Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...

Anxiety is a feeling of worry and excessive concern against obscure danger about inner or outer threat, which occur in form of ambiguous fear. It finally causes physical problem and impairs social and occupational functions. Anxiety is the most common mental disorder. Nursing totally is a difficult job and because of their working environmental and activity, they always encountering with damage...

The current report explores how well vending machines are meeting the needs of health care organizations and their staff visitors in Australia. Hospital often provide only source food through night to traditionally offer less-healthy options. Findings presented this suggest that not statewide policies guidelines for healthier environments care. This is despite widespread support refreshments ho...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with operative vaginal deliveries (OVDs) performed by day and at night. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Urban maternity unit in Ireland with off-site consultant staff at night. POPULATION All nulliparous women requiring an OVD with a term singleton fetus in a cephalic presentation from February to November 2013. ME...

A unit for the intensive management of cases of potential, imminent or actual respiratory failure has existed in the Royal Victoria Hospital since 1962 but for three years prior to this, members of the Department of Anaesthetics were treating such cases in the general wards of the hospital or giving advice on their management elsewhere if requested. The present consultant in charge of the unit ...

OBJECTIVE To assess factors associated with professional and total hours of work (work + home) among nursing staff. METHODS Cross-sectional study conducted in a university hospital in the city of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, between 2004 and 2005. A total of 696 workers (nurses, nurse technicians and aids), mostly women (87.8%) working day and/or night shifts, participated in the study. A ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue associated with shiftwork can threaten the safety and health of nurses and the patients in their care. Napping during night shift breaks has been shown to be an effective strategy to decrease fatigue and enhance performance in a variety of work environments, but appears to have mixed support within health care. PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore critical care ...

background and objectives: work sampling is a useful technique to characterize how employees allocate their work time to various activities. given the value of nurses’ time for quality health care delivery, characterization of nursing time distribution may provide useful information for optimal use of nursing staff. the purpose of the present study was to explore time allocation by nurses using...

Consider the following scenario: One night paramedics wheel a man named John K. Spenser into a hospital emergency room where admitting staff work to determine his medical history. Because the facility had not invested in an effective identity matching solution, a query of the hospital database and area medical centers does not correctly identify the patient as John K. Spencer (different spellin...

This study was conducted among health care personnel (registered nurses and nurse aides) in a public hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. Work was organized in 12-hour daytime or nighttime shifts, followed by 36 hours off. The study aimed to evaluate how the nursing staff perceived the duration and quality of sleep both during and off work days, as well as their perception of alertness during working...