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Tenure, mobility and retention of nurses in Queensland, Australia: 2001 and 2004 [PDF]

, 2007
[Abstract]: Aim: Data were collected on tenure, mobility and retention of the nursing workforce in Queensland to aid strategic planning by the Queensland Nurses’ Union. Background: Shortages of nurses negatively affect the health outcomes of patients.
Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australian Nursing Journal, Best Practice Australia Pty Ltd, Bradley M., Buchan J., Buchan J., Government of Queensland, Local Population and Planning Unit, Harding J., Hawksworth G., Hegney D., New South Wales Health Department Nursing Branch, O'Brien-Pallas L.-L., Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Page A., Parliament of Australia Senate, Queensland Health, Richardson S., Stanton M., The Department for Professional Employees AFL-CIO   +19 more
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Rapid implementation of open-access pandemic education for global frontline healthcare workers

BMC Research Notes
Background The recent global pandemic posed extraordinary challenges for healthcare systems. Frontline healthcare workers required focused, immediate, practical, evidence-based instruction on optimal patient care modalities as knowledge evolved around ...
Jacqueline Christianson, Erica Frank, Stacen Keating, Susan Boyer, Miriam Chickering   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pre-service knowledge, perception, and use of emergency contraception among future healthcare providers in northern Ghana

Contraception and Reproductive Medicine, 2019
Background Emergency contraception, if used properly, can prevent up to over 95 % of unwanted and mistimed pregnancies. However, a number of obstacle including healthcare providers knowledge, perception, and attitude towards emergency contraception (EC ...
Shamsudeen Mohammed, Abdul-Malik Abdulai, Osman Abu Iddrisu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perceptions of nurses regarding quality of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Ghana: a qualitative study

BMC Nursing, 2023
Objectives Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a necessary life-saving emergency intervention for patients with cardiac arrest and other medical conditions.
Esther Amoako-Mensah, Gloria Achempim-Ansong, Newton Isaac Gbordzoe, Cornelia Esson Adofo, Jacob Owusu Sarfo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dexamethasone for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Prevention in Pediatric Patients: International Consensus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi, Paula D. Robinson, Shana Jacobs, L. Lee Dupuis, the International Pediatric Dexamethasone Panel, Sameer Bakhshi, Tiene Bauters, Eva Brack, Simone Cesaro, Claire Fosbrook, Jason Freedman, Tamara MacDonald, Eloise Neumann, Venkatraman Radhakrishnan, Rod Rassekh, Florian Slimano, Johnathan Soggee, Joel Thompson, Marianne van de Wetering, Milena Villarroel, Jasper Wong   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real‐World Pediatric Blinatumomab Administration: Access to Outpatient Care Delivery and Impact of a Hospital‐Dispensed Model

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges, Kelly A. Duffy, Sara McDonough, Evelyn Kurpiewski, R. Jennifer Randall, Allison Barz Leahy, Haley M. Newman, Joyce P. Lee, Stephen P. Hunger, Anne F. Reilly, David T. Teachey, Susan R. Rheingold, Daniel J. Zheng   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Notes from the Field: 'Nurses International' Uses OER to Support Nurse Educators

Journal of Learning for Development, 2020
Educating nurses in developing countries is challenging due to limited resources. Nurses International advances nursing education through the use of Open Educational Resources which provides a unique model to teach and mentor nurse educators globally ...
Helen Ewing, Miriam Chickering, Lindsay Burner, Stacen A. Keating, Alex Berland, Erica Frank   +5 more
doaj  

The characteristics of nurses in relation to their attitudes about career planning and development activities : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Philosophy in Nursing at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: The dilemma of nursing workforce capacity in coming years, as older nurses prepare to exit the workforce to retire, creates pressure on those that remain and makes retention of nurses a priority.
Bigsby, Margaret Anne
core  

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski, Rebecca Ronsley, Shannon M. Stasi, Jeffrey Stevens, Erin R. Rudzinski, Christina M. Lockwood, Sarah E. S. Leary, Bonnie L. Cole, Michelle A. Ting, Vera Paulson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge about alcohol and alcoholism in a selected group of young people - preliminary

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2018
Summary Among the many psychoactive substances, which can lead to dependence, particularly important place in the life and customs of youth is alcohol.
Małgorzata Kardyś, Marianna Charzyńska-Gula, Natalia Klimek-Banaczyk, Marzena Plis   +3 more
doaj   +3 more sources