BACKGROUND There is broad policy consensus that a shortage of doctors and nurses is a key constraint to increasing utilization of essential health services important for achieving the health Millennium Development Goals. However there is limited research on the quantitative links between health workers and service coverage rates. We examined the relationship between doctor and nurse concentrati...

Community nurses work in diverse community settings to provide primary nursing and health care across the lifespan. Traditionally community nurses meet a continuum-of-health needs that range from the management of specific disease/s to broader community development and public health promotion needs. Health promotion and intervention consciously centre on the client who is viewed holistically; t...

AIM Data were collected on tenure, mobility and retention of the nursing workforce in Queensland to aid strategic planning by the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU). BACKGROUND Shortages of nurses negatively affect the health outcomes of patients. Population rise is increasing the demand for nurses in Queensland. The supply of nurses is affected by recruitment of new and returning nurses, retentio...

Health care workers at every level, qualified and unqualified, appear to have a higher than average sickness and absence rate than workers in other sectors, and it has been identified that stress may play a leading role in nurses leaving the profession. There are further strong indicators that sickness and absence is higher amongst mental health workers. Numerous small scale studies (Mazure 199...

a bstract background: some health problems are more prevalent in shift workers than day workers. musculoskeletal disorders are considered as one of the most common health-related problems that can cause disability among health care workers. the aim of this study was to assess the associations between shift working and the prevalence of musculoskeletal symptoms (mss) among nursing personnel. mat...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to develop indices of the degree of collaboration between district nurses, general practitioners, and health visitors. DESIGN Semistructured interviews were conducted with each member of a pair of professionals who had patients in common. In each district a stratified random sample of six general practitioners and six community nurses was drawn, and for each a "par...

BACKGROUND The Government of Enugu State plans to offer free perinatal services at the primary health care (PHC) centers in order to improve perinatal outcomes in the state, but it was not clear whether there are skilled birth attendants (SBAs) at the PHC level to implement the program. AIMS To determine whether there are sufficient numbers of SBAs in the public PHC system in Enugu State of N...

AIMS OF THE STUDY To examine the role of Primary Care Groups and Trusts (PCG/T) in relation to nurses working in general practice and community health services. BACKGROUND Over the past two decades there have been rapid changes in the numbers and roles of nurses working in primary care and community based settings. The establishment of Primary Care Groups offers health care professionals, inc...

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and quality of contraceptive injections by community-based health workers with those of clinic-based nurses in a rural African setting. METHODS A nonrandomized community trial tested provision of injectable Depo Provera (DMPA) by community reproductive health workers and compared it with routine DPMA provision at health units in Nakasongola District, Uganda. Th...

According to Denehy (1999), "school nurses can play a powerful role in promoting health in their schools and community." She encouraged school nurses to "Take and make opportunities to promote health in the classroom" (p. 4). Classroom presentation of hearing conservation information is one way for school nurses to promote health and to reduce the prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)...