignment and relates it to instantaneous frequency in an explicit and novel way. New measures based on reassignment of the amplitude spectrum, as opposed to the traditional phase spectrum, are proposed and analysed. The statistical properties of rea...