The challenge of remoteness is an issue for both patients and clinicians in regional, rural and remote areas of Australia with limited attention having been paid to the needs for currency maintenance and enhancement of competency of practice nurses (PNs) in providing sexual and reproductive health (S&RH) education following initial formal preparation for these roles. This paper presents researc...

Purpose: The study purpose was to examine the relationships among: (1) EHR adoption stage, (2) missed nursing care and (3) nursing practice environment, on hospitalized patient adverse outcomes and satisfaction. Scope: The analytic sample consisted of data on 854,258 adult patients discharged from 70 New Jersey hospitals in 2006 and 7,679 nurses working in those same hospitals. Methods: This se...

Today several organizations use many kinds of Process-Aware Information Systems to support their processes. A typical example of such systems is Workflow Management Systems. However, due to the complexity of business processes and its continuously changing environment, there is an inevitable need to expand the dynamic behavior of these computational solutions. One of the drawbacks of the workfl...

O scar the Cat awakens from his nap, opening a single eye to survey his kingdom. From atop the desk in the doctor's charting area, the cat peers down the two wings of the nursing home's advanced dementia unit. All quiet on the western and eastern fronts. Slowly, he rises and extravagantly stretches his 2-year-old frame, first backward and then forward. He sits up and considers his next move. In...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVE Nursing homes in Switzerland are under pressure to efficiently coordinate staff activities to cover their personnel costs under the care financing system. In this study, the use of a mobility monitoring system accompanied with case conferences was investigated in order to improve sleep quality and estimate the cost benefit of this intervention. METHOD In an open two-phase...

introduction: in recent years spatial justice has gained special importance among planners and geographers. since the urban public services form the structure, shape and the nature of the physical, social and urban space, inequities in their distribution cause irreversible negative effects on the structure and the nature of city and social segregation of the people, and serious challenges in th...

background in supporting a therapeutic approach and medication therapy management, pharmacy information system acts as one of the central pillars of information system. this ensures that medication therapy is being supported and evaluated with an optimal level of safety and quality similar to other treatments and services. objectives this research aims to evaluate the performance of pharmacy in...

Information technologies (IT) are widely used in healthcare, however, little is known about the usability of nursing information systems. This article reports an evaluation study that aimed at researching the usability of four electronic nursing record (ENR) systems and thereby providing guidelines for further IT development. For the purposes of the study the concept of usability was defined to...

Objective: to identify nursing diagnoses in intensive care unit (ICU) patients by means of a cross-mapping of terms contained in nursing records with the NANDA-I taxonomy. Method: an exploratory, descriptive study with a retrospective analysis of nursing records in 256 medical records of patients that were hospitalized in the general ICU of a hospital in the western border of the state of Rio G...