Objectives: The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. Design: This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to explore the way in which nurses obtain consent prior to nursing care procedures. Focus groups were carried out to obtain background data concerning how consent is obtained. Critical incidents were co...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to examine the way in which nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. DESIGN This paper reports on a qualitative study which was undertaken to explore the way in which nurses obtain consent prior to nursing care procedures. Focus groups were carried out to obtain background data concerning how consent is obtained. Critical incidents were co...

The Professional Quality of Life scale is a measure intended to provide practitioners and researchers with an indication of a caring professional's compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress. While this measure has been used extensively in nursing research, owing to the relevancy of patient-care associated satisfaction and fatigue within this profession, information regard...

BACKGROUND Academic incivility is a serious challenge for nursing education, which needs to be empirically measured and fully addressed. METHOD A convenience sample of nursing faculty and students from 20 schools of nursing in the United States participated in a mixed-methods study to test the psychometric properties of the Incivility in Nursing Education-Revised (INE-R) Survey. RESULTS A f...

In recent years, the estimation of effort, budget and time has been a fundamental step in the software project life cycle. Having this knowledge it is possible to manage and control a software project. So that, it is important to have these estimations as early as possible in order to produce a sound schedule for the project. Taking into account that BPMN diagrams are widely used in industry fo...

This paper proposes and verifies a SAR measurement procedure for a multi-antenna transmitter that requires the measurement of two-dimensional electric field distributions for the number of antennas and the calculation for obtaining the three-dimensional SAR distributions for arbitrary weighting coefficients of the antennas prior to determining the average SAR. The proposed procedure is verified...

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BACKGROUND Patient days are widely used in nurse staffing research and for nursing quality measurement. Nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD) and fall rates incorporate patient days in the denominator and are endorsed by the US National Quality Forum (NQF) as nursing sensitive consensus measures. Measurement error introduced by patient days would affect the accuracy of these nursing quality ind...

K e y w o r d s : Health services, personel, measurement, scheduling 1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n A few years ago a system of budgetting was introduced in Dutch hospitals. The Dutch National Hospital Board and the National Consultants Union together published a declaration of intent regarding the budgetting situation. Some important points are: cost budgets and activities have to be completely m...