This study aims to analyze the effect of clinical leadership (quality self, collaboration, managing services, improving service quality and setting goals) on nursing services at University Hospital North Sumatra. The method used is a cross-sectional survey 94 respondents. results showed that p-value for self-quality variable was 0.000, 0.001 improved 0.004 services. In conclusion, there an self...

This study aimed to examine what specialist nursing contributes to HIV service delivery across England and how it could be optimised. A three part multi-method qualitative study was undertaken, involving (1) interviews with 19 stakeholders representing professional or service user groups; (2) interviews with nurse/physician pairs from 21 HIV services; and (3) case studies involving site visits ...

Knowing the difference between health service evaluation, audit and research can be tricky especially for the novice researcher. Put simply, nursing research involves finding the answers to questions about “what nurses should do to help patients,” audit examines “whether nurses are doing this, and if not, why not,” and service evaluation asks about “the effect of nursing care on patient experie...

The functional and health characteristics of nursing home residents in New York State using a multivariate classification procedure are examined in this article. This analysis suggested that these characteristics could be explained in terms of six dimensions. The association of these six dimensions with two existing sets of nursing home case-mix groups was analyzed in order to determine how gro...

Ipswich Cardiac Rehabilitation Service, West Moreton Hospital and Health Service, Ipswich QLD 4305 Sydney Nursing School, Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW 2006 The George Institute for Global Health, Camperdown, NSW 2050 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide South Australia 5000 Physiotherapy Department, Austin He...

We are using information communication technology and communication robots (hereafter referred to as "robots") to develop a service to assist recreational activities at nursing homes. The service relies on visual content to deliver a variety of recreational activities, from exercises to reminiscence therapy. Robots support those activities by interacting with nursing home residents. These servi...

Collaboration can maximize limited resources of universities, school systems, and public health departments by offering learning from experience. Polvika's theoretical model and principles from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health guided development of a service-learning partnership among a university, a county health department, and an alternative school in a large public school district. ...

AIMS To explore and identify the core elements of the nurse executive role and the contribution these posts make to health service organisations in terms of quality and performance. BACKGROUND With the ongoing global reform of health services and, in particular, currently in Australia, this commentary paper explores the available evidence that explains and describes the role that nursing lead...

Since the implementation of free maternity services in South Africa from 1994, more maternity services were provided (SA, 1994: 73). These services are however inaccessible to many pregnant women in the rural areas, leading to sub-optimal antenatal health service utilization. Another problem that emerged, is deterioration in antenatal health service rendering throughout the country, as well as ...

Leadership, whether it is nursing, medical or healthcare leadership, is about knowing how to make visions become reality. The vision that many nurses hold dear to their hearts is one where patients are treated with dignity and respect at all times; where systems are designed for the benefit of individual needs; and where the work performed by nurses and other carers is valued and respected. Ach...