Primary Care Practice Transformation Introduces Different Staff Roles

Primary Care Practice Transformation

Practice of preventive dentistry for nursing staff in primary care

OBJECTIVES Determine the domain of preventive dentistry in nursing personnel assigned to a primary care unit. METHODS Prospective descriptive study, questionnaire validation, and prevalence study. In the first stage, the questionnaire for the practice of preventive dentistry (CPEP, for the term in Spanish) was validated; consistency and reliability were measured by Cronbach's alpha, Pearson's...

Skilimix--new staff roles in health care.

Staff management in Paediatric Primary care setting

In the last 6-7 years there has been a progressive increase in the use of nurses or secretaries in Paediatric Primary care setting. Regional incentives (few) and the rising (remarkable) of the workload and patients’ requests, convinced about the 40% of the italian Family Paediatricians (FP) to hire new staff. In the 70% of cases the employers were organized in working group in one private pract...

Evidence-based practice in neonatal health: knowledge among primary health care staff in northern Viet Nam

BACKGROUND An estimated four million deaths occur each year among children in the neonatal period. Current evidence-based interventions could prevent a large proportion of these deaths. However, health care workers involved in neonatal care need to have knowledge regarding such practices before being able to put them into action.The aim of this survey was to assess the knowledge of primary heal...