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Survey of hospitals lighting: Daylight and staff preferences [PDF]
Hospital staff’s preferences for daylighting to notions of the effects of daylight on patient’s recovery times and processes, their experiences of daylight when treating and diagnosing patients and patient comfort levels is studied.
Al-Ansari, Abdullah +4 more
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Linking nursing workload and performance indicators in ambulatory care [PDF]
More and more ambulatory care organizations are using nursing report cards to monitor and evaluate the quality and effectiveness of nursing care in the ambulatory setting.
Griffin, Karen F., MSN, RN, CNAA +1 more
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Coexisting Values in Healthcare and the Leadership Practices That Were Found to Inspire Followership Among Healthcare Practitioners [PDF]
Healthcare delivery in the United States has a storied history that has led the American public to expect that their Health Care Practitioners (HCPs) will personally and professionally enact values such as altruism, benevolence, equality, and capability.
Stewart, Christopher W.
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Facts and Controversies About Nurse Staffing Policy: A Look at Existing Models, Enforcement Issues, and Research Needs [PDF]
Examines state-mandated nurse-to-patient ratios as a policy model for solving staffing problems and ensuring patient safety and quality of care, as well as patient classification systems and pay-for-performance models.
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Health Literacy Practices in Primary Care Settings: Examples From the Field [PDF]
Presents findings from a survey and interviews on practices to improve health literacy among patients. Identifies five promising practices as well as barriers to implementing such practices, and recommends better training, quality of care, and ...
Jennifer Sheen Puryear +2 more
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Nursing Administration in Russia
During graduate studies in a nursing administration program, an opportunity presented itself to travel to a rural Russian community of 10,000 to study the healthcare system. The Russian healthcare system has not changed much since the Soviet days. All healthcare facilities are government owned and all healthcare providers are government employees ...
Ashley, Leak +2 more
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2009 Alaska Health Workforce Vacancy Study [PDF]
Alaska continues to experience health professional shortages. The state has long had a deficient “supply side” characterized by insufficient numbers of key health workers whose recruitment, retention, and training have been impeded by Alaska’s ...
DeRoche, Patricia +11 more
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Design and introduction of a quality of life assessment and practice support system: perspectives from palliative care settings [PDF]
Background: Quality of life (QOL) assessment instruments, including patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs), are increasingly promoted as a means of enabling clinicians to enhance person-centered care.
Hilliard, Neil +10 more
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