Massive Open Online Courses for continuing education for nursing professionals in Peru
Objective: to determine the global offer of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in health and nursing, and to know the characteristics of its content, for continuing education in nursing professionals in Peru.
Guido Bendezu-Quispe +4 more
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Downsizing of acute inpatient beds associated with private finance initiative: Scotland's case study [PDF]
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether the projected 24% reduction in acute bed numbers in Lothian hospitals, which formed part of the private finance initiative (PFI) plans for the replacement Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, is being compensated for by ...
Dunnigan, M.G., Pollock, A.
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Patient’s Satisfaction with Health Care Services in Erbil City/Iraq
Background and objective: Patient satisfaction is one of the most important factors to determine the success of a health care facility. It is a relative phenomenon, which evaluates the patients’ perceived needs, their expectations from a health system ...
Dlzar Omer Qadir +4 more
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Hastening death in end-of-life care: A survey of doctors [PDF]
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Social Science & Medicine. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Seale, C
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Specialized nursing in complex care environments: A narrative review of emerging roles, ethical challenges, and workforce development across five critical domains [PDF]
This narrative review explores five essential nursing specialties: addiction nursing, disaster nursing, critical care nursing, rehabilitation nursing, and geriatric nursing, within the context of increasingly complex healthcare environments.
Abdullahi Hassan Elmi, Ahmed Omar Abdi
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Acute Kidney Injury and Renal Replacement Therapy (RRT) in ICU: The Nephrology or Intensive Care Nurse Role [PDF]
INTRODUCTION: Acute kidney injury (AKI) has become a known complication of individuals admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). The increase in AKI occurrence in ICU translates to increasing use of Renal Replacement Therapies (RRT), hence the need for ...
G. Chironda +11 more
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Objective: to analyse the differences in the profile of attitudes towards death between specialist nurses in rehabilitation nursing and specialist nurses in other areas.
Maria Filomena Passos Teixeira Cardoso +3 more
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Introduction: The level of preventive measures against hospital-acquired infections depends on the practice of universal precautions by the nurses. This study aimed to assess the awareness of universal health precautions among nurses.
Manoj Prabhakar E +7 more
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Personality predictors of surgical specialties choice among students of nursing
Background Holland’s theory of congruence, according to which one’s career choice is an expression of personality traits common to a given profession, constitutes a theoretical background for this research.
Dorota Turska +3 more
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Tweeting biomedicine: an analysis of tweets and citations in the biomedical literature [PDF]
Data collected by social media platforms have recently been introduced as a new source for indicators to help measure the impact of scholarly research in ways that are complementary to traditional citation-based indicators.
Haustein, Stefanie +4 more
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