AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To systematically identify and critically examine the evidence of the contribution of the HIV nurse specialist to provision of HIV care in the UK and other developed countries. BACKGROUND The HIV clinical nurse specialist role has evolved over the past two decades in response to changes in two areas of HIV care: first, changes in the treatment and care of those with HIV an...

abstract background: in most countries, one of the main reasons for developing more advanced roles for nurses is to improve access to care in the context of limited number of doctors. it is considered that the introduction of major policy initiatives, such as nurse prescribing, requires high-level discussion and policy development to ensure successful implementation. this study aimed to identif...

An experimental study was conducted to measure the effects of a health teaching unit on the anxiety level of patients with chronic obstructive lung disease attending an out-patient chest clinic. The health teaching program was administered via an automated audio/slide unit in two sessions of thirty minutes each, using group interaction as one mean's and. nurse-patient interaction as the other. ...

Mental Deficiency Nurse. Because they have tried to satisfy so many, they have achieved very little in the way of a suitable book of instruction. The nursing of mental defectives must have a more prominent place in any book of this kind for it to be successful. The authors have mistakenly emphasised the preparation of trays and trolleys in preference to the work the nurses have elected to do. T...

1. Results: It will be helpful to include a brief statement on why some women were excluded from the present analysis, e.g. due to missing data? Response: Thank for spotting this omission. We have revised the text as follows: Of 1,295 women screened for eligibility, 535 were randomly assigned to a doctor and 542 to a nurse or ANM. Nineteen women were lost-to-follow up in the former group and 27...

In this paper, we investigate group decision making problems with multiple types of linguistic preference relations. The paper has two parts with similar structures. In the first part, we transform the uncertain additive linguistic preference relations into the expected additive linguistic preference relations, and present a procedure for group decision making based on multiple types of additiv...

Place of death is at times suggested as an outcome for palliative care services. This study aimed to describe longitudinal preferences for place of care and place of death over time for patients and their caregivers. Longitudinal paired data of patient/caregiver dyads from a prospective unblinded cluster randomised control trial were used. Patients and caregivers were separately asked by the pa...

Computational methods for discovering the preferences of individuals are useful in many applications. In this paper, we propose a method for learning valued preference structures, using a natural extension of so-called pairwise classification. A valued preference structure can then be used in order to induce a ranking, that is a linear ordering of a given set of alternatives. This step is reali...