background ethical climate is an important component of organizational culture. nurses’ perception of hospital ethical climate can influence their performance and attitudes related to ethical issues. this investigation explores a survey of nurses in different cultural settings to divulge their perceptions of ethical position responsibilities applicable to nursing practice. material and methods ...

The Seniors Wellness Clinic: An Interprofessional Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Care Model Lina Medeiros, MSW, Social Worker, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Debbie Kwan, MSc, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Pharmacist, University Health Network Toronto Western Hospital,Toronto, ON. Carol Banez, MAN, Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hea...

http://ccn.aacnjournals.org Sandra Lins is the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium project coordinator at Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center in Dearborn, Mich. She coordinates all data collection and quality improvement efforts related to percutaneous coronary interventions. Denise Guffey is the former manager of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Oakwood Hospital ...

AIM To describe a pilot project on self-scheduling (self-rostering) for hospital nurses and assess its potential values and difficulties in implementation. BACKGROUND Self-scheduling is one aspect of the effort to make the hospital nursing environment more accommodative of nurses' lives. It is part of the good employment practices that nurses want and that can help recruitment, retention and-...

INTRODUCTION Singapore's rapidly ageing population and chronic disease burden at public hospital specialist clinics herald a silver tsunami. In Singapore, "right siting" aims to manage stable chronic disease in primary care at a lower cost. To improve the quality of rheumatology care, we created shared care between rheumatologist and family physician to reduce hospital visits. METHODS Clinica...

Background: When family members and/or patients behave in a problematic way, this hinders the provision of safe and secure medical care. During perinatal period, family’s relationships functions change significantly, each member is prone to experiencing stress. As such, conflict arises easily between staff. Aims: Therefore, we conducted study shed light on following phenomena: 1) members’ behav...

Background: The issues of patient safety and healthcare quality have become increasingly important around the world since the 1990s. Many hospitals manage to reduce the number of adverse events (AEs) that can threaten patient safety in healthcare organizations. Assessing the existing patient safety culture gives hospital management a clear vision of an organization’s strengths ...

Background Although convenient and reliable modern messaging apps like WhatsApp enable efficient communication among hospital staff, hospitals are now pivoting toward purpose-built structured for various reasons, including security privacy concerns. However, there is limited understanding of how we can examine improve workflows using the data collected through such as an alternative to costly c...