OBJECTIVE To investigate factors related to feeding difficulty that is shown in the interaction between nursing assistants and elderly residents with dementia. METHODS Forty-eight residents and 31 nursing assistants were observed during meal times in a congregate dining room of a Taiwanese nursing home specializing in dementia care. Residents' eating behaviors, the dining environment, interac...

Abstract Due to the ongoing shortage of qualified surgical assistants and drive for automation, deployment robotic scrub nurses (RSN) is being investigated. As such systems are expected fulfill all indirect direct forms assistance currently provided by human operating room (OR) assistants, they must also be capable performing intraoperative cleaning laparoscopic instruments, which prone contami...

Johan Åberg and Nahid Shahmehri Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University, S-581 83 Linköping, Sweden phone: +46-13-281465, fax: +46-13-282666 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] url: Johan Åberg, Nahid Shahmehri Abstract: Electronic commerce has recently shown enormous potential to take over the sales market. There is a need to provide services that can reach i...

97 © 2016 Guilford Publications, Inc. this work was facilitated by support from the national Science foundation, ford foundation, SpSSi, tufts university, and a provost’s Scholarship from the university of chicago. We would like to thank laura Babbitt for suggestions on this project and our research assistants. correspondence should be addressed to Sarah e. gaither, department of psychology, 58...

BACKGROUND As part of a trial aiming to improve care for patients with chronic (systolic) heart failure, a standardized, multifaceted case management approach was evaluated in German general practices. It consisted of regular telephone monitoring, home visits, health counselling, diagnostic screening and booklets for patients. Practice-based doctors' assistants (equivalent to a nursing role) ad...

Transferring non-specialised tasks from registered nurses to nursing assistants may help registered nurses focus on specialised tasks. Optimising the workflow of nursing assistants by making their tasks more efficient may improve problems associated with the shortage of registered nurses. The nursing assistants at our hospital were stressed about referring inpatients to outpatient specialty cli...