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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, Martin MH Wong, Kai Chow Choi, Helen YL Chan, Amy YM Chow, Raymond SK Lo, Michael MK Sham   +6 more
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Maximizing Ageing Using Volunteer Engagement (MAUVE): one health system’s journey to spread a volunteer-based intervention for acutely ill older adults – a prospective observational study [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives Older inpatients face a higher risk of delirium, falls and functional decline during hospital stays. Volunteer programmes have been shown to improve patient outcomes in single settings, but little is known about their implementation and spread
Samir K Sinha, Kristina Marie Kokorelias, Donald Melady, Alfiya Gali, Nicoda Foster, Brittany Ellis   +5 more
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Recognition of factors affecting the use of volunteer clinical forces in hospitals in Tehran: A qualitative study

Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Volunteers are valuable human resources for service-providing organizations. Health system requires their participation and cooperation in all sectors to achieve more success. The present study was conducted to recognize factors influencing
Mahdi Hasani, Hassan Abolghasem Gorji, Sirous Panahi   +2 more
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Survey analysis on cooperation between volunteers with COVID-19 and nurses in makeshift hospital

陆军军医大学学报, 2023
Objective To investigate the team collaboration between volunteers with COVID-19 and nurses in makeshift hospital and provide strategies for the shortage of medical care in makeshift hospital.
XIAO He, HE Wanzhen, ZHOU Xiaoping, LI Ling   +3 more
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From nuisance to helpful assistants: A qualitative thematic analysis of medical volunteers' experiences during the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran

Nursing Practice Today, 2023
Background & Aim: Volunteers’ perceptions may affect their future decisions to participate in crisis intervention.  Few studies in Iran have been conducted to examine the experiences of medical personnel who volunteered during the COVID-19 pandemic ...
Mohammad Hossein Sadeghian, Fatemeh Khoshnavay Fomani, Mozhgan Moshtagh, Elham Elahi, Abdolrahman Rostamian, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh   +5 more
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Hospital staff, volunteers’ and patients’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to communication following stroke in an acute and a rehabilitation private hospital ward: a qualitative description study

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, Deborah Hersh, Erin Godecke, Sarah D'Souza, Natalie Ciccone, Heidi Janssen   +5 more
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Smartphone activated community first responders’ experiences of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests alerts, a qualitative study

Resuscitation Plus, 2022
Aim: The aim was to illustrate how community first responders perceive out-of-hospital cardiac arrest alerts delivered via smartphone, what support they have and how they cope with potentially distressing experiences.
Marie-Louise Södersved Källestedt, Harald Lindén, Petronella Bjurling-Sjöberg   +2 more
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Volunteers as members of the stroke rehabilitation team: a qualitative case study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives Clinicians are facing increasing demands on their time, exacerbated by fiscal constraints and increasing patient complexity. Volunteers are an essential part of the many healthcare systems, and are one resource to support improved patient ...
Michelle L A Nelson, Rachel Thombs, Juliana Yi   +2 more
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Use of Beach Shoes for Foot Protection during the Bangkok Flood of 2011 [PDF]

Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal, 2013
BACKGROUND: Foot injury was common as a result of the Bangkok flood of 2011. In the future, this type of injury should be prevented to lessen the burden during a disaster.
Saranatra Waikakul
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Volunteers@your library: benefits and pitfalls of volunteers in hospital libraries

Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association, 2004
The purpose of this survey was to explore the attitudes of hospital library managers toward the use of library volunteers. During April 2003 a questionnaire was mailed to 89 Ontario hospital library managers.
Mary McDiarmid, Ethel W Auster
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