The efficient management of nursing personnel is of critical importance in a hospital’s environment comprising a vast share of the hospital’s operational costs. The nurse scheduling process affects highly the nurses’ working conditions, which are strongly related to the provided quality of care. In this paper, we consider the rostering over a mid-term period that involves the construction of du...

This study aims to describe and explain the Community Health Center Services in Klamono District, Sorong Regency, West Papua Province. The was conducted at Public research method used is descriptive qualitative phenomena that occur naturally as they are. informants this were medical personnel, namely, 1 head of Center, Head Pharmacy / Room, 2 nurses (1 nurse midwife), 3 community health center ...

Case reports Femoral head. Three patients have been treated. A 22year-old man sustained an osteochondral fracture of the femoral head. The grossly displaced fragment was reduced and held with four Herbert screws (Fig. 1). At one year hip flexion was 100#{176}, there was no evidence of avascular necrosis or segmental collapse, and the patient had returned to work as a warehouseman. The second pa...

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...

The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is actively involved in the growth of multiple tumor types and has been found as an effective treatment target in various solid cancers, for example, lung cancer and head and neck cancer. Of effective drugs which target and inhibit EGFR functions, tyrosine kinase inhibitors have shown promising results, albeit at a cost of side effects, skin toxicity ...

Janice Bianchi is a Medical Education Specialist, Glasgow: David Gray is a Clinical Nurse Specialist; John Timmons is a Tissue Viability Nurse both at the Department of Tissue Viability, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen; Sylvie Meaume is Dermatologist-Geriatrician, Head of Wound Healing Unit, Geriatric Department, APHP Rothschild Hospital, Paris, France The challenge of chronic wounds remains significant...

The objective of this explorative and descriptive study was to describe the rates and reasons for intrapartum transfers from home to hospital among women assisted by nurse midwives, and the outcomes of those deliveries. The sample consisted of eleven women giving birth and their newborns, from January 2005 to December 2009. Data was collected from the maternal and neonatal records and was analy...

BACKGROUND The Purpose of this study is to clarify the care process for Iranian diabetic patients with diabetic foot ulcer condition. METHODS The main question of this research was "How is the care process for diabetic foot ulcer patients and how do patients experience it?" This study was within the Grounded Theory method. Data collection was carried out until data saturation was achieved. Sa...

The fish yields of most Nigeria inland waters are generally on the decline for causes that may range from inadequate management of the fisheries to degradation of the water bodies. Sustainable exploitation requires knowledge of the ichthyofaunal composition in the water bodies. We did a survey of fish species in Anambra river basin for 22 months. Fish samples were collected using four different...

in recent decades, percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy ( peg), has changed feeding and care of patients who can not feed orally. this outpatient procedure is done in most of the endoscopy wards and provides care, nutrition and medications for these patients outside the hospital. peg has rare complications and significantly reduces the cost of care and treatment .with invention of this procedure...