Pediatric Early Warning Score Systems, nurse’s perspective – a focus group study

Customer Perspective of CRM Systems: A Focus Group Study

The 1990s has been a boom period of enterprise systems (ES). Many organizations have experienced the technical, integration and business process re-engineering benefits of implementing ES. As of today, a number of ES have been developed, namely customer relationship management systems (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. In particular, CRM systems have gained significant intere...

Use of a Modified Pediatric Early Warning Score in a Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine

BACKGROUND Several versions of the Pediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) exist, but there is limited information available on the use of such systems in different contexts. In the present study, we aimed to examine the relationship between a modified version of The Brighton Paediatric Early Warning Score (PEWS) and patient characteristics in a Norwegian department of pediatric and adolescent med...

Operating theatre nurses' perceptions of competence: a focus group study.

AIM This paper is a report of a study exploring nurses' perceptions of the components of competence in the operating theatre. BACKGROUND Competency Standards for operating theatre practice are used in some countries to guide clinical and professional behaviours. The need for competence assessment has been enshrined, but the conceptualization and agreement about what signifies competence in Op...

An early warning on early warning systems!

Pediatric Early Warning System (PEWS)

Since 1964, Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC Children’s) has been steadfastly committed to providing the highest quality medical care to children. Affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, our regional pediatric healthcare network includes a state-of-the-art 279-bed main hospital facility in the City of Orange, and a 54-bed hospital-within-a-hospital in Mission Viejo. CHOC...