Government Gazette there has been published a " Keport on Infant Welfare and Maternity Work in Kuala Lumpur for the past year." The work, started in 1922, and carried on in two rooms of a Chinese dwelling-house, has two branches?an Infant Welfare Centre and a Health Visiting organisation. The staff consists of a lady medical officer, a superintendent nursing sister (European), and two health vi...

This study aimed to examine: the prevalence and correlates of depression among adults age 65 and over on admission to diverse home health care programs; nurse compliance with routine screening using the PHQ-9; and concordance between the number of depressed individuals identified by the PHQ-9 and Medicare-mandated nursing assessment following targeted nurse training in identifying depression am...

background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

The House of Lords in F v West Berkshire Health Authority [1989] considered the lawfulness of providing care and treatment for a mentally incapacitated adult. They did not, however, directly consider the use of restraint to enable the provision of care in the face of resistance from the patient. The law has since had good cause to give consideration to this important issue. This paper establish...

Clinical language has evolved as a result of clinical expertise, professional grouping and an NHS that is full of clichés and jargon. The game ‘health cliché bingo’ (CLINGO) developed following a research project by the authors exploring perceptions of mental health nursing students on care planning practice. CLINGO can be played individually or as a group. Each participant receives a CLINGO ca...

Author details Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag, 1797, Penrith South, DC, NSW 2751, Australia. School of Nursing & Midwifery, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia. School of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of New South Wales, St George Hospital, IVF Australia Southern Sydney, South Street, Koga...

in this paper, a house is assumedas an expression of culture. it has been tried to study a qajar1 house in tabriz, in terms of its ties with cultural context.methods and viewpoints of amos rapoport have been used in order to identify and peruse the circumstance of this relationship. the main reason for using rapoport's viewpoints to understand salmasi house, as a case study, in addition to...

according to islamic teachings, human being moves towards perfection if conditions conducive to his/her calmness are realized at home. according to this view, 'house' represents 'family' and a muslim's home is regarded as sacred and private. there is an inherent tendency in human being towards privacy, the most important of which is realized at home. therefore, if priva...

While serving as the on-call physician for a nursing home, you are contacted by the floor nurse about A.R., a 78-year-old woman who refused her medications and physical therapy. A.R. was transferred to the nursing home one week earlier for skilled rehabilitation after an elective and uneventful bio-prosthetic aortic valve replacement. Her medical history includes mild Alzheimer’s dementia, bila...