A qualitative formative evaluation of a patient-centred patient safety intervention delivered in collaboration with hospital volunteers. [PDF]
Health Expect, 2017 Background: Evidence suggests that patients can meaningfully feed back to healthcare providers about the safety of their care. The PRASE (Patient Reporting and Action for a Safe Environment) intervention provides a way to systematically collect feedback
Louch G, O'Hara J, Mohammed MA.
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What Patients, Families, Health Professionals and Hospital Volunteers Told Us about Advance Directives [PDF]
Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2019 Objective: An advance directive (AD) is a document that allows mentally competent individuals to make healthcare decisions about their condition that they might no longer be able to make in the future.
Carmen WH Chan +6 more
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"Change is what can actually make the tough times better": A patient-centred patient safety intervention delivered in collaboration with hospital volunteers. [PDF]
Health Expect, 2019 The PRASE (Patient Reporting and Action for a Safe Environment) intervention provides a way to systematically collect patient feedback to support service improvement.
Louch G +3 more
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'End of life could be on any ward really': A qualitative study of hospital volunteers' end-of-life care training needs and learning preferences. [PDF]
Palliat Med, 2017 Background: Over half of all deaths in Europe occur in hospital, a location associated with many complaints. Initiatives to improve inpatient end-of-life care are therefore a priority.
Brighton LJ +6 more
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BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives To explore barriers and facilitators to patient communication in an acute and rehabilitation ward setting from the perspectives of hospital staff, volunteers and patients following stroke.Design A qualitative descriptive study as part of a ...
Elizabeth Armstrong +5 more
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The Impact of Hospital Volunteers' Health Promotion Programs on Health Literacy and Quality of Life. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel)Background: This study investigated whether a health literacy intervention program could improve the health literacy and quality of life among hospital volunteers.
Chen CH, Loke SS, Han PC, Chen WC.
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BMJ Open, 2023 Introduction Physical activity (PA) and replete nutritional status are key to maintaining independence and improving frailty status among frail older adults.
Michael P W Grocott +7 more
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The use of trained volunteers in the response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – the GoodSAM Experience [PDF]
Resuscitation, 2017 In England, fewer than 1 in 10 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims survive to hospital discharge. This could be substantially improved by increasing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillator use.
Ali Ghorbangholi +6 more
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Volunteering for a Lifetime? Volunteers’ Intention to Stay in Portuguese Hospitals [PDF]
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2014 The current study aims to study Hospital volunteers’ intention to stay in an organization through understanding motivation, management factors, and satisfaction. A total of 304 Hospital volunteers, mainly women, completed a questionnaire measuring motivations, management factors, satisfaction, and intention to stay.
Ferreira, Marisa R. +2 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background New approaches are needed to address the challenges of demographic change, staff shortages, and societal change in the care of the elderly. While volunteering has barely been established as a pillar of the welfare state in several countries ...
Anne Goehner +2 more
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