The Clinic Health Education and Lifestyle Promotion (Clinic HELP) Initiative, funded by the Paso del Norte Health Foundation, was designed to extend health education services to medically indigent residents along the US-Mexico border. This paper reports finding of an evaluation that examined the integration of health education into community clinics, and the quantity and quality of health educa...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Our objective was to describe the psychometric properties of a measure of team development that can be used to assess and guide team functioning in health care settings. METHODS The Team Development Measure (TDM) is a 31-item questionnaire constructed using the Rasch rating scale measurement model. We conducted an Mplus exploratory factor analysis using data collecte...

Although there is great interest in the improving the ability to track patients' change over time in routine clinical care settings, no standardized transdiagnostic measure is currently available for busy clinicians to apply. The Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scales are simple measures widely used as outcomes in psychiatric clinical trials. However, the CGI suffers from poorly defined scorin...

Objectives: Cognitive apprenticeship learning focuses on improving understanding and clinical diagnostic reasoning among learners. The aim of this study was to describe the feasibility of cognitive apprenticeship encounters in clinical paediatric settings in terms of time consumption; and to describe the encounters in terms of learner and teacher behavior. Methods: This study was based on data ...

BACKGROUND Providing holistic nursing care when there is a shortage of personnel and equipment exposes nurses to stress and a higher risk of occupational burnout. Humour can promote nurses' health and influence nursing care. The aim of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of humour in clinical settings and factors affecting it. METHODS This qualitative study investigated nurses' exp...

CONTEXT Occult hepatitis B (OHB), or persistent HBV DNA in patients who are hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) negative, is a recently recognized entity. In an attempt to summarize the issues, this review presents an overview of the current proposed hypothesis on the clinical relevance and also updates the knowledge on the classification of OHB in different clinical settings. EVIDENCE ACQUIS...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Effective and acceptable preventive dental services are hard to achieve in conjunction with treatment services. The Oral Health Office of Fars Province in Iran established the Oral Health Park in a deprived part of the city of Shiraz to attract families and school children to receive preventive services. No other treatment was provided in the setting. The aim of this study w...

Background: Clinical reasoning is described as a reflective process that enables health care practitioners to collect data, solve problems, and make decisions judgments enhance patient outcomes safety 1. To avoid practice mistakes, healthcare professionals should possess or develop effective clinical skills. skills, enough exposure various experiences required. Practicing developing skills can ...

background: student-teacher relationship is a salient issue in nursing education and has long-lasting implication in professional development of nursing students. nowadays, this relationship in clinical settings is different from the past due to changing in nursing education paradigm. the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of students and teachers about student-tea...