OBJECTIVE To describe the perspectives of healthcare providers on the nutritional management of patients on haemodialysis, which may inform strategies for improving patient-centred nutritional care. DESIGN Face-to-face semistructured interviews were conducted until data saturation, and thematic analysis based on principles of grounded theory. SETTING 21 haemodialysis centres across Australi...

BACKGROUND The population of Ghana is increasingly becoming urbanized with about 70 % of the estimated 26.9 million people living in urban and peri-urban areas. Nonetheless, eight out of the ten regions in Ghana remain predominantly rural where only 32.1 % of the national health sector workforce works. Doctor-patient ratio in a predominantly rural region is about 1:18,257 compared to 1:4,099 in...

Background: Patient safety is the core of quality health services in hospitals. To achieve this requires a strong commitment from each individual and team. Various ways are done to improve service hospitals, one which by increasing performance nurses application patient safety. As components human resources who work directly on front lines, have more time deal with patients. Methods: This study...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of in situ simulation (ISS) versus off-site simulation (OSS) on knowledge, patient safety attitude, stress, motivation, perceptions of simulation, team performance and organisational impact. DESIGN Investigator-initiated single-centre randomised superiority educational trial. SETTING Obstetrics and anaesthesiology departments, Rigshospitalet, University o...

a study on the academic motivation and its relation with individual state and academic achievement on basic medical students of urmia university of medical sciences     roshan milan s [1] , aghaii monvar i [2] , kheradmand f [3] , saboory e [4] , mikaili p [5] , masudi s [6] , motazakker m [7] *     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the learning ...

Objective: to show the factors that lead (dis)satisfaction and (de)motivation in work of nursing professionals COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: qualitative study, developed virtually, with from teams. Data was processed using software Interface de R pour Analyses Multidimensionnelles Textes et Questionnaires analyzed according Thematic Analysis. Results: 72 workers participated. 45 (62.5%) stated be...

Objectives The aim was to obtain insight into the factors in the work environment that motivate or demotivate a medical specialist during his/her working day. Methods A qualitative ethnographic design was used, and a constructivist approach was adopted with the Self-Determination theory of motivation as a framework. Six medical specialists from VU University Medical Center in the Netherlands,...